Maladies of Maleficence

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Originally Posted by Mithalwen

All day long I was exposed to the sneezing and snuffling of the local sick collecting their 'scripts and buying cough lozenges. The only cold I caught that year was the one my sister considerately brought home from the other side of the country.

It is known by those versed in scientific medical knowledge that by the time one has reached the point of suffering a full-fledged cold, one’s body has mostly defeated the main disease infection and is flushing out dead germs. These are totally harmless to others, though the process is miserable to the one who has had the cold infection. And people in an environment such as you were in tend to wash themselves more than they otherwise might.