Yes, so it seems. Fortunately, the masks don’t really seem to protect anyone from anything (except bacterial infection, but not even that if you’re wearing the same mask day after day or even all day), so I guess if people are out, they’re still getting exposure.
Interestingly, many of the people in NYC who died were not the people who were out and about, but people who were isolated with family members in their apartments in the projects, not being exposed to strangers but rebreathing the same old air with its concentration of virus. I think you could argue that exposure to numerous others could actually boost immunity.
The human race would never have made it if our bodies didn’t have these ingenious systems of building immunities.
Although certain people will have a conniption fit if you tell them that.
Polio is a virus that has been around for a long time but for thousands of years you caught it while you were still a nursing baby. Your mother passed along her antibodies to you and you had a very mild case that allowed you to produce your own antibodies. You were then immune.
But then we began to live cleaner lives. Cleaner water, better sanitation especially around babies. And you did not catch it as a baby but when you were older. You no longer were partly protected by your mother's antibodies. So in a small number of cases you ended up paralyzed or dead.
Catching viruses is a natural thing, the more things we have a mild case of the more things our body has built defenses against.
Yeah - I think the phrase, “What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger” was invented to describe our immune systems...the body needs to run into a lot of bugs to build the best defense systems.