I don’t understand why one would deliberately seek infection. Why? Do you get a special medal or badge for getting it? Bragging rights? Street cred? Extra Facebook points?...
If you are not vaccinated, just go about life. If you get it, you get it. If not, you’re still good.
But, but, I have natural immunity now!
Oh yeah, right. Prove it!
Natural immunity is a good thing, and the more it is studied, the better it looks. Anyone who got COVID and recovered is lucky.
BUT.
The potential for serious permanent injury or death from COVID is significant, and (IMO) you shouldn’t go looking for it.
As someone said, if you get it, you get it (and the way things are going, you probably will). There is excellent evidence that inoculum (dose) of the virus predicts severity, so the more certain your “encounter” is to cause COVID, in general, the worse you are going to do.
Hope that helps.
For the same reason there was Pox Party’s years ago.
Chickenpox when you’re very young is generally less severe than in adolescence or adulthood, and surviving the illness induces lifelong immunity. Only problem is some at a later date develop Shingles which are no fun at all. I got Chicken Pox when I was 6 and developed shingles when I was 10, most don’t have a shingle breakout until their later adult life.
Never had another breakout after.
I understand. We did not deliberately seek to infect my husband, but I tested positive. He immediately began taking ivermectin. We were already on all of the supplements. He continued on with life while I quarantined. He did lose his sense of smell. He works alone and usually outside and was no threat to others. He has great antibodies. He was at extremely high risk. By taking ivermectin, we believe he was spared the very likely severe sickness or death.
Once I recovered and we both took an antibody test to prove we had covid. We both felt relieved. We had no horrible symptoms. We were not hospitalized and we have natural immunity. Even if we get another variant in the future, we know that we can survive and that our bodies recognize this virus.
Our doctor prescribed the ivermectin, but we are very concerned about the future availability of ivermectin. We made a decision to purchase Ivermectin from India. We used two different pharmacies and got them both. If someone deliberately seeks infection, I would make sure to be on the I-Mask Protocol.
# If you are not vaccinated, just go about life. If you get it, you get it. If not, you’re still good.
That’s pretty much what I’ve done the entire time. I have, to the best of my ability, not changed my life at all. I just go on with things and ignore the insanity as much as I can.
Nothing to prove. Natural immunity is basic science and accepted with every other such epidemic, though for some reason not with this one. It’s also clearly superior to artificial immunity which may have no long-run efficacy whatsoever.
Bragging rights? You sound deathly afraid of the virus. Your kind are the ones who should get infected ASAP. The quicker the better - either natural immunity or death, which after all is a kind of immunity itself! Anything is better than they way you live in fear. It isn’t a life at all, the coward is better off dead, the sooner, the better.