If he were a horse, he would be shot

[EternalOptimist]

On the plus side, if one of the symptoms is a blocked nose, it might save you a walk to the library everyday

watch it

[Ruprect]

Cheeky git asked us this morning if we anything that will get phlegm off a monitor screen.

[Platypus]

Ah yeah, you might be thinking of AIDS, not colds. And it's not door knobs.

[dang65]

Actually you don't get the colds from snot and coughs you catch it when you touch a door knob and then put your finger in your mouth. As long as you wash your hands each time you shake hands or touch a door knob you'll be fine. The catching it from breathing in droplets is a just a common myth.

Ah yeah, you might be thinking of AIDS, not colds. And it's not door knobs.

[NotAllThere]

Got this bloke in the office, coughing his guts up, spreading his germs around. He is sweating with a fever and keeps clutching his chest and taking little white tablets.

Cheeky git asked us this morning if we anything that will get phlegm off a monitor screen.

If he was a horse, we would have shot him by now

And if he was in France, he'd have been eaten by now. btw, the tablets are a pretty pink colour, not white.

[Platypus]

Actually you don't get the colds from snot and coughs you catch it when you touch a door knob and then put your finger in your mouth. As long as you wash your hands each time you shake hands or touch a door knob you'll be fine. The catching it from breathing in droplets is a just a common myth.

Humm so this pharmacy site and many others are wrong?

The usual way we catch the virus is to breathe them in on droplets in the air when someone sneezes

[DimPrawn]

Actually you don't get the colds from snot and coughs you catch it when you touch a door knob and then put your finger in your mouth. As long as you wash your hands each time you shake hands or touch a door knob you'll be fine. The catching it from breathing in droplets is a just a common myth.

Where did you do your medical degree?

[Platypus]

everyone else in the office has caught it too

On the plus side, if one of the symptoms is a blocked nose, it might save you a walk to the library everyday

[BlasterBates]

Actually you don't get the colds from snot and coughs you catch it when you touch a door knob and then put your finger in your mouth. As long as you wash your hands each time you shake hands or touch a door knob you'll be fine. The catching it from breathing in droplets is a just a common myth.

[dang65]

People are at their most contagious in the days leading up to an illness. By the time you've feeling properly sick, everyone else in the office has caught it too

Eh? There are some illnesses which are contagious before the symptoms become evident (e.g. chicken pox), but even those remain contagious till they've cleared up, long after the visible symptons appear. Seeing as colds are passed on via the spray from sneezes or contact with infected snot, people aren't likely to be "at their most contagious" before that snot even starts coming out.

[swamp]

People are at their most contagious in the days leading up to an illness. By the time you've feeling properly sick, everyone else in the office has caught it too

[oracleslave]

Thats what contracting is all about.

Top marks to the guy...

If being a permie is all about taking as many paid sickies as possible as opposed to the above.....I know which one I'd prefer

[ratewhore]

Thats what contracting is all about.

Top marks to the guy...

[EternalOptimist]

Got this bloke in the office, coughing his guts up, spreading his germs around. He is sweating with a fever and keeps clutching his chest and taking little white tablets.

Cheeky git asked us this morning if we anything that will get phlegm off a monitor screen.

If he was a horse, we would have shot him by now