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FishermanTim · 06-30-2011, 01:23 PM

Not that this will help, but when you combine a number of weather factors we've been encountering this year, the health of the flowering trees (pollen) and the continued overuse of antibiotics and sterilizing hand sanitizers, it could be a 1,2,3 punch.
We had a wet spring, and the resulting mold and mildew that created, combined with an almost never-ending parade of tree pollens, and the possibility that a "summer cold" bug could have mutated/developed into a more aggressive strain, and it could be a very interesting summer for anyone with a weakened/compromised respiratory system.

Hopefully I am wrong, and it is just a fluke occurance, but since we have been seeing numerous times where nature has "struck back", anything is possible.

If you have seen the movie "The Happening" you'll understand the "nature" implication in my train of thought.

06-30-2011, 01:23 PM	#2
FishermanTim Registered User iTrader: (0) Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Hyde Park, MA Posts: 4,152	Not that this will help, but when you combine a number of weather factors we've been encountering this year, the health of the flowering trees (pollen) and the continued overuse of antibiotics and sterilizing hand sanitizers, it could be a 1,2,3 punch. We had a wet spring, and the resulting mold and mildew that created, combined with an almost never-ending parade of tree pollens, and the possibility that a "summer cold" bug could have mutated/developed into a more aggressive strain, and it could be a very interesting summer for anyone with a weakened/compromised respiratory system. Hopefully I am wrong, and it is just a fluke occurance, but since we have been seeing numerous times where nature has "struck back", anything is possible. If you have seen the movie "The Happening" you'll understand the "nature" implication in my train of thought.