H1N1!

[janestarz]

The complete hype around this new influenza virus is drawing to a climax. Yesterday they distributed tissues and sanitising spray around the building. It can be noted that for a room where eight people are working at eight desks, we've got one spray and one box of tissues. What if someone sneezes?

The spray is a vivid blue, and the label reads that it's flammable. I'm sure it's got alcohol in it, which will demolish the skin on my hands if I'm not careful, creating new and interesting ways for the virus to enter my system. A regular case of damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Since it's such a pretty colour, the goblin alchemist in me is jumping up and down excitedly, wanting to test its effects on people. Remind me to bring potion bottles to work.
Also: what goblin alchemist in me?

Last night we had dinner at SushiQube, the wonderful all-you-can-eat sushi place that we love so much, and I saw a waiter walking around with a lovely blue spray there as well. I guess there are regulations for the use of it as well as regulations for which kind of spray companies should buy.
But answer me this: if you religiously clean each table after your guests have left, then why is there a large bowl of mints near the exit, where anyone can stick their unwashed hands into the mass of sugar?

*ppssht psssht*
Blue mints!

Comments

[sna.livejournal.com]

Meh. It's all just panic control. We have a general information topic on our internal OGD forum about it, but other then that it's the usual 'wash your hands before dinner' stuff, and seriously, if people haven't picked that up by now...

[janestarz.livejournal.com]

I'm really not the kind of person to panic, so...

[sna.livejournal.com]

You aint, but the public at large might.

[woran.livejournal.com]

Pff, its all a hype. Aids and cancer are out, mexican flu is in!

[webshark.livejournal.com]

since i work for the enemy, we got a bottle and tissues each. plus a big drum to whipe table and a smaller drum for screens. plus alcohol wash up at the toilets and tissues instead of the big cloth drum.

so now im waiting for the virus to become multi resistant.

aye caramba

[alhandra-s.livejournal.com]

I know for a fact the gel/spray is a very good BBQ starter!

We had the same thing here...
we all got an hygiene kit (hand gel and alcohol swabs) and are supposed to use it every time we touch community things like printers, coffee machines etc.

I still think I have more chance to get infected by this Mexico thing in the train/bus/metro/tram part of my day.

(I have a cold right now and people look at you in a strange way if you sniff a bit....) :-)

[fyrane.livejournal.com]

Pff all this crazyness about the mexican flu. Jules stole some of those "super cleany tissues" from his work about a week before he came down with the flu. Like any normal flu, its only bad if you've already got something that's weakening your immune system.
And damn... sushi qube.. I love that place. lucky lucky you!!

[cabaray.livejournal.com]

De pers had a good article about it on 1st of September. Nobody in charge wants to end up in a position that they did nothing to prevent something by fear of the angry mob demanding the blood of those responsible. So they rather hype, then be nonchalant.

Traffic and household accidents still claim more deaths then this (beats 9/11)...hell, lightning does a better job.

I want to catch it so i can kill it with my mighty antibodies..muha!

[https://me.yahoo.com/maladignia#6d2f0 (from livejournal.com)]

This whole mexican flu thing is just bullocks. Yes, more people than normally will get it, so more people than normally will die of it. The flu itself isn't any worse than a normal flu, however. Then there's the chance that so many people at once get sick that it will disrupt the normal way of life. I don't think that chance is very big. (And if so, Nature has finally found a way to rid itself of the nasty human race)

Since I work at home I do not have to share tissues or spray with my colleagues. I did get a 'what to do to prevent flu' folder, which makes it even clearer that it's just a normal flu...

Nice detail: at the Summoning there was some talk about not sharing bottles at the campfire in case of spreading the flu. And what happened during the battles? Right, people handing out cola-bottles with water to everybody and passing them around.

Come on people, let's just build some antibodies instead of cowering.

I do understand the concern of companies to be blamed on 'not doing anything to stop it!', but it's all just a show...


~Brenda~