This one really hits home! Maybe with a little more evolution our healing capabilities will step in line.
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And it’s always helpful to know which category you fall into as well.
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@OBNurseNH has the sage advice, while rabid chipmunks just want to watch the world burn 
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Man I feel this one. But the 80s and 90s were my youth. But I still think some of the best decades around.
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My mom did that with grilled cheese when I was little. I would not eat it if it was burned. She would put the burned side down so I wouldn’t see it.
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Given I have the flu (for the first time in 26 years aka the party likes it 1999 Millenium New Year’s Eve) this one hits home. I’m pretty sure I look worse than this.
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I too got hit by the flue this year (B) for the first time in as long as I can remember. I’m not even sure I’ve had it before to be honest. I didn’t have any virus illnesses as a child. And as an adult I hadn’t been really ill like I was recently. The only other time I came close to feeling virus-y I had crazy chills episodes and couldn’t shake a fever. Tested neg for everything though in the ER. 
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I got it a lot as a kid. Had it quite literally two separate Christmas Eves/Christmas days. But the worst was the Millenium new years ever/new years or the last time I had it. I too had to visit the hospital but I have a dr for an uncle so fixed me up on New Year’s Day in his office at the hospital. I wasn’t holding fluids down at all like even sips of water and got so dehydrated I was really weak. It was the worse flu u ever had and I’ve got the vaccine ever since since it was so awful plus missing the party of the Millenium. And it’s worked until now. Mine was flu A. Usually b is harder to catch, more rare. It’s also the slightly weaker strain of the two making most people less sick than A does. Count your stars lucky if that’s the first one you ever got.
We’ve had some mystery illnesses here too. Kid got scarlet fever after Disneyland visit and no amount of antibiotics including IV ones, nor steroids could fix him even though after the first test all following strep cultures came back negative for three months while white blood cells for bacterial infection kept rising. We did immune disorder tests too all negative. Ended up taking out his uvula, tonsils and adenoids which finally cured him.
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From what I’m told it doesn’t mutate much like A does. So more people have been exposed = antibodies. It’s more prevalent in younger and much older people. I’m pretty sure I know exactly which runny nosed kid on the plane infected me 
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Oh those wet cough kids when I’m traveling terrify me.
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