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   iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 08-Feb-2026 12:50:44 JST iced depresso

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   @sj_zero afaik the correlation comes because "flu season" happens to be when solar access is lessened and thus people synthesize less vitamin D which makes them more susceptible to rhinoviruses that are just permanently transmitting all year anyway.
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     sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Sunday, 08-Feb-2026 12:50:46 JST sj_zero
     Just because you redefine "a cold" as only diseases caused by rhinovirus doesn't mean cold weather doesn't have a direct effect on the body that might look exactly like a cold, meaning it is for all intents and purposes a cold regardless of the cause. It's an etymological sleight of hand where you redefine a common disease by the vector you want it to be caused by and ignore counterfactuals.