Why after all these years has humanity not built up a complete utter immunity to the common cold?
maybe it's not an illness but a reaction to something like fever
>>17043853Mutates too fast. Every time you catch it it's basically a different virus.
>>17043853>>17043903What a retarded fucking thread.The common cold is literally multiple brand new diseases each year. It is just a classification for whatever the current mostly-non-dangerous viruses going around are lol.
>>17043964>multiple brand new diseases each year>symptoms never change
>>17043977Uh yah most diseases have similar symptoms because the symptoms is how your body reacts to the disease, the disease itself does not give you a fever that is what ur body does whenever something is wrong inside lol.
>>17043853>why has humanity not built up immunity to a generic catch all term for multiple different diseases>>17043903maybe a virus isnt a virus but a reaction>>17043977>COVID has the same symptoms as the flu so COVID *is* the FLULol.
>>17043853Because the "cold" is not a disease but a set of symptoms that is shared among certain groups of viruses.
>>17044005>>COVID has the same symptoms as the flu so COVID *is* the FLUCOVID doesn't exist.
>>17043906why cant our immune system remember all the different colds then?
>>17044058It's a new cold every time
>>17043853Viruses evolve, that's why. They are one of the most adoptable organisms. And they adopt faster than we do.
influenza type Ainfluenza type Bwhichever one you are exposed to as a child first determines the rest of your lifes relationship with the fluif you are exposed to A first, due to the concept of original antigenic sin, you will now be immune to 87%-100% of all influenza A, foreverif you are exposed to B first, you will now be immune to 87%-100% of all strains of B, foreverbut you are completely vulnerable to the other type. immune to A's get infected by B the rest of their life, immune to B's get infected with A the rest of their lifeand thats the answer to your question, we cant ever find a cure because that is not how original antigenic sin works
>>17043853Because the common cold is like a thousand different viruses with similar symptoms. You do in fact build up immunity to individual viruses, things would be much worse if you didn't.
