Dr. Steven Templeton says the response to the pandemic was "self-destructive," adding that "considering our country as an organism as a whole, you know, there were some collateral damage from overreactions. Much like an immune response." He explains why a certain amount of exposure to germs and disease is necessary, saying "we have to figure out how to live in that sort of balance of being in certain microbial world, not inviting too many serious infections that will cause chronic illness or death, but at the same time, not going too far, and trying to eliminate sort of the normal course of microbial exposures and infections that that people get.
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