I'm beginning to wonder if we are somehow not dealing with only one virus. Or I should say we may be dealing with a virus that somehow fundementally mutates faster than our testing can keep up with. This would also account for the wide variance in symptomatology, degree of debilitation, recovery times, etc. in addition to the false tests both positive and negative, the so-called dormancies and reemergences and variable periods of incubation. All of which have been all over the place.

Is it even possible? Maybe it's just me but this is sounding very unnatural.

There virus is being pretty aggressively monitored for mutations, not seeing that.

From the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions hearing on Tuesday:

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/05/12/rand_paul_vs_fauci_you_are_not_the_end_all_we_can_ listen_to_your_advice_but_you_dont_get_to_decide.h tml

Senator Rand Paul is also a medical doctor who contracted the virus ... and lived through it w/o symptoms.

Fauci really had to break out the weasel words to find a way to say, well, we don't know everything about this virus so... we will need a few years to say clearly anything about immunity.

But Fauci did agree that survivors of coronavirus have some form of immunity. --Capt Obvious stuff, if you ask me. Still the disinformation abounds.

I'm no doctor but I don't see how the immunities that we've acquired over our lifetimes could be nullified in the space of 60 days.

This.

I do remember as a kid having to get a second small pox vaccination even though I still have the scar on my arm from the first one. The second vaccination did nothing to me, except make me bleed at the site where they scratched my arm.

I had mumps as a kid, measles, and lots of vaccinations. All the kids in school lined up to get a sugar cube for polio. That was a treat!

The worst was having chicken pox as a kid makes me likely to get shingles as a geezer. I have had the shot to help prevent that. I get the pneumonia vaccination and a flu shot every year.

I grew up in the leave it to beaver era, and ate many meals with hands dirtier than mom would have approved of. She would ask if we washed out hands, and we always figured that meant when we took a bath that morning. ;)

There are actually two shots for the latest shingles vaccine. One, then another few weeks/months later as a booster.

Yea, I had the single shot version only. My next doctors visit they are supposed to give the the step one of the two part shingles vaccine.

^^ Yep.

No Doc here either but we know that immunity antibodies from a typical seasonal virus typically last 1-3 years. There are also different layers of immunity. Innate immunity doesn't depend on exposure to others and can be maximized through eating right, daily exercise, hydration, sun exposure (vitamin D), and getting plenty of sleep.

Still plenty of uncertainty regarding Covid-19 immunity after exposure.

I've heard it from a medical professional also. Basically said you might as well flip a coin, the tests are so bad.

Of course, the other side to the efficacy coin is: Specificity.

it mutates - all viruses are highly mutable rel. to larger organisms

but this virus has a rel. low mutation rate

there are however two strains extant -- one is sometimes called the European strain, and is populating the US E. coast

but no, not faster than our testing can keep up with

Same here, in fact I got the initial shingles vaccine when I turned 60 but had a break out anyway, wasn't too bad but not at all fun. Last year I upgraded to the newer 2 step vaccine. The 2 shot is s'posed to be far more efficacious.