I started wearing a mask in crowded public places in about 2020 (for some inexplicable reason). I never stopped. I wear one in the metro. On buses. In crowded shopping malls (or even crowded small shops).
I used to get several colds per years and maybe one thing that caused me a fever each year (usually a flu).
I haven’t had a cold or flu or any kind of fever-inducing infection since … oh … call it 2020.
I simply adore the downvote over a simple statement of fact! The insecurity of people is amazing to me!
Please, downvote this all to Hell and back! It’s a source of endless amusement!
Until last year i rarely got sick, “rarely” meaning maybe once a year and then only lightly. Since october/november last year i suddenly started getting sick almost once every month without any significant changes to any of the following:
- Social contact
- Diet
- Workout
- Sun/Outside time
- Happiness
Im the wrong person to ask for this obviously, because im still trying to figure out why im getting sick all of a sudden. The things i mentioned are probably still all valid factors tho.
I just keep practicing most of the covid measures. When I am away I avoid touching my face, when I come home I wash my hands immediately, and I am also getting the optional vaccinations against influenza and the current covid strain whenever appropriate.
Doing this I haven’t been sick for about 5 years now. Haven’t even catched covid during the pandemic.
Going to one up this. When they relaxed the mandates my wife and I realized we had not gotten sick in any way for the period and normally we do once a year so we kept going. We were due about when covid hit and started masking early given the videos out of china. Long and short is we finally got sick with something, but not to bad, after more than 4 years. Anyway we are keeping all the stuff going. Not quite as strictly maybe but if we can be sick 4 times less often then we find it worth it.
Sleep enough and not eat shit food for days in a row. If i get sick i have usually disregarded some of this.
In my case, it’s probably like that George Carlin bit about swimming in the Hudson. I am not a neat freak. I eat things I drop on the ground. Etc. It’s like constantly vaccinating yourself against everything.
I got an ear infection swimming in lake Ontario growing up, probably why I never get sick. Swam in every stream could.
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don’t share food
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wash hands but avoid antibacterial soap
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get enough sleep
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I used to get sick a lot, sore throats and colds at least a few times every winter and occasionally in the warmer months too. Since I started taking a daily multivitamin about 12 months ago I haven’t really gotten sick since. I swear even hangovers aren’t as bad these days. It’s really remarkable, id recommend anyone give it a go.
I’ve always controlled my breathing in icky situations. Even before covid if I’m walking across the street from someone who is cough I’ll even just do a full exhale and hold my breath until I can pass by extra distance.
That goes for in clubs, bars, the circus, the grocery store… the dog waste that didn’t get picked up… really the list is endless
Otherwise I’m a pretty straightforward sharer and hugger, though I’m sure to wash my hands cause I don’t like when they feel grimey.
Growing up with dogs and sucking coins.
I can’t remember when I last was “traditionally” sick (ie flu/cold etc) - however I also have a chronic autoimmune condition so I guess life is just taking a bit of pity on me.
Acquire one of those, and perhaps you too can have pity! I’m willing to trade but I doubt it’d be a fair trade…
Wasn’t afraid of germs as a kid
Wash hands frequently
Sleep enough
Eat healthy
Avoid antibiotics unless truly necessary
I used to get sick all the time when I was in school. And then when I moved out on my own and had a full time job (providing over the phone tech support) I was sick quite often. I’ve also had periods in my life when I would go years without getting sick, but then about a year ago I’ve started using sick days again.
All of the periods of time when I was getting sick coincide with me not wanting to go to the places I’ required to go (school, crappy workplaces, etc), and the periods of time when I wasn’t sick I was enjoying my job and the people I worked with.
I rarely get sick, but I’m not going to speculate why, and I wouldn’t recommend taking advice from a thread like this. You can’t really know all the mechanisms behind why you get sick or not. There are people who smoke two packs a day and are rarely sick, and I’m sure some of them attribute that to smoking.
5 second rule can be stretched
Eat local honey
Be lucky and have a good immune system
I was my hands pretty often. I don’t go crazy, just soap up and rinse.
I was a thumb sucker when I was a kid. I like to think that helped. There’s no way anybody can get exposed to every germ that causes the common cold - there are just too many out there… but being exposed to as many as possible at a young age must help to some extent.
One year I got like 5 or 6 sinus infections. I went to an ENT doctor and they said “you have allergies”. I take over the counter allergy meds every day, year round. No more sinus infections.