plague?

It's been so bright and beautiful at times this week that you could almost forget it's Winter. (Until you go outside and realise that the air is as cold as the contents of a freezer on the moon.)
An alarmingly large number of people within my work and social circles seem to be in the grip of a terrible bug. And by 'terrible' I mean 'lasting for about 10 days, then disappearing for a few days, then coming back again and making you feel like you're on the rapidly sloping downhill to death'. I remember them 'experts' saying that we'll probably have some very unpleasant viruses around for a few years as our immune systems get back up to speed after the whole, y'know, 'Covid' experience. We weren't mixing for months on end and so we weren't being exposed to the usual flus and colds and so now, for a while, our bodies are likely to be hit harder. I didn't really think much of it at the time but I seem to be seeing the evidence myself this Winter.  Coughs that linger for three months or more, seemingly fit-and-well people being laid low for days on end, and paracetamol flying off the shelves like lager during a rugby world cup. Thank God I seem to have kept clear....

RC 15-1-25