Funny, there was much talk on this thread about Groundhog Day. But when The Day actually came, the Mudcat members ditched this thread completely. Guess they started a new thread.

One reason Winter Stinks is the infectious disease factor. When I was at university, I always thought of certain periods during the semesters, especially the semester that started after the year-end holidays, as Infirmary Season.   

We have a flu/'novovirus' covering ground rapidly on this continent. Those things are always ugly and sometimes fatal. And with several more snow and ice bound months to go, all of us being cooped up indoors together and only some of us washing our hands as often as we ought to do, the sicknesses will get worse before they get better.