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Why didn't all of you spread the disease to everyone else in the neighborhood?


Not trying to spread misinformation, since we know that one function of this coronavirus weakens your immune system as well as protective lining to the lungs for opportunistic additional viruses and bacteria to get you, then if those other viruses and bacteria never show up then more people would be fine.

No different than the "clinical latency" stage of HIV where nothing happens for a decade until your immune system weakens and then a benign opportunistic infection causes you problems. Here it just happens a lot faster - while this coronavirus is also executing other functions in multiple different organs.

This leads to the possibility that there are other seasonal but otherwise benign viruses and bacteria that are prevalent, while this coronavirus is also spreading.

Is that really as much of a farfetched idea if everyone has been looking a different direction? Just harder to resolve and an area to put some energy and research.


I stayed home the whole time. Was totally shot. And if they're right about COVID-19 spreading asymptomatically around 2 days before symptoms start, if my memory serves me right that would have coincided with the weekend for me.




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