Dubos' "second thoughts" may have been lacking in practical application or perhaps even totally pointless, but: Is our vulnerability to bullets a deficienc

Dubos' "second thoughts" may have been lacking in practical application or perhaps even totally pointless, but: Is our vulnerability to bullets a deficiency in the host? If we had tougher thicker skin we might be able to withstand at least lower caliber shots. For the bullet analogy to be apt, we'd have to have a reality where nearly all people have bullet-resistant skin and only a small minority of the population could be injured by bullets. Then, yeah, it would be worth looking at why those people had malfunctioning skin. The reality is that the vast majority of germs do not cause disease. Most people with latent TB do not develop TB; most people with latent herpes zoster do not develop shingles, etc.