Why a thousand cases a day is nothing to worry about

Vincent J. Curtis

1 Oct 20

At the rate of a thousand cases a day, it will only take the virus forty years to infect all 14.6 million Ontarians.  And it is wrongly maintained that getting infected is always a bad thing.

Actually, getting infected is not always bad: it depends on the initial dose and the strength of the person’s immune system.  There’s a big difference between getting infected with a thousand viruses all at once and a million all at once.  Hint: it takes ten generations of duplication for the load of a thousand viruses to become a load of a million.  In the time it takes for the virus to pass through ten generations of duplication, the body’s immune system has time to detect and react without having to go into full fighting mode, producing symptoms such as fever.

In both cases, a person would test positive for the virus, but a million is more positive than a thousand.  In this example, getting “insulted” with a thousand produces an effect similar to a vaccination.  Getting a low dose of the virus that you can fight off easily is a relative good thing.

What are we seeing in this “second wave?”  Young people with strong immune systems are developing immunity as a result of doses of virus they can easily handle.  “Cases” are going up, but hospitalizations and deaths are not.

What we need is more social interaction, not less.  The virus is around, but isn’t highly concentrated.  We can take advantage of that.

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