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WhitePowerRanger 40 points ago +44 / -4

You do want to catch it depending on your age. Catch things young while your immune system is still working full steam. You develop antibodies that remember and can stop new strains in advance.

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CuomoisaMassMurderer 20 points ago +23 / -3

We have no idea how long immunity lasts. I was deliberately given chicken pox, it totally ruined my first Christmas vacation from school. Not only did I not miss a single day of school but now I'm at risk of shingles which runs in my family; it's the same virus. Of course we have no idea if anything similar pertains to this disease and hopefully it doesn't. I'm just saying viruses do some strange things to people. We don't really know if "getting over" CCPvirus means no more virus exists in your body, if it lives there forever like some other viruses, or what.

Your natural immunotherapy scheme there works every bit as well if you just get a normal cold instead of CCPvirus, since we can't differentiate between the immune response.

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Kweebecker 22 points ago +22 / -0

Adult strain chicken pox, NOT shingles, but the pox, is quite nasty. You may be susceptible to shingles (which has readily-available treatments, by the by, if you're specifically at-risk, do take note of them), but if you are, you REALLY don't want chicken pox as an adult.

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CuomoisaMassMurderer 2 points ago +3 / -1

The only "treatment" I've uncovered is vaccine. What else is there?

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UselessPersonalAnecd 3 points ago +3 / -0

I had chicken pox back in the days before a vaccine. I was given the then newly developed antiviral drug for herpes called acyclovir (brand name zovirax) It supposedly shortened the length of the illness, but all I remember is that it gave me the shits. It was just something that the doctor could prescribe, that my insurance would pay for, so he did, I guess.

Dr. Fauci's beloved remdesivir is actually the newest edition to the acyclovir family of drugs. It was probably discovered around the same time, but pharma companies strategically hold on to drugs and then release them in succession to always have a "new one" that is still under patent so they can make maximum money.

FDA is corrupt, and Fauci is a scam artist. He knew that HCQ worked against the SARS coronavirus 15 years ago.

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kung-flu-fighting 2 points ago +2 / -0

like you really don't want kung-flu when you are old.....

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getkek 7 points ago +8 / -1

We’re talking common cold, not chicken pox. No vaccine for common cold as it mutates constantly, so no “vaccine” for novel coronavirus to stop COVID19 symptoms.

In other words open the country up fully and stop dicking around.

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CuomoisaMassMurderer 5 points ago +6 / -1

I agree with opening the Country up. More emphatically, it's horribly irresponsible that on April 1 we didn't open at least all Counties with 0-10 total cases, and use the data we'd have gotten about any second wave to determine how much to open by 4/15. I could see not opening large cities until everything around it was under control. This approach would've not only helped our economy tremendously, but now we know the progress towards herd immunity is the best way to fight this.

DJT is taking high risks both with "letting" States decide their own restrictions, as well as deciding how to handle plannedriots. I'm glad he's following the Constitution and haven't seen him encroach upon it. I don't know the legality of him taking a more hardline stance. I wish he could override Governors on the HCQ ban though. If we weren't prevented from that, CCPvirus truly would be no big deal. At least 95% of all deaths would be prevented, most people would be virus-free in 6 days and all breathing problems are gone in 2 days of treatment. Really hard to die like that, also hard to spread it.

This would make both masks and vaccines irrelevant.

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HockeyMom4Trump 2 points ago +2 / -0

I agree.

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KonyHawk_ProSlaver -2 points ago +2 / -4

"Immunity" could be as short as a few months. This is not the chicken pox, unfortunately, and that's what makes this really shitty.

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