It’s not mechanical … it’s biological

Some people wonder why, after being exposed to Covid, they don’t get the disease or even test positive.

Well, the truth is that we get exposed to pathogens all the time. Constantly. That’s because we live within an organic soup of microbes, some of which are pathogenic to us. Some are pathogenic to other animals (or plants) but not to us.

Our bodies handle most of our exposures to pathogens. Our bodies are made to successfully live within the microbial soup. Sometimes our physical condition is in a state where it’s more vulnerable than usual to infirmity; sometimes a viral load is high enough to make us sick. Usually not.

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The microbes are life-forms (though the viruses seem to be somehow sort-of-but-not-quite-life-forms) that we can’t directly sense. Then there are the “higher level” life-forms that we can sense. They all inhabit and constitute the biosphere.

Of the planets close enough for us to discern such, our Earth seems to be the only one with a biosphere. The biosphere is a thin layer atop and within the crust of the planet that’s infused with life-energy.

At this point in the discussion we start to tread into speculative territory. We have no idea what that (“life-energy”) really means. It seems (to us) to be like a force that animates all life-forms. It seems to manifest in discrete, individual organisms, each of which glows temporarily. The processes of It All are mysterious (to us), in a realm beyond physics and chemistry, in a realm beyond our ken, and certainly not mechanistic.