I did a ton of research on colds a couple months ago because I keep getting them and they seem to be increasingly nasty. I developed Interesting Crackpot Theories that I was going to write up. No one’s going to want to hear about that now.
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Replying to @Meaningness @St_Rev
some colds can be caused by some varieties of coronaviruses, there's your spin
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Replying to @The_Lagrangian @St_Rev
Yeah, I figured out how to cure them, but it won’t work on the new thing
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For you, or in general?
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in general (but I did say this was Crackpot)
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Well I guess we were warned
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Replying to @paul_hundred @KarlMaeser and
long story but part is the hypothesis is they’ve developed a trick of evading immune surveillance for long enough that the response winds down and then they ramp up again. so you get lotke-volterra dynamics internally.
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Replying to @Meaningness @paul_hundred and
colds work increasingly like this, in my experience https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotka–Volterra_equations …pic.twitter.com/CiRKHSzZPP
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Replying to @Meaningness @KarlMaeser and
Have been observing more long-tailed colds. A tapering cycle like this seems a plausible fit.
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Yeah when I was a kid a cold lasted a week. The CDC still says they do, but recent studies say 3 is typical and 6 is common. I think I finally shook one that lasted 15 months just as covid appeared on the radar.
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Replying to @Meaningness @paul_hundred and
i got one almost a month ago and still have nasal drip, can't remember the last time i had a short cold
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Replying to @The_Lagrangian @paul_hundred and
Well I suspect this is now everyone’s experience, and I was hoping everyone would suddenly Get It if I pointed out this out (“Oh, yeah, I never thought of that”) and everyone would laugh at the CDC and I would be famous and universally loved but it’s all too late for that
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