It’s getting bad here. Most of the schools (public) have canceled classes. I go to town once a week to get groceries and have been going really early on Sunday morning to avoid crowds of sick people.
I wear disposable rubber gloves, the surgical type, clean the buggy handle with sanitizer, and keep sanitizer hanging on my purse and in my truck.
It’s discouraging when it’s so bad the schools are closed and you see parents pushing their little kids in the buggy while letting the child teeth on the buggy handle. It’s no wonder so many are sick and in danger of dying.
A few years ago, before I retired, a really bad strain of flu came through and we were met at the turnstile at work daily to be checked for symptoms. If you had symptoms you were sent home. My company wasn’t messing around with people coming to work sick.
Yes, when most people have the ‘real’ flu, they aren’t able to work but you have a lot that try. That’s all it takes.
My company encourages people to stay home when sick, but won’t allow you to have the highest ratings if you do.
Cold and flu were getting bad here a couple of weeks ago. I had not been sick for near a year but decided I would start regularly using hand sanitizer because of the amount of sick people, elevator buttons to push and door handles in the office. I used the sanitizer religiously and washed regularly with hot soapy water. My hands were turning white and wrinkling from the abuse. I was sick with the most nasty head cold within a week. It still makes people nauseous to hear me cough.
I have to wonder if killing every living bacteria and virus on my hands caused me to get sick. Seems so random.