• Acamon@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    As a certified manflu sufferer, I gave this an upvote. I know that there’s been a lot fun made at guys ‘overreacting’ to colds, but maybe it’s time to listen to the victims. Occasionally, I get a cold where i just feel a bit shit, tired and full of snot. But most of the time a cold shuts me down entirely, I can’t think, talk nonsense, if I try and drive I almost crash. I’m a compete mess. Sure, maybe my body is just overreacting to the virus, but so is anaphylaxis and that kills people.

    I’m pretty sure that labour is worse, but…

    • village604@adultswim.fan
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      4 hours ago

      At least for me, if I’m sick enough to be complaining about feeling bad I probably need to go to the hospital.

      I can see how that could come off as being a baby since you wouldn’t know about the all times I didn’t feel incapacitatingly bad.