A good and important codicil, Richard.  My speculations re. the potential for Omicron to help us reach some sort of herd immunity are the same as David’s, but getting a vaccine is still highly advisable. 

Had my booster Dec. 21, but that doesn’t eliminate the possibility that I could fall ill with some breed of Covid, or become a carrier.  It’s still best to follow all precautions, to the extent possible.

From: Richard Stern [mailto:sternrichard@gmail.com]
Sent: January 5, 2022 8:32 AM
To: David Webster
Cc: Naturens
Subject: [Naturens] Re: Covid

Hi David,

Good point. Your second paragraph is correct.         Your first paragraph might be correct, but at the present time it is speculative. And if you become infected with omicron the current evidence is that you are still more likely to develop serious problems, including hospitalisation, death and "long Covid” than if your immunity is boosted by a vaccine. No doubt if we are prepared to wait a few years we will have all the answers!

R.

On Wed., Jan. 5, 2022, 5:05 a.m. David Webster, <dwebster@glinx.com> wrote:

Dear All,

    I posted the following on Facebook and it was taken down twice in spite of my disclaimer so I am submitting it to NatureNS. Perhaps dripping wet; perhaps not.

I am by no means either a medical doctor or virus specialist but I suspect that being infected by the mild variant of Covid, Omicron, might act as a vaccine shot against Covid.

This follows from the history of the first vaccine. An astute medical doctor noticed that milkmaids who got Cowpox did not get infected by the far more dangerous Smallpox. And, drawing on memory, he made the first Smallpox vaccine from liquid obtained from Smallpox sores and called it vaccine from the Latin for cows which I think is Vacca.

Dave Kentville

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