Thread by @Medical_Nemesis

Let’s look what happens when you construct a viral infectious disease as the most dangerous disease you ever faced.

First of all you become very worried, scared. It disrupts your thinking, sleep, eating and digestion. All of this weakens you and makes you more vulnerable.

You are likely to focus and amplify symptoms you normally ignored or suffered without much notice. If you don’t have symptoms, you will look for them. You will think you must treat yourself even when you are healthy in an attempt to save yourself from perceived danger.

Treatment will be divorced from what you feel or severity of symptoms. You may attempt treatments that are new and experimental. Each treatment, old or new, can and will interfere with your ability to heal. Most will recover despite clumsy administration of poisons.

Some will get sicker from treatments when they would heal had they been left alone with rest, eat, drink, fresh air, sunlight and simple remedies for symptom relief should you need them.

Hospitalization for minor ailments will make you worse. Your sleep will be disrupted in a hospital and you will be exposed to hospital pathogens. The likelihood of over treatment will rise exponentially thus increasing likelihood of side effects disproportionate to affliction.