Cold and flu rant

I'm just wondering if I'm alone or if anyone else has experience this. But this is the second year running where my opportunities to race have been severely cut down by just really bad colds and flues. This year I just got races in September on October, November had to go away for work, but I ended up getting repeated colds for most of December, then bronchitis for most of January and now I've just got another stonker of a cold!

I'm prone to really bad bronchitis so I have been told that I shouldn't really race if I am sick.

It is what it, cx is a winter sport after all and thankfully we have an excellent summer cross league here. But anyone else found that they too get way less racing opportunities than they planned for due to the old cold and flu?