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I worked at a library for years. Some years everyone was snotty and coughing. We’d clean the computer stations. And DVDs. Stand back at the desk. That’s what I feel about it. Meh. Some will get it mild. Some worse. We are walking around every single day in a soup of virons and bacteria. Trillions and trillions of them.

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some we can't live without...:)

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Exactly. Your gut has about 6 pounds of bacteria in it and is part of your immune system and brain function. We need a good deal of the soup in us and around us.

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To some extent we "need" the soup for a healthy immune system.

It's an arm's race between it and pathogens.

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Fellow librarian, I agree. We all get sick, from what's circulating and we've likely got pretty good immune systems. Will we get sick? Yeah.. will we die of it? Nope. So there it is... in black and white, LOL

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My daughter was a middle school teacher for a decade....every October and November all the various illnesses began not long after kids were back in school and colds and flu spread around. It was like clockwork. What is going around now is probably the same.

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