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So, if you're watching this video, I'm pretty sure that at some point in your life, or in the lives of

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someone you know, they've had the flu. almost everybody is pretty familiar with how

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awful it feels to get sick with the flu. Now, when people talk about the flu, they kind of talk about it in two different ways.

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We're gonna get into both of those ways right now. Now, sometimes, they'll talk about the illness,

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or the symptoms they had when they had the flu.

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Now, other times, they'll talk about the virus, you know, the actual virus that causes the flu.

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So, I'm going to actually break it down the same way.

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We're gonna talk first about the illness, and then we're going to get into the virus.

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and we're gonna draw a nice little line down the middle so that we don't, uh, get lost in this conversation.

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So, I can't help it, but any time that I hear that someone has the flu, I immediately get into this mode where I have

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a bunch of questions for them, and I really just wanna kinda convince myself that when they say they have the flu,

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they really have the flu, and they don't have something else. So the questions that pop up in my head:

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The first one is usually, is it abrupt, or is did it kind of start abruptly.

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I'm just going to kind of write that. "Was it abrupt?"

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And you know, I might say, "do you remember, uh, feeling well one evening and then waking up sick?" Or something like that.

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"Do you remember exactly, kinda, when it started?" And most people with the flu can tell you within a day or two

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exactly when their illness started. Now, another clue that something is the flu is that it usually lasts for about 3-7 days.

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So, if someone is saying, "well, I got sick with the flu and then four months later, you know, I started getting better."

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That's a very weird story, usually it would be a lot quicker than that.