Some anti-medication article I skimmed: >>Preventing and treating colds is practically a national pastime there. Everywhere in Japan, you see people wearing gauzy surgical-style masks covering their nose and mouth.
Me, thinking about the sort of people who would bother to adopt widespread masking as a cold-prevention measure and the sort of people who would think it reasonable to describe depression as a "cold of the soul": ...
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(if you're the sort of person for whom colds are a tiny deal, why would comparing [some condition you've never contemplated before] to a tiny deal convince you to care about it)
I'm not saying I believe you about this, but
Me, thinking about the sort of people who would bother to adopt widespread masking as a cold-prevention measure and the sort of people who would think it reasonable to describe depression as a "cold of the soul": ...
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(if you're the sort of person for whom colds are a tiny deal, why would comparing [some condition you've never contemplated before] to a tiny deal convince you to care about it)