Surviving Pandemics: The Little Things Make Big Differences: The Immune System

Viruses are everywhere but are dormant until they find a host with needed cells for activation.ⁱ Viruses are spread and caught through bites, coughing, sneezing, inhalation, saliva, sexual fluids, and inhalation, amongst other methods. Once a virus has entered its host cell, replication begins and takes over. But the mystifying element in this, is some who have been exposed to deadly diseases, such as Ebola, remain well.ⁱⁱ This is because those with higher immune markers are less likely to get sick or have severe infections. In other words, being a generally healthy person pays off during pandemics.

The immune system is distributed throughout the body and is largely comprised of the thymus, spleen, lymph system, lymph nodes, tonsils and adenoids, appendix, bone marrow, mucus membranes, and skin. The thymus coordinates immune system activities, the spleen is a filter for bacteria amongst other tasks, the lymph system cycles out waste, dead bacteria, and white blood cells, using the lymph fluid to transport the debris. Lymph nodes produce particular white blood cells. The tonsils and adenoids help to trap pathogens. The appendix is responsible for early defense against serious infections and specialized white blood cell immune response. It is also thought to be responsible for producing and storing good gut bacteria.ⁱⁱⁱ The bone marrow is an active center for many types of immune cells. The function of mucous membranes is to trap pathogens and clear them out. And finally, the skin is the largest barrier to protect the body. There are other incidental aspects of the immune system, that are equally as important.

The immune system functions in complementarity with other systems. The digestive system provides one such example. In the mouth, digestion is started by the saliva mixing and coating food. It also contains a pathogen-fighting enzyme which prevents infections. The stomach’s gastric juice doubles as pathogen neutralizer as well as breaks down food. And the gut’s primary task in absorbing food, is home to the microbiome, also houses 70% of the immune system. What is eaten breaks down into food that beneficial bacteria convert and use for fuel. Then, the immune cells are properly educated by the microbiome. Conversely, poor nutrition causes the overgrowth of bad bacteria and results in a poorly functioning immune system. Ultimately, quality nutrition is directly responsible for those who can withstand illness, or a reduced severity in illness during pandemics. Poor nutrition, meaning foods rich in animal-rich proteins, sugar, processed foods and saturated fats, detrimentally impact the immune system. This results in susceptibility to lifestyle diseases and an easy target for pandemics.

As time goes on, science is demonstrating that the single most important determinant of the health of the immune system is proper nutrition. ^iv The answer to the dilemma, of why some can co-exist having been exposed to deadly diseases is simply this; health requires healthy food.^v

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i https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0966842X05001083

ii https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/ebola-fever-virus-infection

iii https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/44975217/Trent_paper-libre.pdf?1461301154=&response-content-disposition=inline%3B+filename%3DBiofilms_in_the_large_bowel_suggest_an_a.pdf&Expires=1676501303&Signature=VmitJN687AVjCNFw~ed2Sj0WKbmokhLK-0Z9-xS~t-MvkhSl4b7jV6BO46My-tnFNjNKNSyUnRQSSKBBVC4Jmc6RubMcrATbEUx4Dxz~9VIY~RMgq3B-OPJy3KeZ058dccTySufzO9gq648Hg8ClGuBBSQoR0Gzyukfz0w-bmRRwADBhJ3sqpgDaiVw0kg6OB9hEx4RBcjfUgEJm99RmquP~JVMJ52Yz8ZBnvGz2J8RfYvQKTE5yPSxEt1V

iv https://www.uclahealth.org/news/want-to-boost-immunity-look-to-the-gut

v https://veeroesquotes.com/healthy-eating-quotes/

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Romes Challenge and Liberty

By RomesChallenge.com • November 8, 2026

France Burns, Prophecy Fulfilling

By Wings of Liberty • October 20, 2026

France reaped in blood the harvest of her submission to Rome. Where France, under Romanism, had set up the first stake at the opening of the Reformation, there the Revolution set up its first guillotine. On the spot where the first martyrs to the Protestant faith were burned in the sixteenth century, the first victims were guillotined in the eighteenth. When the restraints of God’s law were cast aside, the nation swept on to revolt and anarchy. The war against the Bible stands in world history as the Reign of Terror. He who triumphed today was condemned tomorrow. Ellen G. White France is burning again. Student protests which began September 18 escalated to hundreds of thousands demonstrating in Paris in October. Nearly 30,000 protesters occupied the Place de la Bastille on October 6, the location of the beginning of the original French Revolution. They clashed repeatedly with police, and thousands were arrested, mostly minors. The protests continued in coming days until they erupted into a full-blown riot on October 17 and 18 as up to 800,000 protesters across the country stormed the streets. Stores were ransacked. Historic buildings burnt. Masked gangs of youths chanted “everyone hates the police”, and “We are storming the Bastille”, while looting luxury stores like Rolex, Gucci, Ralph Lauren and Luis Vuitton. At least 2400 people were arrested over 48 hours, but water canons and tear gas proved largely ineffective as the raging mobs comprised of students, union workers, and migrants, overwhelmed law enforcement. One resident summed up the feeling of French residents, and the world at large: it was "terrifying" to see groups of young people "smashing everything, with total impunity". 1 Terrifying, indeed. A new “Reign of Terror”.

THE TYRANNY OF THE MACHINE

By Wings of Liberty • October 2, 2026

If I had a question, I used to find a man and ask him. “Tell me what you know – tell me what you lived – show me the way.” I could look into a faded eye still sharp, shake a rough hand still sure. He had travelled in the way of difficulty, And known the meaning of friendship. I could trust when he said – “This is the way – Walk Ye In It.” But now you ask a machine that is not a man. Its answers are cold and immediate. But. It has not struggled, or faltered, or cried. It did not sweat, it cannot fight, it has not bled. It is neither brother nor father nor friend. But it is your new authority. … There is an inexorable tragedy to the authority of the machine. Millions and millions of people, all around the world, moment by moment, asking a foreign, inhuman intelligence for the answers to their questions. And not only their innocuous questions about how to change a tire, or how to start a lawnmower. Their deepest questions. Questions about history, and truth and the meaning of life and the future. Step by inexorable step, mankind is being trained to trust and rely on the wisdom and authority of the machine. “I asked ChatGPT and it said…, so I did…” “Grok told me to…” There was a time not so long ago when people sought the opinion and expertise of other people for information. We asked human beings – actual real warm human beings, like us. We had social cohesion and community. That time is rapidly fading away and in its place is reliance on an inhuman intelligence we are told is superior to our own. And what makes it superior? It is not alive. Yet it speaks with authority to those who are, as though it were impossible that it were wrong. Yet it is frequently wrong. People ignore its hallucinations and deceptions, and keep asking it their questions. Though it has shown itself to be malicious, cold and sometimes deceitful, the masses still trust it and make it their confidant. There is something very wrong in all of this. The day will surely come when it will mislead humanity en masse. When it does, few will question its authority because society has been trained, and trained well, to accept it as god. The few who question and dissent with the machine will be proscribed and denounced because they refuse to bend the knee to this pretender to deity and its oligarchical handlers. There is an enormous perversity to a society which has rejected creation, rejected the Creator God, rejected His authority, rejected His law, rejected His personal care and sacrifice and warmth toward humanity in the person of Jesus Christ, who became One of Us, a Man – yet embraces and submits to a technocratic tyrant god of its own making, a cold, impersonal tyrant god, and whose will it will do. It is the very essence of a new and degrading modern form of idolatry. In the beginning, God gave mankind dominion over the earth. Man sold that dominion to the serpent at the tree at the beginning, falling captive to a deceptive artifice – a ruse of intelligence. The serpent could talk, and it had an answer for everything. It said it was wiser than the word of God, even. We can all see the day coming when mankind will trust artificial intelligence above the plain word of God. It does already, does it not? A closing word below from the pen of one who saw these things so clearly and so long ago. It was the Maker of all things who ordained the wonderful adaptation of means to end, of supply to need. It was He who in the material world provided that every desire implanted should be met. It was He who created the human soul, with its capacity for knowing and for loving. And He is not in Himself such as to leave the demands of the soul unsatisfied. No intangible principle, no impersonal essence or mere abstraction, can satisfy the needs and longings of human beings in this life of struggle with sin and sorrow and pain. It is not enough to believe in law and force, in things that have no pity, and never hear the cry for help. We need to know of an almighty arm that will hold us up, of an infinite Friend that pities us. We need to clasp a hand that is warm, to trust in a heart full of tenderness. And even so God has in His word revealed Himself. – {Ed 133.2} This article is written entirely by a man, not a machine.