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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fanaelialae" data-source="post: 8759830" data-attributes="member: 53980">We don't have anything that actually prevents re-infection. If you're talking about the vaccine, it reduces the rate of re-infection, and if you do get it then your symptoms are much more likely to be mild, but you can nonetheless still be contagious, and in some cases can still become seriously ill. I know several people who caught COVID after getting the booster. But the only people I know who were seriously ill were unvaccinated. Moreover, if you recall, it took quite some time to develop the vaccines. Early on, our treatments for COVID we're fairly primitive (compared to two years later). Whereas, barring magically resistant contagion, Lesser Restoration is effective against any disease from day zero. That's a big advantage. I'm not all that convinced that there would be far fewer non-magical healers in a high magic scenario (unless we're talking ultra high magic, in which case most diseases would be a thing of the past). You'd still have your run-of-the-mill diseases in circulation. I kind of doubt that a cleric is going to waste a Lesser Restoration just because someone has a case of the sniffles, so you'd still need healers to deal with common medical issues. The best you could reasonably argue, IMO, is that non-magical healers would be less experienced at treating serious illnesses, because they usually just refer those to the clerics.</blockquote>