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So this virus is exposing all the mortal failings in our immune systems,

both the tendency of our bodies to under react to novel pathogens,

to novelty itself and the tendency to overreact to those pathogens till the body

burns itself out that much I've learned from doctors returning from the so-called

frontlines at bedside with the sick and dying.

The vagaries of the immune system are also something.

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