When I was a young boy I would get sick pretty regularly (headaches, fever, nausea, the works). Now that I’m a grown man I rarely experience such extremes. Instead I find myself in more of a long term state of vague apathy and shittiness.
That makes me wonder if my immune system truly has improved, or if I simply lost touch with my feelings.
I’m struggling to find the charts but yes, frequency of illnesses caused by bacteria and viruses is high in children and seniors and low in adults (unless the adult is often around a child or senior). It’s because the immune system is strongest in adults and weakest in the very young and very old.
If you don’t hang around kids or seniors, you’ll rarely ever get sick.
I feel like I am more often sick than when I was a youth, but it’s probably the three kids I have in public school contributing to that.
Before I had my daughter I was never sick, thought my immune system was strong. Then she started school and I got sick every freaking time she got a little bit sick. Turns out my immune system is crap, I just wasn’t in contact with sicknesses that much.