Consider the fact that we do not have children playing with other children and going to school, bringing the diseases home with them. This being a senior community, we do not have a lot of workers going to and returning from daily jobs, also transmitting germs with them. If you think about it, we do not get the common illnesses here that many suffer over the winter months up North. Even though we have activities where we socialize with each other, we do not have the day to day close proximity working families have up North. Plus, some illnesses do not survive in warmer weather. But, I believe the primary reason we are not inundated with illnesses is because we don't have the young folks here that bring sickness home from school with them, as they do in other areas. That's just my opinion, and I am sure there are plenty of flaws to my reasoning. But, it is a thought. Remember when coworkers would come to work with the flu because they did not want to use their sick leave? Remember when parents would send sick children to school?
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