Jessica WildfireOK Doomer: You Don't Have Immunity Debt https://jessicawildfire.substack.com/p/it-was-never-mild-and-we-dont-have?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=auto_share
LookOutForEachOtherWe think our immune system behaves like a muscle. We worry that if we're not giving it a workout, we'll get weak.
It's a myth…
This is the challenge of science communication. Simple analogies stick in people’s minds, even when they are wrong.
Basically, a clever analogy has gotten stuck in the cultural mindset. It's not true. It just sounds good. It builds on an idea a lot of us already sort of believed, that getting sick trains our immune systems to fight germs