re: If you were a football player, why would you not get Covid now on purpose?

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because you take it home and kill your grandmother.

This is my thought. I was in New York in December and the national championship game so I was probably exposed. I’m not worried about myself.

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Then DON'T visit YOUR grandmother if YOU made a decision to allow YOURSELF the possibility of exposure. These are YOUR choices.

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This might not be a big deal if you are a regular 9 to 5-er, or even if you do manual labor, but if that slightly diminished lung capacity costs you 2 steps in your 40, that's potentially millions of dollars in draft $ and maybe the difference in getting separation from your defender or missing your angle to catch up with a reciever racing down the sidelines.

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And you can have "lung damage" from the flu as well.

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1. You could die from it. For you “it’s just the flu” group, you can die from the flu.

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Where were you a couple of years ago when over 80,000 people in the US died of the flu? Why did was your hair "not" on fire for the safety of our football players then? You just admitted "people die from the flu." right?
In fact, the mortality rate for this age group (adjusted for the absence of underlying health issues) for the flu is about the same as CoVid.

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2. The long term effects are still unknown.

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And your solution is....???? Stay indoors until EVERYTHING is known about CoVid (which would take YEARS to complete those studies)?
Dumb.

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3. Some studies show that immunity from light cases may last only 2-3 months.

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And "some studies" also show you might not know what you are talking about.

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Yes, the odds are in any athletes favor, but what if Chase is one of those rare exceptions.

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Chase might also get leprosy. There are about 200,00 new cases of leprosy cases reported EACH YEAR.

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I’d be a shite emergency physician

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You said it, not me.

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If you reread my post, I’m referring to asymptomatic people getting imaging for other reasons.

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Nice try. Exactly how many young people are getting imaging, for other reasons, that are discovering lung damage from a previous/current bout with CoVid.....in your hospital? Where is the hard data to support this claim?

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There is no zero risk.

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EVERYTHING we do is a "no zero risk" situation.

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Lets say you are part of the 2 per cent who die from the coronavirus

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WRONG. Are you intentionally misquoting the percentages related to the age group of the football players or are you just that stupid?

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or the larger percentage who have persistent lung problems or muscle weakness

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Also wrong. There is NO RESEARCH that has concludes any of what you are saying, especially for this age group. Again, you are lying.

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or you carry it home and your parents get it

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Or not. THAT is a choice. If you think you have been exposed, DON"T VISIT YOUR GRANDPARENTS. If you do, THAT IS YOUR CHOICE.

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All indications

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Yea....I'm not making any decisions based on your interpretations of "all indications?" What exactly does "all indications" mean? Is that some new scientific research method I have not heard of?
Please go to an emergency room ASAP and ask for a CT-Scan.

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You’re comparing 80,000 people in a 12 month period to 115,000 people in 4 months

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No dummy. You know the majority of these deaths occurred during "flu season" which is much shorter. And please, don't try to say "you can't compare...." Yes, I can.

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this virus is less than a year old meaning we barley know anything about it

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No, I heard the CDC contradict your statement on TV last week. They said, Although this is a "new" virus, we know a lot about this virus."

Protective antibodies IgG lasted into ~the 3rd and 4th year respectively for close analogies of COVID-19 - two Cov viruses, SARS from China in 2007 and MERS from the Middle East in 2012. All patients tested were with minimal symptoms, so it is possible that those with a more significant infection could have longer lasting immunity.

There has been no reinfection noted as of yet.

Mortality is essentially nonexistent statistically in the teens and 20’s, especially in the active population lacking co-morbidities of obesity, uncontrolled hypertension, and diabetes. Don’t forget, nearly 1/2 of the mortalities were in nursing home or skilled nursing facilities.

Generalized Forced Quarantine (“lockdown“), IMO, is of value BEFORE an infection enters a population at large, if the characteristics of the infection are unknown, and if the medical facilities might be overwhelmed as was the case in January 2020. Now the virus is widespread, it is much better understood and the medical facilities, instead of being overwhelmed, are remarkably empty. We now know that there are “at risk” populations and populations at little risk, yet we still “FORCE” those minimal risk populations to quarantine themselves, as if any college kid in the 60’s or now would really do that anyway.

The concept that more people infected and therefore immunized will lead to fewer “hosts” to carry the virus thereby diminishing the virus’s ability to thrive is known as “herd immunity”. What the percentage of immunized must be to lead to viral collapse in a population is unknown but we do know that Sweden, that has NOT lived under a lockdown, has 15% already immunized, which is much more than any other country, and a national death rate of 0.05%.

While I’ve heard little to nothing about this concept-and you can’t plan for it- other Cov viruses have shown the possibility of attenuating with age, meaning they can become less virulent. And lastly, don’t forget about a possible vaccine. Who knows?

Conclusion: Life moves on for all, is unfair for some (in this case, those with co-morbidities), is never perfect, and is NEVER without risk. Yet we demand those with the smallest of risk to sacrifice for those with the highest of risk - who should be the ones quarantining. Maybe consider those with co-morbidities do the quarantining. In the meantime, viral attenuation, herd immunity and vaccine await.

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That’s a spurious claim not supported by fact.


Forbes

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That you didn't address with your quote, because that article doesn't support your apparently made-up "spurious claim" statement.

From the same article:

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We still don’t know whether humans can get infected with the virus a second time.

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Here's [link=(an article about a recent study that finds that immunity "may" only last three months)]https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/18/coronavirus-antibodies-may-last-only-2-to-3-months-after-infection-study-suggests.html[/link].

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If doctors are comparing the treatment of covid to chicken pox

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Nobody said anything about comparing the "treatment" of CoVid & Chickenpox. It was about the philosophy of obtaining immunity through intentional infection. Many doctors have/do recommend intentional infection with chickenpox AND children die every year from chickenpox.

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Be part of the solution.

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The "solution" requires perspective. And your statements lack that perspective (either as an oversight or intentionally). Go to the CDC website and look at the CoVid mortality & hospitalization graphs. BOTH have VERY STEEP DOWNWARD LINES. In fact, these downward graphs are all the way down to the levels we saw in March.