Thread: 5 second rule

Originally Posted by nitsuJ

Cholera-free would be irrelevant to the argument about picking up your steak and eating it unless you have pets to poo on your deck.

I was being facetious. I was playing off of your bringing up Cholera in the first place. That's the only reason I mentioned it. I thought that would have been obvious.

Originally Posted by nitsuJ

I just see no need in giving sources to obvious things.

Because someone wants to know? You're too good to direct someone toward information that you say is supposed to be such common knowledge? How self-centered is that?

Originally Posted by nintsuJ

Ok, why would a person believe the common cold is only in the United States?

Why would you believe a person believes the common cold is only in the United States? Did anyone here say that?

Originally Posted by nitsuJ

Also, the immune system isn't viruses and bacteria, when drewmandan said 99% of the immune system's potential, what made you think he means 99% of viruses and bacteria?

Originally Posted by drewmandan

You understand the concept of diminishing returns, right? I posit that simply breathing the air on Earth brings the immune system up to like 99% of its potential, and eating off the floor might bring you up to 100% (not 100% healthy, but 100% "germ-fighting capability") but then increases risk tenfold.

Did the "germs" he was talking not consist of viruses and bacteria? Am I missing the obvious again?