Scroll down to see the bonus vid with Zack, after you’ve seen the main vid. All important stuff, but Zack’s is revolutionary:
Wow. I was in awe of this guy’s grasp as he went up and down the gears of this hard stuff. Hard to understand in any detail but it seems we need those bugs we’re at war against or we’ll stifle in our tragic sterile bubble; an exhilarating look at new stuff of life, the microbiome and gut. A little hesitancy lingers as he didn’t come down to my level (probably doesn’t know how 
), so there wasn’t much in the way of concrete that I could get hold of. I intend to watch again though!
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Dr. Tom Cowan develops the same idea a little earlier in the vid-sequence: the notion that the air-plankton (and the water, soil and food plankton, and the interior communities of micro-organisms in gut, liver, other organs) are essential partners and co-evolutionists in the endless dance.
Both suggest that the micro-plankton are ESSENTIAL parts of the deal, to facilitate accurate and rapid adaptation to novel changes of environment. And we treat these kindred creatures, co-evolutionists all, as ‘enemies’ to be destroyed, at our peril: an acutely wrong-headed attitude to our essential kindred; who are actually quite benign and not particularly harmful if we understand their real relationship to us, and honour them accordingly.
Sickness is still to be avoided, obviously. But this is done by right livelihood in a rightly-honoured ecological environment. In such a situation, a beneficial bout of mild sniffles might actually be viewed as a benign, useful, and essential event. Certainly my very mild brush with covid last year, requiring no more than a bit of comforting taking it easy, was no worse than that. And - bingo! - I’m now adapted to the new micro-organism (whatever it really is) and both immune and non-infectious to boot. Only the ever-benign C was required to act as a mediator and referee in the transaction, to make it easy and not at all desperate. What a contrast to the stampeding, panicking sheep mindset!!
This is currently a revolutionary idea, a paradigm shift, which is taking a bit of getting used too; but highly preferable to the mindset which dominates our society currently. Clearly, the vested-interest money-grubbers of the BPh sickness-management rackets aren’t going to like such ideas. But they fit with the parallel - and related - shifts which are going on in - for example - agriculture and economics, as we cling on in our roller-coaster ride through the unprecedented environmental shifts that hom-sap en (population-overshoot and technonarcissism) masse have precipitated so thoughtlessly.
Seems that, far from sterilising everything, and ‘protecting’ ourselves with ludicrous poisons such as the experimental injectables, and all the other ‘kill everything’ junk which our current mindset recommends, we’re going to need to learn to cherish and respect our kindred life-forms with much greater filial humility.
Obviously, mutually-beneficial co-existence is a much wiser world-view than the ‘man the master of all things’ bilge! 
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