the common cold?

It is surely the single biggest overall cause of illness, discomfort and loss of working days around, and what are they doing about it? Eh? Nothing, as far as I can see. Have a lemsip. And a box of tissues a day.

It's almost as if the industry is set up to manage ailments rather than actually cure them.

Yes, I know they mutate and shít but still, is the humble virus really cleverer than our finest medical researchers? Sort it aaaahht!!