Quote Originally Posted by queenslandpie View Post
The figures are horrible. However if you drill down into them by socio economic group it is the lower socio economic groups who are much harder hit in particular black people. This is something of a sweeping statement but I would expect lower socio economic groups to live in less sanatised conditions as they have less money to clean etc. This makes something of a mockery of Jackals statement above ( no offense Jackal). I am not sure what the stats are on older folks being less likely to have the TB jab perhaps there is a correlation there as well.
No offence taken, queensland.

I was citing a particular study on eczema that appeared to back up Elite's theory that people who are brought up or work in relatively harsh conditions develop a certain resilience level that those in more benign conditions might not, but the answer won't be binary. As far as COVID-19 is concerned we pretty much know nobody is immune, even though some are asymptomatic, and if you live in lower socio-economic areas which can often be densely populated and possibly less sanitary, the risk of cross infection surely increases.

At an individual level our immune systems can be contradictory and difficult to fathom. For instance I'm allergic to animal fur and yet I barely get any reaction to mosquito bites, whereas my mother gets an extreme reaction to mozzies but has no reaction cats and dogs.