Outside, it was like summer in Minneapolis today. Just beautiful. Air conditioning weather.
But it is winter in my head.
My first cold of the year has arrived, with its entourage in tow.
I’m getting tired of this. Last winter, if I recall correctly, consisted entirely for me of a very long bout of flu, bookended on either side by unusually long colds.
I’m losing my faith in zinc tablets.
I’m beginning to suspect that zinc tablets are like the secret police of a particularly inept military dictatorship. They manage to beat down the resistance, but they cannot wipe it out. It waits, and organizes, and grows in strength in the shadows, until it bursts forth with volcanic violence in terrorism and revenge and blood in the streets.
It is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. It’s the beginning of the beginning of Cold Season.
I’m sorry to read this, sir. Maybe you should try to vitamin C route this time. I don’t know if all Vitamin C is created equally, but there are one two good ones on the market.
Buy a small bottle of hand sanitizer and use it frequently throughout the day. You are infected by rhinoviruses when your hands touch a surface contaminated with secretions and then you touch your nose, mouth or eyes. Influenza is transmitted by inhaled respiratory droplets. Be sure to get an Influenza immunization.