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The Common Cold

You know, it really pees me off the way they always use a picture of a woman blowing her nose to represent the common cold, like as if we, as biological females, are the snottier gender?!? It really burns me up because I, as an FtM transsexual who is still pre-everything, am down to a rate of fewer colds than the average biological male. I even made a chart and uploaded it to Flickr entitled "My Coldrate versus the Average," but obvoiusly this thing won't let me post the link. I also don't think I've ever had the flu in my life.

I also beg to differ on that point about "you're going to get a cold anyway—it's a question of how many," because I happen to know that it is more than possible to experience a year or more without a cold no matter what gender, race, or age group you happen to fall within. I mean, really, if you can get 1 cold during any particular year, including the first year of life (especially if your mom is a home-schooling breast-feeder and you're the firstborn), then wouldn't it stand to reason that you could also get 0 that year? Do you honestly think there aren't babies who were over 12 months old when they got sick for the first time ever? If you don't, you're ignorant, because anything is possible.

LittleMasterPoints on Flickr, MySpace, and many other sites,

Prince Robert

The Common Cold

You know, it really pees me off the way they always use a picture of a woman blowing her nose to represent the common cold, like as if we, as biological females, are the snottier gender?!? It really burns me up because I, as an FtM transsexual who is still pre-everything, am down to a rate of fewer colds than the average biological male, as you can see in this chart I made:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/14058266@N08/3487153576/

I also beg to differ on that point about "you're going to get a cold anyway—it's a question of how many," because I happen to know that it is more than possible to experience a year or more without a cold no matter what gender, race, or age group you happen to fall within. I mean, really, if you can get 1 cold during any particular year, including the first year of life (especially if your mom is a home-schooling breast-feeder and you're the firstborn), then wouldn't it stand to reason that you could also get 0 that year? Do you honestly think there aren't babies who were over 12 months old when they got sick for the first time ever? If you don't, you're ignorant, because anything is possible.

LittleMasterPoints on Flickr, MySpace, and many other sites,

Prince Robert

cold

i have a cold and it has been going for three days non stop sneezing i cough now and then i have a soar throut and i have a runny nose what should i do?

swine virus

can some medical authorities tell me if a person who recovered from swine fever developed a immunity to it?

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