I think my theories fly, because you “don’t drink the water” in Mexico… but…
I went through two or three years of promiscuity, wherein I made sweet, sweet love (/chef) to more beautiful ladies than most “better men than me” please in a lifetime. As in a hundred or two. I’m not bragging, I really want to know the answer to this question.
It seems crazy that I didn’t catch a single cold in those 30+ months (right before I met my beautiful fiance). Most people will probably assert that I was probably spreading colds regardless of my condommed behavior. Irrelevant to my OP.
General Question: Is it possible that my experience could ever be typical??? It sounds opposite to what we’ve always been taught in the nature of public health. Can people immunize themselves by exposing themselves???
If it works, then riding the subway every day should help, as well, right?
Well, for viruses, like cold and flu, it’s safe to say “No”. Why? Because viruses mutate, and your body can’t build up a resistance to something it never encountered.
Your immune system CAN respond better, if you and it are in better health, possibly shortening the duration the severity and symptons, and could make the diff between life and death in extreme cases.
There is some growing evidence that exposure to basic illnesses as a chile can help beefen up the immune system. Again, not so much a resistance as a tolerance.
While you might have had a few viruses, it’s possible you had very mild cases because you have an immune system in good shape.
I think a better General Question is how did you manage to meet and seduce over a hundred women in 30 months? I mean, who has the * time *? (Actually, I’d really like to know this.)
But as for your theory, I’m dubious. It’s certainly possible for long-term couples to build up a stasis where they have shared immunities, but if you’re indulging in one night stands, than at the very least, you’d be more likely to have a succession of colds at the beginning of the period.
So I’m gonna postulate the following guesses:
a. You’re probably pretty young and healthy, e.g. just not normally prone to colds anyway.
b. You probably don’t remember minor colds from several years back because they weren’t severe enough to lay you out (ha) for any length of time.
c. Your partners were reasonably healthy. Because really, who goes out to party when they’re in the middle of a nasty cold and dripping phlegm everywhere? The real infectious lasses were home slugging Nyquil instead of Jagermeister.
Thanks for the replies. Please keep them coming (NPI).
Finagle, I’ll answer that, but I really don’t want to sidetrack the discussion. Jagermeister had something to do with it. I’m not that great looking or charming. Given the will, anybody could do it in a big enough city, with loose enough morals, and half a million dollars to blow over the course of 30 months. If I had it to do over again, I’d spare my liver and bank account the trouble. I’m ashamed of myself.
not ‘chile’.