i am in the core committee talking to a dude in the committee which is a palestine advocacy group, we were about covid 19 and i suggested we should implement mandatory masking policies for indoor events, after half our leadership was down with an illness. we are also in a summer surge

he has some kind of medical degree, and worked in long term care as a medical officer of some sort. I'm kind out of depth with this rhetoric tbh,

his comments

It is normal to get sick once a year and, in fact, healthy because it helps train your immune system. Some years you won't get sick, other will be twice.

Covid doesn't cause an impact on your immue system either. Sometimes you can be In a bit of a state of inflammation which happens in many viral infections. And long covid is a topic in itself. It has never been quantified by any and all testing except subjective

maybe he would be more receptive with super libbed up sources or something, i dunno what he would respect

  • rootsbreadandmakka [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    healthy because it helps train your immune system

    amazing that someone with a medical degree would think this. This is "immunity debt" and it's bullshit. The immune system is not like a muscle that's going to atrophy if you don't use it every so often.

    https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/covid-19-medical-critical-thinking/claims-immunity-debt-children-owe-us-evidence

    And long covid is a topic in itself. It has never been quantified by any and all testing except subjective

    I really like this brief explainer on long covid. It's sort of basic, but it's real doctors and medical researchers from an academic institution talking about long covid.

    Ziyad Al-Aly, an epidemiologist, is another good source on long covid.

    Furthermore, there is more than enough robust, noteworthy scientific research on covid's effect on the immune system and on long covid out there to justify being cautious about covid. These things are not fringe topics, despite official efforts to portray them that way. Even if he wants to hem and haw about the various unknowns still out there, to throw all caution to the wind is to ignore and wave away a huge chunk of scientific research and evidence. This is extremely reckless behavior for someone who has supposedly been involved with medicine, especially when your recommendations are not even that drastic. Mandatory masking for indoor events? That's really not a big ask.