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If you were a football player, why would you not get Covid now on purpose?
Posted on 6/20/20 at 6:42 pm
Posted on 6/20/20 at 6:42 pm
Even the government acknowledges that virtually everyone will get it eventually. These elite athletes are at nearly zero health risk.
I would go ahead and get a positive test on the books, get my quarantine and get it over with.
If you’ve got millions at stake in the NFL, why risk getting it in the fall?
I would go ahead and get a positive test on the books, get my quarantine and get it over with.
If you’ve got millions at stake in the NFL, why risk getting it in the fall?
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Posted on 6/20/20 at 6:45 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
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why would you not get Covid now on purpose?
Because I don’t know anyone who has or ever had covid.
Posted on 6/20/20 at 6:51 pm to lsu711
I used to be in that boat. Now know of lots of LSU students who’ve recently tested positive, none with serious symptoms though.
Posted on 6/20/20 at 8:02 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
No proof of immunity
Posted on 6/20/20 at 8:03 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
You can get it multiple times. It’s not chicken pox 
Posted on 6/20/20 at 8:10 pm to Peepdip
That’s a spurious claim not supported by fact.
Forbes
Forbes
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It turns out, despite the positive test, they found that none of them were secreting live, infectious virus. It was a quirk of the rapid tests, which sample for low levels of genetic material, not whole virus. They concluded that the recovered patients had residual genetic fragments that still triggered the tests to turn positive. Those individuals were no longer contagious.
Posted on 6/20/20 at 8:11 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
The OP has a very legitimate point!
Posted on 6/20/20 at 8:13 pm to Peepdip
At the same time once the body has it, it has already begun building up an immunity to help it from getting a second time. Also we will have a vaccine eventually. It’s possible within the year
Posted on 6/20/20 at 8:23 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
If we are taking that approach, why even quarantine
Posted on 6/20/20 at 8:27 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
quote:That would probably make sense if we knew what immunity looked like. It's far from clear that immunity is at all durable.
I would go ahead and get a positive test on the books, get my quarantine and get it over with.
Posted on 6/20/20 at 8:30 pm to Big Scrub TX
Please post a link disputing it.
I posted a link above.
I posted a link above.
Posted on 6/20/20 at 8:34 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
quote:No you didn't. I said it's not yet clear what the immunity situation is - and it isn't. We're not even 6 months into this thing (and most of the infected people, even a shorter time.)
Please post a link disputing it.
I posted a link above.
We won't/can't know for awhile what the actual immunity picture looks like.
It is certainly encouraging that there is evidence that there have been no double infections yet, but let's pump the brakes for another 6-9 months.
Posted on 6/20/20 at 8:42 pm to Big Scrub TX
I certainly did. Could that change in the future? Sure, as all things can.
But as of now, there is no evidence of double infections that I have seen. (And I’ve looked)
Any links to the contrary would be appreciated.
But as of now, there is no evidence of double infections that I have seen. (And I’ve looked)
Any links to the contrary would be appreciated.
Posted on 6/20/20 at 8:44 pm to Big Scrub TX
I haven’t seen legitimate evidence people are being infected more than once at this point. I would think this would be huge national news if this was the case
Posted on 6/20/20 at 8:46 pm to saderade
That’s because there is none.
If there were, the pursuit of a vaccine would be futile.
If there were, the pursuit of a vaccine would be futile.
Posted on 6/20/20 at 8:56 pm to saderade
Not only would it be huge national news, the media would be throwing a party over that news.
Posted on 6/20/20 at 9:12 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
because you take it home and kill your grandmother.
Posted on 6/20/20 at 9:18 pm to BTRDD
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because you take it home and kill your grandmother.
Don't be irresponsible. We knew months ago to not visit the elderly or immune compromised.
Posted on 6/20/20 at 9:22 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
quote:The point is it's only been a few months. What if immunity only lasts for 6 months? 12 months? There's no guarantee it's permanent. Other corona viruses don't appear to confer lifetime immunity - they tend to be seasonal/annual or even shorter.
I certainly did. Could that change in the future? Sure, as all things can.
But as of now, there is no evidence of double infections that I have seen. (And I’ve looked)
Any links to the contrary would be appreciated.
All I did was answer the questions "why not get it on purpose?". My answer is the same and it's the right one: one might not want to because they don't even know if that is going to bestow durable immunity on them.
I didn't say they shouldn't go ahead and get it (I have to imagine young athletes are one of the safest cohorts in the world for this thing.) I merely answered the question.
Posted on 6/20/20 at 9:30 pm to Farmer Joe
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If we are taking that approach, why even quarantine
Ding..ding..we have a winner! Hey Ed O...let em share water bottles and forks, man!
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