Keep Your Germs to Yourself
Posted by DDOCS in Common Courtesy, Health, Hygiene, tags: Common Courtesy, Health, HygieneAn older kid at the playground today was coughing and hacking all over the park. I was completely skeeved out and made sure my daughter wasn’t in spit-shot. Since you can’t chase random kids with Kleenex and Purell (at least where I live), more people need to realize the importance of covering coughs and sneezes.
It’s a basic rule of consideration and hygiene: cover your mouth when you cough but especially when you sneeze. It seems simple, but many people don’t bother and it’s never been so important. This week, the flu caused more schools to close in New York City. If you don’t know what happens when you sneeze, watch this great simulation that takes place on a subway car. (It’ll make you want to walk to work from now on.)
It’s best if you don’t use your hands. Cough or sneeze into your arm or sleeve to prevent the transfer of germs from your hands later on.
In other words, keep your germs to yourself.
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Actually I think you’re supposed to use your hands because they’re much easier to wash then your sleeves are. Of course that means you have to wash your hands, but that’s germ-spreading prevention rule #1 anyway.