Author Topic: A message from your mayor (Read 7356 times)

Perd Hapley · « **on:** April 27, 2009, 08:24:38 PM »

The mayor's looking out for us here. He sent some guy around this afternoon to leave a Swine Flu Alert on all our doors, reminding us that our tiny little city (Edmundson, MO) has a Pandemic Emergency Plan. On one side there are tips on how to deal with The Swine Flu Pandemic. !!! On the other side are little cartoon drawings explaining how to cover our coughs, and wash our hands.

I feel so much safer now.

Should I return it to the mayor's office, explaining that I already know how to wash my hands? Suggestions, please.

FTA84 · « **Reply #1 on:** April 27, 2009, 08:53:49 PM »

I always love with the authorities inform me that I can keep from getting the swine flu by covering my mouth when I cough....

Bob F. · « **Reply #2 on:** April 27, 2009, 10:13:24 PM »

Takes our mind off the economy and all the other stuff they're screwing up! This crap's so mild here that the advice is "stay home, don't go to work!"

Vit c 1000mg/ day and zinc 50mg/day, but I'm not a Dr. and that advice is worth exactly what you paid for it!!!!!!!!!!!

Stay safe, cover that cought!!
Bob

Bogie · « **Reply #3 on:** April 27, 2009, 10:48:18 PM »

You know, I almost bought a house there....

jackdanson · « **Reply #4 on:** April 27, 2009, 11:23:28 PM »

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You know, I almost bought a house there....

How many MO folks are on this board? I live right there too.

seeker_two · « **Reply #5 on:** April 28, 2009, 06:26:13 AM »

Please scan & post that flyer....it may be our only hope....

Thylacine · « **Reply #6 on:** April 28, 2009, 08:13:43 AM »

I am 12 miles from MO. So far no notices posted in this small KS town.

Jamisjockey · « **Reply #7 on:** April 28, 2009, 08:43:57 AM »

Go to the mayor's office, coughing violently. Insist on shaking hands with everyone there.

RoadKingLarry · « **Reply #8 on:** April 28, 2009, 09:35:45 AM »

When the wind is right I can smell Missouri if it isn't covered up by the stench from Tyson's chickens in Arkansas...

Werewolf · « **Reply #9 on:** April 28, 2009, 09:59:19 AM »

Quote from: FTA84 on April 27, 2009, 08:53:49 PM

I always love with the authorities inform me that I can keep from getting the swine flu by covering my mouth when I cough....

Hey - at least he's trying to take care of his flock - errrrr - I mean the good citizens of your town. Cut him some slack already. The sheep - uhhhh - I mean the citizens need to be kept aware of all the frightening things in the world that can harm them and only the government can protect them from.

THAT SAID:
Covering your mouth when you cough is almost as bad as not covering it at all. Germs just move from your mouth/lungs to your hands. Everything you touch (like handrails on stairs for example) for the next 2+ hours becomes contaminated for further transfer.

Instead competent medical authorities recommend coughing into a tissue (not handkerchief). Said tissue gets immediately tossed. Absent a tissue using your sleeve (or lacking a sleeve your forearm) is recommended because the germs can't be as easily transferred and don't live long on a sleeve.

Common sense really.

Balog · « **Reply #10 on:** April 28, 2009, 11:01:51 AM »

Call him up and ask how many tax dollars were wasted on that.

Jamisjockey · « **Reply #11 on:** April 28, 2009, 11:39:29 AM »

Quote from: Balog on April 28, 2009, 11:01:51 AM

Call him up and ask how many tax dollars were wasted on that.

Not as many as Dear Leader's airplane photo op.

Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas · « **Reply #12 on:** April 28, 2009, 12:01:26 PM »

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Covering your mouth when you cough is almost as bad as not covering it at all. Germs just move from your mouth/lungs to your hands.

You betcha. Your parents taught you to cover your mouth so as to keep you sick and oppressed.

I'd always suspected that as a kid.

Nick1911 · « **Reply #13 on:** April 28, 2009, 12:03:18 PM »

Quote from: jackdanson on April 27, 2009, 11:23:28 PM

How many MO folks are on this board? I live right there too.

Use to live in MO, not I live in Kansas, about 6 miles from the border.

Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas · « **Reply #14 on:** April 28, 2009, 01:11:44 PM »

I live in the state which once held the capital of MO.
http://www.texasescapes.com/DEPARTMENTS/Guest_Columnists/East_Texas_all_things_historical/McDonald_Marshall_81300.htm

Werewolf · « **Reply #15 on:** April 28, 2009, 04:49:13 PM »

Quote from: Fistful Savalas on April 28, 2009, 12:01:26 PM

You betcha. Your parents taught you to cover your mouth so as to keep you sick and oppressed.
I'd always suspected that as a kid.

OK...

I can see how one could misunderstand what I wrote. :rolleyes:

Not a function of keeping the germs. Covering your mouth with your hands moves the germs to your hands.

Everything you touch after that becomes contaminated.

Coughing into your hands guarantees you're doing your part to spread the germs to your fellows.

Now do you GET IT?

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #16 on:** April 28, 2009, 04:54:54 PM »

my thred is funny now

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #17 on:** April 28, 2009, 05:15:02 PM »

As we have learned from other threads, no jokes can be made involving the humorous possibility that [sigh, never mind]. Even if they are, in fact, just jokes.

Nor can jokes be made about the sky falling on [never mind that, either]. Even if they are in fact, just jokes.

Please refrain from any such jokes in this very serious thread, even if they are in fact just jokes.

Balog · « **Reply #18 on:** April 28, 2009, 05:38:15 PM »

Werewolf: I believe that's what is known as "humour." Perhaps you could lighten up a bit.

seeker_two · « **Reply #19 on:** April 28, 2009, 07:48:14 PM »

Quote from: fistful on April 28, 2009, 05:15:02 PM

As we have learned from other threads, no jokes can be made involving the humorous possibility that [sigh, never mind]. Even if they are, in fact, just jokes.

Nor can jokes be made about the sky falling on [never mind that, either]. Even if they are in fact, just jokes.

Please refrain from any such jokes in this very serious thread, even if they are in fact just jokes.

So....this is your last post?....

LadySmith · « **Reply #20 on:** April 28, 2009, 07:52:54 PM »

Quote from: fistful on April 27, 2009, 08:24:38 PM

Should I return it to the mayor's office, explaining that I already know how to wash my hands? Suggestions, please.

Yes.
And then add that your letter was written by your properly washed and swine flu-free hands...you think.

seeker_two · « **Reply #21 on:** April 28, 2009, 07:59:01 PM »

Quote from: LadySmith on April 28, 2009, 07:52:54 PM

Yes.
And then add that your letter was written by your properly washed and swine flu-free hands...you think.

...and thank him for the light bathroom reading....

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #22 on:** April 28, 2009, 08:15:26 PM »

Quote from: seeker_two on April 28, 2009, 07:59:01 PM

...and thank him for the light bathroom reading....

Ooh, me like.

Ned Hamford · « **Reply #23 on:** April 28, 2009, 09:58:40 PM »

Quote from: seeker_two on April 28, 2009, 07:59:01 PM

...and thank him for the light bathroom reading....

My school quickly sprung into action, placing posters in all the restrooms.
Hand Washing Instructions.
Apparently I am supposed to scrub for 20 seconds and be sure to get my fingernails, then use a towel to turn off the water.
I feel bad, my first thoughts were: What am I, a doctor prepping for surgery, 20 seconds, yeesh.

I will quite obviously soon be a highly effective vector. The flu vics were just down the street from me.
Oh, and I use hankerchiefs.

Luckily my immune system is probably weakend from the high stress of finals and an extremely poor diet.

Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas · « **Reply #24 on:** April 28, 2009, 10:20:10 PM »

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Now do you GET IT?

I was agreeing with you. And adding a bit of the ridiculous. Coughing is done to expel certain undesirable elements from the body. Covering the cough with a hand, as you mentioned, simply puts those undesirable elements on your hands. Since people tend to rub their own eyes and noses, covering a cough with your hand does yourself a disservice. You put back what your lungs wanted taken out.

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Author Topic: A message from your mayor (Read 7356 times)