How Health Priorities Change As You Age

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Taking colds and the flu seriously
Remember when you would just party, with a cold? You’d drink alcohol while taking Dayquil. You’d go on the weekend trip with a full-blown flu. You wouldn’t take days off work or school. After a certain age, you learn that that is very dumb, and it’s just a recipe for tripling or quadrupling the length of your sickness.