i think people stuck in the city suffer from "sick building syndrome"

covid spreading thru walls would seem to confirm this suspicion

i also have zero fear of germs.

aquascoot wrote on May 7^th, 2021 at 1:57pm:


I clean the bath about once every fortnight. I recently cleaned the toilet inside and out of whatever build up my body odours leave in the room. Yesterday, I had a sore throat that died off very quickly. I had a headache last night. It was gone by morning, even when I had to get up after 4 or 5 hours sleep.

So, I have to conclude that my recent sicknesses are cleaning related. I am going to go around and disinfect the walls and the ceiling fans as I clean this whole house. I will make the bet that I will be sick a few days later.

rhino wrote on May 7^th, 2021 at 12:08pm:


I’m going to have to agree with you Rhino... because....it was early January 2020, my daughter is up in the Gold Coast..... unknowingly, some COVID 19 thing was happening up there, I think (Hanks and wife came in with it, then later hospitalised)
Daughter went into a certain food place... she started feeling ill and came down with full blown flu... losing smell and taste.
As it wasn’t yet understood this COVID virus and symptoms... maybe it was... maybe not. Masks etc didn’t seem to be the order of the day.
About 3/4 during her flu thingy..... we picked her up at Melbourne airport. In the car with her.
I then, within a week, started feeling run down and wham... got the flu symptoms, much to my surprise, in mid summer??!!
(Odd thing is... hubby didn’t get any symptoms at all with us)

I uptake vit d, c, zinc, and other stuff, shortened flu symptoms to 4 days tops.
Once the Covid infections  came in thick and fast by mid March....and Qld border was locked....I wondered if I had it and survived it?
Doctors surgeries were shut down and couldn’t get an appointment unless it was urgent, and no blood tests were being conducted. Phone appointments only.
I wanted to know if a blood test could determine if I had it or not.

Mid winter, finally there were those testing stations for swabs... I went and my results showed negative.

I’ve given up. But now wondering.... if a blood test could in fact show whether I’ve got anti bodies from Covid or not?

I have a medical appointment next week and will ask about having a test for that.
Stay tuned. Will let you know what doc says.

PS funny thing is.... I usually get a bit of flu during later winter months, but had none since last year in January.
Thanks to isolation, mandatory masks, social distancing, extra-extra sanitising, lockdowns etc.

UnSubRocky wrote on May 7^th, 2021 at 3:51pm:


yeah

sick building syndrome

all that cleaning stuff is dangerous.

the japanese are fanatical about it and not letting their kids play in the dirt.

and their incidence of asthma and allergies has sky rocketed.

the incidence of peanut allergy in the west is also thru the roof because people refuse to challenge their kids with peanuts!!!!.

how do you become stronger?

you face down a challenge

kids should be given a peanut infusion along with plenty of dirt sandwiches when they are babies.

then they will be resilient

you shoudl insist bullies come over and torment your kids

then they will be resilient

when you try to hide from a threat, you just get weaker.

my neighbour always drank water from the river, so i do too.

lots of germs

yummy

keeps your immune system on alert

its why covid holds no fears
and the vaccine holds no fears.

eat, drink and ingest as many germs and chemicals as you can lay your hands on

aquascoot wrote on May 7^th, 2021 at 4:35pm:


I barely use chemicals! I have always used minimum if any. If you go to an Enjo demonstration, how to clean your world without any chemicals.... just fibrous cloths and water.... so good!

Even do a survey of where to buy personal cleaning products without harmful chemicals.

I was invited to the ABC women’s survey, answering a lot of questions (it’s for the study of women and illnesses/deaths etc)

Sometimes, the questions tell me what may contribute to a healthy immune system.
Of course they are how many veges and fruit we have, how much meat, alcohol, smoking etc.
But the most interesting question was... if we were on a farm when younger. I was for the first 3 years of my life.
Little grotty tomboy I was...among animals, pets, etc.

I read some time earlier, that a baby/child’s immune system is better and stronger when exposed to all those “farm” elements.
My dad used to say to people how I never had any sicknesses as a child, never had to go to the doctor.

So there must be something to that, asking that we, as youngsters, ever grew up on farms. There are photos of little blond curly hair me, amongst chooks, geese, dog and cat.
I used to hide from mum in the chook shed with the chooks as they squawked and I told they chooks to “sshhhh” be quiet!

I’m lucky I’ve been on rain tank water all my life.
And I think I’m lucky I wasn’t as inoculated back in that era as so many bubbies and kids have since!

As I do catch cold/flu .... I know my immune system is good and will do it’s job. How well do people know/trust their immune system? How well do people know what will strengthen or weaken the immune system?

Pregnant women should visit farms to strengthen the immune systems of their children,” according to Swedish researcher Anna-Carin Lundell.

Researchers at Gothenburg University followed 65 healthy new-borns for three years. All of the children lived in rural areas, and half of them lived on dairy farms.

It turned out that in this latter group, the risk of allergies was one-tenth of the risk for the other children.


The fact that living on a farm protects against allergies is not news to scientists. They have known about the effect for 15 years.


But the Swedish researchers think they have discovered something about why this is happening.

They have shown that children who are allergic have a higher proportion of immature B cells as new-borns. B cells are linked to the development of allergy.

Bacteria are protective
Scientists have long suspected that immature cells in the immune system are involved in the high incidence of asthma and allergies in the Western world, but no one has been able to prove it, Lundell explains.

Professor Karin C. Lødrup Carlsen does not agree that the new study is revolutionizing the field. Rather, she posits, it supports established knowledge about allergies and immunological maturation processes.

Carlsen leads a University of Oslo (UiO) research team focused on asthma and allergic diseases in children and adolescents.

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on May 7^th, 2021 at 2:10pm:


Oh my goodness  my “medulla oblongata” must be really good!
Seems my pastime hobby is having a few good sneezes!