Are we lowering our immune systems by staying home?

I would think that any weakening of the immune system caused by staying home for two months would be almost insignificant for most people.

I’m concerned that this is fast becoming the new right wing talking point for reopening businesses WITHOUT social distancing.

Those things wouldn’t be good but I don’t know how they affect the immune system specifically. Thing is, I spend more time now outdoors because I had to replace going to the gym with more walking. Our local authorities (NJ, USA) advise (not required) to actually stay indoors as much as possible but I doubt that’s actually necessary, especially given that a lot of people choose not to come out, so it’s easy to keep a safe distance from people on the street. Or to avoid places which attract crowds on nice warm days.

The experts don’t seem to know enough to gtee almost anything about this disease, but my reading is that getting COVID from briefly passing other people several feet away, outdoors, is a very small to negligible risk. I don’t see a good reason to avoid normal exercise, fresh air and sun exposure, unless perhaps one has actual symptoms and/or positive test result.

When a spoon falls to the floor, lick it off. That should be sufficient.

That’s an interesting idea, especially since the first “vaccination” for small pox was to deliberately infect people with the much milder cow pox. Let’s keep an eye out for research around this.

Read up on making sourdough starter for bread.

If that doesn’t give you a home science experiment to convince you that daily life is full of micro-beasties then nothing will.

No. This Plandemic stuff is ridiculous.

Your house is full of the more common, conventional germs; it’s getting a good workout. Anyway, your immune system isn’t going to stop working because you aren’t meeting as many people for a few months.

I saw a tweet the other day saying that the crisis was so extreme that health officials were recommending shortening the 5 second rule to 3 seconds.