12 May

Really nasty people have deliberately confused the public by mixing together two fundamentally different things. What’s called the ‘hygiene hypothesis’, where it is genuinely good for babies and children to get into the dirt, to build up a supply of microbes from there for their health. Having pets is good for this too. And the idea of doing the same for pathogenic organisms, like SARS2 (Covid). Where it’s absolutely NOT good for you to be infected, any number of times. It doesn’t strengthen your immune system, it attacks and weakens it. Politicians mixed these two stories for the obvious reason that they wanted to stop doing anything about Covid, and this way they got nearly everybody to think that getting Covid is actually good for you. 9 out of 10 people I talk to now believe this nonsense, that getting diseases over and over builds their immune system, like working out muscles. Somebody even asked if I was worried that wearing a mask was damaging my immune system. Ffs, stupid is winning. Thanks to everybody for birthday wishes yesterday! Had a very quiet day. My favourite sort.