Frazz by Jef Mallett for December 17, 2018

It must be one of those 5-day sore throats.

Yet our tax bill is still the same or higher.

Would get the flu the first day of Christmas vacation and be back in the land of the living on New Year’s Day. Just in time to return to school the next day.

Never liked getting sick around Christmas.

Never ‘liked’ getting sick any time and still don’t.

Kids: always calculating the odds. Not always accurate but always trying to winkle out a balance of some kind, i.e., if I do ‘this,’ then I’ll get ‘that’. Makes for strong thinkers later on.

Massively stupid observations: “only the flu”, “a simple case of flu”, “just the flu”, “merely influenza”. The great influenza pandemic of 1918-1920 killed an estimated 50-100 million people worldwide, way more than died in all of World War 1 (1914-1918). Modern vaccines make that kind of mortality rate less likely but not impossible. Take flu seriously.

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There’s that old joke about getting over a cold, where if you exercise through it, it’ll last a week, but if you rest, you’ll be over it in 7 days. I think it’s supposed to be mildly depressing, but you know, there’s a way to make it encouraging, too.

Other than the part about neither number being at all guaranteed, dependable nor accurate.

I always found swimming made me feel better the rest of the day and seemed to flush a cold in just 3 days. Note: fevers are not the same.