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What you did not take into account is that if you get sick, even if the virus doesn't kill you, it has still diminished your body's capacity for repair. That's my understanding anyway - that it has the capability to shave years off your lifespan. I really don't think we want this virus around forever.

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You'll probably post a link to some doctor somewhere conjecturing. Whatever. You know what else reduces lifespan? Loneliness. Despair. Loss of job. Loss of a business. Loss of purpose. Lack of exercise. Drug addiction. Lock down's, drug addiction, and medical fascism are far, far greater threats to young people's health than covid, and its not even close.

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I never said that I support draconian lockdowns. I think ivermectin and other drugs, together with better vaccines, can still do the job.

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Even if re-purposed drugs like Ivermectin were recommended by the government and thus, more widely prescribed, I still object to agreeing to the mandate that we must extinguish the virus without much more deliberation about the actual threat posed by the virus and the likely costs. The hard fought and easily lost civil liberties are not worth sacrificing in order to guarantee everyone's safety from a respiratory virus. Be very wary of those who propose to wage wars on nebulous and evolving things like terrorism, poverty, or corona-viruses -- all things that have been a part of human life for millions of years. They can't win such wars and that's the whole point.

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Yeah. In the final analysis, I think you are right.

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Actually there is recent evidence in studies on the NIH website that shows that people that successfully recover from COIVD lungs heal completely. The study was done on patients that were having other lung biopsies and the patients agreed to allow their tissues to be examined and it showed no damage. That is great news because originally they did think there would be permanent damage, in some ways some scientist are looking for the truth.

I put a link to the study below: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003497521013072

This is great news for everyone!!

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Well, that's good news at least. Still, healing is achieved by cells dividing and they can only that so many times until they reach their Hayflick limit. What remains to be seen is whether this is of particular importance with COVID or not. IDK.

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Me either I am not educated in this area of science at all. To be honest I was so thankful to see some good news even the slightest amount can give us hope. The last over a year has been so stressful and depressing for so many people. All we can do is try to push forward. Have a good day!

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Prove it!

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