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

[Camelot Farms]

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I say we go back to bowing and curtsying.

 

[urbanfarmer101]

A lot of the children's programming is teaching this method. They are also teaching it in schools. I agree with you, totally gross. So tell me why we need to send a box of tissues to school with our kids?

 

[Hillsvale]

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We carry hankies....

, many consider them yucky but for daily allergies it works for us.. colds however are a different story, them I use tissues.. several at a time because they are so thin.

The sneezing into your elbow came about in Canada anyway when the "flu pandemic" (don't get me started on that load of c r a p)... and makes sense to me, assuming once again your aren't a big bag of snot!

These days I hate the idea of shaking hands.... its shocking how many people don't wash their hands...

and there is nothing you could do to get me to eat at a buffet again!

 

[Orchid]

Our daycare taught the kids to sneeze into the crook of their elbow. While not the most sanitary thing in the world, there's no way a little kid is going to carry around a tissue with them just waiting for a sneeze, so it's a reasonable solution for them. Much better than sneezing into their hands, anyway.

I think the custom of shaking hands is disgusting, quite frankly. I always cringe when the church greeters hold out their hand on your way in - yuck.

 

[haTHOR]

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thank you! when public service health announcements occur, they are not just someone's whimsical idea. they are always based on scientific evidence of an empirical nature (testable, verifiable, replicable). not to say evidence can't be wrong or made better through re-testing, but PSAs aren't just hare-brained schemes. they are based in the best evidence available at the time.

i know we all like to think the gov't knows nothing and we shouldn't listen to a word they say, but really...this makes perfect, legitimate sense from a public health standpoint. if it seems gross, fine. better gross than contagious. i prefer gross that i can see but is contained to contagious (but invisible). we americans are so odd about things sometimes.

 

[LovinMyPeeps]

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thank you! when public service health announcements occur, they are not just someone's whimsical idea. they are always based on scientific evidence of an empirical nature (testable, verifiable, replicable). not to say evidence can't be wrong or made better through re-testing, but PSAs aren't just hare-brained schemes. they are based in the best evidence available at the time.

i know we all like to think the gov't knows nothing and we shouldn't listen to a word they say, but really...this makes perfect, legitimate sense from a public health standpoint. if it seems gross, fine. better gross than contagious. i prefer gross that i can see but is contained to contagious (but invisible). we americans are so odd about things sometimes.

I think whats getting lost here too is that were not saying people should BLOW THEIR NOSE into their sleeve, there is a difference between a sneeze and a snot rocket. If your nose is running, go blow it, if your in the line at old navy and need a quick sneeze you sneeze into your elbow, then politely excuse your self, go to the bathroom and blow your schnozzle. This gives you a way to wash your hands. People are making it sound like the PSA's are about walking around with bogeys dribbling down your sleeve, this is not so. However little kids, no matter how well you train them, will inevitably be little snot balls at this time of year. And yes purrell is not idiot proof. Read the data, even handwashing is uneffective if the right amount of friction and time are not used. If you understand ANYTHING about portals and vectors, drying your hands out to the point they crack just creates a portal for infection, I say good luck with that. Not to mention the endless studies on how antibacterial products can adversely effect things like resistance.

 

[speckledhen]

I see a huge problem with overuse of hand sanitizers myself--the parents who always make their kids use them when they eat at McDonald's or the like, etc, have the sickest kids. I knew a woman like that. Her daughter was always sick but she made her use hand sanitizer constantly. That is a real problem, I realize. Occasional use would be fine, but constant use is just not helpful.

Just to be clear, I don't care for folks sneezing into their hands. One Kleenex won't do, either, if you have a cold/flu. A wad of them or a paper towel, tossed in the trash afterward, is what I'd prefer over anything else. The problem with the sleeve is that you don't know if the sneeze will be a "sprayer" or not. Dry sneezes to me are no big deal. A certain exposure to germs shouldn't be an issue for humans with normal immune systems.

I can't believe this thread was so controversial, to be honest. I'm not trying to convince anyone of anything, just was expressing my negative reaction to all the public service announcements. Lately, it doesn't seem to be a good idea to express my opinion about anything.

 

[Dunkopf]

All the actual experts I've heard say that hand washing is the same as the antibacterials. The antibacterials are just for convenience. I use it in my car because I travel around and shake other peoples hands outside. I get back in my car and squirt some on my hands and rub till dry. I use it about 10 times a day. I also wash whenever I use the bathroom and I use the towel to open the door with.

Kids that use antibacterials constantly, probably have parents that are germ a phobes. They get protected from germs and don't build any immunities. I am a germ a phobe myself. I have asthma and when I get any kind of a cold it usually turns in to pneumonia and then bronchitis. Takes me 2 months to breathe a full breath again.

 

[EweSheep]

Yeah I am GUILTY of using my foot for the toliet handle OR use a piece of toliet paper to flush the smaller handles....

AND yeah, I am GUILTY of throwing the paper towels on the floor next to the door when I have to open it and there is no garbage can next to the door or nearby.

AND I do push the towel dispenser, before I wash my hands so I can have it ready when I wash. I love those auto sensor faucets!

Cyn, at least you made some very interesting topics so no worries about negative comments....after all, it is great reading!

 

[pringle]

Ok this is why I must go to school even if im sick!At our technical high school if your out 3 times you fail all your subjects.If you bring in a note from your doctor then it doesnt count.If you bring in a note from your parents it DOES count to your abstances

.They feel that unless your sick enough to go to the doctor you should go to school.Its so freakin stupid

!!!!What if im sick but I know I dont have to go to the doc and just stay home.....well too bad I gotta go to school and get everyone else sick no matter how much I try not too.There such ignorant people, its like they expect my parents to be full of money and bring me to the doctors when all I really need to do it stay in bed for a couple of days.