Viruses 101: How Overprotecting People from COVID 19 Could Make it More Lethal

American Thinker.com ^ | April 14, 2020 | Brandon P. Reines

[Kaslin]

With heroic imagination rivalling Don Quixote’s, our hysterical health technocrats are stuck in a time capsule in the middle of World War 1 from which they battle the most terrible pathogen of all time -- the original H1N1 flu virus. How else to explain why they have adopted precisely the public health tactics -- masking, social distancing, and quarantining -- that were used in 1918?

Our wildly anachronistic approach to COVID 19 notwithstanding, we have spent billions for research and know volumes more about viruses and immunity than we did a century ago. The crime is that we the taxpaying public never received a proper education on the subject. I realized that myself 20 years ago when I first read J. R. Paul’s A History of Poliomyelitis. It quietly reveals that almost none of what we have learned in American public schools is even close to the truth.

More importantly, the deep knowledge of viruses garnered from studying both the original H1N1 flu and polio strongly implies that, if we continue to over-react and over-protect people from COVID 19, we risk turning it into a much more lethal virus. In order to understand why I am so concerned about that, first let’s look at how the original flu virus turned into the worst killer the world has ever known, one which not only felled older people and those with weakened immunity, but people in the prime of life including older children and young adults:

1) In general, viruses evolve with their human hosts to get what they need without killing us. Allowing us to survive actually benefits the virus -- they get to survive, too, and get passed to another human host.

[FewsOrange]

"In stark contrast to the quixotic fantasies driving our stay-at-home American approach, which sees all new viruses as equally terrifying, British health authorities are taking the more sober approach, one which is solidly based on contemporary virological, immunological and evolutionary biological theory: letting children go to school, to acquire COVID 19 and become naturally immune is absolutely the best way to assure that this new virus learns to peacefully coexist with we human beings."


British schools have been closed for over three weeks

[Salamander]

There was a funny TV show called “The Last Man On Earth” where a plague wiped out all but a small group.

The show was cancelled before we could find out who the crowd of people were, who appeared from a bunker, in the season finale.

The writers of the show eventually kindly told us how that would have played out, had the show gone on.

The small band of healthy, immune survivors infected the crowd who had been in isolation and wiped them all out.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Important to emphasize that Tony Fauci’s views are NOT the only ones widely held amongst the medical community.

[Jim W N]

Only when the human-host-polio-virus balance was “upset” by children no longer putting their feces-contaminated hands in their mouths did polio evolve into a variant that started attacking the spinal cord.

Huh?

[Kaslin]

My son did that when he was six month old, what a mess. I was trying to potty train him.

[Kaslin]

What it means is that you can overdo it by washing constantly your hands

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[Jim W N]

Well at least according to Brandon P. Reines, your son is better immune from polio?!

Anyway, to me, it seems like the point is that, at least as I understand it, an immune vaccine carries some form of the virus in it.

I also agree that there’s something somewhat bizzare about carrying this “social distancing” too far. And I hate the phrase “social distancing”. Sounds like something invented by a totalitarian socialist regime somewhere.

[Nuocmam]

Old Wives Tale: Unless a kid eats a peck of dirt by the time he is six, he’ll be sickly his whole life.

[Kaslin]

He's been always quite healthy. He had the Measles, when he was seven, which he got from his older brother who got it from school. He also had a light type of Meningitis, which he got from his baby sister. She was seven month old when she came down with it and was in the hospital for three month. My son was only in for a few days. My daughter is deaf in her left ear due to nerve damage. She also has to wear glasses due to nerve damage. Otherwise she is healthy. She was 18 month old when she finally walked by her self as she had to relearn everything again that a baby has to learn.

No back to her brother. He has type 2 diabetes, which I used to have also. But you should see the amount of food he eats. You would think he eats for 3.

[Zathras]

I was studying “Sweating Sickness” yesterday from Henry the 8th age.
They were almost as afraid of it as the Black Death.

They had 4 major outbreaks and then it kind of vanished.
To this day, it is not exactly clear what it was but people died within hrs.
The really strange thing it seemed to effect the rich.

[dhuls]

#OUAN Open up America Now!!