Why do more people get sick in the fall/winter?

Factual Questions
1

I’ve been wondering why more people get sick when the weather starts getting colder.

Does it have any correlation with kids returning to school? The shools act as little bacterial/viral breeding grounds which are then brought home to parents and then on to coworkers?

2

…well, sort of…

Winter forces more people inside exchanging germs. This is the primary reason flu and colds explode. More people inside, more germs inside, more opps for exchange of germs.

3

I always thought it had something to do with The Government’s end of year testing of its new line of germ warfare products.

4

I don’t know, but it was one thing I hated about living in Chicago–which I hasten to add is an awesome city.

During the three years I lived in Chicago, and the four years I lived in Connecticut, and the one year I lived in Boston, I got SICK EVERY *&%@ Winter and I hated hated hated hated it.

During the 5 years I lived in San Diego, and the almost 4 years (and counting) that I have lived in LA, I got (and still get) sick occasionally, but nowhere near as often. And when I do get sick in California, it lasts a few days and then goes awy. I remember my first fall/winter in Chicago. I think I had a cold for, jeez I don’t know, 6 weeks. It drove me absolutely insane.