| JRPGfan said: Honestly after finding out that some people only carry anti bodies for like 2-3 months..... by next year, I suspect we ll start seeing people that have gotten the virus, get it again. Thats when the sh*t hits the fan, and the scare sets in. When you realise that a vaccine might not offer much if any prolonged protection. The only solution is to stop spread, until it is gone. Asking people to wear masks, when out shopping or at work, shouldn't be such a big deal. |
It's doubtful reinfection would be anywhere as severe as first infection or as contagious, even if it can happen after a year or so like for the common cold. That has been the case for all diseases introduced through trade and colonization, and also the ones that caused previous pandemics. Plasma cell-mediated antibody aren't the only way the adaptive immune system works.
This is a pattern that is believed to have repeated itself for literally ten thousand years, by the way. Except for perhaps herpes, virtually any mundane disease you have contracted in your life is zoonotic and has been introduced to humans with great havoc and mortality at some point in the past. And that isn't because flu or whatever got "weaker" as some people believe. After all, there would have been no reason for pathogens to evolve that way if they had been so successful in infecting people in the first place.
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