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Re:A paradigm shift to combat indoor respiratory infection by f6v on Friday May 14, 2021 @06:56AM (#27152897)
You still eat fresh fruits and vegetables, touch the surfaces on your way to work etc. There’re countless pathogens everywhere. So I guess we would be fine?

You’re right that our immune system didn’t evolve to be in a sterile environment. But we also weren’t meant to be that close to that many humans.

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Re:A paradigm shift to combat indoor respiratory infection by ur-whale on Friday May 14, 2021 @07:21AM (#27153033)
>So I guess we would be fine?

Can you catch airborne respiratory diseases from eating fruit?

What I'm saying is: we run the risk of never being able to go outside again if we eliminate all airborne pathogens.

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Re:A paradigm shift to combat indoor respiratory infection by falseprofit on Friday May 14, 2021 @10:57AM (#27154973)
Are you suggesting that bringing more air from outdoors into our indoors environments will cause us to lose our ability to tolerate outdoors air?
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Re:A paradigm shift to combat indoor respiratory infection by Enginerrrd on Friday May 14, 2021 @10:03AM (#27154426)
Not to worry, people will still have children, and I assure you, they'll still go out into the world and lick the doorknobs/each other and get you sick so you can bring it to work.
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Re:A paradigm shift to combat indoor respiratory infection by f6v on Friday May 14, 2021 @03:51PM (#27158960)
> Can you catch airborne respiratory diseases from eating fruit?

I'm willing to speculate that exposing our immune system to surface pathogens helps deal with airborne pathogens.

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