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I don't think this will ever happen. In my opinion the general cold / flu are just "normal" diseases indicative of low immunity. They're not so specific like co
by sebow 4y ago
I don't think this will ever happen. In my opinion the general cold / flu are just "normal" diseases indicative of low immunity. They're not so specific like covid, pox, etc. Though I'm not saying there won't exist medication with immediate effect (because common cold is fairly decent understood), but that there won't be a "one time" medication that will proof our entire lives from such things.
- psychphysic 4y agoNot quite, new variants develop and new to adult variants will appear every few years. It's less able to spread than COVID so adults get the flu about every 5 years[0]. I'm sure you've heard of Spanish flu by now, but may not have heard of Encephalitis Lethargica [1] that followed it. Luckily nothing like that has happened again and CFS is tame in comparison. But the flu still has surprises in store for us. [0] https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002082 https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou... [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encephalitis_lethargica https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encephalitis_lethargica