@jgg @gleick The thing about the flu is that sometimes it doesn't pass. Like Covid and other viruses, sometimes you don't get better -- and every time you get sick with that virus, the odds of ending up with a chronic illness go up exponentially.
We got infected with variant 2.0 before we'd actually gotten over 1.0; there's definitely been measurable organ damage, and the odds of us ending up with Long MAGA are, unfortunately, extremely high.