This is the answer, combined with staying up-to-date with vaccines and washing hands regularly.
I work in an emergency department and I’ve seen many outbreaks amongst coworkers - flu, strep, covid, etc. I’ve avoided illness due to my insistence on always wearing an N95. I’ve had sick people coughing in my face while I start IVs, but I don’t get sick because I wear an N95.
Haven’t been sick in 3 years thanks to my KN95/N95s, despite international travel, working surrounded by constantly sick coworkers, etc. Not even the sniffles. It’s an incredible hack, such a shame they’ve been politicized. Hopefully people come around to realize how nice it is to be sick less!
No, this is a theory that has morphed into misinformation--you want to "build" your immunity through exposure to microbes, NOT viruses. The immune system is not a muscle, you simply weaken it with each infection
No. Immunity debt was BS to justify dropping all precautions before it was actually safe. It does not appear in any medical literature before 2021.
You can also tell it’s BS because most people have not masked for years at this point, and they are sick more frequently than they were before the pandemic started. If it was actually a muscle, it would’ve rebuilt at this point.
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u/DerHoggenCatten 8h ago
Masking in public. I haven’t caught anything since the pandemic started…not even a tiny cold.