Comments on: Sick=Stay Home http://joscafe.com/2007/10/24/sickstay-home Live, Laugh, Love Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:57:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jo http://joscafe.com/2007/10/24/sickstay-home/comment-page-1#comment-190053 Jo Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:12:43 +0000 http://joscafe.com/2007/10/24/sickstay-home/#comment-190053 I really wish people would start wearing masks in this country. With this nasty Staff stuff going around, how are we going to keep from getting sick. I really wish people would start wearing masks in this country. With this nasty Staff stuff going around, how are we going to keep from getting sick.

]]> By: Redoubt http://joscafe.com/2007/10/24/sickstay-home/comment-page-1#comment-190043 Redoubt Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:19:49 +0000 http://joscafe.com/2007/10/24/sickstay-home/#comment-190043 It’s been a few years but I recall reading an article that basically laid it all out in terms of how a single school child, sick and in a classroom, could spread their illness across the entire social spectrum. In a nutshell (since I don’t remember it all to quote), the kid shares the germs with other kids in school who take it home, share them with siblings and parents. The parents become infectious and they spread them in the work place to other adults who take them home to their children who, in turn, take them back to a new classroom where the entire cycle begins again. In Japan, it is accepted practice to wear a facemask (one of those little white dust masks) if you are sick so that you don’t spread the illness. That makes good sense to me but… I can’t see that happening here in the USA. It’s been a few years but I recall reading an article that basically laid it all out in terms of how a single school child, sick and in a classroom, could spread their illness across the entire social spectrum.

In a nutshell (since I don’t remember it all to quote), the kid shares the germs with other kids in school who take it home, share them with siblings and parents. The parents become infectious and they spread them in the work place to other adults who take them home to their children who, in turn, take them back to a new classroom where the entire cycle begins again.

In Japan, it is accepted practice to wear a facemask (one of those little white dust masks) if you are sick so that you don’t spread the illness. That makes good sense to me but… I can’t see that happening here in the USA.

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