Posted on 04/30/2009 8:53:24 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Joe Biden said today to avoid subways and other confined spaces because of the swine flu sweeping the nation.
[H]ere are the top five essential things you can do to avoid getting sick and, importantly, avoid infecting others. These critical tips are widely agreed upon by the World Health Organization, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other health experts.
1. Wash your hands. It sounds like a stupidly simple response to an overwhelming situation, but nearly compulsive hand-washing helps prevent the spread of this airborne respiratory disease.
2. Cover your mouth when you cough or sneeze. "It's a whole lot better for those [droplets] to be on blouse or sleeve than spraying onto surfaces or other people,"
3. Stay home. If you're sick, stay home {For instance -- do not travel to a neighboring country in order to visit the mall - BL}
4. Don't touch your face. Try, try, to keep your hands out of your mucous membranes - your eyes, nose and mouth - direct routes to the bloodstream that allow a virus to bypass the protective barrier of the skin.
5. Avoid sick people The flu virus tends not to float in the air. Instead, once dispersed, the liquid droplets tend to settle on objects that doctors call fomites - things that people touch that can pick up a virus. Examples include coins, hand rails, door knobs, common household and office objects
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What! Why not? Hell, I'll bet finding a doctor that is a tax evader is one of the easiest ones to find.
We have an SG?
1 Essential Swine Flu Survival Tip
Quit reading these hysterical articles.
I keep several large bottles of Pedialyte in our medical supply cabinet.
Also, the White Man's Traditional Medicine:
Campbell's chicken noodle soup and Sprite!
Well not that part ...
I don’t know, I like the part where they tell you not to travel to a ‘neighboring country’ just to visit the mall... somehow I think they meant ‘county’, but I know people who will go to neighboring countries for, oh, dinner (let’s just say that shortly after 9/11 a border patrol agent asked my family incredulously “Your country’s at war and you’re crossing an international border for Chinese food?”).
How about #6: avoid listening to the media?
You can put a bit of hydrogen peroxide in a humidifier to kill airborne pathogens.
6. Take an ass-load of vitamin D, washed down with Johnny Walker Black.
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