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[martinuzz]

I would not advise that, even though it might very well trigger a longer lasting immunity.

[Kagus]

Whuh? But I thought the common cold is caused by a variety of viruses, mostly rhinovirus, and that we keep encountering new strains? We gain immunity to that one strain, and a degree of resistance to that family by proxy, but never immunity to "the cold" because there's always something new that pops up.


Anyways, in pleasant news, my city's just released its last COVID patient from hospital! Currently 0 active cases hospitalized.

[Starver]

I would not advise that, even though it might very well trigger a longer lasting immunity.

That which does not kill us...

[Trekkin]

Wouldn't that be kind of groundbreaking? Is there a precedent for viral infections where the antibodies... Stop working/being produced? Supposedly this is just the one strain of coronavirus, and that it's not mutating like all fuck to manage a second infection within such a short timeframe, so it's not like cold or flu viruses bypassing the previous protection by being just different enough.

This happens all the time. It's part of why you get booster shots for vaccines.

[Iduno]

https://twitter.com/i/status/1257821393959469056

"Stay at home, or dance with us."

[Bumber]

Common cold keeps coming back not because of mutation but because the body forgets.

If that were the case then we'd have cold vaccines, which we don't.

[martinuzz]

We don't have common cold vaccines because common cold is so harmless.

[Max™]

Plus it's a group of like 4 rhinoviruses which have reservoirs in the population and mutate often enough while being mild enough that any vaccine development might catch the next time that one virus shows up before that one changes, and you're still getting the others.

[martinuzz]

These must be hard times for hay fever patients (about 1 in 8 of the general population).
While everyone else will slowly be able to go to school, work and shops again, people with a runny nose from hayfever are shunned like typhoid Mary.
Hayfever? No school, no job, no groceries for you! Curl up and die!

[nenjin]

Forget allergies. I'm going to pin my pack of smokes to my shirt walking around.

[McTraveller]

https://twitter.com/i/status/1257821393959469056

"Stay at home, or dance with us."

I'm strongly considering putting a clause in my funeral instructions to hire these guys.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

place your bets

[Naturegirl1999]

place your bets

I’m thinking there’ll be a combination of at least 3, probably more, of the compass squares

[misko27]

All that compass reminds me of is that I really need to find my Tendskin so I can start shaving regularly again.

[Starver]

place your bets

I'm plumping for loo rolls dynamically varying by the cos of the tan of the time passed, in which frankly it doesn't matter what time units or epoch you use, nor radians/degrees, 'cos the cos part dominates the result to hilariously insufficient effect.