You Are Going to Get Covid Again and Again and Again

I'm with you. I've avoided this accursed virus for two years, not about to shrug and let it have its way with my insides.

> I don't leave my house.

That strategy may work well for you, but for the majority of the world out there - people with jobs, school, kids, wanting to watch a live sports event, dancing at a club, having dinner at a restaurant, going to church - "not leaving the house, ever" is not a sustainable long term option.

I think the article is very well articulated. There's no denying that SARS-CoV-2 is here to stay, and likely be with us for decades to come. You (navjack27) may not get it, ever, but the vast majority of the world will deal with it at some point -- likely multiple times.

What's important is to move beyond the "isolation is the answer", and start envisioning what the future with Covid will look like. We need to refine our public policy, destigmatize wearing masks in public transportation (like in Asian cultures), continue vaccination education, reduce price and availability of tests, and invest heavily in research (annual boosters, like the flu? Post-infection drugs, to shorten the duration and effects? Causes for long-Covid?).

At the same time, we need to increase our preparedness (stockpile, supply chain, vax research), in case the virus mutates and increases its mortality rate.

You may have been infected, and roused antibodies that are very effective and the infection is suppressed early. People like you should become part of an investigation into the nature of your immunity - in the hopes it has latched onto a root conserved part of the virus and will lead to a time when we can all get such an effective antigenic system.

A friend of mine said that too and suddenly had it ( nothing severe though, young... )

Have you had asymptomatic COVID?

30-40% of COVID infections are completely asymptomatic[1]. Experts estimate that 62-65% of the US has had COVID.

So, a US resident who hasn’t experienced any symptoms during the pandemic is about as likely to have had an asymptomatic COVID case as to have not had COVID.

Of course, the specifics depend on a person’s activities, geographic location, and whether they were tested despite lack of symptoms. But other than a few people who tested frequently throughout the pandemic, nobody in the US can conclude that they haven’t had it.

[1]: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...