Feeling vile...

Why is it that a simple cold will turn the average human being into a quivering shell. I've come down with one and I feel like a mass of barely-congealed bat crap. Of course it has to show up while I'm in my probation period in my new job so I can't take the time to get over it. We can have people live in outer space, connect the entire world to one another and have pills to cause erections and grow hair but we can't cure a simple bloody rhinovirus? SIGH!