If I could live my life over again, I would devote it to proving that germs seek their natural habitat — diseased tissue — rather than being the cause of the diseased tissue; e.g. mosquitoes seek the stagnant water, but don't cause the pool to become stagnant. - Rudolph Virchow, Father of Pathology
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Something to note -- an overactive immune system is also a vector of disease.
For instance, allergies are due to an overactive immune system.
Symptoms of a flu (vomiting, fever, fatigue) are also the result of the immune response to the pathogen, not a result OF the pathogen. Viruses can't exist over certain temperatures, so the body ramps up the heat as a defense mechanism.
If an immune system is overactive for too long, it will wear itself out and die. Resulting in NO immune system. No immune system, no problem. That is, until the immune system tries to recover, at which points ADE occurs as it goes scorched earth on every cell in the body which have all been allow to be fully compromised by the pathogen.
Which gets you in the same boat as someone who had theirs killed off gradually from poisons injected by our corrupt Government's handling of toxic and carcinogenic chemicals in our food/surroundings.
It isn't just that the immune system must be strong, but that it is balanced. If it is too polar, both lead to the same result; that being an absence of an immune response to foreign pathogens.
The Government is the immune system of the Nation. Whether it is either too active or too dismissive, both lead to the same result but by different means.
Fascism/Corporatism is the result of an underactive Government.
Communism is the result of a overactive Government.
Both lead to ruin.
We're dealing with both at the same time...
You're correct, though an overactive immune system can only happen due to disease already having taken hold in the first place.
A key takeaway from this Rudolph Virchow quote should be that the immune system is a backup that takes over after the environment has become diseased. It's not the firewall which prevents disease.