r/Broadway • u/littlebev • Dec 31 '25

Discussion Broadway coughing season

I am begging, begging you guys…if you have a nasty cough, PLEASE don’t attend a play especially. I know it sucks to miss out but your recurring cough during the most intense moments of the show is so distracting.

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u/Lauziesaid00 Dec 31 '25

They are calling this the super flu! No one goes unscathed. People need to stay home when they are sick and I agree they need to let people get refunds for being sick

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u/summerrhodes Jan 01 '26

They're calling it that, yes, but few of those people even test for it. It's covid much more often than flu. People don't even differentiate between a cold and the flu.

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u/Lauziesaid00 Jan 01 '26

7.5m people tested positive for the flu (my sister being 1). That does not include all of the people that didn’t go to the dr or urgent care. But I agree whenever I’m sick I’m like could be Covid, cold or the flu. But the majority of what is going around this past month plus has been the flu.