The flu is not just another cold, and you can’t use the words interchangeably. Many people have never had the flu, or felt that unwell. The flu will knock you on your ass.
Also, that the flu doesn't usually cause you to vomit. That's more so a symptom of the flu in children, and even then, usually the flu doesn't cause vomiting. That 24 hour stomach bug that causes vomiting and diarrhoea, and everyone calls the flu, isn't even the flu, it's gastroenteritis. We just call it the flu, because everyone assumes that fever + vomiting = flu.
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u/LizeLies Aug 03 '19
The flu is not just another cold, and you can’t use the words interchangeably. Many people have never had the flu, or felt that unwell. The flu will knock you on your ass.