There are a lot of absences in the schools in this area. There were a lot of absences in March-May as well. The flu was rampant in the spring and seems to be hitting just as hard at the moment. I notice it more with sports than I do with schools. Students will use any excuse to miss school, but when they skip practices and/or games, then they’re usually pretty sick. There are lots of sick youth athletes. (I think parents are a bit nutty when it comes to sports, and they will let their children miss school but will take their children to practice anyway because they don’t want their child to lose a spot on a team. They show up to practice ill and spread it further. I think some parents think that if they pump their child full of Advil and if the fever goes down, then they are ok to play.)
Maybe is the Obama-flu. The population is manifesting physical symptoms of a genuine national sickness, givee that the White House is occupied by a de-facto coup-d’etat usurper, and Congress is in total control of the insane.
It is Bedlam.
We have an athlete in the house too, and I don’t think the reason it goes through teams is because parents take sick kids to practice. I am thinking it spreads more because kids at play actually TOUCH each other and breathe on each other, share the same ball, equipment.