Boots

Just get it and be over with it in 24 hours or less.

Not when adjusted for miles driven

https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/state-by-state

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Warmest January on record! Haven’t seen February’s average temperature but I’m guessing it’ll be close to record warmth

Same here! It was awful and just when you thought it was over it reared its ugly head again!

A great quick way to lose the holiday extra pounds though lol *silver linings* ha!

This is a virus that can survive for days on some surfaces, over a week. So wash your hands, sanitize your bathrooms. Hopefully it doesn’t hit my kid’s school next week.

Everyone in here talking about how it’s spread through touch is correct. But I think it’s important to make everyone understand that what really passes the infection is exposure to contaminated body fluids, in this case feces and possibly vomit. The transmission is literally fecal to oral - so a lil bit of someone else’s poop getting in your mouth.

Now you say: “that’s Fuckin nasty! I never let poop into my mouth!!”

Well, I’ve got news for you.

The take home is that hand hygiene following using the bathroom is INCREDIBLY Important. Nowadays we all love to use our phones while taking a shit - think about this for a minute. You’ve touched all kinds of contaminated surfaces, are sitting on a shared shitter, and now you’re touching this thing that we all touch all day long without second thought. You put it back in your pocket for a second, wipe your ass and despite what you think inevitably get some microscopic poo particles on your hand, and then you take your phone right back out of your pocket after maybe washing your hands - likely not well enough.

Anyway. Wash your hands. If you are a foodservice worker CALL THE FUCK OUT OF WORK, you WILL infect every meal you make. It’s that contagious.

I had it right around this time last year and literally wanted to die. I am not a puker, and it was just non stop. If I didn’t have some zofran on hand I don’t think I would have survived. I literally slept in front of my wood stove shaking for three days. My wife was out of town so it was just me dying a slow painful death waking up once every hour to lazily throw a log on the fire and sprint to the bathroom.

Yet Vermont has almost double the highway deaths (per capita) than New York. So much arrogance and lack of knowledge in this post.

AHKTUALLY the 0.1% is intended to cover their asses in regards to spore forming bacteria since these things will not kill hearty spore formers like C. difficile and B. anthracis.

For a long time it was assumed or even thought to be known that these things work against norovirus.

Nowadays cleaners used in healthcare settings and (usually/hopefully) schools and congregate living facilities cover norovirus

Yeah unfortunately that doesn't work for kids haha.

I had it years ago when the big Windjammer norovirus issue happened. It was so bad. I resorted to the tricks I'd been told while going through severe morning sickness. Lots of frozen lemonade and Warheads. I lived on those. I will never understand why sour lemon helps with nausea and vomiting, but it did for me every time.

Had it Valentine’s Day, girlfriend had it two days later!

and avoid using public bathrooms if at all possible.

Cool, I'll let my preschooler know. Lol

I couldn't even eat chips of ice. As soon an I swallowed, I'd start throwing up again.

I had norovirus about 10 years ago and think it is the most seriously sick I've every been. 'I want to die' kind of sick.

I'm pretty sure I got it in a restaurant bathroom. Ever since then I've been extremely paranoid about bathroom germs, especially the ones where you have to touch things like the sink handle or door handle.

Norovirus is no joke. You can get dangerously dehydrated if you aren't careful.

How would one avoid it beyond normal hygiene?

I had it for the New Year, it was 5 days of internal death. Terrible

Not true, the driveway was wet when I got up, so apparently we got some rain that melted some of our snow.

Yup it’s going around really badly. Please be considerate of others and stay home littles and elderly don’t need this bug!

I downvoted you just for making a comment about the one algorithm induced downvote you received lmao

Based OP with the sensible comment.

It was about 48 hours of sickness for me. I'm still feeling like I'm lacking a lot of energy after. I'm just glad not to be a garden sprinkler from both ends of my body.

Friends of ours had this last year, really bad. We had to drop something off to them, and we stood outside talking (no physical contact) about 10' apart. Nobody got it in my family. So I can confirm that this is one of those "touch only" things. Luckily, that makes it easier to avoid. Don't touch other people and wash your hands.

I wonder if isolating for so long has dulled people's immune response to these relatively common viruses?