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[Scottio57]

After my “sorry I just can resist “ post last week referring to the great weather we have in So. Cal. the wife and I both got the cold bug. How we got it in 70 degree weather Is beyond me. I just think it’s ironic and pretty damn funny and just had to tell you. I stand corrected and humbled.

[SeaSlugs]

Ive been avoiding the flu from others for a month now

Its like running thru a mine field i swear. Theres 2 bugs going around here - 1 seems to be a 2 week long full on flu extravaganza - the other seems to be a 24-36 hour thing that makes you expell all fluids from everywhere....My thermostat is set at 63*F so that could be part of the reason im not sick

[1930-Pickup]

I got that SoCal bug too.
It's spreading faster than a California wildfire, I mean drought, I mean smog...

[Tom F OHIO]

Originally Posted by 1930-Pickup

I got that SoCal bug too.
It's spreading faster than a California wildfire, I mean drought, I mean smog...

My computer says 1 degree outside. I think that helps to kill the bug some but not all.

[Bob C]

I have it also. I couldn't believe it, here it is like summer and I have a cold.

Bob

[slammin]

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My wife is a germophobe, constantly reminding me to "keep your hands away from your face" when we are out. It must work, because I have only had one of two colds in the last 5 or 6 years.

[Marshall V. Daut]

'Serves ya' right for rubbing your nice weather in the rest of the country's face!
Marshall

[wingski]

Hey you guys, gargle with warm salt water when infected or around someone infected. I promise you that it will make a difference.

Mike

[burner31]

Well Damn, now I feel bad, did not know my power had the kind of range.
Oh, and just a heads up, when the frogs start raining down, it should only last and hour or so.

Born and bred in Northern Cal., miss the weather>>DON'T MISS THE STATE<<

[Synchro909]

There always seems to be a bug or two doing the rounds. We had a couple of doozies here last winter but now that the weather is warmer and people are not cooped up together so much, they aren't as rampant. I suspect sunshine either helps us fight them off or kills off the bugs. Any medical scientists out there want to check that one out???
Anyway, hope you are better soon.

[Tom Wesenberg]

Two years ago I was really sick with the flu, and someone told me to eat lots of garlic. They were right, and I got better right away.

[Tom F OHIO]

Originally Posted by Tom Wesenberg

Two years ago I was really sick with the flu, and someone told me to eat lots of garlic. They were right, and I got better right away.

Now you know why no one came to visit you while you were getting well.

[Big hammer]

Heat or cold has no effect on the bugs, as seen yesterday on my local news. Could be fake news :-) but they said bugs are past along person to person. I've never heard of hermits getting colds or flue !

[jhowes]

The cold must have something going for it. My son works in the arctic circle, either Greenland or Alaska, and none of the crew ever seems to get sick. There must be a difference between -10 and -40 as far as the bugs are concerned.

[veggie]

Do any of you old Barners remember these words.I opened the window and (in-flew-enza).

[California Travieso]

I'm in San Diego for a few days this week and the TV news reports that the emergency rooms are full. They have tents set up to handle flu patients.

Thre have been people from all over the country and world in So.Cal. for the holidays. The good weather encourages people to go out all the time and there are crowds all over (day and night) which is the main reason the flu is spreading so fast here.

David Serrano

[SeaSlugs]

Heat wave here today! was 16*F when i woke up at 6 am! Currently 1*F...

The damn caterpillars knew this would happen last fall - big black and fuzzy - aka very cold due to color and super fuzzy to keep the snow off em. HOW DO THEY KNOW!?!?!?

[Scottio57]

Holy cats. This cold is really kicking my but. Hit us like a truck. An AA truck

[Marshall V. Daut]

"Synchro999" might be on to something there. When I was single, I used to eat a lot of food with garlic and/or onions. Then I got serious with a girlfriend, who eventually became my wife (still hanging around), so to soften my breath from such offensive foods, I cut way back. Of course, I have had nothing but colds and the flu ever since. I can't quite decide whether the garlic and onion combo kept diseased people away from me so that I didn't catch a cold or flu, or whether those elements worked to keep the cold and flu bugs way in a metastatic way.
I have had a cold for three weeks now and I'm d*mnded sick of the coughing, running nose and blah symptoms. I may just ingest a massive dose of garlic and onions to see if that helps. Even if it doesn't, boy, won't it taste great? The wife and my breath be d*mned!
Marshall

[SeaSlugs]

Things i learned in college: if you ever have a sore throat or the beginnings of a sore throat drink copious amounts of alcohol - purer it is the better and take shots - let it sit over the back of your throat (will burn but then soothes the sore throat). Not a whole heck of alot will survive in an alcohol rich environment. Plus makes you sleep very well.

either I woke up feeling better or sore throat was completely gone.

[ModelAMike1930]

Knock on wood-I get the flu shot every year and haven't had a cold or the flu for years.

[FordTudor1931]

Get a flu shot! You don't want the flu! Live with the cold. It takes seven days if you try to treat a cold and a week if you don't!

[1ton]

After being -5 to -10 degrees for a couple weeks, yesterday it got to 15 degrees and everybody I met commented on how warm it felt. Weird, I know, but it really did feel nice.

[Scottio57]

My line chief told me years ago to go to the bar and drink till your cold passes out then just walk away from it.