[gumbo]

Tell your sick coworkers NOT TO COME TO WORK and keep sick kids at home

Good advice, but the careerist moms won't follow it. They'll whine for more "sick day care" facilities. Talk about breeding grounds for disease.

[ChemistCat]

Got some weasel on another thread whining that I'm fomenting panic and aiding the terrorist by telling people to wash their hands and avoid exposing others if they get flu this year. You're right that most people will just keep going to work sick. I hope my clinic gets my flu shot in this week, is all I can say. Isn't it amazing that people with otherwise good manners will spread a cold or flu without apology?

If the terrorists did indeed attempt to spread anthrax in our country, that's a weapon of mass destruction and I hope we respond accordingly; fortunately, they appear not to have known WHAT THEY WERE DOING....