there are other reasons for a giant phlegm/coughing fit. I get them and it is just a matter of acid reflux. now granted, i do try to leave the room if i can and apply some sanitizer on my hands once i’m past it, but it isn’t a cold. it is just acid reflux increasing mucus drainage, and combined with cold weather and/or allergies it can get exacerbated.
a dry coughing fit is often bronchitis – the person isn’t not contagious but the damage to their throat causing the cough response has happened and that takes time to heal.
What it gets you actually is the ability to borrow against that as collateral. The stock value of his Tesla holdings is how Musk finally came up with the cash for the Twitter purchase. He didn’t sell his Tesla stock, he just borrowed against it. This is why “Net Worth” means something, and how taxes are avoided – if you sell, that’s profit and you pay your taxes…but if you borrow against it, you still have that same net worth, you still have some spending cash…and you can take a deduction on the interest as a business expense.
The whole thing is pretty rigged for the rich to avoid taxes.
and Girl is within You’re Gonna Lose That Girl, so technically 32… :)