Not weakened, untrained. The idea is that a child, not allowed to play in the mud and get the occasional bout of something like impetigo, never gets exposed to the various "types" of foreign invaders an average human experiences, from harmless to dangerous. As a result, the body never learns what's genuinely a threat and goes DEFCON 1 as soon as it encounters novel but harmless stimuli, resulting in allergies that are in some cases fatal.
Yes, I think there is something behind that, given all the allergies and non-viral-origin immune problems people of the younger generations seem to have more of nowadays. Not to mention those allergies that are known to be caused by lack of exposure to the thing (like peanuts, recently). We used to play out in the dirt and make mud pies (and see if we could trick any boys that happened to be around into eating them), get our knees skinned, and all kinds of stuff, but I guess kids started staying indoors more after the 90s.
Not weakened, untrained. The idea is that a child, not allowed to play in the mud and get the occasional bout of something like impetigo, never gets exposed to the various "types" of foreign invaders an average human experiences, from harmless to dangerous. As a result, the body never learns what's genuinely a threat and goes DEFCON 1 as soon as it encounters novel but harmless stimuli, resulting in allergies that are in some cases fatal.
Yes, I think there is something behind that, given all the allergies and non-viral-origin immune problems people of the younger generations seem to have more of nowadays. Not to mention those allergies that are known to be caused by lack of exposure to the thing (like peanuts, recently). We used to play out in the dirt and make mud pies (and see if we could trick any boys that happened to be around into eating them), get our knees skinned, and all kinds of stuff, but I guess kids started staying indoors more after the 90s.
Taking pills every day used to be for old people.
Look, maybe I had pica and liked eating them.