I bet elementary teachers would be good too
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Retired Elementary school teacher here. You are correct. After the first two years and horrible flu symptoms I was invulnerable for the next twenty. Also agree on preschool teachers being almost immortal.
Shame Covid doesn't work like that. You just get it 5 times a year because it's a different strain, you didn't become immune last time or you lost immunity after a couple of months. Minus 2 IQ points (on average) every time.
And even the "normal" viruses like flu can cause problems for years.
I totally lucked out. I retired about two years before Covid hit. At my age and in that environment I would not have made it. Still dealing with the effects of having caught it all by myself. I just can’t afford to lose anymore IQ points. I’m struggling as it is.
And yet, despite education teachers everywhere refuse to mask.
At least one of us is still wearing a p100 respirator every day...
Any teacher. When I was training for 7-12 that was one of the first things they talked about was health and get ready to get sick all the time
They'd be alright, but preschool or daycare workers would be the gold mine.
I'd even be interested in a parent of a 5 year old who's been at daycare for 4 years.
It's my suspicion that a second, later-in-life battering of a person with respiratory illnesses is in some part responsible for the longer average lifespan of parents. I expect the effect would be more pronounced if somehow parenting didn't come with all the anxiety and stress, which I expect is a negative pressure on average lifespan.
Yeah, I taught elementary school for 22 years. Five sick days in all that time. I'm guessing my antibodies were going full bore the whole time.
Before my kid started kindergarten, I "never got sick". Then it was one damn thing after another for the next three years. I wonder whether people who never have kids and never experience that are somehow worse off in old age because of it. Or, maybe better off?
The last time I was sick was Covid, and yes, my by-then adult son gave it to me, because of course he did.
I used to be a never gets sick person. Worked in restaurants in a resort area, so I was constantly exposed to germs from all over the world.
Even my constant exposure to the school germ breading grounds via best friends kids never got me sick.
I made it through covid with only 2 positive tests, both while completely asymptomatic, and both times being clear after 48 hours. And I was serrious about it because I was living with an elderly parent.
At one point, early on, I shared a wine glass with the owner of the restaurant, not just once, 2-3 hours of sharing a cup. A couple days later, it turned out she had gotten covid from her BF. I never got it off od her.
Then I left the restaurant industry. Within 3 months, my immune system normalized, and I was catching colds of my my friends kids, nights out at packed bars, etc.
That is kind of cool, I guess, but it kinda feels like "Let's take these valuable care providers and take advantage of the increased exposure to germs that they subject themselves to, and then HARVEST THEIR VERY BLOOD!"
You've got a point, but the Venn diagram of people who would become a pediatrician and people who voluntarily give blood is likely as close to a circle as most professions get anyway, so this is just smart use of a resource provided willingly 🤷
Looks like they screened it and then were able to reproduce the relevant antibodies in vitro.