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I've always taken the attitude that the best way to deal with a cold is just to ignore it. They go away of their own accord after a few days, and the degree of misery they cause is actually fairly minimal - more of an inconvenience
Nah. That's a mythical construct for the benefit of people who won't accept that the exceptionally minor degree of discomfort they are experiencing is not in fact a crisis of earth-shattering magnitude, such that everybody around them should rush to their aid with tea and sympathy.
As I have nobody around me, such a strategy would be entirely pointless anyway
The only time I would not go to work because of a cold was when I worked for Age Concern via some Government-funded scheme or other back in the eighties.
I spent three days a week visiting "housebound frail and elderly people" just chatting for an hour or so, drinking their tea and eating their biscuits.
Nah. That's a mythical construct for the benefit of people who won't accept that the exceptionally minor degree of discomfort they are experiencing is not in fact a crisis of earth-shattering magnitude, such that everybody around them should rush to their aid with tea and sympathy.
Of course you were also on the lookout for any problems they might be having... it was astonishing how rapidly problems with things like pensions, health care and social care got sorted out once Penny, the Age Concern supervisor, got on the phone with her amazing cut-glass icily-determined RP voice...
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