Why doesn't anyone listen to folks–we're not all liars, you know.
I work retail in the PacNW. We all had this shit last December and January. Ask any retail worker. The Chinese come over from Canada to shop because we're cheaper with more variety than Canada on almost everything.
But we had this horrible flu in December and again in January. The doc you went to see because you thought you might be getting pneumonia just gave you an inhaler and told you to get some rest. They called it "this year's flu." Told you to get a flu shot. Well, until the MSM went nuts.
We're so over this around here it's not even funny.