How Medical ‘Chickenpox Parties’ Could Turn The Tide Of The Wuhan Virus: Consider a somewhat unconventional approach -- controlled voluntary infection.

The Federalist ^ | 03/26/2020 | By Douglas A. Perednia

[thoughtomator]

until the long-term effects of the virus are known, this is dangerously irresponsible

[SunkenCiv]

Sounds like a NeverTrumper or other Democrat who's trying to worsen the problem, same goes for the toilet seat licking "influencers".

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[Bell Bouy II]

If you test positive but are asymptomatic how long are you capable of reading the virus, weeks days forever ??

[fireman15]

I firmly believe that in Eastern King County Washington where we live surrounded by half a million recent Chinese immigrants many of whom visit home frequently, that this virus was making the rounds even before it was identified in China. It is highly contagious and when antibody tests are finally made available they will show that nearly everyone either had it or had an exposure that caused them to develop antibodies.

[Bell Bouy II]

“reading the virus, weeks days forever ??”

spreading the virus

[JD_UTDallas]

This program should be mandatory for every justflubro make everyone of them put their lives and money where their mouths are. Also anyone who breaks a stay at home order should also be mandatory infected as well. This will.serve two purposes one to make damn clear stay at home means stay at home, and it will.silence all the moronic butflubros.

[BillyCuccio]

I think the same thing. A nasty flu went through New Hampshire starting in December.

[fireman15]

Where we live, the question isn't whether you are going to get it, but if that cough you had earlier in the year was it. When antibody tests are finally used they will determine that at least in certain areas the virus was being passed around for months in some areas and that its lethality and the strain it was projected to cause on the health-care system was highly exaggerated.

[MRadtke]

Now that takes me back. I was born in 1958, and I do remember when I was a kid that if some kid in the neighborhood had the German Measles, the other parents would sent their daughters over to play. The idea being that better to get it over with now than take a chance on them getting it during child bearing age. I did not realize that they did this with chickenpox as well.

[familyop]

"They found, “Once interventions are relaxed … infections begin to rise, resulting in a predicted peak epidemic later in the year."

That was the break in logic again. Warm weather kills the other coronaviruses including the first SARS. He could have quacked out his presentation without that canard.

[rellimpank]

-—as one who was taken (along with my sisters) to get chicken pox from my cousins in the early ‘50’s , I think it would work-—but not in our present political atmosphere-—

[edwinland]

Just a thought from someone who is not a doctor.

As soon as you become infected you start to develop antibodies, right? I guess the question is how much faster does the disease progress compared to antibody progression.

There’s two ways a flu (and presumably the virus) can start: in the nose/throat by contact (usually with your unwashed hands) or directly in the lungs by breathing in aerosolized particles.

The disease is mild-ish in the upper respiratory tract but becomes much more dnagerous when/if it progresses to the lungs.

A thought: if you’re going to get it anyway (as the health officials keep saying) would it be better to get it into your nose, and let the disease progress hopefully slowly and hope you have antibodies built up by the time it gets to the lungs.

vs. taking the chance (again, high likelihood) that you get it later, but maybe you breath it in directly to your lungs and it progresses too fast?

Any doctors have an insight here?

[gibsonguy]

This would probably work but it’s too out of the box so it would never happen.

[rockrr]

This approach assumes two facts not in evidence: That immunity comes as a result of contact (whether or not you become ill) and that “People who are immune cannot pass on the disease to others”.

I have yet to see data supporting either of these two contentions.

[Sequoyah101]

This isn’t chicken pox.

Physician from Portland, Oregon? Must be out of his mind to suggest this.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: I did not realize that they did this with chickenpox as well.

My mother did it to me and my brother when we were 6 and 7 respectively.

My brother got the chicken pox. Strangely, I did not, but got it later in my twenties.

[SoCal Pubbie]

By definition, a FluBro is someone who says “It’s just the flu bro!” Now, your stupid suggestion that ANYONE here would want to deliberately contract ANY flu virus proves the insanity of the CovidClowns. It’s always the extreme opposite with you guys just because we don’t drink the Covid Koolaid.

[Romulus]

Why not? What could give wrong?

[Romulus]

GO wrong.