Make it end

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I really feel this comic.

I was sick beginning of December, mostly recovered after a week and I went back to work, but my throat still hurts when speaking - had 3 weeks off around Christmas, rested my voice, visited doctor for meds, but it’s still not gone. Doctors are still not sure what it is, but similar thing happens a lot with covid, so maybe it’s that.

Such a small thing, but lasts so long and doesn’t improve, I have zero control over it, and it makes me hopeless. I feel like it broke me, a successful manager, a married man in my 30s, I was crying yesterday when walking my dog.

Not sure how long can I go on working this way - I could of course go on sick leave, but doing that just after returning from a long holiday and kicking off a new project, will not make me too popular, and would guarantee that I miss the promotion I’m working for.

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Guilty as charged, I'd for sure eat out a Ginger right now if there's a chance she'll break my fever, hell even if she can't!

Buglefingers

I've found a chemically induced coma has fixed up my (light viral) illnesses right quick and painlessly!

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Hmm would love if this was true, but checking on Google scholar it looks like most studies say using this as a treatment for the cold doesn't conclusively show any link to a shorter duration of sickness, etc.

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Stuff like this is why everybody who says shit like "it's just a cold, move on" is a cunt.

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Back before COVID every cold I had lasted a day or two. Now my immune system is fucked up.

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Placebos are so effective, we've just started selling them explicitly (Zeebo). If it's cheap and doesn't have any negative effects, I don't care if it's a placebo or more; it works.

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Not sure how long can I go on working this way - I could of course go on sick leave, but doing that just after returning from a long holiday and kicking off a new project, will not make me too popular, and would guarantee that I miss the promotion I’m working for.

Capitalism~^TM

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Stop making too many of those when you are sick. It takes too many nutrients, which would otherwise go into replenishing WBCs.

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Most of those ppl are too smoothbrain to realise the difference between a symptom and a disease.

Also, most of those are also the ones coming to work with a cold and cough and spreading it to others by coughing on shared-use equipment like keyboards and sometimes even coughing right at other's faces.

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They won't, because adding more wake words makes it much more likely to be triggered accidentally.

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It's wild if it is purely placebo, because I've given so many anecdotal cure supplements an honest shot throughout my life, and have ruled every last one of them out as either ineffective, or total horseshit. But the results I experience (as well as my wife, who is officially onboard with Echenacia now) are astounding.

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Can confirm, am sick and many cocktails have made me feel much better.

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My samsung phone regularly wakes to people talking in videos on my computer. They don't even say anything that sounds to me like hey google or Bixby. THEN it never seems to want to work when I try to use it.

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Just realized I haven't been sick since I had COVID three and a half years ago. I AM IMMORTAL !!!

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I think Ive gotten sick twice in the last 2 years. One seemed like it could've been covid but the test failed so technically I'm still covid free , but the other was just because I went out without proper warm clothes on a rainy night and caught a cold.

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7-10 days? If I can't remember the last time I was sick for more than 2...

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still sick right now. it's been three weeks.

not even covid either.

been off my antibiotics for about one week . at this point.

I swear these new "colds/flus" are either shady government developed superbugs that lost containment, or shady pharmaceutical superbugs introduced to the public to increase profits.

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The virus is to high to do it's job.

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Symptoms that are severe enough to make you change your behavior are rarely present for more than 24-48 hours for the common cold. However, mild malaise, fatigue, aches, and a cough often persist well outside of that period.