Lesson #1: The link between getting sick and being social
Everyone gets sick, and it's general knowledge that people get sick faster during winter. But why?
To get sick a virus has to enter your body, and most of the time a virus comes from another person (or animal).
Let's take rhinoviruses for instance, they primarily cause the common cold.
The rhinovirus is transmitted by ways of contact, which means you could catch a cold when you're close to someone who has it.
This happens with many other virusses too.
But how come it happens a lot more during winter?
Let's say dad got the virus from his son while they both were watching TV in the living room, and the son got it from someone else at school while playing inside (it was freezing outside so even at school they stayed in).
To make matters worse nobody refreshed the air in the rooms because they didn't want a cold room.
In turn the air in the rooms would get more and more poluted.
During summer they are all further away from each other (dad is working in the garage for instance, the son is playing in the garden) and the windows in the rooms are open to let in fresh air and thus there's not much chance that the rooms are poluted with the rhinovirus.
So in short, during winter people are closer to each other and the virus spreads faster than in summer.
Logically, if you're social then there's a higher chance that you'll get a virus from someone else, especially during winter.
If you're not that social then chances are that you won't get sick that fast.
For example:
During vacations I never get sick because there's hardly any way the virus can reach me (I hardly see anyone during my time off
).
Only when I go to school I get sick, this is because I take the bus (or rather took, as I've fixed my bicycle two weeks ago) or one of my more social classmates catched the cold.
Since I'm going by bike now I probably won't get sick that fast, and I'm going to take some steps away from my classmates too when one of them is sick.
One thing I should note:
-The immune system doesn't perform worse during cold temperatures (except when you get hypothermia, but then most of your body's core systems perform slower than usual). So don't be discouraged of driving your bike in the rain, it's still better than the bus if you don't want to get sick.
I'll keep adding more stuff when I think of something interesting, if anyone wants to know something then just ask. I know many things.
BECAUSE: SCIENCE!
Everyone gets sick, and it's general knowledge that people get sick faster during winter. But why?
To get sick a virus has to enter your body, and most of the time a virus comes from another person (or animal).
Let's take rhinoviruses for instance, they primarily cause the common cold.
The rhinovirus is transmitted by ways of contact, which means you could catch a cold when you're close to someone who has it.
This happens with many other virusses too.
But how come it happens a lot more during winter?
Let's say dad got the virus from his son while they both were watching TV in the living room, and the son got it from someone else at school while playing inside (it was freezing outside so even at school they stayed in).
To make matters worse nobody refreshed the air in the rooms because they didn't want a cold room.
In turn the air in the rooms would get more and more poluted.
During summer they are all further away from each other (dad is working in the garage for instance, the son is playing in the garden) and the windows in the rooms are open to let in fresh air and thus there's not much chance that the rooms are poluted with the rhinovirus.
So in short, during winter people are closer to each other and the virus spreads faster than in summer.
Logically, if you're social then there's a higher chance that you'll get a virus from someone else, especially during winter.
If you're not that social then chances are that you won't get sick that fast.
For example:
During vacations I never get sick because there's hardly any way the virus can reach me (I hardly see anyone during my time off
).Only when I go to school I get sick, this is because I take the bus (or rather took, as I've fixed my bicycle two weeks ago) or one of my more social classmates catched the cold.
Since I'm going by bike now I probably won't get sick that fast, and I'm going to take some steps away from my classmates too when one of them is sick.
One thing I should note:
-The immune system doesn't perform worse during cold temperatures (except when you get hypothermia, but then most of your body's core systems perform slower than usual). So don't be discouraged of driving your bike in the rain, it's still better than the bus if you don't want to get sick.
I'll keep adding more stuff when I think of something interesting, if anyone wants to know something then just ask. I know many things.
BECAUSE: SCIENCE!