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Same. Last year I got sick at the end of August. Went through fall and winter without getting sick again. You get sick cuz little Jimmy sneezed in your goddamn cereal bowl, not because of the changing temperatures.
You guys are missing the point. Of course you can get sick any time of year. But you're all seriously telling me that you're unaware of the massive spikes in sicknesses every fall and spring?
just went through another change of seasons sickness and every winter my nose runs like a faucet when outside in the cold....we are snowbirding starting in 2020. This winter, we'll Snowbird for 2 months.
I am glad the change of seasons lovers exist to allow more space in the milder climes.
PS - I also hate shoveling snow and scraping the ice off of my car in winter.
That's some bull. I got sick a lot more when I lived in Florida (no seasons.) This year, I've been sick only twice... first in May and second at end of July, beginning August. Neither of which are "season changing" months. Since moving to Minnesota, I've never once gotten sick in winter. Germs make you sick, not the weather. As a kid it felt I was sick every 4 months, and the seasons didn't really change.
^^ This ^^. You don't catch a cold from going outside with wet hair either. More people get sick in winter because more people are indoors spreading their germs. For me, whenever I moved to a new state I would get seriously ill. Maybe the stress of a long distance move, which reduces your immunity contributes to it but it happens to me every time.
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How is that not "easing into fall" though? I mean, what's more fall like than highs in the 60s and lows in the 40s? I understand if y'all were like us and went from 80/60 to 50/35 or something, which is similar to how it went from September through October this year.
60s/40s is Dec/Jan weather here, so it depends on the climate....
^^ This ^^. You don't catch a cold from going outside with wet hair either. More people get sick in winter because more people are indoors spreading their germs. For me, whenever I moved to a new state I would get seriously ill. Maybe the stress of a long distance move, which reduces your immunity contributes to it but it happens to me every time.
It's been shown that a rapid change from cold/wet to dry/warm and vice versa is bad for the sinuses and creates an environment there favorable to infection. In winter, you constantly move between heated environments indoor and cold environments outside and it messes with your sinuses.
I personally detest both the way the air in a heated room feels on my nose and the way the cold, wet air on a windy winter's day out here feels like. It's like the worst of all worlds combined.
Interesting about the sinuses. I used to hate it when it was freezing outside and you'd go into a restaurant or diner or really just about anywhere and the heat would be so high that it would be stifling. I want to live someplace that has 4 seasons just not much snow or ice. I'm thinking Tallahassee. Now if I could just talk the rest of my family into moving there.....
I hate lugging heavy coats and scarves and hats and gloves around. And I really dislike stuffy heated places. I don't even like when my heat comes on at home and I have it set pretty low. I just really dislike breathing in heated air.
I say they're extremely overrated. I wish it was spring year-round. Period. Autumn and winter are too depressing, but summer isn't exactly nice either.
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