I'm not complaining about that; for a while I was wearing one day and night because I enjoyed breathing through it so much.

I'm curious whether we'll see a sharp decline in flu and colds due to the measures that non-COVIDIOTS are taking to stay safe.

in regular colds and flus this upcoming season. How could there not? Those viruses will have to sprout wings, jet-packs, chisels, and grappling hooks if they want to survive in a post-Covid19 world! (oops, not trying to give them ideas, they'd better not!)

The phenomena that I've noticed is that my bowel movements have been far "cleaner" since I've been isolating over the last 3.5 months.

I'd almost always have some kind of loose stool issue, about once a week or more, when I was working around other people. It hasn't happened at all since I stopped being exposed to them.

My diet hasn't changed either.

I hadn't considered that angle either. More to think about, like in terms of our gut biome.

... because many of the production workers were dummies who drove me nuts sometimes. I was in quality control, and I had to regularly interact with all of them.

I easily had more face-to-face interactions than anybody there. Unlike me, the production workers didn't even know all of the names of their coworkers because it was a big place.

I still strongly suspect it was biome-related and not from stress, though. Not to mention that many of those guys probably didn't even wash their hands after using a restroom.

...degrees outside, I still get sniffles and a throat-clearing cough indoors.

I have to say, though, as a year-round allergy sufferer, I scarcely know what it would be like to be otherwise.

I hadn't considered how many folks still have pollen (etc) to deal with.

Because am out walking more, since its a way to safely get out of house.

And because its been windier this year.

Dr. Stephen Sinatra.

Many of the recommendations around COVID-19 have changed from day-to-day as we learn more about this virus. This is what I personally do.
I make sure to take zinc, 44 mg of Zinc Picolinate daily, which is useful against viral illness. So is selenium. Vitamins C and D are also major players in immune system support. Plus, quercetin is another major player and I consume lots of onions, and also take it in a supplement as well.
Sometimes just adding a few crucial minerals and vitamins can make the difference in helping to thwart off the ravages of the virus complications

But I haven't 'had a cough' nor what I'd call a full-blown cold but maybe 5 times in the 30 years since college, and it's been 6-7 years since the last one.

I haven't 'spent the day sick in bed' in my entire adult life. Unless you count dopesick.

Figured you'd like to know my health history

No, I can't relate to someone who never gets colds, lol. Nice! And yes, of course I want to hear about your health!

I had what I suspect could have been covid-19 back at the beginning of January. I also had started taking Lisinopril around then. Though I am overweight I am a former long distance runner and still occasionally jog.
In any event the cough I picked up in January stayed with me for two months. I also experienced shortness of breath, which not normal for me. My last blood work from months earlier showed me as being vitamin D deficient. So back in March I started taking a multivitamin and a separate vitamin D capsule (Dr recommended) every day. I also take a generic Zyrtec. The cough and shortness of breath are gone. I can't be sure but I think that the vitamin D is helping.

of air when I yawn. Which I do ... a lot.

Lisinopril for me too, combo along with the other drug that I think starts with an O.

I'll have to pick up some Vitamin D next time I'm out, thanks ... wouldn't surprise me if mine was low. Thanks for the tip.

I’ve had asthma since I was an infant. Although it is mild and well-controlled now, I still have triggers. Triggers like ice cream. Also, post-nasal drip from seasonal allergies can trigger coughing. Yeah, I cough a little every day.

I have wondered if all this isolation will reduce our immunity from all the other, less lethal, bugs out there, but I’m not about to change my currently isolated lifestyle to find out.

So if you have a slight cough, it could be reflux

it basically feels like the bottom couple of inches of my lungs are filled with fluid.

I blame it on the wild temperature variations that occur that time of year where I live-PNW. We've already had a couple of warm dry spells, now it's back to June gloom, cool and cloudy. Hard not to get paranoid about covid right now, of course with that going on.

Coughing is a bodily process that allows you to clear airways, lungs, bronchia, and throat.

I get a flu shot every year, and will again. I'm skeptical about any vaccine announced by this admin, TBS, but I'll get a covid shot if and when it is available and proven.

Like everyone else I get colds and occasionally bronchitis.
But, maybe once a year, maybe more like once every other year.
Now, the occasional cough because of dust or pollen might pop up. But, shallow & nonpersistent. Cough, cough, done. Might not happen again.
So, it depends on what you mean.
Hard coughing, moving deposits that goes on for a day or three? Yes, I've gone much more than 6 months, very often.
The random spasm cough that's once and done until next week? No, I likely haven't gone 6 months.

Nice side effect.

a single cough in a six month period is such a minor thing, how could you remember one way or the other?