I'm trying very hard to keep up with work e-mail (and failing, since that last Vicodin put me out for five hours of glorious continuous sleep), and every other messages is about someone going home sick or going home to attend to sick kids or just not coming in because they're sick.
Is it that the company has just grown a ton and there are more people, or is there just a lot more sickness this year? I can't remember it being like this in recent memory, but I don't have any evidence that it's the actual situation.
I think it's the entire world, dood. Zombie plague, break out the shotguns.
Illness has run through half of the Grandkids and I have had Bronchitis which is finally clearing up after 7 days ... cher also ill with symptoms like yours, but thankfully not as severe. Indeed seems to be a year for rampant infection. We always get flu shots and they work ... I think CPLady is on the mark, new variations got us.