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Winter Lurgies

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    Winter Lurgies

    These bugs that have been going round this winter. Have seen colleagues pollaxed for a couple of weeks.

    One bloke had it so bad that he's irreparably damaged a lung.

    I had an awful cough that laid me out in bed for a week only for it to return 3 weeks later.

    We never used to get things like this years ago did we? Are we just getting soft or are the bugs getting more virulent?

    #2
    Originally posted by pacharan View Post
    These bugs that have been going round this winter. Have seen colleagues pollaxed for a couple of weeks.

    One bloke had it so bad that he's irreparably damaged a lung.

    I had an awful cough that laid me out in bed for a week only for it to return 3 weeks later.

    We never used to get things like this years ago did we? Are we just getting soft or are the bugs getting more virulent?
    That should be Spring bugs, surely. Winter finished in Feb!!!!!

    What Are The Winter Months In England?

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      #3
      Just gotten over that one but managed to keep on invoicing with lots of wfh.Agreed it's a nasty infection
      How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think

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        #4
        I don't get colds/chest infections anymore since I started using first defence. In case you are curious it isn't a medicine it's a medical device,the key to it being it stops the germs from spreading in your respiratory system.

        Vicks First Defence Nasal Spray - Cold Prevention

        Breakthrough cure for common cold | Mail Online
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          #5
          Dunno - I'm just getting over a cold, but her indoors has a permanent cough, then again ex wife did too - maybe I give off some kind of pollution.

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            #6
            I've spent the whole of my bench time with this. It's still left me with a cough.

            I don't like to think how I would have coped with work.
            "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
            - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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              #7
              Originally posted by Peoplesoft bloke View Post
              Dunno - I'm just getting over a cold, but her indoors has a permanent cough, then again ex wife did too - maybe I give off some kind of pollution.
              Hai Karate aftershave?
              If you think my attitude stinks, you should smell my fingers.

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                #8
                Originally posted by hyperD View Post
                Hai Karate aftershave?
                Drinking it or wearing it?!!!!! ;-)

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by cojak View Post
                  I've spent the whole of my bench time with this. It's still left me with a cough.

                  I don't like to think how I would have coped with work.
                  I thought that was down to the cigar habit?
                  'CUK forum personality of 2011 - Winner - Yes really!!!!

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by MayContainNuts View Post
                    Drinking it or wearing it?!!!!! ;-)
                    I reckon drinking it, like a bottle of ASDA's own brand whisky, would fend off the bugs for good.
                    If you think my attitude stinks, you should smell my fingers.

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