But have you actually had the flu? I ask, because most people say “oh, I had the flu” when in actuality they just had a common cold.
The flu, the real flu, knocks you on the ass so hard that you actively start considering that death is a possibility and that heading over to the hospital would be a good idea.
I’ve had the flu perhaps twice. Once as a child, once in my early 50s. The latter completely recalibrated my understanding of illness.
It is bad. I had a few of them during my life. When I was eleven the flu triggered a reaction in my body, destroying the insulin producing cells from my pancreas. I've had a type 1 diabetes since then.
Nowadays in Finland (where I am from), they recommend flu vaccinations for kids who have type 1 diabetes in the family to reduce the risk of catching it.
Not all flus are bad to all of us, but if you catch the right strain, it can really knock you out.
Yea, that's been my experience. Incredibly frustrating. Pre Covid, people at work would put on Slack they "had the flu they can't work today". Or "I had the flu this weekend". What they don't know is if you have the flu you literally can't move from bed and the thought of typing into Slack would be a task too great.
The flu, the real flu, knocks you on the ass so hard that you actively start considering that death is a possibility and that heading over to the hospital would be a good idea.
I’ve had the flu perhaps twice. Once as a child, once in my early 50s. The latter completely recalibrated my understanding of illness.