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JRPGfan on 13 May 2020
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Ka-pi96 said:
JRPGfan said:

^ this 100%.

Theres no "blurry line" between a cold and a flu.

A bad case of influenza, is spending a week in bed, with fever, the shakes, barely able to drink water and keep it down (vomiting most of it back up), no appitate (or able to eat and keep it down), diarrea, headaches ect.

While a common cold is like a occasional sneeze/caugh only. Things that dont even prevent you from going to school/work, or haveing a normal life.
Influenze atleast means bed ridden, imo.

They are two vastly differnt things.

While it's true a cold doesn't prevent you from doing those things, I think it's fair to say the idea of "you're not that ill, so you should still go to school/work anyway" that's baked into society, undoubtedly played a role in covid19 becoming as bad as it has.

Yeah That undoubtably makes covid19 so much harder to deal with.

We're used to ignoreing the "cold" that has us sneezeing or caughing.... and for those people asymptomatic or with very mild symptoms, this might just feel like that to them. Then they go around and spread covid19.