‘Tis the Season to Be Sniffling
So stay warm, avoid stress, and nix chemicals
My health column for the December issue of sharedVISION magazine.
When I was a kid there were four seasons: spring, summer, autumn, and winter. I don’t recall when it was added, but for years now, as soon as Rita MacNeil’s holiday concert ads hit the TV, so do messages about the fifth season—cold and flu.
We have Don Cherry shilling for Cold fX, public health departments encouraging us to get a flu vaccine, and news stories predicting the gravity of this year’s viral and bacterial strains.