Hands-Off Plan- School Bans Touching To Fight H1N1

[katty]

more: http://wcbstv.com/health/h1n1.swine.flu.2.1155084.html

Aug 31, 2009 5:53 pm US/Eastern Hands-Off Plan: School Bans Touching To Fight H1N1
Glen Cove District Students Urged To Have No Skin-On-Skin Contact With Swine Flu Outbreak Looming
Parents Told To Provide Kids With Tissues, Hand Sanitizer, Ibuprofen Reporting
Jennifer McLogan NEW YORK (CBS) (8/24/2009)

As students across America prepare to head back to school, officials and parents are bracing for a spike in swine flu cases. With the possibility that nearly 2 million people will be hospitalized, and 90,000 people across the county could die, one Long Island school district is taking no chances and has set into place a new "hands-off" approach to fighting the swine flu.

Chest bumps. High fives. Hugs and handshakes. Glen Cove Middle School students Ali Slaughter and Hannah Seltzer say that's what friends do on the first day of school. But when students in the Nassau community return to school next week, the superintendent will be urging abstinence. Everyone from the tiniest tots to the biggest high school football players will be asked to limit skin-on-skin contact in an attempt to prevent the spread of swine flu when it re-emerges this fall.

"It will because you really like your friends and you didn't get to see them," Seltzer tells CBS 2.

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. Well good luck with that plan

LOL

[virgogal]

2. We are living in a world gone mad !!!!!

[katty]

3. how in the hell will this work?! what is next, bubble suits?!!

[Journeyman]

4. Why not just issue every student their own hamster ball. . .

they might be safe then. . .

[kimmerspixelated]

5. How about making sure they all get nutritious foods,

and /or eliminate the junk foods,give them the extra time for really washing their hands(supervised if need be),a few minutes out in the sunlight everyday(Vit.D), and make them feel good about themselves! Free Hand sanitizer???

[woodsprite]

7. In my daughter's high school, they didn't replace the paper towels

and the bathrooms are only open 15 min of every block. So for 4 15-min times a day they are open. If you need to use the facilities outside of those times, you have to get a pass to the nurse. My daughter said she just 'holds everything' until she gets home so she doesn't have to worry about it.

Washing hands doesn't seem to be a priority.

[kimmerspixelated]

8. Isn't it terrible about just having to hold it!

Can you imagine being that restricted? I'm trying to recall what my school experience was like.

[kestrel91316]

6. Somebody failed to tell the school officials that fomites spread flu quite effectively.

As does coughing and sneezing without covering up.

Idiots.