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like is there different types of the virus? How come some people don't get sick or barely sick and sometimes healthy people with no symptoms get so sick they die?

Is there in other diseases/virus that act like this?

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Genetics and perhaps viral load. No one really knows tho.

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Probably wasn't exposed to a big viral load. Scientist are lagging but there is probably a threshold that is passed in the viral load to give you symptoms. Happens with the flu.

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Because the virus isn't that pathogenic, meaning it isn't that capable of causing disease. It is virulent, meaning it has a high ability to spread. The reality is that almost everyone will become infected with COVID-19 due to its exponential growth, or they will become immune to it through a vaccine.

Almost all the death numbers you see are from individuals who likely would have died to the flu. The reality is that society has generally overreacted.

There are really two ways to deal with this illness: Let the disease spread until enough people are immune as to cause herd immunity, or to hide away in holes until a vaccine can create herd immunity. If you ask me, the latter is insane.

BlueTigerLion posted...

Probably wasn't exposed to a big viral load. Scientist are lagging but there is probably a threshold that is passed in the viral load to give you symptoms. Happens with the flu.

Bestoffuture posted...

Genetics and perhaps viral load. No one really knows tho.

Viral load has nothing to do with it. Viral load determines if a person becomes infected, not to the severity of their symptoms.

Winrawr posted...

Because the virus isn't that pathogenic, meaning it isn't that capable of causing disease. It is virulent, meaning it has a high ability to spread. The reality is that almost everyone will become infected with COVID-19 due to its exponential growth, or they will become immune to it through a vaccine.

Almost all the death numbers you see are from individuals who likely would have died to the flu. The reality is that society has generally overreacted.

There are really two ways to deal with this illness: Let the disease spread until enough people are immune as to cause herd immunity, or to hide away in holes until a vaccine can create herd immunity. If you ask me, the latter is insane.

But if there is an outbreak at nursing home with COVID it practically wipes them all out. The flu doesn't.

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Patty_Fleur posted...

But if there is an outbreak at nursing home with COVID it practically wipes them all out. The flu doesn't.

Because we have flu vaccines.

Bestoffuture posted...

Genetics and perhaps viral load. No one really knows tho.

Do they not know? Because stuff like CF has been around for a long time and works very similar. Some are completely destroyed by it and others, like myself are near the average death age and still got decent lungs. Better than the majority of tobacco smokers. And I've smoked weed for exactly half my life.

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Winrawr posted...

Because the virus isn't that pathogenic, meaning it isn't that capable of causing disease. It is virulent, meaning it has a high ability to spread. The reality is that almost everyone will become infected with COVID-19 due to its exponential growth, or they will become immune to it through a vaccine.

Almost all the death numbers you see are from individuals who likely would have died to the flu. The reality is that society has generally overreacted.

There are really two ways to deal with this illness: Let the disease spread until enough people are immune as to cause herd immunity, or to hide away in holes until a vaccine can create herd immunity. If you ask me, the latter is insane.

Yeah you a guy who is either using an alt or gets in trouble all the time know more than every specialist out there. What are you doing on gamefaqs, shouldn't you be doing work on a vaccine? Oh wait you are just speaking out of your ass as a pretend know it all? Oh ok.

Huge amounts of Alcohol, Vitamin C and Biotin for me.


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Sewage posted...

Yeah you a guy who is either using an alt or gets in trouble all the time know more than every specialist out there. What are you doing on gamefaqs, shouldn't you be doing work on a vaccine? Oh wait you are just speaking out of your ass as a pretend know it all? Oh ok.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem