The counter to this is that we also reduced our exposure to pathogens, meaning our immune system becomes pathogen naive, which actually weakens it.
Which is fine until a pathogen comes along that gets past the running water, sewage systems and garbage pickup, then we need to deal with it using an immune system that is not necessarily any …
The counter to this is that we also reduced our exposure to pathogens, meaning our immune system becomes pathogen naive, which actually weakens it.
Which is fine until a pathogen comes along that gets past the running water, sewage systems and garbage pickup, then we need to deal with it using an immune system that is not necessarily any longer evolving with the evolving pathogen landscape.
All this is moot, of course, when Fauci starts funding GoF research but uh... fck that guy.
The counter to this is that we also reduced our exposure to pathogens, meaning our immune system becomes pathogen naive, which actually weakens it.
Which is fine until a pathogen comes along that gets past the running water, sewage systems and garbage pickup, then we need to deal with it using an immune system that is not necessarily any longer evolving with the evolving pathogen landscape.
All this is moot, of course, when Fauci starts funding GoF research but uh... fck that guy.