You know that feeling you get when you're in line at the grocery store and the person in front of you coughs and doesn't cover their mouth? You immediately feel slightly ill and begin subconsciously searching for symptoms that might not even be there. The new Sickweather app is kind of like that, only it's on your phone and you can't give it a mean glare like you can with a real person. The app is designed to help you avoid illness, in theory, and while that may indeed work for some people, for me it does the exact opposite.
Sickweather presents a local map of your neighborhood, including eateries, stores and any other public place, and then overlays reports of illnesses. So if a person down the street has strep throat or the proprietor of