I seem to be coming down with a cold. That's right, in July. Normally I get two colds a year: at the start of winter and the end of winter. So I'll just hope I'm getting the first one out of the way early.
This seasonally-inappropriate illness shouldn't be a surprise; scientists maintain that low temperatures don't affect the human body's ability to fight viruses. They're unsure why we get more colds in winter, but suggest it's because we spend more time indoors, and thus closer to other people. If that's true, then I suggest that we could be susceptable to summer colds in times like this when we have long periods of heat and humidity. That probably forces people indoors just as much as winter does.
Personally, I've always been skeptical of that idea that colds are communicated by people being indoors more in the winter. In the modern world, the amount of time we spend inside doesn't really change that much with the weather. Probably a better explanation would be schooling. That's one of the few places where we do bring together people from all over society in one place. It's always seemed to me that the colds start going around when school starts, not when the cold weather starts.
Well we're still a month away from the start of school, so what could currently bring together people from all over society to pass germs around? It's got to be Pokemon Go. It's clearly a plot to bring disease to geeks in the western world. I thought it was suspicious that a Japanese franchise game gets released in the U.S. weeks before Japan. It wasn't to improve the Japanese servers, it was to develop an antidote.
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