why does your body get achy when you are sick?
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Others have mentioned the inflammatory processes that cause this to happen.
But why does it *feel bad*? Why does it make sense for you *as a person* to experience this whole “sickness” thing as *unpleasant*?
Because when you feel bad, you want to stay in bed and not go out.
And so, you spread your infection to fewer other members of your family, clan, and tribe. Your immune system has time to fight it out, and your family members care for you, and you stay away from everyone else so they don’t get sick.
And your whole tribe stays healthier, and is better equipped to either out-fight, out-trade, or out-fuck the rivals who go to work when they’re sick.
**That’s a hint, folks. If your tribe tells you to go to work when you’re sick, you will infect your coworkers, and your tribe will lose out to rival tribes with better public health policies.**
If someone is calling you “lazy” for not going to work when you’re feeling terrible and spewing viruses out your orifices, *that person is on the side of the viruses.*
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