The modern understanding of of the acute inflammatory process of the lungs is based on the characteristics of pathogens, the aggressive properties of which modern medicine has been trying for many years to explain the severity and nuances of clinical manifestations, and their effective neutralization is presented as the main and in fact the only way to achieve a therapeutic effect. This concept of solving the problem arose after receiving the first results of the use of antibiotics and, despite a significant change in primary conditions and the loss of antimicrobial drugs of their effectiveness and even their previous purpose, has established itself as an absolutely dominant professional point of view. A number of important factors that become more and more convincing over time, contradict existing views and reflect the further futility of attempts at an applied solution, are mentioned in the literature only as a statement of reality, but remain without practical conclusions and changes in strategy.