Comments on: Elmo is right: Wash your hands!

By: Maggie Brown

Maggie Brown — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 01:16:12 +0000

Cynthia – you got 2 of the 3 keys to illnes prevention. The other is keeping germs from your face. It does not help to wash your hands and then touch a doorknob (getting germs on your palm) and then touch your face. You can wash your hands 50 times a day but you can’t wash it after everything you touch. I learned this from my daughters Germy Wormy video. Add to the list – don’t touch them palm of your hand to your face!

By: Ivan

Ivan — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:24:03 +0000

I was almost expecting Ms. Tucker to claim Swine Flu was a GOP propaganda ploy influenced by the insurance agencies and Glenn Beck to undermine Obama. What was I thinking?

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What They Are Saying: 09.03.09 | AnnotatedOpinions.com — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:15:13 +0000

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By: Turd Ferguson

Turd Ferguson — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:09:51 +0000

Oh the Humanity. All this hysteria reminds me of the Japanese running to and fro as GodZilla approached Tokyo.

AGGGGHHHHHH…run for the hills!!

By: Mac

Mac — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:02:25 +0000

Build your immune system … eat more dirt.

By: Goony Y.

Goony Y. — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:53:46 +0000

Cynthia Girl, I have been stirring up so much day and night on Mo’s blog that I could criticize you that much tonight. Sorry, girl. I’ll be hitting you back up later, OK? Kisses.

By: Tank

Tank — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 01:20:12 +0000

Chirp…………..Chirp…………….Chirp………………Chirp…………….Chirp……………

By: jt

jt — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:25:48 +0000

For you nanny-state cravers out there-

Using the same logic that a LAW requires you to “buckle-up” in automobiles,

a LAW should require you to wash your hands.

When is this gonna happen?

By: jconservative

jconservative — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:16:34 +0000

Those of you who are Catholic will get this. With the flu threat out there I suggested to our Deacon that we dispense with holding hands in prayer & dispense with “passing the peace”. All I got was a cold stare.

By: Firemouse

Firemouse — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:11:34 +0000

So we wash our hands in the mall rest room, and “dry” (or is that “less wet”?) them under the tepid air coming out of the machine. Then we go to leave the rest room and we’re back to square one…

There’s the door handle which we need to open, the same one touched by the significant fraction of the population that don’t wash their hands after using a public restroom. The sign on the electric drier smugly informs us we’re not killing trees and making waste, but that means we don’t have a piece of paper towel to open the door with. And if we do have a piece of paper towel, most of the time there is not a waste bin within reach, so we get to be the ones who look like inconsiderate slobs and just drop the paper towel behind the door.

I’d like to see public hand-washing campaigns understand that the entire sequence has to be considered. And that goes double for hospital campaigns that let every single person signing in at the emergency room (or anywhere else a patient or their caregiver needs to sign something) use the same pen.