The Common Cold, Coronavirus and Climate Change

The Common Cold

I spent most of late November and early December with a cold. It was a bad one. The term “Man Cold” was explained to me by my nurse sister in law and satire aside, it applied. The hacking, the aching, the gross amounts of stuff that was coming out of my head was unbelievable. I was drinking Emergen-C, taking Airborne, drinking straight zinc from a little blue bottle, NyQuil, DayQuil, Advil Cold and Sinus, drinking tea that sick people drink, napping, taking time off work and trying to eat lots of fruit. It was ridiculous and I realized that even as I was ingesting every remedy known to man.

Then after a few weeks (weeks!) I was better again. Then my wife got sick. Then I got sick AGAIN.

Stricken with another man cold (it was terrible, probably worse than the first one because I was sick of being sick) I resorted to all my old tricks. Straight zinc, homie. Vitamin C all the time, pills, liquids, napping, eating, and so on. I tried to find answers from my wife, mom and other family members hoping someone had a silver bullet that could save me. Nobody did. In fact, one person (my cousin who lives in Rhode Island) told me to stop with all the pills and medicine. Only time and rest could help me once I was already sick. Thanks, Karen.