Comment by kirubakaran
9 hours ago
> Most humans (and other beings) aren't pregnant or immunocompromised
Just because pregnant and immuno-compromised people are in the minority, it's not a big deal?
9 hours ago
> Most humans (and other beings) aren't pregnant or immunocompromised
Just because pregnant and immuno-compromised people are in the minority, it's not a big deal?
Additionally, I can't imagine being blase about gaining parasites just because you're not pregnant or immunocompromised.
no one is being blase : we're immersed in a biological world teeming with such critters...and we exist through evolutionary adaptation to such. for fun, check out mites around eyelashes, for an innocuous example.
You’ve likely already got many critters living in an on you.
it's a big deal for some, but not for all individuals, is the point clearly made.
Well you wrote "Hyperbole and toxoplasmosis go well together". It's not "hyperbole" to care about others, however few they are, even though you yourself might not be at risk, right?
But I don't mean to be confrontational. I understand that it is probably annoying to hear toxoplasmosis talked about like it is black death.
A third of the entire human population is infected with toxoplasmosis, in some places nearly every human.
If you put humans in a sterile bubble you get a different set of diseases, to a considerably greater degree because your immune system evolved in an environment where you actually got infections.
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