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Originally Posted by Snuffleupagus

NO, think of the immune system as a muscle, even with vaccines it won't get strong without exercise.

Kids need exposure to colds/flu and other viruses, they're getting sick now because they've been locked down and masked for almost 3 years, at some point we need to strengthen the human immune system with exposures.

We should rely on vaccines for those exposures because we can never predict who is going to be susceptible to severe illness, even in early childhood. If we look back before vaccines, children under 4 often succumbed to infections. I don’t think we want to return to that time in history.


Let me just give you one example. There’s a virus called RSV, it’s a respiratory virus. Almost all infants are positive for it by the age of 2. But those who get severe disease are more likely to develop allergic disease and other problems. So this idea that we must become infected with a pathogenic virus to be healthy is not a good one.


Even rhinovirus, which is the common cold, most people recover fine. But there’s a lot of evidence that for somebody who is allergic, rhinovirus exposures make them much worse. In fact, most allergic or asthmatic kids suffer through the winter months when these viruses are more common.

https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2022/is...ypothesis-true

You should really read this whole thing.