What's the most believed lie in the world?

[beskeptical]

....3)
A) If the kids were infected some would stay home due to high infection,

okay many are left over but that slows the process slightly and makes it less servere

then you got people who know of the dangers and some keep away which also eliminates some

Trouble is the incubation period and the timing of infectiousness vary. So a person could spread a disease before their symptoms begin and after their symptoms subside depending on the infection.

Also, a surface contaminated by an organism will stay infectious for varing amounts of time from minutes to weeks depending on the organism.

Not very many people stay away from work nor keep their kids out of daycare nor school when outbreaks of the usual diseases are severe. Even when a person is ill they don't even always stay home.

If sick people stayed home more often and everybody washed their hands a lot more we could see a decrease in some infections.

....B) When diseases fly around they get weaker in air and by the fighting immune system

This is not correct. Pathogenic, (disease causing), organisms have specific places they live, survive, and multiply. These organisms don't get 'weaker' nor 'stronger' except by genetic changes. Your immune system might stop a disease from making you sick, but when another person gets an infectious dose, their illness is a new infection. Unless the organism has undergone a genetic change, the next person's illness will depend on their immune system which research tells us is not significantly impacted by weather.

....So i think that your theroy might only be a third of what causes greater illnesses in winter i still agree with it but just think in reality it is only a small to medium cause of illnesses (WARNING INFINITE LOOP!)

You are sort of correct but not for the reasons you site. Closer more concentrated exposure of people to other people is only one way out of many that infectious diseases increase in a population.

But as to why we see an increase in upper respiratory infections in the winter weather, it is the most important reason for cyclic increases at that time of year. The weather's direct impact on your body has not been shown to have an impact in study after study.

[WolfKC]

You probably couldn't guess from my post that I am very empathetic and sensitive to cross cultural issues.

I'm very cross with cultural issues to. :-k 8-[

[beskeptical]

I thought of another big lie.

We are giving it away absolutely free.

You only have to pay shipping and handling.

[Sigma_Orionis]

I thought of another big lie.

We are giving it away absolutely free.

You only have to pay shipping and handling.

beskeptical you ought to do Infomercials

[Captain Kidd]

Anything to do with marketing ranks up there for me.
I've always enjoyed the phrase "new and improved."

[TriangleMan]

Anything to do with marketing ranks up there for me. I've always enjoyed the phrase "new and improved."

Yes, I always get upset knowing that for years I've been buying an "old and inferior" product from a company.

Based on all of the "new and improved" advances in laundry detergent over the past 40 years one would wonder if detergent from the 60's cleaned clothes at all!

[foxd]

Here's one from the woo-woos.

"Shocking new evidence!"