Common Colds

may have enabled some people to fight the coronavirus.

[Update a while later]

Per some of the comments, I can’t actually remember when the last time was that I was sick. I suspect I have a pretty strong immune system (may be a combination of my mostly-keto diet and a lot of fasting). I have to fly to DC in a couple weeks for a deposition, but I’m not really sweating it.

8 thoughts on “Common Colds”

  1. What I’d like to see is how often common cold coronavirus yields a false positive for “COVID-19”. Which is itself a misnomer since COVID-19 is shorthand for pneumonia and follow on symptoms from the actual virus which is SARS-CoV2. If it is as bad as I suspect I predict a massive third wave this fall as temperatures and humidity drop and normal cold virus starts to spread. Will be interesting to watch how media hair catches fire among the bald. And then the truth about false positives slowly trickles out after a month of suppression on social media. Around the one year anniversary of the original virus escaping to the wild.

    1. Of course this will be the October Surprise. That kids don’t get sick and pass COVID to their parents. The Dems will attempt to stand the narrative on its head just before the election. Trump’s lies killed your kids. Then after the election, oops just the common cold. Never mind.

  2. When I was a kid, I can remember a couple of years where it seemed like I always had a cold — or something or other. Flu? Allergies? Sniffles at the very least.

    For all I know there might not have been a single form of cold that I haven’t had at some point in my life. In recent years my allergies, if I ever had any, seem to have all but disappeared — meaning the only things that make me sick anymore is whatever flu the CDC didn’t distribute a vaccine for (there’s always at least one of those every year, it seems).

    1. For me it was strep throat, winter months right around my birthday. But now can’t remember the last time I had it

  3. Per some of the comments, I can’t actually remember when the last time was that I was sick. I suspect I have a pretty strong immune system…

    I suspect you don’t have any kids in the public school system… 🙂

    1. Yup. I occasionally get sinus infections on my own but the other times I get sick are thanks to the proximity of those tiny disease factories. Never get the flu though, just things like colds.

      1. The last time I remember having the flu was in June 2009 and pretty sure it was H1N1. Laid me up for a week solid, then about a week and a half of feeling really weak and couldn’t stay on my feet for too long. Pretty sure I got it from a work colleague who couldn’t stay away. If I’ve had any flu since it wasn’t serious enough to remember. Colds sure. Most seasons. I usually get the annual flu shot these days. Oh and they developed a vaccine for H1N1 the next year. ok, um, fine.

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