If you don't have stock in Kimberly and Clark now is a good time to buy some as Canton High School is going through Kleenex at an astounding rate. Normally, this kind of devastation doesn't occur until late November at the earliest. Symptoms of this virus are a runny nose and a sore throat. However mild this may sound, it is crippling students by the dozens. The symphony of sniffles in the classroom is being echoed by the coughs and sneezes of students at home in their beds. Absences are being used up, and summer is not even technically over. With four days to go until the Autumnal equinox, the classrooms are looking much more like early-February, than mid-September. While it seems strange that students are so sick, it is fairly easy to explain.
Long gone are the days of sleeping in late, and enjoying the comforts the vacation has to offer. Late nights crunching homework coupled with the early bus-pickup times leave students 'burning the candle at both ends'. It's fair to say that some students might just be burnt out. The first few weeks were a gentle stagger but after last week, the first full week, some students immune systems weren't ready to handle it. The classrooms in school are more crowed than any beach in the summer, and now that the temperature is dropping, they are certainly much colder as well. In fact, this time of year is when class rooms are the coldest, the temperature can fall down to about 60 degrees Fahrenheit or so, low enough to give a chill, but not quite frigid enough for the central heating to whir to life.
For now the best advice for students is to bundle up, pop some Airborne, and try to catch up on sleep. If you are thinking about visiting CHS, you might want to wait a while, but if you must, a hazmat suit is recommended.
*Authors note*
I am currently sick, NyQuil has been the cold medicine of choice.
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