Posted on 04/22/2020 12:06:50 PM PDT by Meatspace
Maybe it could be ‘crap’ in the upper respiratory system which inhibits the bug from even making it to the lungs.
I have really bad allergy and sinus issues - nose always running, always getting stuff in the back of my throat. I don’t seem to catch colds, and have had the ‘flu maybe twice in the past ten years, where I felt bad enough to see a doc.
I”ve smoked off and on all of my life; but even when I’ve stopped for years at a time, all the allergy/sinus stuff was still there.
Maybe it’s a matter of some individuals being chronically sick all the time, and thus never becoming acutely sick - a perpetually charged immune system.
Who knows.
Many years ago, I worked with a gentleman originally from Prussia. When he was a little boy, he and his mother were among those escaping as the Russians moved in.
In the midst of all of this, he contracted a bad cold or flu that affected his lungs, and his mom gave him cigarettes to smoke.
Apparently, some of the old folks thought it had some benefit.
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