Posted on 04/13/2020 11:51:06 AM PDT by catnipman
“But you will find you are in the minority here at good old FR. Many here believe that the shutdown was a big waste of time”
actually, i didn’t think i endorsed the shutdown one way or the other, but just pointed out what so-called public policy makers claimed ... probably lots of other things i wrote will be disagreed with, though ... and if folks here have good counter arguments that’s fine ... of course, most now just shoot off their mouths here with one liners these days ...
“My concern is if one catches the virus and are treated early with the Z-paks, does your body fully develop the antibodies that will guarantee you not catching it again.”
interesting question ... i’ve never seen it before ... ALL antivirals basically work only when taken very early in the infection such as famciclovir for shingles ... never heard a doc say immunity for shingles wouldn’t develop in such a case, though ...
also, viral infections take a while to incubate (usually several days) before symptoms first appear, so the body has a pretty high viral load at that point as well as having been exposed to the virus for quite some time. also, antivirals don’t actually kill viruses, but prevent them from replicating so the body isn’t overwhelmed with a greater numbers of viruses than it can kill, thus freezing the number of viruses and giving the body a chance to kill them, so viruses still remain in the body for some number od days after taking the antiviral as well ...
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