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Flu season


This is more of a rant about the media (probably an unfair rant at that).

Why is it every time a flu or cold outbreak occurs we never get any warning in the media?  Heck, we don't even get coverage of it while it's happening unless it's life threatening (H1N1 kind of thing).

I really wish the media, or Health Canada, or someone, could notify the public when incidents of cold/flu are going around.

Everyone is getting sick over the past week (including me) and yet I've got no clue what's going around (and no, I didn't go to the doctor to find out).

Anyway, the weather network use to track rates of the flu across Canada (but I don't think they do anymore). It's very annoying that it's nearly impossible to know what is going around without going to your doctor because the media never cover it. Yes, once you start seeing colleagues get sick you know something is on the loose, but by then it's too late to take some immune boosting steps like echinacea, as you've probably already been exposed.

Very annoying!

You'd think maybe someone could create a self-reporting social media app, where people could go and report when they have flu. That way average people would be able to go online and notice when people reporting being sick started increasing.

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