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BlueRidge · Approved Exterior Cleaner

The Bad Flu Season

Steve Salley · Approved Exterior Cleaner

Thank you Brett
This is certainly a good PSA for everyone. It is sobering to see perfectly healthy people dying from this strain.

Maverick Contracting · Approved Exterior Cleaner

Your 3 weeks late.
Been sick abt that, and many are 5-6 weeks with symptoms but most whats goin round isnt the flu, several other viruses and everyone who got a flu shot nows getting sick and yelling at the doc!

Sad, some kid upstate was really sick during hockey practice and just died.

-- Edited by Maverick Contracting on Friday 19th of January 2018 05:03:00 PM

BlueRidge · Approved Exterior Cleaner

Maverick Contracting wrote:
Your 3 weeks late.
Been sick abt that, and many are 5-6 weeks with symptoms but most whats goin round isnt the flu, several other viruses and everyone who got a flu shot nows getting sick and yelling at the doc!
Sad, some kid upstate was really sick during hockey practice and just died.

-- Edited by Maverick Contracting on Friday 19th of January 2018 05:03:00 PM

Well, from what I'm seeing and reading I thought this would be helpful. For the first time at Christmas and New Years I had bronchitis and a sinus infection.

I've heard from way too many sources that saline nasal spray really makes a difference so I'll keep up with something so easy and cheap!

Maverick Contracting · Approved Exterior Cleaner

Its definitely helpful!
Once I started using a humidifier i got better fast, still there but better.

If anyone starts to feel something coming on, dont do what I and many others probably did and "just suck it up" and keep working thru. It'll just make it worst. Doc called me an idiot (in good humor) for not staying home and resting.

Your right, that single digit cold dry air really slammed me

HHandywork · Exterior Cleaner

We have had 22 people here in Maine die from this flu so far this season. Seems to target elderly and children, but even healthy have died too as Steve mentioned. There is also another viruses that many have had around here, including my wife and youngest with a persist cough that has lasted for weeks. Stay healthy and keep those hands clean.

Dave O · Retired Member

I just heard on radio this morning that 30 children have died so far this year from the flu!

Brian C Jackson · Approved Exterior Cleaner

There were people sick in Tampa with the flu and on the way home on the plane last night I heard nothing but coughing..

Dave O · Retired Member

My wife, who is a school teacher, just informed me one of her students went to the ER last night due to the flu. Time for my wife to take her HazMat suit to class.

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