Joe Harker
Ah, what glorious weather!
The sun is shining, I assume the birds are singing but I can't hear them over the sound of cars and it's wonderfully warm without being punishingly so.
Enjoy it, this is the UK and British summer that will give you maybe a handful of good days if you're lucky.
However, there's a number of Brits who can't enjoy it because they're feeling too under this fine weather.
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That's quite a shame as sod's law decrees that by the time you get through your illness and no longer feel sick, the clouds will have gathered and a torrential summer downpour will be upon us.
So why is it that during the finer months of the year some people are getting more sick than normal?
Speaking to the Daily Mirror, Dr Allen Haddrell said that viruses were 'not really being transmitted outdoors' but there are some events which help boost virus transmission.
Events like festivals, the school holidays and the Euros pack in 'gatherings of people who typically aren't together' and stick them in the same place, where sickness can spread like wildfire.
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One minute you're jumping up and down in a muddy field with thousands of people, the next it feels like the world is falling out of your nose and you're wondering where you've picked something up.
The doc said there was another factor about the summer which might boost virus transmission and that's being in an office that sticks on the air conditioning to cope with higher temperatures.
Certain offices, including particular floors of LADbible Towers among them, take on a greenhouse-like quality during the summer months and begin to steadily bake the occupants.
With that comes people sticking on fans and offices turning on the air conditioning if they have it, but according to Dr Haddrell while it can help cool the air it could have the result of 'pushing it around and sealing the building in a sense'.
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Basically, if there's a sickness in the air, then the air con will now make sure it flows throughout the entire place.
While a 2022 study appeared to show that colder weather, and a colder nose in particular, impacted the body's immune system response and thus made you more vulnerable to sickness in the winter, viruses can still get around alright when it's warm.
You aren't immune to illness just because the weather is nice.
Meanwhile, if it's covid you think you're coming down with, there might be a reason for that too.
Per the Mirror, Dr Paul Hunter said that a falling rate of vaccinations means that some people will be left with 'very little immunity' against the deadly disease, so if people didn't catch it over the last winter they could be very exposed to the virus again.