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Innate immunity is more like a built-in mask. It’s pretty much the opposite of building up an immunity.

That's essentially how live-attenuated vaccines work. You'd have the same benefits and drawbacks, but a dosing issue.

It's essentially what we've done in SF:

1) Allow a million passengers from China to disembark in Calif.

2) Everybody goes to the grocery store twice a week and mingles in a leisurely fashion.

For us, it's worked out great. Probably the lowest measured infection and documented mortality rates in the world for an area that doesn't do testing and tracing.

Seen any apocalyptic news stories about SF hospitals like NY? Nope, me neither.

I'm much more worried about the negative cardiac effects of no exercise than corona deaths.