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Really great post. I admire you're ability to write and lay out the information Peter.

Personally, I believe your last point is likely to be the issue here. Like with everything there's likely to be a critical period in a child's developing years where exposure to antigens and exogenous substances are vital to creating a trained, complex immune system that can differentiate between the innocuous and the truly pathogenic. Unfortunately, the sterile environment many children have been living in has not provided children, and really many people in general, the foundations to create an antifragile immune system.

I think the only way to really figure this out will be to see if rates of allergies or autoimmune disease increase in the coming months/years.

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