[_Jim]

your injection of your personal woes into a discussion

You are concentrating an inordinate amount of time and energy on one very innocent opening sentence to the exclusion of the remainder of that particular post ...

Was my relating a personal story that big a sin?

Must all discussions remain sanguine and devoid of personal experience to the contrary of established 'norms'?

[per loin]

If you find your own comments unworthy of being commented upon, don't make them. As for time and energy, a few seconds is not much out of my day, and I've lots of energy.

[TaxRelief]

Reading back over the thread, it is a valid point that some diseases occur more frequently in summer and some occur more frequently in winter. Diseases that like moisture (like ear infections) or depend on mosquitos are generally more summer oriented. Diseases that like crowded dry air (like influenza) and dry mucous membranes spread more in the winter.

However, some diseases, such as norovirus (diarrhea), prefer public bathrooms and hotels and don't really care what time of year it is. SARS seems to be more like norovirus in terms of transmission than influenza. It looks for institutions and crowded living conditions (hotels, hospitals, boats) for transmission.