God, there's just still so much wrong here.
There's a difference in saying those who are under 18 aren't severely affected by COVID and saying they're immune. In fact, there's a huge difference. Those under 18 can still get COVID. In fact, they're quite capable of doing so. They don't die, true. They largely get better on their own without any big deal. But if the purpose is to achieve herd immunity, they too have to be infected in order to give them acutal immunity.
Immunity from other coronaviruses has not been shown to be effective at limiting people from getting COVID 19. It does a pretty good job at thwarting good antibody tests for COVID 19 but it doesn't demonstrate immunity. This isn't called "inherent" immunity either, it's called acquired immunity, just that you acquired it from a coronavirus that is related but different than COVID 19.
The problem with saying it's unethical to wait is that the people who died "waiting for a vaccine" are largely not those who would be required to be voluntarily injected with COVID. In fact, they damn well better be different since you want to inject "healthy" and low risk individuals. So you see, it's unethical because you're using the deaths of one population to justify the deaths of a different population.
No rational medical system would do such a thing. It's completely unethical.
We don't know the future risks of COVID-19 either, but you want to inject people with it. Pretty weird, man.
Okay, if you think our cells produce their own "exosome spike protein", name it. What is the name of the human analogue to COVID-19's spike protein?
No, it's not necessary that we have a similar one. COVID19 just has to be able to bind to ACE2.
Antibodies work any way that they can.. And I'm not going to argue that getting COVID isn't a good way to get antibodies against COVID. But the great thing about developing antibodies agasinst the spike protein is that the antibodies can target the binding site of that spike protein and therefore neutralize the viral particle from infecting your cells. That's why the vaccine is roughly 60-80 percent effective at preventing infection in the first place. Getting an acquired immunity from COVID by getting infected would produce the "kitchen sink" approach since you get antibodies to many parts of the complete viral particle. Acquired immunity from the vaccine just gives you immunity the spike protein which is a more limited and specific approach.
And that's why the vaccine is safer than getting COVID.
Wrong.
Immunity does NOT at all reduce initial infection in any way.
So then YES, those under 18 are inherently immune.
Everyone is equally capable of getting covid.
Immunity just means they are good at getting rid of it after they get it.
So no, you do NOT have to actually infect anyone under 18.
They ARE immune inherently as far as herd immunity goes.
They do not host or spread, in almost all cases.
I did not say immunity from getting other coronaviruses gave immunity to covid.
What I said is that previous coronavirus immunity gives us a reasonable estimate of how long covid acquired immunity lasts.
And it is likely life long.
And no, it is not at all unethical to substitute one population for another as a deliberate sacrifice to covid because it is a 400 to 1 reduction in number.
The risk is 400 times smaller, so then is so small it would be incredibly irresponsible not to take it.
And those under 40 would jump at the chance because it would have meant not having your life ruined by this foolish lock down mentality.
Again, there is NO human analog to the corona spike protein.
It has to be IDENTICAL.
There is no way a virus could accidentally evolve a spike protein that unlocks ACE2 receptors.
Coronaviruses have to have evolved FROM exosomes gone rogue.
There is no other possible explanation.
These mRNA vaccines can not be safer.
First of all, the spike proteins they contain are so much smaller, they can migrate, not stay in the arm muscle, and cause death if they get to someplace sensitive, like the heart or brain, before the immune system can find and attack them.
Second is that any change in the virus spike protein would render the mRNA immunity useless.
Third is that you have it backwards, in that by just sensitizing the immune system to generic spike proteins, you could get the immune system to attack benign organism in our digestive system, or someplace else.
A more specific targeting system would vastly safer.
If under 40/not compromised, there is essentially no risk to getting covid.
The mRNA risks are totally unknown and incalculable.
But they likely are very high because we do not know nearly enough about our immune system.
For example, clearly coronaviruses had to have evolved from exosomes, and we just do not know it.