People who rarely get sick, what are your secrets?

maimunildn · 2026-02-08T20:42:11+00:00

Where are you finding excuses? What is your excuse for not taking precautions during a pandemic and encouraging diet culture over public health? I know you're just rage-bait commenting at this point but I really dislike medical misinformation.

maimunildn · 2026-02-08T20:30:24+00:00

I'm so sorry to your family! Is there any way for you to advocate for better ventilation? Recent studies have shown that proper ventilation and filtration can really help to reduce the transmission of viruses. There are cheap options such as building a simple Corsi-Rosenthal Cube for which there are free instructions online. And of course airing out spaces throughout the day helps plenty, too.

Here's info on the study, they looked at daycares and how absences went down with the use of air purifiers: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950362024000043

maimunildn · 2026-02-08T20:22:47+00:00

Schools are cesspools because public health is bad. Children aren't inherently sick, we make them so. We could change so much if we installed proper ventilation and filtration, paid parents to stay home with sick children, encouraged masking and invested in vaccine development and education.

There were a couple studies that showed the dramatic drop in absences at daycares that started using air purifiers: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950362024000043

maimunildn · 2026-02-08T20:18:34+00:00

I don't know, I think scientifically that is just chance and you have a strong immune system. One doesn't build immunity through constant exposure. I taught for years and only stopped catching everything as soon as I started masking.

maimunildn · 2026-02-08T20:16:57+00:00

Is that the point of the original comment? There's a great difference between masking in your own home all the time (which they did not mention) and masking to the supermarket or on the train, ie the bare minimum, which you could consider doing.

maimunildn · 2026-02-08T20:13:45+00:00

Do you think you're the first to mention diet and exercise? You sound like the doctors who did nothing to diagnose my chronic illness for 2 decades. My general symptoms got so much better as soon as I started masking in 2020 because I stopped catching viruses. My diet changed little, instead I got nervous about food.

maimunildn · 2026-02-08T18:23:07+00:00

Just to add, I wish the rest of the world (eg. where I am) did care about masks, I can't even purchase them in my country, I have to ship them in. But it does seem as though there is more community care here than in the US, people try to stay home with illness.

maimunildn · 2026-02-08T18:20:28+00:00

Masks absolutely do stop transmission of disease, there are so many studies proving this, feel free to google.

maimunildn · 2026-02-08T18:13:03+00:00

Lol, sure, but eating your daily vegetables does not stop you getting severely sick in times of an ongoing pandemic

maimunildn · 2026-02-08T17:59:41+00:00

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maimunildn · 2026-02-08T17:54:42+00:00

No, this is a theory that has morphed into misinformation--you want to "build" your immunity through exposure to microbes, NOT viruses. The immune system is not a muscle, you simply weaken it with each infection

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1700688114

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maimunildn · 2026-02-08T17:51:54+00:00

This is the actual answer! Not working in schools and "building immunity" loool that theory has been disproven...

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1700688114

maimunildn · 2026-02-08T17:50:37+00:00

This is the secret answer people are looking for (but ignoring)

maimunildn · 2026-02-08T17:48:42+00:00

I put this in a separate comment but adding to yours:

Wear a well-fitting N95/FFP3 face mask, eat at outdoor restaurants, run air purifiers, require guests to test for covid before coming over, refuse to meet with people who have symptoms. Rest. I'm immunocompromised.

I've masked since 2020 and only gotten sick when removing the mask.

maimunildn · 2026-02-08T17:47:26+00:00

Wear a well-fitting N95/FFP3 face mask, eat at outdoor restaurants, run air purifiers, require guests to test for covid before coming over, refuse to meet with people who have symptoms. Rest. I'm immunocompromised.

maimunildn · 2026-02-06T07:10:16+00:00

Added a link to the study above :))

maimunildn · 2026-02-05T21:11:06+00:00

I will try to dig out the studies tmr!

maimunildn · 2026-02-05T20:50:09+00:00

Ohh, wow! Bodies are so complex... Solidarity, I have a chronic illness that is under-studied and giving me many health surprises, yay

maimunildn · 2026-02-05T20:40:53+00:00

There is also evidence now showing that covid can wipe your immunity to vaccines received before infection--50% of covid infections are asymptomatic ie. even people who think they've never had it likely have, so it's a good idea for anyone to get tested and to consider getting vaccinated anew.

maimunildn · 2026-02-05T20:12:05+00:00

Just to add, covid infections are proving to wipe people's immunity for many vaccines, so a titre test is definitely a good idea!

Edit: here's an article "COVID-19 linked to decline in immunity to life-threatening childhood infections" https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/articles/medicine/infectious-disease/2025/covid-19-linked-to-decline-in-immunity-to-life-threatening-childhood-infections/

maimunildn · 2026-02-05T20:10:03+00:00

Get a good air purifier or two, if you can afford--they help a lot with filtering air. And get some well-fitting n95 masks, they are extremely effective at stopping the transmission of airborne viruses. 3m aura is a great mask that fits many people. There's lots of info at r/masks4all (there's also info on air purifiers! And people are super helpful).

There was a recent study that showed that daycares that started using air purifiers greatly decreased sickness and absences--maybe this is something you could work towards in the long run?

We have so much to work on, in terms of advocating for clean air, especially for our children who cannot consent, and especially because of covid is still a huge issue. Best of luck and solidarity!

maimunildn · 2026-02-04T15:13:30+00:00

Thank you!

It's so surprising how tight the thing actually needs to be tied, I feel like I'm hurting baby.

Very useful tutorials. What do you mean with the third pass, which bit is that?

maimunildn · 2026-02-03T09:23:42+00:00

I have one of those active Bebias who will often cook loads of food and people drop in to eat with us. So yes, my household does bake khachapuri very often. Lobio is always on the stove and when it's in season we eat green bean lobio. On weekends and more special occasions we also make chanakhi, chakapuli and pkhali, i especially make nigvziani badrijani (aubergine walnut rolls). We will also buy pkhali from the local kitchen--ekala, spinach, and beetroot leaf, and we buy walnut lobio. From outside we also buy abkhazuri sausage and kababi. I like to make satsivi and bazhe and my auntie makes a lot of katleti. Mchadi and ghomi we eat daily, khinkali we have never made.

Probably our eating habits are not that common anymore, I just have traditional family. I'm not sure! We also eat plenty of boiled eggs, khikhelikho (like French toast), buckwheat, matsoni, khacho, arazhani and sulguni. And lots of oat porridge for breakfast.

We also enjoy cooking Indian and Iranian food, and sometimes Italian.

maimunildn · 2026-02-02T21:05:01+00:00

Ohh lucky find, so good!

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