i am in the core committee talking to a dude in the committee which is a palestine advocacy group, we were about covid 19 and i suggested we should implement mandatory masking policies for indoor events, after half our leadership was down with an illness. we are also in a summer surge

he has some kind of medical degree, and worked in long term care as a medical officer of some sort. I’m kind out of depth with this rhetoric tbh,

his comments

It is normal to get sick once a year and, in fact, healthy because it helps train your immune system. Some years you won’t get sick, other will be twice.

Covid doesn’t cause an impact on your immue system either. Sometimes you can be In a bit of a state of inflammation which happens in many viral infections. And long covid is a topic in itself. It has never been quantified by any and all testing except subjective

maybe he would be more receptive with super libbed up sources or something, i dunno what he would respect

  • morphballganon@mtgzone.comEnglish
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    4 months ago

    This is old data, clearly, but it is still relevant to the question at hand, as COVID hasn’t become less deadly. We just have a higher rate of vaccination now, compared to 2022.

    Anyway, as you can see there are some instances of deaths even among the vaccinated (though many more among the unvaccinated). That, to me, refutes this bizarre claim that getting sick once per year is good for you. I’ve never seen any evidence corroborating that; that seems like a hypothesis that hasn’t been tested.