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Re:Flu and colds are back with a vengeance by Juliate on Thursday November 10, 2022 @11:50AM (#33549298)
The strength of your immune system is the energy your body has to provide.

What's influenced/improved through (accidental or controlled/vaccines) exposure is it memory.

Although exposure can also have other consequences on the whole body, if the system is overwhelmed/can't cope.

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Re:Flu and colds are back with a vengeance by lostmsu on Thursday November 10, 2022 @12:40PM (#33550194)
You are not answering the important question in the parent: is this "as far as I can tell based off of personal experience and gut feeling"?
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Re:Flu and colds are back with a vengeance by peyton on Thursday November 10, 2022 @12:48PM (#33550321)
The past two years have demonstrated the state of the art w.r.t. infectious disease may not be as great as advertised. So likely gut feeling.
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Re:Flu and colds are back with a vengeance by Juliate on Thursday November 10, 2022 @01:08PM (#33550626)
It's more like a current understanding of various takes of professionals on the "immunity debt" concept, especially in children:

* https://twitter.com/FurnessColin/status/1589103107048624129 (which has an additional interesting take about measles) * https://twitter.com/lisa_iannattone/status/15762315127179919... * https://twitter.com/unbiasedscipod/status/158891593499112652... * https://counterdisinformationproject.substack.com/p/immunity...

which is not necessarily intuitive as well, but still, at this point, makes way more sense than the "immune system is a muscle" discourse.

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