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| Mark I Peasant Flu Guard |
Good, I got you to look.
WAIT! Before you go away...
1) There is a right and a wrong way to cover your face/mouth/nose when you sneeze/cough: use the crook of your elbow. Period.
Not just your hand!
I've seen people do the old "fist in front of the mouth" routine - that doesn't work. You're still blowing aerosolized influenza into the air, waiting to float around into my nose or eyes. Thanks for nothing.
I've had almost everyone in my present student roster call out sick with the flu in the past month. I thought I was coming down with it yesterday evening, but luckily it passed (I think). Never the less, I consider that a close call. Too close.
I had a "flu like sickness out of season" during the swine flu epidemic a few years back. It nearly killed me. There is the following situations in your life:
A time when you think "I could have died"; A time when you think "I'm dying".
You really don't want to experience the later. It changes your life, not for the better as some might suggest. For all I know I may have gained some immunity from that, at the expense of having my DNA scrambled by some alien-machina looking virion that may cause a problem later in life.
I should have been more wary. As I am now.
In addition to being a hand sanitizer fiend (up your nose with a rubber hose, people who subscribe to the utterly-non-scientific "you need to strengthen your immune system through exposure"; you're wrong. It doesn't work that way), I've come up with my Amazing $5 Mart of Wal Influenza Guard.
Yeah, it's funny, and I'm paranoid. It doesn't mean I'm wrong. I don't care if you laugh at me. I don't want the H1N2, and for all you know I might have it and you don't want to get it from me, either. Which brings me to another point, if I still have an audience at this juncture:
2) You don't know if you're contagious based on how you feel or how symptoms present themselves.
About half the people I've had cancel on me because of the flu told me the previous week "no, I'm not sick, it's just (sinuses, allergies, cold).
Well, you don't really know that for certain.
Another thing
3) just because you're no longer symptomatic doesn't mean you're not still contagious!
YOU CAN BE CONTAGIOUS BEFORE YOU FEEL SICK AND AFTERWARDS.
IT'S A FACT.
I said,
YOU CAN BE CONTAGIOUS BEFORE YOU FEEL SICK AND AFTERWARDS. IT'S A FACT.
Feel free to look this info up and say I'm wrong, but remember to cite your sources. I'm not giving you any sources, so you should look it up yourself!
So in closing, remember to check your tuning to +/- .1 of a cent and
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