I got sick with a cold. I started to feel better then my wife got sick with a cold. What’s preventing me from getting sick from the cold that she has now in the future, just like she got sick from my cold and then she getting sick again from my “next cold”, etc — like an infinite loop of colds?

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I got sick with a cold. I started to feel better then my wife got sick with a cold. What’s preventing me from getting sick from the cold that she has now in the future, just like she got sick from my cold and then she getting sick again from my “next cold”, etc — like an infinite loop of colds?

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Your immune system is pumped up to an incredible degree, and they’re actively looking out and pummeling the cold viruses that’s causing your symptoms. Your white blood cells WBCs are like cops and they are walking around with mugshot of the cold viruses, battering any they find on sight.

The first time you caught the cold, your WBC police station just had some old fat cop left on his own on desk duty, the viruses got in and ran amok, trashed the place before the one old cop got off his ass and started calling in the SWAT teams.