Trained Immune systems matter: With COVID-19 we have gone “Bubble Boy” sterilization crazy and it is not helping us

American Thinker ^ | 06/16/2020 | By Jeffrey I. Barke, M.D.

[SeekAndFind]

Plans and demands for school reopenings are coming in fast and furious from government and nongovernment organizations alike. Some are hundreds of pages long, requiring a phalanx of Ph.Ds to sort through the details before implementation.

What seems universally clear is that no one is taking into account that the vast majority of us have immensely powerful immune systems that play a critical role in keeping us healthy and alive.

One plan calls for using sanitizing spray on all classroom surfaces multiple times per day, that children use hand sanitizer upon entering and exiting the classroom, and that all children and staff wear masks for the entire school day and of course, ensure social distancing. The bureaucrats at the CDC would be proud of the results.

But all of these “specialists” would have ignored the fact that from the day we are born we are assaulted by germs -- by the millions, if not billions. Our very existence is dependent on a robust immune system -- that is, the ability of our bodies to fight off any invasion of bacteria, viruses, fungus, mold, and other pathogens. Fortunately, we were created with a powerful internal standing army of cells ready to protect us in each battle and capable of winning most wars.

In order for our immune system to be prepared for those battles, it has to train regularly and bring new recruits to the effort. Even before we are born, our immune system is exposed to germs and working to protect us. The result is our body creates germ-specific special ops fighters to defeat a variety of enemies that life throws against us.

[Bonemaker]

"The hygiene hypothesis, as it’s called, says that our immune system needs to spar with relatively harmless germs and foreign substances (including foods like peanuts) in its earliest years so it can calibrate itself. Without this training, it can become too sensitive and overreact to things it shouldn’t, like house dust and pollen, leading to allergies and asthma. Plenty of research has shown that growing up in a rural environment, or with pets, is associated with lower rates of autoimmune disorders, while rates of allergies and autoimmune disorders have steadily climbed in urban areas."

[1Old Pro]

Like any virus, some people had it, some will get it. The vulnerable need to be uber careful and most people under 60 who get it are told to stay home for 14 days.

[one guy in new jersey]

Carlin’s attitude is the one that allowed the U.S. to thrive over time and Americans during and after WWII to show the world a thing or two about freedom of thought and strength of conviction. I’ve been articulating these same basic thoughts and convictions to many others for the past three months. Thanks for reminding me about one of the key individuals who originally hammered them home for me decades ago. Carlin must be rolling over in his grave now.

[Think free or die]

The drinking fountains when we were kids were usually warm too . . . kind of nasty, but it was there and free. Nobody carried water bottles. When you got thirsty, you found a drinking fountain. There was at least one on the side of every school building, generally near the playground or athletic fields. Now the schools have refill stations, but I think they’re all indoors. They would be so easily vandalized. Nobody bothered drinking fountains unless you were in a really rough part of town. We really were fortunate in being able to climb around on monkey bars, get dirty, play outside for hours, ride our bikes and generally act like kids. Summer was for kicking off shoes and playing outside. You never heard of serious viruses in the summer. In the winter there were outbreaks of this and that - chicken pox, measles, German measles . . . back before vaccines for all that. We survived. I never knew anyone to have severe problems. My dad lost a classmate to diphtheria, but that was in the 1920’s.

[Think free or die]

We lived in a place where we always had indoor plumbing, but not so in the summer. We vacationed in Canada at a place where we used an outhouse, swam in the lake, and had to bring ice from the ice house in a wheelbarrow. The icebox stood under a pine tree in the shade, and we had to replenish the ice during our stay so that dad’s daily catch of fish stayed fresh until we ate it. So good! The ice was cut from the lake in the winter and stored in the ice house with wood shavings. We drank from the local spring and carried water in pails up the hill for the cabin. Lots of places still had outhouses in the 1960’s. It wasn’t so nice at night when you lived in fear of dropping your flashlight in the outhouse or having something jump out of the dark, but it was part of growing up. We weren’t sick much, that’s for sure.

[vpintheak]

Yep. Good enough!