Just because you redefine "a cold" as only diseases caused by rhinovirus doesn't mean cold weather doesn't have a direct effect on the body that might look exactly like a cold, meaning it is for all intents and purposes a cold regardless of the cause. It's an etymological sleight of hand where you redefine a common disease by the vector you want it to be caused by and ignore counterfactuals.
- replies
- 2
- announces
- 1
- likes
- 2
@sj_zero afaik the correlation comes because "flu season" happens to be when solar access is lessened and thus people synthesize less vitamin D which makes them more susceptible to rhinoviruses that are just permanently transmitting all year anyway.
@sj_zero
everyone shits on me when I explain my theory of flu's/cold's. I remember talking to my aunt before the whole corona nonsense, and I had a different theory back then about how people are more sensitive to different seasonal flu's, and she had a different one, and was like, "yea, everybody has their theories." Which is a pretty respectable attitude, I think. Not like today, where you have to take the "experts" opinion as the gospel of the lord.
But basically, I don't believe flu's and cold's aren't contageous at all. I've never once gone to work or school or where-ever and had a co-worker be sick, and the next day I was sick. That's never ever happened to me. I've never caught a flu or a cold by being in proximity to someone who was sick.
However, like clockwork whenever the temperature changes significantly (and there's another factor that I'm missing because it's not simply temp change, it's humidity change or atmospheric pressure or something I don't know) but whenever this climate event happens, I come down with the flu. When I was living in NY and NJ I would get sick in late February or early March. Around spring break time. But now that I moved north, for some reason it's late-August.
But since I've concretized this theory, I've been able to avoid getting the flu.
And there is hard data supporting my theory. It's how George Washington died. This is there written in history. His wife Martha told him not to do his chores on a night when it was a total blizzard, and he, being a work-a-holic, went and did them anyway and caught his death by the flu.
Anyway, thanks for reading my blog.
everyone shits on me when I explain my theory of flu's/cold's. I remember talking to my aunt before the whole corona nonsense, and I had a different theory back then about how people are more sensitive to different seasonal flu's, and she had a different one, and was like, "yea, everybody has their theories." Which is a pretty respectable attitude, I think. Not like today, where you have to take the "experts" opinion as the gospel of the lord.
But basically, I don't believe flu's and cold's aren't contageous at all. I've never once gone to work or school or where-ever and had a co-worker be sick, and the next day I was sick. That's never ever happened to me. I've never caught a flu or a cold by being in proximity to someone who was sick.
However, like clockwork whenever the temperature changes significantly (and there's another factor that I'm missing because it's not simply temp change, it's humidity change or atmospheric pressure or something I don't know) but whenever this climate event happens, I come down with the flu. When I was living in NY and NJ I would get sick in late February or early March. Around spring break time. But now that I moved north, for some reason it's late-August.
But since I've concretized this theory, I've been able to avoid getting the flu.
And there is hard data supporting my theory. It's how George Washington died. This is there written in history. His wife Martha told him not to do his chores on a night when it was a total blizzard, and he, being a work-a-holic, went and did them anyway and caught his death by the flu.
Anyway, thanks for reading my blog.