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KDFW: TCU sees big turnaround in its fight against COVID-19

Jim Bob Cooter

Full Member
TCU, students, faculty, and employees have done a great job. Wear your mask, wash your hands, and use common sense.

This is incorrect. The reason the numbers are down aren’t because of students wearing face masks. If you think they aren’t getting together and drinking without masks...you aren’t very smart. They are.

The reason the numbers are down is because almost all students have had it. Spoke to numerous students who all confirmed that they had Covid parties and intentionally invited and drank after positive students in order to get it and get it over with. I was shocked, but they all claimed this as truth and that everyone they knew had gotten it.

The numbers and the timeline bear this out. It seems stupid to me, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. College kids are stupid and they have strong immune systems against this influenza. The result is that by October...the numbers at TCU are down. It has nothing to do with the administration requesting/forcing people to wear cloth “face coverings” over their faces while walking around outside on campus.
 

Volare

Full Member
Sounds like the TCU student body would be a great place for a researcher to come in and do a bit of testing to show that "herd immunity has been reached."
 

Paint It Purple

Active Member
The disease quickly spread through the student body. Students who did not have either natural immunity or had previously had the active antibodies from a previous infection, got it, dealt with it, and were fine shortly thereafter. Young people have about a 99.995 percent chance of getting better quickly.

Now that the students have all been exposed, and the disease has run it's course through the student body, they will have achieved Herd Immunity. Additionally, steps taken to "stop the spread" actually impeded this process for a couple of weeks for no good reason at all, given the lethality of the disease among this age group.

Stupid fear porn.
Your mention of natural immunity is important and rarely or never discussed. I wonder if markers in blood can be or have been identified for this or other flu strains.
 
Thought I read somewhere that Greeks were being encouraged (by their peers) to get tested off campus so as to avoid potential social restrictions for their respective fraternities/sororities. Whatever number that is may be inconsequential at this point.
My admittedly small sample of TCU students say just about everyone who can avoids testing at Campus Health
 

BrewingFrog

Was I supposed to type something here?
Your mention of natural immunity is important and rarely or never discussed. I wonder if markers in blood can be or have been identified for this or other flu strains.
I have read that either 1.) Strong T-cell response to any initial infection/exposure quickly wipes out the virus. Or, 2.) Infection by a previous strain of Coronavirus (aka: The Common Cold) close enough chemically on it's exterior hide to the Plague strain is quickly wiped out by antibodies left over by the earlier infection.

I have read a few studies theorizing along these lines, and most who have been studying in this area seem to broadly agree that there's as much as 60% of the population that simply won't catch this disease because they're functionally immune. Of course, this doesn't square with Fear Porn, so it isn't making the news each and every night, but it is intriguing and augurs towards a herd immunity coming faster than expected.

The markers and mechanisms behind this are somewhat beyond my dim understanding. I believe that in the fullness of time we will read a lot of very interesting things pertaining to this, and a lot of important medications and treatments will emerge. There is also the distinct possibility of just about every old mossbacked bureaucrat burrowed into the CDC and FDA being kicked to the curb...
 
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