Opportunistic Infection

These are infections that occur more often or are more severe in people with weakened immune systems than in people with healthy immune systems.

This is most well-known from HIV infections and immunocompromised subjects, but NOT SARS-CoV-2.
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These infections are frequently caused by microorganisms that we carry with us, but our immune system keeps them under control. This includes Candidiasis, Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia, Klebsiella, Salmonella, Coccidioidomycosis, toxoplasmosis, HSV and tuberculosis.
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It has been shown that HIV weakens the immune system and that as a result, opportunistic infections specifically occur in those infected with HIV, now it is AIDS.

Some keep claiming SARS-CoV-2 causes immune damage or dysfunction. There is no data for this.
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They may bamboozle you with acute infection data, when there are very active processes ongoing, or with data from longer-term infections where there is still immune activity measurable and pretend this is "exhaustion". None of this is true for those with immune knowledge.
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To substantiate their point they cherry-pick data from often small local outbreaks of infectious diseases. These outbreaks happen, they happened before SARS-CoV-2 and will continue to happen. Importantly, these infections are not associated with only those infected with
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SARS-CoV-2. These infections show characteristic starts and ends, they do not linger in those infected, which they would if there was immune damage. They are often regional, like hot spots of Measles outbreaks, mainly in those not vaccinated against measles.
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The accounts spreading such messages, at seemingly every opportunity, do enormous damage. They do something very similar as those nasty accounts trying to connect every death (even those that have not died) with the COVID-19 vaccines to spread fear and sell supplements.
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@marc_veld On that screen shot you highlighted the account is only asking for respirators & HEPA filters in schools. I think that's a good thing regardless of what's going on with COVID, no? Less pollution, less already stressed/sick people in hospital getting any virus etc.
@dushy911 yes, better air is always a good thing.