The Human Immune System

[A Gu088]

(13-07-2014 02:58 PM)Lucia Wrote:  

(13-07-2014 02:33 PM)A Gu Wrote:  So you're telling me that, despire researchers who know what they're doing claiming that a healthy immune system made the disease worse, they're wrong and you're right? What? People survived because their immune system wasn't overreacting, not because it was strong - a person with a very strong immune system could die within hours of getting symptoms.

I was trying to help you with your idea, but you're just acting like an idiot. In real life, you'll never be able to infect every person on the planet with a disease, unless it was weaponized - get over it, it's a game.

Not sure where you're bizarre hostility is coming from. All I'm saying is that 80 to 90% of people who contracted the disease fought it off and survived. That's an indisputable fact. They MUST have done so using their immune systems.

Explain why those with stronger immune systems died more often than those with weaker immune systems. You're basically arguing against science and saying a cytokine storm doesn't exist, when it does. It is definitely possible for a person's immune system to overreact and get them killed, as was the case in the majority of the deaths caused by Spanish flu. Just because you *think* something works some way, doesn't mean you should delude yourself against scientific evidence. The fact is that a strong immune system was a detriment against the Spanish flu - which is why the most fatalities weren't among children or elderly, as with most other diseases, but among working class adults.