Have you had the flu??

People are falling like flies. Both son and his girlfriend got it.

Not the flu, but I currently have a vira infection which HS kept me out of work this week. Been rough. Can’t sleep well

I had one major case of the flu and two minor ones this winter. Didn't worry about it much as I'd gotten vaccinated. It did seem a bit more harsh than usual, for some reason.

A ton of my students have had it. We've actually had about 10-20% of our students out with Flu for about the last three weeks.

I'm doing my best to stay healthy. Kids are not great about covering their coughs. Work every day is like

I got it a couple weeks ago. The only thing that remains is the small loogies that stay in my throat for a while because I'm SHIT at hockin' 'em.

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My sister, her husband and kids keep passing it back and forth. I kept trying to make plans to visit them to drop off Christmas presents for the kids. I finally gave up and just dropped them off and ran.
I had a bad cold once this year. I am never the first to fall.

Yeah, there’s also a huge wave going on in Denmark. I had a bad case of it in December. And all my co-workers are having it now. And I got a little something again too recently but nothing compared to the one in December.

I had something about 2 weeks ago. I had my quarterly with my doctor for another issue yesterday and told him about it. He said something is going around, it's not the flu, rsv or covid and it's hitting hard.

His wife, who I know, has it right now

Flu is technically a coronavirus... and a couple weeks ago I got Covid again.
Marks 14 times I've had it now.
What gets me with all this is I had Covid twice before we went into lockdown in March 2020... then went from March 2020 to May 2021 and got my first jab, then Aug 2021 got my second jab... since then, the other 12 of the 14 times I've had covid are after that second jab.

The worst flu I ever had was in the year 2000 when I was 18.
I lost 4stn, (about 56lbs) inside of 5 days.
Doc was so worried he took samples of literally everything, skin, hair, blood etc etc and rushed the results through so fast they arrived 3 days later. Should usually take a month for test results.
It was basic flu, but I had no normal flu symptoms because my immune system had gone into such a massive overdrive.

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Never had flu in my life and hope to continue. Just get colds and had covid for the first time during the summer last year and apart from losing my sense of smell and taste it was thankfully nothing.

I dread getting the flu because I can't rest in bed or anything because I'm the primary carer for a family member and also certainly don't want to pass it on to them! that's the thing I worry about most with stuff like flu, knocking my energy out...

Don't know about other countries but the UK has the Noro virus going around too and that's a horrendous one. Friends just had that and it was so bad one of their children had to go into hospital, thankfully out now and fine.

May I ask why are you getting Covid so many times??

I'd like to ask anyone who has had the flu this season did you get the flu shoot?

Covid is a coronavirus, like the flu, they mutate and change as they do the rounds so it's completely possible to get them often... and rhinoviruses like the cold are the same. They change and mutant into new strains.
People saying that if you've had Covid once means it's impossible to get it again don't seem to understand how viruses work.

It's kinda like the panic mongering the press was doing in 2020 and 2021, when they kept reporting that "The Coronavirus has mutated into a new strain"... just to get people to panic and click on their website...... when what they actually meant was "Covid is a form of Coronavirus, like Influenza, and has mutated, just like all Coronaviruses do".

Not that I've noticed. I don't get sick very often, and when I do it rarely lasts more than two or three days and barely hits me hard no matter what it is. Besides, with my sinuses the way they are, it's not like a virus is going to make me feel much worse than I already do. I'm already physically miserable so I doubt I'd even notice. I've seen, and had described, the CT scan of my sinuses and they are terrible so what can a little virus do?

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"Some day this war has to end."
"Wash your mouth out with soap!"

Not so far this year. Couple of coworkers have had it. Boss got it a few weeks ago and is still coughing. I somehow managed to stay clear of it.

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Ive seen a few ppl sick lately. I have a class and the guy i usually sit next to was crunching on a cough drop, i quickly moved.