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There is a "law of unintended effects" question as well: if we were to live - and presumably grow up - in such a sanitized environment, what would happen to our
by ur-whale 5y ago
There is a "law of unintended effects" question as well: if we were to live - and presumably grow up - in such a sanitized environment, what would happen to our immune system.
There's a sizeable chance it would be extremely weak and that'd we'd be incapable of resisting many disease on our own and therefore would become completely dependent on the air cleaning infrastructure.
- f6v 5y agoYou still eat fresh fruits and vegetables, touch the surfaces on your way to work etc. There’re countless pathogens everywhere. So I guess we would be fine? You’re right that our immune system didn’t evolve to be in a sterile environment. But we also weren’t meant to be that close to that many humans.
- ur-whale 5y ago>So I guess we would be fine? Can you catch airborne respiratory diseases from eating fruit? What I'm saying is: we run the risk of never being able to go outside again if we eliminate all airborne pathogens.
- Enginerrrd 5y agoNot to worry, people will still have children, and I assure you, they'll still go out into the world and lick the doorknobs/each other and get you sick so you can bring it to work.
- falseprofit 5y agoAre you suggesting that bringing more air from outdoors into our indoors environments will cause us to lose our ability to tolerate outdoors air?
- f6v 5y ago> Can you catch airborne respiratory diseases from eating fruit? I'm willing to speculate that exposing our immune system to surface pathogens helps deal with airborne pathogens.