I'm not saying you should use that word, merely that it doesn't hurt for people to use it as a description of how our bodies repair, seeing as we don't currently have another word for that. Many words are a description of a concept and it doesn't mean we can't change what we know of that concept over time. It's like those who say gravity doesn't exist because it's not what we've been told it is. Gravity is merely a word to describe how we stay on solid ground and don't float away, regardless of how it works. I sometimes feel like we give words too much power, but each to their own as our brains all work differently. Perhaps we could call it the healing system. 🤔
It's never just in one classroom where it happens, however. Colds and flu circulate around the country. Could it be the environmental changes? Also we do seem to go over weeks from the first person getting sick to them recovering and being back in school while others are just going down with the same apparent illness. There is something I've noticed since living in Australia and that is that we usually have two rounds of colds/flu per year, whereas in the UK it was just over winter. Conjecture says that it is because we have our own cycle, plus what the myriad of visitors bring in from the northern hemisphere.
I realise I may not have quite caught what you were getting at with regards contagion theory however. Is it this or more how disease passes from one person to another?
It's certainly something that needs far more study for us to have all the answers, if we can ever get them all. This is where we need the freedom for people to do so, but too often science is stifled by others who don't want to hear that outer things could be true. We can never learn anything new if we don't question and merely accept what we currently believe we know. Unfortunately, that seems to be a hard pill to swallow for many, especially if they benefit from their current truth, despite the fact that science is always finding new things which disprove what we thought we knew.
Looking forward to the next podcast. I appreciate the transcript, by the way, as I often find the written word easier to absorb than the spoken.
The reason I don't like using the word is it contains a big germ theory lie, that we can become immune to certain flying bugs which is the whole basis for vaccines. Looked at you link regarding contagion and there is definitely something to collective hysteria, some things ARE contagious, like yawning or laughing but not disease. If you want something meantime to listen to and clarify a lot of my points here is a very nice talk with some friends of mine. https://whatreallymakesyouill.com/discussion-with-amandha-vollmer-about-the-real-causes-of-illness/