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The question currently asks for arguments in favor of healthcare as a universal human right. I expect that most answers will argue that healthcare is not a human right. Healthcare is something someone else has to provide for you. The idea that others are obligated to provide healthcare for you, and for the rest of humanity, runs into problems of expense and practicality. Many see it as a slippery slope down to 100% tasxation and enslaving doctors. There's also the argument that a right has to be something you are born with and that others would have to use force to take from you - like a right to life. I expect future answers to elaborate on these objections - a lot :-)Nevertheless, more economically advanced countries do provide some level of healthcare guarantees for all their citizens. Even the most individualistic economically advanced economy, the US, requires emergency rooms to treat medical emergencies, whether the patient can pay or not. And the healthcare safety net has expanded from Medicare and Medicaid to the ACA.I think what's going on is this: We recognize health, along with freedom, opportunity, education, privacy, and prosperity as inately good things for all humans. When a society can afford to provide some of these things to its citizens, it tends to do so. Even when it uses tax money. And the number of these "rights" that a society provides increases as its economic health increases.Most people consider freedom as a fundamental, universal human right. But freedom is not free. It requires national defense, police, and courts. Trial by jury? Requires citizens paid (and sometimes forced) to sit on juries. And we only act to provide freedom to a fraction of the world's population. So the argument in favor of healthcare as a right in your country is, "you can afford it and your fellow citizens would rather cooperate to provide it than maintain slightly higher individual right in other areas."Every time the definition of "rights" expands, there will be trade-offs. In this case, the right to keep the money you make gets reduced by the taxes you pay to provide this "right" for yourself and others. It's OK with me if you reject this argument. It's OK with me if you'd rather keep more of your money and live without this "right". It's OK if you suspect my age (68) might add some bias to my evaluation of the argument -although I didn't say I accept it.

To acquire intelligence, all you need is a habit that when detected by psychologists, makes both doctor and patient frown. It's an ugly little tick, and it can seriously destabilize your sanity if it controls you, as opposed to you controlling it. The habit is called perseverance.Despite what others may tell you, a person with no hunger for knowledge, no curiosity, no inate inheritance of extra brain cells... A moron who could care less, can acquire intelligence if he / she / it can perseverate without drowning in it.Perseverating is like over-analysing, sweating the details of a topic or situation as if you are an alien swallowing externally provided assumptions for the first time, and finding fault in all of them. Perseverating is mulling things over in excess, sometimes repeating thoughts over and over with barely perceptible variations adding irritating noise to the groove.The trick to making perseveration constructive, (at least in the long run), is to maintain an awareness of where your thoughts fit in the overall scheme of things. If you lose perspective, you will fall down the rabbit hole, and it can take abrupt physical stimuli to pull you out.With perspective, you do not need to feel owned by the thoughts, you can laugh at how insignificant they are in comparison to the zillion other perseverations that await analysis, and you can better manage time spent and overall travel direction.Constructive perseverance then, is all you NEED, to acquire intelligence. All you WANT, to acquire intelligence, well, that is a much longer list of attributes, and one which no two humans will ever agree on.We don't really know what intelligence is, other than it has something to do with reasonable thinking. Acquiring intelligence is like eating poop. You fill up with mostly bad stuff, the occasional half-chewed peanut and your breath smells like you have no friends in the Universe.Stupid is much sexier, check out who gets interviewed on late night TV. So, you may wish to avoid perseveration if you want happiness, and leave the intelligence acquiring to those that will never get laid:(

The main difference is that the vaccine is just the antigen, and nothing else. This means the immune system can just hum along as normal, do its thing, and if there was enough of a pulse of the antigen from the vaccine, you should be good to go for sometime.I suspect that the vaccine immunity will be longer lasting, not just because they intentionally designed it to give a stronger antigenic “pulse” than you could ever get from the real virus, but also because the virus itself probably does things to reduce your ability to develop immunity against it.It is often portrayed that a virus just waltzes into your cells and then hijacks your machinery for replication, but that is a VERY simplified version of events. Your cells are not sheep for the picking, and many viruses are quite a bit more sophisticated than is typically explained.Innate immunity against virusesYour cells have a variety of innate immune mechanisms that make it very difficult for a virus to get in and hijack your cells in the first place. Your cells have a variety of “Pattern Recognition Receptors” (PRRs) that recognize things considered to be “Pathogen Associated Molecular Patterns” (PAMPS). These are things that “aren’t quite right” in a human/mammalian context. This can be anything from unusually large amounts of double stranded RNA to incorrectly “capped” RNA, at least in the case of viruses. Either way, that will trip a PRR, which will likely result in a signal cascade that among other things, will attract immune attention.Your cells also express enzymes that mutate and alter RNA and DNA that don’t appear to belong, such as APOBECs. The expression of these is often upregulated in an inflammatory condition (such as the one created by a PRR detecting a PAMP). APOBECs will then go in and hopelessly mutate any exposed RNA or DNA in the cytoplasm, to the point that it can no longer create a viable virus.All of this is passive and is already present in your cells, independent of the “adaptive” immune system (cellular and antibody based immunity) that you’re used to hearing about.However, if everything worked out that perfectly, Coronavirus wouldn’t be a problem.Viral inhibition of the Immune SystemMany subunits of the virus appear to actively disrupt and block PRRs before they can set off a great enough alarm. Other parts of the virus appear to be able to “proofread” their own replicating RNA, and so hypothetically they may “undo” any APOBEC induced changes, if APOBEC ends up being expressed at all. Its possible this expression gets blocked or otherwise inhibited as well.Just look at this excerpt of a fun list of SARS-CoV-2 non-structural proteins and what scientists suspect they do:Coronavirus RNA Proofreading: Molecular Basis and Therapeutic TargetingTable 1Summary of the Coronavirus Nonstructural ProteinsFunction in Virus Life CycleInate host responseNsp1: cellular mRNA degradation and preventing host mRNA translation through ribosome bindingCottam et al., 2011; Narayanan et al., 2015; Thoms et al., 2020Nsp2: proposed to disrupt host intracellular signalingNsp6: implicated in the generation of autophagosomes for the degradation of immunomodulatory proteins….Replication and transcription…Nsp14: exonuclease (ExoN) domain that proofreads the nascent RNA strand and excises the misincorporated nucleotides….So you can see, the SARS-CoV-2 does a lot to suppress your immune system from the outset.You can see NSP14 “undoing” any anti-viral RNA editting by APOBEC enzymes, and you can see how many of the initially expressed viral proteins (NSP1, NSP2, NSP6) are directed against disrupting and preventing the host cell from responding against it.In nearly every infection, the symptoms are based on the immune response. Many people already have immune systems that are less than finely tuned (we all know someone who gets EXTRA sick all the time), and then Covid comes in and royally derails (the technical term is “dysregulates”) your immune responses. This will result not only in reduced effectiveness, but more intense immune responses to escalate.This is where that “cytokine storm” you’ve heard about comes from.This dysregulation has a strong chance of also disrupting the formation of your memory B cells that create long term immunity. The paper linked below reports on such a mechanism.Loss of Bcl-6-Expressing T Follicular Helper Cells and Germinal Centers in COVID-19Essentially, the virus creates enough dysregulation that certain classes of T Helper Cells do not form, and this results in the failure of memory B-cells to mature properly, resulting in short lived antibody immunity.Antibody producing “plasma cells” derived from Memory B-cells, and these Plasma cells tend to last about as long as the reported length of natural covid immunity. Memory B-cells need to undergo a highly regulate process called “Affinity Maturation” in order to form long lasting memory B-cells that further Plasma cells can be derived from. This process takes place in the “germinal centers” of lymph nodes.No T-Follicular helper cells means dysregulated Germinal centers, which means no affinity maturation, and no long term immunity.To circle back, the vaccine DOES NOT do any of thisIt just introduces the antigen without any of those immune system disrupting proteins.Since the immune system can just hum along and do what it normally does, its just a question of introducing enough antigen in the right way to form some memory B cells.Unless the vaccine is just not as immunogenic as they have lead us to believe, I can’t see why the vaccine immunity wouldn’t last.If there is no Covid dysregulating your immune system, the vaccine should work just fine.