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<blockquote data-quote="Fairygodmother" data-source="post: 1664480" data-attributes="member: 68789"><p>I too wish people were more considerate when coughing and sneezing in public, and when leaving their infections on anything they touch. As every T1 knows, getting ill isn't just a matter of powering up our immune systems to deal with it but also the added physical wretchedness of high blood sugars and calculating sick-day insulin doses to bring them down and avoid hypos. I always feel that the same illness hits us twice as hard as it does non-diabetics.</p><p>It's possible to cough or sneeze without spreading germs (use a hanky when coughing or hold in the explosion when sneezing). My mother taught me how. One of the teachers at the primary school she went to taught her: the teacher had survived the flu epidemic of 2018, which killed thousands, and it was a life-saving skill back then.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fairygodmother, post: 1664480, member: 68789"] I too wish people were more considerate when coughing and sneezing in public, and when leaving their infections on anything they touch. As every T1 knows, getting ill isn't just a matter of powering up our immune systems to deal with it but also the added physical wretchedness of high blood sugars and calculating sick-day insulin doses to bring them down and avoid hypos. I always feel that the same illness hits us twice as hard as it does non-diabetics. It's possible to cough or sneeze without spreading germs (use a hanky when coughing or hold in the explosion when sneezing). My mother taught me how. One of the teachers at the primary school she went to taught her: the teacher had survived the flu epidemic of 2018, which killed thousands, and it was a life-saving skill back then. [/QUOTE]
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