I took a look at the symptoms of this thing and I have to say that most of the crew I worked with in the disaster clean up in KY had it.
They all had a real bad sore throat, cough etc, and a couple the trotts as well as throwing up. The sore throat moved down and developed into a hell of a case of bronkitis which hung on and on. Out of the 8 down there 6 had it and when I got down there I went for those nose swabs that Limbaugh advertizes. I did not get it and one other didnt either and he used those swabs also.
That was four weeks ago and all of the guys are still hacking up garbage from that illness. They simply cant shake it off. And we are loggers so it aint a case of being wusses.
People had better get some masks and make other minimal precautions.
That bronchitis thing is separate. My mom had it for almost a month back in Feb/Mar and she is still coughing despite several trips to the doctor. It’s an annoying illness, but not remotely life threatening.