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There is a war between your immune system and your environment, with constant escalation. Every time people meet they exchange germs. Most often it's something
by nico_h 6y ago
There is a war between your immune system and your environment, with constant escalation. Every time people meet they exchange germs. Most often it's something your immune system has already seen, but sometimes you're tired or it's something that's mutated or that's brand new.
Unless we live in a literal bubble with filtered air, we're going to be germy.
The safest way to not be germy is likely to live in a sunny dry place away from people but then it's usually hot and maybe amazon doesn't deliver.
- staticassertion 6y agoSure. We are always germy. But if you feel explicitly under the weather and you have to go out to the store to pick up something, it would be great if you wore a mask - even if it isn't covid times. I've never done that. I've always just gone to the store. I didn't even really think about it, like of course I'm not going to be wiping my nose and touching things, but I'm also not sanitizing my hands the instant I walk into a grocery story - something I now do every single time. I do wonder what the effect would be of just having sick people wear masks when they go out?
- DoreenMichele 6y agoI have a permanently compromised immune system. I don't live in a bubble. The degree to which my life revolves around germ control is not immediately apparent to most people. Suffice it say that I don't agree with you. At all.
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoTrue eradication of most germs is probably impossible, given how hard it was for smallpox and how hard it currently is for polio. But I don't think there's any inherent reason why all remotely serious diseases couldn't be driven to the level of tuberculosis - something that exists, endemic in every country, but at such a low level that most people have no real expectation they might catch it.
- giantDinosaur 6y agoWe can treat tuberculosis with antibiotics. Do you think we can just do the same thing with e.g. malaria? The only diseases we've eliminated have been from vaccines, and the diseases we control tend to be from either relatively easy behavioural changes or medicine.