More important than ever, those memories. It appears that Covid infection provides five months of immunity. I wonder whether vaccination will be able to provide more than that? One thing is clear: Covid will not be eradicated. Influenza has not been eradicated. No one has ever been able to eradicate any coronavirus, which constantly mutates. But let's not even consider future mutations because that is simply too grim to contemplate. Let's make the reasonable assumption that vaccination confers immunity for a limited amount of time, and then reinfection is possible. We know that Covid produces varying degrees of collateral damage in those who "recover". The damage is quite severe and debilitating in something like 10 to 20% of cases. You have a variety of circulatory issues and in some cases brain damage. Many victims are weakened. Reinfection under such circumstances must carry a higher mortality risk. If not mortality, then certainly MORE long term damage. How long can this go on? The spread might be slowed by vaccination but it seems reasonable to suppose that eventually most, if not all, of the human population will have been exposed. And then re-exposed, re-infected, accumulating more and more damage, until--
Memories!
It seems to me that people who need people are among the unluckiest of people today. I'm so happy to have my memories of a pre-covid life. And, of course, a pre-trump life, before the mass psychosis appeared.
Memories.
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