Rigby5
Diamond Member
Rigby is an idiot.
Had we done nothing two million Americans (or more )would have died.
That is a lie.
The 2.4 million death calculation was totally wrong because only the very sick with covid were being tested, so they got the lethality about a factor of 100 too high. The vast majority infected were asymptomatic, but not tested or counted.
That also means far more people already had inherent immunity than they realized, with as many as 50% being inherently immune, like those under 18.
Finally, the difference in death risk between those under 38 and those over 70 is a factor of 400, so by deliberately infecting volunteers under 40, we could have ended this epidemic last March, with only 60,000 deaths total.
Not really.
Someone who is asymptomatic may not be immune. Someone who's had the coronavirus may not be immune. We know of people who've had it at least twice.
The vaccine doesn't make someone immune either.
Someone who is asymptomatic can spread the virus. This is something quite scary, because if you end up with a virus that can do massive damage and loads of people are asymptomatic now, but maybe not in the future.....
Wrong.
Being asymptomatic means your immune system is familiar with the virus and can handle it efficiently.
That IS the definition of immunity.
Clearly you do not know what immunity is, because immunity does NOT at all mean you can't get re-infected.
Of course you can.
Immunity can NEVER prevent reinfection.
That would require magic.
Immunity means your immune system is efficient at attacking the infection, but it does not even START to produce the needed antibodies until AFER the infection is large enough to have been detected.
And yes, vaccines do convey immunity.
That just does not and can not prevent infection.
And while it is true an asymptomatic could possibly spread infection, that is so little probability that is can be ignored.
Spread is almost entirely dependent upon coughing or sneezing, which obviously asymptomatic do not do.