If you ever have any free time, grab a pair of surgical gloves and wear them around for a day…and then look at what some people don’t wash off their hands.
In health care, you sort of fall into a routine of regular hand washing. It actually shows how resistant our bodies are that we aren’t catching diseases every single day whenever we interact with others.[/quote]
I think that depends on where you work, how strong your immune system is etc etc…
My girl works at an Ears/Nose/Throat place and she’s always washing her hands; but always gets sick.
It’s my firm belief that it is this the lifestyle that many of us on here live (plenty of sleep, all your vitamins etc…) that really allow us to not get sick as often as the “average” person. She is sick about 1-2x a month for a few days, and I have not once got sick.
[quote]miroku333 wrote:
swine flu will mutate, and cause the zombie apocalypse. Martial law will be instituted “for our own good” and people will finally rise up in solidarity against the oppressors!
(just trying to be optimistic) :P[/quote]
Americans can’t rise up because all our guns are going to Mexico. That moving-picture box said so.
I’m an ER nurse in a NYC hospital. We had 2 confirmed cases of swine flu in the past 3 days. This is a DROPLET percaution, which means you can get it in 2 ways. The first way is someone with the virus to cough or sneeze in your face. The other way is to pick the virus up on door knobs and things like that, it lives up to 8 hours on non-porus surfaces. Just carry hand sanitizers and don’t let people breath on you, and you should be fine. The symptoms are the same as the regular flu, your not going to die unless you have underlying illnesses that weren’t addressed.
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