I'm a retired college professor, and I too spent years among people sneezing, coughing, and otherwise spraying germs all over the place. We (the faculty) sometimes caught the germs, and sometimes not, but we always joked about "catching the department cold (or flu)." It was no big deal, even when the flu was pretty bad. But in those Dear Old Days, if we got sick we could get a colleague to take a class or two for us while we recovered at home -- and (shock!) we also had medicines. And then we were back in the classroom. And if our students missed an exam or a paper due date, we gave makeups.
Ah, but those were the days when people were still sane. I wonder whether we'll ever be able to go back to a sane society again.
In the good old days, when it was allowed to be sick once in a while, and when doctors still knew to give you a bottle with cough syrup and tell you to sick it out for a day or two... those were the days !
Back when a few days of feeling awful meant lifetime immunity , and we had deliberate " parties " to get it over with , instead of being constantly bombarded by shrieking shills about the horrific danger of those same ( unpatented) childhood illnesses that we have now shifted to post childhood when the side effects are a whole different " ballgame
So much better to learn how to be sick for a short time, and then regain health and with a sigh realize how good it is. In the meantime, we have immunity, and those of us who have children, passed it on long enough for the child to be old enough and conquer the illness with their own immune system. And now, most children have autism or asthma or other disease, probably caused by the poisonous ingredients of vaccines that do not protect, or only very temporary, and some of the diseases like polio and pertussis, are now renamed, so you don't even recognize them when your child has it, although being multi jabbed.
I'm a retired college professor, and I too spent years among people sneezing, coughing, and otherwise spraying germs all over the place. We (the faculty) sometimes caught the germs, and sometimes not, but we always joked about "catching the department cold (or flu)." It was no big deal, even when the flu was pretty bad. But in those Dear Old Days, if we got sick we could get a colleague to take a class or two for us while we recovered at home -- and (shock!) we also had medicines. And then we were back in the classroom. And if our students missed an exam or a paper due date, we gave makeups.
Ah, but those were the days when people were still sane. I wonder whether we'll ever be able to go back to a sane society again.
In the good old days, when it was allowed to be sick once in a while, and when doctors still knew to give you a bottle with cough syrup and tell you to sick it out for a day or two... those were the days !
Back when a few days of feeling awful meant lifetime immunity , and we had deliberate " parties " to get it over with , instead of being constantly bombarded by shrieking shills about the horrific danger of those same ( unpatented) childhood illnesses that we have now shifted to post childhood when the side effects are a whole different " ballgame
So much better to learn how to be sick for a short time, and then regain health and with a sigh realize how good it is. In the meantime, we have immunity, and those of us who have children, passed it on long enough for the child to be old enough and conquer the illness with their own immune system. And now, most children have autism or asthma or other disease, probably caused by the poisonous ingredients of vaccines that do not protect, or only very temporary, and some of the diseases like polio and pertussis, are now renamed, so you don't even recognize them when your child has it, although being multi jabbed.