While brief rest can help ward off illness from overtaxation, confirmed invalids should generally avoid complete inactivity.
Draft interpretation · MH 238.2
Original passage
Invalids should not be encouraged in inactivity. When there has been serious overtaxation in any direction, entire rest for a time will sometimes ward off serious illness; but in the case of confirmed invalids, it is seldom necessary to suspend all activity.
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