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Re:How Many Microbes Does It Take to Make You Sick? by swayvil on Sunday October 01, 2023 @12:51PM (#37727879)
There is also bodily vigor to consider.

When you are strong you are resistant. When you are weak you are susceptible. The difference can be huge.

It's a good argument for clean living, regular exercise etc.

Re:How Many Microbes Does It Take to Make You Sick? by angst_ridden on Sunday October 01, 2023 @01:32PM (#37728294)
Being in excellent health can increase the required pathogen dose, and help resist illness. It can also, paradoxically, cause worse results. See, for example, “cytokine storm.”
Re:How Many Microbes Does It Take to Make You Sick? by roywashere on Sunday October 01, 2023 @01:14PM (#37728100)
When I was sixteen I sailed a lot on the lakes in my neighborhood. I was strong and healthy and thought: what could microbes do against 1 meter 90 of me? So I drank the water from the lake to see what would happen. I became rather sick to my stomach :-) and I considered defeat
Re:How Many Microbes Does It Take to Make You Sick? by yjftsjthsd-h on Sunday October 01, 2023 @03:07PM (#37729375)
The claim was increased resilience, not perfect immunity.
Re:How Many Microbes Does It Take to Make You Sick? by smegsicle on Sunday October 01, 2023 @04:41PM (#37730496)
about how much lakewater are we talking
Re:How Many Microbes Does It Take to Make You Sick? by user_7832 on Sunday October 01, 2023 @01:47PM (#37728451)
Why is this downvoted? Hygiene and exercise is sound advice that any doctor'd agree with.
Re:How Many Microbes Does It Take to Make You Sick? by dbsights on Sunday October 01, 2023 @02:33PM (#37728964)
I think the portraits of the downvoters would fully explain this phenomenon
Re:How Many Microbes Does It Take to Make You Sick? by extrememacaroni on Sunday October 01, 2023 @02:06PM (#37728660)
Probably because the poor guy's theory isn't true for all possible cases ever, isn't peer reviewed etc.
Re:How Many Microbes Does It Take to Make You Sick? by brewdad on Sunday October 01, 2023 @05:50PM (#37731231)
For Covid, yes. If we look at the 1918 flu pandemic, the worst affected populations were those young adults with strong immune systems. They basically went into overdrive and the bodies attempts to fight the infection caused irreparable damage to the host.