Sneeze into your SLEEVE??!! Are you KIDDING me?!

[WriterofWords]

LOL try being a classroom full of sneezing 6th graders with snot all over the sleeves. Then there are those who pull their shirt out and sneeze down their chest,, oh eyah real sanitary. And of course everyone LOVES Germ X and other hand sanitizers,, most of them don't work at all and we proved it with a science experiment. The samples with the sanitizer grew much better and faster and more colorful on the santizer than on the neutral base! The amount of alcohol did nothing, except of course dry out your skin and make you sick if you try and drink it,,,,

 

[speckledhen]

I sure hope no one is drinking hand sanitizer! LOL! Kids are ridiculously germy, I know.

 

[annaraven]

I would rather people sneeze into the crook of their elbow than onto their hands. If you have a tissue or hankie, of course, that's better, BUT often people just don't have them handy.

And I HATE the current craze for hand-sanitizers, especially because I'm allergic to Purell. If someone around me starts using it, I have to back up quick until the scent is out of the air, because I can't breathe around it! Some generics are fine. But Purell is evil (for me).

 

[ChickieBooBoo]

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lol, I've seen many kids try it. It tastes to bad they normal dont get much down

 

[WriterofWords]

Yes they do try and drink it because of the alcohol content. They mix it with other drinks to hide the taste.

 

[ChickieBooBoo]

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[babylady4]

Writer, would you please divulge the details of this experiment? I am curious how you obtained your results and what kind of control/conditions you conducted this experiment under. It sounds interesting.

I could care less if somebody has snotty sleeves; really who pays that much attention unless there is a string of snot all over the sleeve? People run around looking for boogers on other people's clothing? Our culture dictates the using of our hands to greet people, I for one would rather have that person sneeze or cough into their elbow than their hands.

 

[debilorrah]

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I have been reading this whole thing, and once again thought of all of you BYC'ers, when I was at the grocery store, with no tissue, having a sneezing fit. I sneezed in my left hand, kept in my pocket and used my right hand to pay and accept the receipt.

Thanks for making me neurotic. I have allergies, not a cold!!!

 

[ChickieBooBoo]

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[WriterofWords]

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I will be happy to. When we go back to school next week I can post pictures of it. The students collected samples from several areas around school including a secretary's phone, she had strep-throat. The school nurse asked us to do this experiment because she felt that people were making such a big deal about hand sanitizers and becoming dependent on them assuming that if they used it they were safe. It was really surprising because the students made predictions and the only sanitizer that actually killed more germs than those that grew the germs, was a sanitizer sample we got from a local hospital.