People getting sick or seasonal changes

[Khfan01]

Have you noticed anyone at your school sneezing, coughing, or getting sick? Have you try to avoid that person so you won't get his or her germs? I try, or maybe those people are just having allergy or who know. Since it is autumm, I guess people are getting some allergy. What do you think?

[Du Soleil.]

Since it's coming around to winter, colds/flus/viruses and whatnot are obviously more common. Since our college has around 3,000 students and it's a small place, viruses pass around pretty quickly and a lot of people will have the same virus at once. At the moment people have mild colds, so it's not too bad. In the winter, I feel a bit glum, but that's due to the lack of sunlight. Nothing major.

[Lycanthrope]

SWINE '09 <3

My school is under 300 kids, so if someone gets the swine flu we are all pretty much fucked

[Vice]

Well I went to Florida for a week where it was 90+ degrees all the time, I get on the plane back to Chicago and BAM 50 Degree difference onver the 2 hour flight.

Needless to say I woke up the next day pretty sick. and still am

[Ulti]

Seasonal flues. Enough said.

[Tenyasyugan]

Umm, my allergies only kick me around durin' the summer, but colds and flus love me in the fall and winter. And the fact that I'm still aclimating from my five years in the desert to freezing glumness, yeah... I'm kinda achy during the chill times.

[Eternal Dream]

I'd have to say it'd be 50/50. I mean, October's still in the dying season, right? So you've got spores and whatever from plants. I know that the stupid allergies are a major issue at my house; only thing we've found that helps with seasonal allergies and fast is raw honey. But on the other hand, you also have colder weather if you're in the Northern Hemisphere, so you get colds and everything. And let me tell you, respitory illness + big family = major screwed; everybody gets sick.

[Insane_NewB]

Honestly, I've been sick off and on for the past week or so, but it's clearly nothing major. Most of the time, I've simply had a stuffy nose and a bit of a cough. Thankfully, for those in my classes, yes, I do cover up my mouth when coughing and recently, I've taken to using hand sanitizer, on addition to using soap and water. No one else in either of my two on-campus classes has seemed to have gotten sick, at least from me. Hopefully, I can finally get rid of this cold or whatever you want to call having just a stuffy nose. I haven't really coughed, since getting this more recent sickness, so I'm assuming that it's a different one, seeing how there was a week or so gap between the two.