The General Chat Thread (2016-2022)

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MypinchofItaly said:
Wow! 7 degrees today, it's raining. Yesterday 18 degrees, sunny and spring weather. Result: I have flu...mmmm :cry:
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@MypinchofItaly

Back to normal today in Madrid with slight drizzle and grey overcast skies & chilly ..

Flying tonite to Bcn .. Sorry to hear you are " under the weather with a flu " ..

You need to take care of it and drink lots of broths and hot tea with honey and take something for the nasal and cough and if you have fever, get into bed ! and take some PARACETAMOL to get the fever down .. It is more or less Tylenol but Aspirin is good too ..
 
@morning glory

With all due respect you can never become immune to flu. New strains show up every year. The CDC can not keep up with providing vaccines. You have managed to avoid being exposed to the flu virus.

There are misconceptions about how one contracts a cold or flu. Being out in the cold has nothing to do with it. Being in a heated environment with people who have a cold or the flu is the culprit. The cold and flu viruses love heated environments. Why do you think doctor's offices and hospitals are like meat lockers? Casinos are another example. Cold and flu viruses do not like cold. Heated venues where numbers of people are in close contact are a cesspool of sickness. I have no doubt that I contracted my nasty cold virus on the plane ride home from Colorado. The plane was heated and there were people all around me hacking, sneezing and blowing their noses.

The CDC recommends hand washing and sanitizing as the best method to prevent virus transmission. Think about it. You handle money. How many thousands of hands have touched the bill in you hand? You grab a shopping cart. How many thousands of hands have been on the cart handle? I carry hand sanitizer and sanitizer wipes in my purse - I use them! Do you use a stair rail when you walk up a flight of stairs? Do you touch the counter at your locally store? What about the products that you pick up off of store shelves - how many people have touched them, coughed on them, sneezed on them? Many venues are kept warm - for "customer comfort". There is your culprit for transmittable diseases.

Keep your environment on the cool side. Virus and bacteria love heat but hate cold.
 
morning glory said:
Poor you. I haven't had flu (touch wood) for over 30 years. I guess that eventually yo become immune to it. I am told I ought to go for a flu jab - but I don't.
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Recently I have had flu at least 2 time a year, and I have always had a strong physical...weather is changing too much speedy between sunny/warm days and rainy/freeze days maybe in the same week..and this week I was on a set in&out continuosly between office/set location, coat/no coat, warm/cold, PA with flu. My flu now.
 
ElizabethB said:
@morning glory

With all due respect you can never become immune to flu. New strains show up every year. The CDC can not keep up with providing vaccines. You have managed to avoid being exposed to the flu virus.

There are misconceptions about how one contracts a cold or flu. Being out in the cold has nothing to do with it. Being in a heated environment with people who have a cold or the flu is the culprit. The cold and flu viruses love heated environments. Why do you think doctor's offices and hospitals are like meat lockers? Casinos are another example. Cold and flu viruses do not like cold. Heated venues where numbers of people are in close contact are a cesspool of sickness. I have no doubt that I contracted my nasty cold virus on the plane ride home from Colorado. The plane was heated and there were people all around me hacking, sneezing and blowing their noses.

The CDC recommends hand washing and sanitizing as the best method to prevent virus transmission. Think about it. You handle money. How many thousands of hands have touched the bill in you hand? You grab a shopping cart. How many thousands of hands have been on the cart handle? I carry hand sanitizer and sanitizer wipes in my purse - I use them! Do you use a stair rail when you walk up a flight of stairs? Do you touch the counter at your locally store? What about the products that you pick up off of store shelves - how many people have touched them, coughed on them, sneezed on them? Many venues are kept warm - for "customer comfort". There is your culprit for transmittable diseases.

Keep your environment on the cool side. Virus and bacteria love heat but hate cold.
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I had flu 2 years ago and it completely floored me so I have a great deal of sympathy for anyone who has it.
I work in an air conditioned office and I appear to be the only 1 who actually sneezes into a tissue no one else does which I think is pretty gross :yuck:
 
Francesca said:
@MypinchofItaly

Back to normal today in Madrid with slight drizzle and grey overcast skies & chilly ..

Flying tonite to Bcn .. Sorry to hear you are " under the weather with a flu " ..

You need to take care of it and drink lots of broths and hot tea with honey and take something for the nasal and cough and if you have fever, get into bed ! and take some PARACETAMOL to get the fever down .. It is more or less Tylenol but Aspirin is good too ..
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Thank you Dear....no high fever for the moment but I wait for it in a while. Hubby has prepared chicken broth...My Doc..and yes I have tachipirina medicine, honey, tea, paper tissues, chicken broth and termometer. I'm ready!
 
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For the seven years prior to retiring I worked for Lowe's as a Kitchen Designer. The ceiling heater vent was directed to my desk. Several times each day I wiped off black yuck from my desk. I kept large containers of hand sanitizer and Clorox wipes in my desk drawer. Also paper mask. Designing a kitchen meant spending hours with clients sitting across from me. Unfortunately they sometimes brought sick, snotty children with them. Sometimes the adults were obviously sick. I would put on a mask with the excuse that I had a cold and did not want to infect them. I would also offer hand sanitizer and wipes. For their protection. NOT! I did not want to get whatever they had.
 
MypinchofItaly said:
Thank you Dear....no high fever for the moment but I wait for it in a while. Hubby has prepared chicken broth...My Doc..and yes I have tachipirina medicine, honey, tea, paper tissues, chicken broth and termometer. I'm ready!
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Speedy recovery wishes Dear @MypinchofItaly ..

So sorry to hear that you are "under the weather" .. Kleenex (paper tissues ) .. I was down with the flu at the end of November, and my my, it took me 21 days to get rid of it .. I caught it from my staff .. Two of the gals were down with flu and came to office .. Highly contagious .. I am so rarely sick .. That I had a real huge dose of their viruses and they travel from nasal and sinus to chest (cough) and then it hit my stomach .. It was awful .. Lucky my husband did not catch it ..

Take care ..
 
ElizabethB said:
@morning glory

With all due respect you can never become immune to flu. New strains show up every year. The CDC can not keep up with providing vaccines. You have managed to avoid being exposed to the flu virus.

There are misconceptions about how one contracts a cold or flu. Being out in the cold has nothing to do with it. Being in a heated environment with people who have a cold or the flu is the culprit. The cold and flu viruses love heated environments. Why do you think doctor's offices and hospitals are like meat lockers? Casinos are another example. Cold and flu viruses do not like cold. Heated venues where numbers of people are in close contact are a cesspool of sickness. I have no doubt that I contracted my nasty cold virus on the plane ride home from Colorado. The plane was heated and there were people all around me hacking, sneezing and blowing their noses.

The CDC recommends hand washing and sanitizing as the best method to prevent virus transmission. Think about it. You handle money. How many thousands of hands have touched the bill in you hand? You grab a shopping cart. How many thousands of hands have been on the cart handle? I carry hand sanitizer and sanitizer wipes in my purse - I use them! Do you use a stair rail when you walk up a flight of stairs? Do you touch the counter at your locally store? What about the products that you pick up off of store shelves - how many people have touched them, coughed on them, sneezed on them? Many venues are kept warm - for "customer comfort". There is your culprit for transmittable diseases.

Keep your environment on the cool side. Virus and bacteria love heat but hate cold.
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@ElizabethB

Public transport is another dilema .. I too, carry a Prescription Hand Sanitising Spray & Wipes that my doctor recommended .. I am around uncountable people ..

Some very viable points ..

Have a lovely day ..
 
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