Ever shined a powerful flashlight or laser around and seen all the particles floating in the air? You can also see them sometimes with a particularly bright sun beam coming through a blind. While these visible particles probably aren’t spores, it does illustrate how much stuff you’re constantly breathing in. There is no escaping. You’re part of life, there’s billions of organisms on you and in you at all times, and they’re fighting for survival too. There’s no escape. The only reason you survive is because of your immune system, and that’s why immunodeficient people like severe burn victims and AIDS patients just die despite nothing particularly “wrong” happening to them.
Also cancer (especially when treated with chemo) and congenital autoimmune disorders. You actually wear your paper mask inside out to put the fluid barrier on the inside to keep particles IN better when providing care. They also can’t have raw fruit or veggies or unpasteurized dairy (and nobody should be eating raw meat for the most part) and they can only have fake or origami flowers (a really cool hospital volunteer project just make sure to wash your hands and not fold / assemble them while sick).
Ever shined a powerful flashlight or laser around and seen all the particles floating in the air? You can also see them sometimes with a particularly bright sun beam coming through a blind. While these visible particles probably aren’t spores, it does illustrate how much stuff you’re constantly breathing in. There is no escaping. You’re part of life, there’s billions of organisms on you and in you at all times, and they’re fighting for survival too. There’s no escape. The only reason you survive is because of your immune system, and that’s why immunodeficient people like severe burn victims and AIDS patients just die despite nothing particularly “wrong” happening to them.
Also cancer (especially when treated with chemo) and congenital autoimmune disorders. You actually wear your paper mask inside out to put the fluid barrier on the inside to keep particles IN better when providing care. They also can’t have raw fruit or veggies or unpasteurized dairy (and nobody should be eating raw meat for the most part) and they can only have fake or origami flowers (a really cool hospital volunteer project just make sure to wash your hands and not fold / assemble them while sick).