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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
what does "immunity naive" mean?
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People build immunity by getting sick. They aren’t getting more sick or sick at higher rates when the timeline is looked at over years.
Immunity naive just refers to the issue of people not getting exposure to a virus. For RSV, for example, say 5000 per year are exposed for the first time and 4000 get sick. Our capacity is designed for 4000 per year. (These are all just hypothetical numbers). What happened with COVID and masking/distancing/etc is that 5000 was actually 2000, and 1600 got sick. But those 3000 didn’t avoid it forever, they just moved forward, so now it’s 8000 exposed for the first time and 6400 sick, which puts a system designed for 4000 over capacity.
The immune system isn’t a muscle that needs exercise. Having a strong immune system is good, but most people naturally do (some people have weak ones or too strong ones, and they are generally chronically ill people). The only difference between now and 3 years ago is the timeline of exposures was disrupted and a lot of them are happening right now, all at once. But if you look at the last 3 years on average, there isn’t more of these cases than other 3 year periods, if that makes sense.