Thread by @1goodtern

I saw this person this morning, and politely asked them what they had meant by "be brave like the rest of us".

The answer surprised me.

https://twitter.com/1goodtern/status/1718629155816755401

They said "we've all got to get it to make it mild..."

"...it might make some of us sick, but we've got to make it mild for our grandkids."

So much jawdrops.
So much questions.

Sometimes my brain works a little slowly, so I mostly just stood there with my mouth open (behind an ffp3 respirator) for quite a long beat.

I eventually managed, "so you are saying that it's not mild now, but it's our duty to make it mild by catching it repeatedly?"

And they thought about that and said "yes."

This was a properly slow conversation, and after another long pause to digest that, I said "what if catching it repeatedly doesn't make it milder but causes extra damage with each infection? Or what if it evolves to be more dangerous?"

And their classic covid era reply... "I don't want to think about that."

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So I asked them about their grandkids instead, who are receiving treatment for several conditions that have landed them in hospital since their repeat covid infections.