Mark Leavy wrote: ↑Mon Nov 23, 2020 11:57 am
glennds wrote: ↑Mon Nov 23, 2020 11:20 am
Mark Leavy wrote: ↑Sun Nov 22, 2020 3:02 pm
But I don’t plan on being front of the line for the vaccine. I’d volunteer to be infected though. Better and more proven immunity. I’ve been trying my best and if I haven’t been exposed to it yet, then it’s damn near impossible to catch.
Is this acerbic wit, or are have you been genuinely trying to get infected?
Genuinely trying to get infected. Not hanging around hospitals or anything, but actively traveling to states that allow me to sit next to random strangers at the bar everynight, hang out in crowds on the beach, attending large gatherings where feasible. That sort of thing. If I had to guess, it's very likely that I have been exposed to it at some point or another, but I haven't had any sort of symptoms.
Well this combined with your strong-like-bull constitution, reminds me of something that has been on my mind for a while. Disclaimer - I am not an infectious disease expert, so the question may be a simpleton's....
Are there some percentage of people who are just naturally immune or highly immune for all intents and purposes? When there are a group of ten people in room and one infected, shedding person brings in the Covid virus, and five out of the remaining nine get infected, what's the story with the other four? Did a virus molecule just not make it to any of them? Or did it and their immune system just prevented or resisted the infection?
I realize in my example there is no way to definitively know, but I think the question is vitally important.
Postulating that maybe this is the case with you - i.e. you may have been exposed numerous times at numerous bars, but just resisted infection. So it's not that Covid is impossible to catch, it's just difficult for you (and people like you) to catch because well, you're strong-like-bull.
By way of background, I used to get sick every winter season at least once, sometimes more, and then in 2009 I switched to a Primal/Paleo style lifestyle, became more tuned in to adequate sleep, hydration, moderate exercise, sometimes high intensity, etc. In the process I lost quite a bit of body fat, gained some lean muscle. From that point, I think I went maybe 8 or 10 years without getting sick once. So based on my sample group of one, there must be something to immunity differentials among people, and susceptibility to infection being influenced by diet and lifestyle.
A corollary question - have diet or lifestyle differences around the globe correlated to difference in Covid spread and mortality rates?