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[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I doubt it to be possible, but it certainly wouldn't hurt to try. Even if you miss the moon, you learn from the process.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

The point is that it is not really a vaccine. A vaccine is against a specific threat, like this or that virus, and if it is good, against this or that virus class.

This stuff works by keeping your immune system on a hightened alert status, so it can react faster to any incoming, known threat. The known part is important here.

And if this "keeping the immune system on a permanent alert status" was any good on the long run, nature would long have normalized this, so there must be a severe drawback to it.

[–] BlushedPotatoPlayers@sopuli.xyz 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I read somewhere that when default body temperature was defined (100+ years ago), it was half a degree higher than nowadays, with all the hand washing, vaccines, etc. So maybe high alert used to be the norm.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

Yes, an people died quite a lot of years earlier.