Could this be the magic bullet to avoid winter flu? | Emma Brockes

‘Avoid contact with people who are sick,’ says the helpful health advice. But I can’t let go of the idea there’s a better way

Every year at the start of winter I type the same thing into Google, and every year fixate on at least one result that will save me. The question – how not to get sick – generates the same basic answers each year, but still the promise of a magic bullet lingers on. Last year, it was hand sanitiser. If I could distribute travel-size dispensers into every jacket pocket I possessed, no germs would dare to come near me. (They did.)

Windows were a thing one year; fresh air would do the trick. (It didn’t.) I’ve never gone as far as the Sars mask, but I have definitely gone through mad phases of not holding the pole in the subway.

Continue reading...

from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2JgfYT0