Rhinovirus > Face > Nasopharynx — How to Catch a Cold

[JanS]

and no kissing !!!!

:)

so they’re right when they keep harping on “Wash your hands”. And you only need soap and warm water (sing one round of Happy Birthday)..anti-bacterial stuff is overkill..

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[anonyme]

I wish the Japanese habit of wearing surgical masks in public was acceptable here. Even though I wash my hands obsessively, I do ride Metro. I’ve heard the bus described as “a rolling Petrie dish”. I did once leave on a surgical mask after visiting a friend in hospital, and nobody would sit near me on the bus. Hmmm, good ploy…

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[redblack]

anonyme, i don’t touch anything on a metro (i use my sleeve if i need to hold a hand rail), and i avoid public restrooms whenever possible. in fact, i avoid them because i look at the faucet handles when i wash my hands and i wonder just how sanitary those are. i use my sleeve to open the door afterwards.

then i burn the shirt.

don’t get me started on airplanes.

no matter how put together and groomed people may appear, i think most of us have terrible hygiene – especially the hand-washing.

and anti-bacterials may be overkill, jan, but they do save water.

to sum up, no i’m not adrian monk. one of the biggest reasons that i hate germs is that my sick days are unpaid, and i know that there are oblivious people out there spreading rhinoviruses, and coughing and sneezing into the open air.

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[JanS]

+yes, redblack, the anti-bacterials are better than nothing…but they’re not anti-virus…they’re anti-bacterials.

I am in treatment right now that lowers my immune system, so I try to avoid Metro at all costs…esp. up to First Hill.. buses full of sickies. It’s difficult without a car, but hopefully it’ll be fixed this week. I have exceptional friends who have taken time from their day to get me where I need to go, and I thank them..over and over :)

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[JoB]

it’s simple.

wash your hands … wash them so often that you need lotion

and carry an hanky … so you can safely scratch your nose

oh.. and wear gloves…

maybe our grandmothers knew something after all:)

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[austin]

I once had a friend relate to me the story of a kid he observed on a metro bus who spent the ride chewing gum, wrapping the gum around one of the handhold poles several times, then chewing it back off the pole. I think of that kid every time it crosses my mind to touch anything on the bus. I’ve personally witnessed on the bus shirtless making-out on a warm summer night as well as a needle related overdose, gum kid takes it, and I wasn’t even there to see it.

Although there was a period of time that I would regularly see people in the throes of passion while riding the bus, which is amazing to me because the bus is just about the least sexy place to get down, ever. Once I was in a car behind a bus waiting for the university bridge to go back down and saw a couple actually abandon their seat towards the front of the bus in favor of the increased privacy of the coach’s rear. Or so they thought. My driver was quick and started honking at them, to their complete embarrassment. The bus makeout session that rivaled the gum kid has to be the very small man / large woman combo in which the woman was not only furious and ranting but also sick and constantly doing the snort-hock-gulp noise, really loudly, in between ranting and wetly making out with the little guy. I couldn’t help but watch them, there was a lot of emotion on that seat that day. The ride free zone can really be an incredible place; Tennessee Williams wrote “Nothing human disgusts me”, but I say some of it fairly serves as a warning.

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[DP]

austin: I’m at a loss to characterize what you just wrote. The phrase “too much information” seems inadequate to the task.

;-)

Please inform your quotable friend that there’s a big difference between streetcars and buses . . .

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[Ken]

“Pardon me. I’ve got to go poke out my mind’s eye.”

—Frasier, Frasier, “The Ring Cycle”

I am all out of brain bleach.

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[JanS]

lol, austin…thanks for sharing :)~

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[austin]

I guess the moral of the story is that Washing your hands after riding the bus is important. Also don’t kiss on sickies, or share their drug paraphernalia. Or, possibly that wrapping your chewing gum around bus poles is an inexpensive way to self vaccinate, like eating local honey or automucophagy (assuming your hands are clean).

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