I found this comforting:

Submitted by PriceRip on Sat, 03/07/2020 - 3:50pm

Your Mileage May Very

          Vaccinations are created to jump start this process:

          I stole this from: www.sciencelearn.org.nz : Body's Second Line of Defence (sic).

          Feel free to ask questions. Anti-vaxxers might want to not participate.

          I lifted the following from: www.nytimes.com: Why Soap Works

RIP

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Submitted by Alligator Ed on Sat, 03/07/2020 - 5:06pm
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Helpful indeed.

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Submitted by Pricknick on Sat, 03/07/2020 - 5:21pm
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is that the immune system itself is partly or equally to blame for the deaths due to a cytokine storm.
Our bodies are wonderful at fighting infections until the body overwhelms itself.
One of the most difficult jobs of being a nurse was seeing how little modern medicine could do when the patients feedback system went out of control. It was nerve wracking.

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Submitted by Alligator Ed on Sat, 03/07/2020 - 6:02pm
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@Pricknick

patients feedback system went out of control

. Otherwise said as homeostasis gone awry.

How much is too much? Autoimmunity is too much of an otherwise good thing.

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Submitted by Pricknick on Sat, 03/07/2020 - 6:55pm
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@Alligator Ed
I've always used the word feedback over the more correct homeostasis. Much easier to explain.
I guess that's why I see little chance of humans avoiding catastrophic climate change.
Most have no clue that nature works in a very similar way.
The feedbacks are going to be astounding and there's nothing in modern science that can stop it.
Seatbelt check.

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Submitted by PriceRip on Sat, 03/07/2020 - 7:36pm
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@Pricknick and @Alligator Ed

          I see it as the reality of the incomprehensible (Quantum Mechanics) made manifest.

RIP

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Submitted by Pricknick on Sat, 03/07/2020 - 8:23pm
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@PriceRip
I read your comment when I wasn't taking a drink of medicinal rum and coke.
The snorting might have caused a pulmonary aspiration.

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Submitted by mimi on Sat, 03/07/2020 - 8:09pm
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the content displayed in the diagram. At least I could follow and felt good about having understood what they said. Thanks for posting the link to the article.

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