It is good that you brought up this debate. When this no contagion theory first started to be discussed I had a few back and forth debates with some of my contacts. To start I have no expertise in science or virology: My position: I had an unusual childhood, my father decided to not send his children to school, so my social contact was v…
It is good that you brought up this debate. When this no contagion theory first started to be discussed I had a few back and forth debates with some of my contacts. To start I have no expertise in science or virology: My position: I had an unusual childhood, my father decided to not send his children to school, so my social contact was very limited, when I was 16 we visited my cousins, one had the mumps (I should have been exposed when I was younger) Well after the visit, guess what? I came down with mumps, and when a male is past puberty it goes places that can be damaging. Then, when I was 26 and my wife at the time was 22 we visited her brother and family, one of the children had chicken pox, guess again, we both got chicken pox, not to mention all of the colds and flues over the years. Now I do believe there is evil in the world, but I don't believe we got sick from evil spirits. Usually my final question to the no virus crowd is: If you met a new mate and heard that he / she had herpes would you ignore it and go for it, because there is no virus or contagion? To end, I believe that it is possible that this theory was introduced to confuse and distract from Covid issue.
Thank you, Daniel!! And yikes, I had chicken pox as a teenager, during the summer break none the less, and I didn't like it one bit!!!!
And I do have a feeling that while many very sincerely people have subscribed to the "no contagion" theory, the current militant version of it was likely introduced by people with not-so-good intentions because a whole lot of people are infected with fungi and parasites, and like I said in another comment, if people realized that and started treating themselves, there would be a whole lot of relatively healthy people all of a sudden....
One important point you are making here is, "if people started treating themselves," and that's at the core of people's behavior. If something bad is happening to you sometimes the first question to ask should just be, "How do I stop this and get well again?" I.e. there should be a call to action. So my take would be, "I got sick, what do I do next?"
But as you also ably pointed out in your post, it is taken for granted that "old age = intellectual degeneration," so that first call to action never materializes. Yay, progress.
I remember when I was around 9 years old I was sent to my aunt’s place for 2 months so that I would contract the mumps from my cousin who had it, so then supposedly I’d be immune to it after that, and not pass it on to my unwell sister. We tried so very hard for me to ‘catch’ his mumps - lying under the sheets together so we would be very close, with me breathing in his very contagious virus ridden breath! But guess what, I couldn’t catch it, but instead had it randomly at around age 19 from who knows how. Interesting hey…
It is good that you brought up this debate. When this no contagion theory first started to be discussed I had a few back and forth debates with some of my contacts. To start I have no expertise in science or virology: My position: I had an unusual childhood, my father decided to not send his children to school, so my social contact was very limited, when I was 16 we visited my cousins, one had the mumps (I should have been exposed when I was younger) Well after the visit, guess what? I came down with mumps, and when a male is past puberty it goes places that can be damaging. Then, when I was 26 and my wife at the time was 22 we visited her brother and family, one of the children had chicken pox, guess again, we both got chicken pox, not to mention all of the colds and flues over the years. Now I do believe there is evil in the world, but I don't believe we got sick from evil spirits. Usually my final question to the no virus crowd is: If you met a new mate and heard that he / she had herpes would you ignore it and go for it, because there is no virus or contagion? To end, I believe that it is possible that this theory was introduced to confuse and distract from Covid issue.
Thank you, Daniel!! And yikes, I had chicken pox as a teenager, during the summer break none the less, and I didn't like it one bit!!!!
And I do have a feeling that while many very sincerely people have subscribed to the "no contagion" theory, the current militant version of it was likely introduced by people with not-so-good intentions because a whole lot of people are infected with fungi and parasites, and like I said in another comment, if people realized that and started treating themselves, there would be a whole lot of relatively healthy people all of a sudden....
One important point you are making here is, "if people started treating themselves," and that's at the core of people's behavior. If something bad is happening to you sometimes the first question to ask should just be, "How do I stop this and get well again?" I.e. there should be a call to action. So my take would be, "I got sick, what do I do next?"
But as you also ably pointed out in your post, it is taken for granted that "old age = intellectual degeneration," so that first call to action never materializes. Yay, progress.
I remember when I was around 9 years old I was sent to my aunt’s place for 2 months so that I would contract the mumps from my cousin who had it, so then supposedly I’d be immune to it after that, and not pass it on to my unwell sister. We tried so very hard for me to ‘catch’ his mumps - lying under the sheets together so we would be very close, with me breathing in his very contagious virus ridden breath! But guess what, I couldn’t catch it, but instead had it randomly at around age 19 from who knows how. Interesting hey…
An interesting story, thank you Samantha! One can only be guessing... our bodies are mysterious!