[internet_user]

Immunity is likely long term. There was evidence of a bone marrow compartment formation after primary infection in the early days of the pandemic, maybe even as early as 2020. It continues to be supported.

Latest: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...

"This work provides further evidence of sustained immune response in children up to 1 year after primary SARS-CoV-2 infection."

More details on the mechanism: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34030176 "Overall, our results indicate that mild infection with SARS-CoV-2 induces robust antigen-specific, long-lived humoral immune memory in humans."

Follow the science. There is no need to panic.

[randomhodler84]

Yes, however BA.5 is another beast. Post infection immunity lasts in the order of weeks it would appear.

[akkawwakka]

Immunity to infection ≠ immunity to serious disease. The epitopes that drive long-lived memory are fairly well conserved.

[randomhodler84]

I just wanna go out in public and not get sick. It’s happened too many times now.

[t-3]

If the vaccine isn't stopping you from getting sick now, why would it stop you from getting sick if more people took it? Does not compute.

[xyzzyz]

Were you not getting sick before Covid? Lucky you, I got colds a couple times a year, even more often after my kids started attending school. Covid is just another cold for me, why should I care?

[randomhodler84]

No not really. And I am childfree forever so I don’t have to put up with the little pestilence beasts and their Petri dish school crud. Very lucky!

Some occasional subway crud but when you catch COVID over and over again you lose weeks of your life. Also Because colds don’t cause long term damage, blood clots, etc.

This isn’t another cold. It could be mild, or you could wind up with complications from blood clots and inflammation for the next year, more…

That losing your taste? That’s brain damage, buster. Yeah just a cold…

[sn9]

Because the vaccines still slow transmission and more people getting vaccinated would slow transmission even more, lowering one's risk of getting infected as well as the severity of the infection.

[DennisP]

If more people took the same vaccine, sure. But GP said we need new tech. The universal vaccine in the article, for example.