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The symptoms are caused by the virus reproducing. At least take cough suppressant. The rest just makes you feel a little less awful. All the studies show the c
by amalter 7y ago
The symptoms are caused by the virus reproducing. At least take cough suppressant.
The rest just makes you feel a little less awful. All the studies show the current OTC remedies don’t shorten illness duration (which conversely means they don’t lengthen it either).
The “evolutionary response” hypothesis is a lesser form of “smart people going with their gut instead of science” - which is partly how we’ve gotten into this mess in the first place.
Smart people seem to get important things wrong quite a lot.
- deogeo 7y agoNot taking medicine unless necessary still seems like a good default - there's two sides to this mess: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overmedication https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overmedication