Started with a tickle in the throat in Detroit, where we changed planes, and has been a full-nelson of a cold with fever, earache and coughing, since the time I hit Plymouth. I've been nursing it (and my dust allergies) with copious quantities of juice, kleenex (tm) and Halls, some OTC remedies, and lots of whinging.

I think the whinging is the only thing having an effect, but it's not on me . . . nor for the better.

So, why do people get sick on airplanes? Is it the Recycled Air issue? Probably not. Well, how about being Packed In Like Sardines? Maybe. But likely it's that fact, coupled with the people who cough and wheeze and expel all kinds of crap into the air in the row right behind you, so you can't even nap, and pretty soon their seat mate starts, too, and neither one washes their hands, and they go and touch stuff that you'll touch later, like the plane.

Not that I'm bitter.