# Well, that was that!  --aborted vacation

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 17, 2019, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-that-was-that-aborted-vacation/840354 "2019-09-17T00:48:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-that-was-that-aborted-vacation/840354/21 "2020-04-02T21:05:17Z")

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> [@Rocketeer](#):
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> That evening, she began to complain that she wasn’t feeling too good, and by the next morning it was pretty obvious that she had the flu. She was completely prostrated.

Are you sure that it was the flu?

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**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-that-was-that-aborted-vacation/840354/22 "2020-04-02T21:28:58Z")

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> [@thorny\_locust](#):
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> I opened the thread, read the first post, and thought ‘you did _what_ seven days ago?’
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> Then I looked at the date on that first post. Perfectly reasonable thing to do last September!

Me too! First time ever I’m relieved its a zombie thread.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-that-was-that-aborted-vacation/840354/23 "2020-04-02T21:43:16Z")

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> Quoth **Darren Garrison** :
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> Are you sure that it was the flu?

It probably wasn’t covid-19, in September in the US, if that’s what you were asking. It might, of course, have been any of the myriad other illnesses with “flu-like symptoms”, but influenza is the most common of those by a good margin.

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**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-that-was-that-aborted-vacation/840354/24 "2020-04-02T21:44:00Z")

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Oh, didn’t notice the zombie part.

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