Not so common colds

I can't remember the last time I was in bed like shivering like a little girl due to a cold. I'm not really sure if what I had was a cold or the flu, but either way I'm still feeling the ill effects of getting sick.

While I always take strategic and precise steps to try and prevent things like this, I guess it's never enough. If you looked in my every day bag, you'd find a travel size Purell in there as well as moist alcohol wipes for those occasions when there is no water to wash your hands with.

While on the subway I almost find it difficult to hold on to the hand rails or poles so that you don't fall, but we don't have much of a choice. With millions of people sneezing all over you, and not to mention all the sick people at work I guess it was inevitable that I'd get sick.

I say all that because there seems to be a huge misconception about how we get sick. Do you know anyone who tells you "It's really cold outside, so bundle up...you don't want to get a cold"? People have this idea that you can get a cold by going from extreme warm weather to extreme cold weather. The truth is that colds can only be transferred via a virus. That means that if someone sneezes in front of you, or you come in contact with the sick person's saliva or touch a contaminated surface, that's how you'd get a cold.

Don't get me wrong, you can get sick in a different way by going from one extreme weather to the other, but you wouldn't get a common cold or the flu. Having said all that, I'm thinking that I perhaps will start wearing rubber gloves on the subway, or even those face masks that our friendly Chinese people wear now a days.



Do you think that would make me look crazy?
Maybe if they had it in black?