I could go off about the whole "homunculus fallacy" in a highfalutin way but what it boils down to is your body doesn't have its own brain, you ARE your body's brain, and if you think about it that's actually terrifying You're all alone in therehttps://twitter.com/porglezomp/status/1255015552038428672 …
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And then those who recover from COVID-19 are immunocompromised Their T-cell counts are depressed The system burned up so many resources on that last threat that when the next one comes it doesn't have the spoons to respond
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(Leaving aside the abstract parallels, the virus also literally does attack the brain and impair its function causing effects similar to clinical depression It really is all one system - as obvious and trite a fact as it is, you are your body's brain)
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This is actually the historical consensus about why the 1918 flu was so damaging, too.
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I mean, in some sense “your body’s response to the virus” IS the virus. A virus is just malignant code *run on your own cells*. Without *your cells* making new virons there’s literally no such thing as a viral infection.
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