HACKER Q&A
📣 dsalzman

Shouldn’t you want Corvid-19?


If you do not fit a high risk profile shouldn’t you want to get corvid-19 when you’re young and healthy and build immunity. Just how mothers want their children to get chicken poxs? What are people’s thoughts on this? There has been countless epidemics in human history and that will continue. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger right?


  👤 pettycashstash2 Accepted Answer ✓
The virus isn’t understood well enough yet. It’s not your standard virus. For example animals are carriers and can be infected ie. pets. Let me answer your question with a question - do you want to get aids?

As an example, Not to stigmatize aids patients. Were also learning that recovering from virus does not mean immunity. Several cases of reinfection already present. Why put yourself at risk if it’s not well understood.


👤 elmerfud
That last statement is not really a true. There are a great many things which do not kill you and leave long term negative impacts. There are many diseases that your body can fight off but long lasting damage remains and that damage can even be passed on to offspring.

While people are generally resilient it's a bad idea to knowingly get harmful diseases due to the long term impacts. Your example of Chicken pox parties are regarded as a bad idea universally by the medical field, it would be smarter to get the vaccine. Mother's who want their children to get it are miseducated on the subject.

While there will always be something new, modern hygiene practices, when followed, greatly hinder the spread of things until proper treatments and vaccines are developed.

One of things that I would like to see happen is the use of natural antibacterial and antiviral metals used for commonly touched items. We know that copper containing alloys do this. I'm sure with study there could be other cheaper ones found which would be an easy augment to standard hygiene.