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I hope you realize you're doing an experiment with your health. We don't have studies on the long-term effects of this degree of isolation from everyday pathoge

I hope you realize you're doing an experiment with your health. We don't have studies on the long-term effects of this degree of isolation from everyday pathogens. It could go either way, but so much human adaptation is use it or lose it that my money's on worse long-term outcomes.

lemonberry 2y ago
Agreed. It's common for new teachers to get sick a lot during their first year. Then their immune system adapts. I was a bartender for over 20 year and never, i.e., very rarely, got sick. I'm pretty isolated now due to being a caregiver. Nearing the tailend of that role though and think often about how I am going to ease myself back into a regular life.
leptons 2y ago
>I hope you realize you're doing an experiment with your health. It was much more of an "experiment" before covid, getting every virus that came my way, to see how much damage it did to my body. There's a lot of evidence that even the regular flu causes irreparable damage to the body. https://www.health.com/condition/flu/flu-long-term-effects https://www.health.com/condition/flu/flu-long-term-effects So, you can keep your own experiment going if you like, but I'll take the experiment that doesn't result in heart complications, loss of endurance and strength, physical decline and secondary infections. You can keep performing that "experiment" all you want. >my money's on worse long-term outcomes. My bet is on living longer for not having contracted the flu 40 more times in my lifetime, or long-covid, which would erase a year of my life just living through it not to mention the toll it takes on the body. And getting the flu or a cold is not the only way to exercise the immune system, your immune system is constantly fighting pathogens. If it isn't then you'd be dead right now from something normally most people wouldn't die from because they have functioning immune systems. So, no I'm not concerned about my immune system not being able to fight off infection, it's doing that right now as we speak, and so is yours too whether you know it or not. It's also known that when the immune system is too aggressive, people also die from the immune response. A lot of people died from covid because their immune system was fighting too hard. Getting an avoidable disease certainly is quite a gamble.

lemonberry 2y ago

Agreed. It's common for new teachers to get sick a lot during their first year. Then their immune system adapts. I was a bartender for over 20 year and never, i.e., very rarely, got sick. I'm pretty isolated now due to being a caregiver. Nearing the tailend of that role though and think often about how I am going to ease myself back into a regular life.

leptons 2y ago

>I hope you realize you're doing an experiment with your health. It was much more of an "experiment" before covid, getting every virus that came my way, to see how much damage it did to my body. There's a lot of evidence that even the regular flu causes irreparable damage to the body. https://www.health.com/condition/flu/flu-long-term-effects https://www.health.com/condition/flu/flu-long-term-effects So, you can keep your own experiment going if you like, but I'll take the experiment that doesn't result in heart complications, loss of endurance and strength, physical decline and secondary infections. You can keep performing that "experiment" all you want. >my money's on worse long-term outcomes. My bet is on living longer for not having contracted the flu 40 more times in my lifetime, or long-covid, which would erase a year of my life just living through it not to mention the toll it takes on the body. And getting the flu or a cold is not the only way to exercise the immune system, your immune system is constantly fighting pathogens. If it isn't then you'd be dead right now from something normally most people wouldn't die from because they have functioning immune systems. So, no I'm not concerned about my immune system not being able to fight off infection, it's doing that right now as we speak, and so is yours too whether you know it or not. It's also known that when the immune system is too aggressive, people also die from the immune response. A lot of people died from covid because their immune system was fighting too hard. Getting an avoidable disease certainly is quite a gamble.