Tuesday, 20 October 2009
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Does Playing Beer Pong Sentence You to Swine Flu?
Swine Flu season is still at large, and many Americans are taking things into their own (sanitized) hands. The New York Times had an interesting article (here) about all of the precautions being taken at small business, colleges, hospitals, even churches. Some highlights:- New York's Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has requested that its students stop playing beer pong. The activity, although fun, always struck me as kind of germy. I'm sure students will find more sanitary ways to get wasted.
- The Roman Catholic Diocese in Raleigh, N.C., has stopped offering wine at communion services, nor are the priests shaking hands with parishioners. And a Lutheran church in Utah has armed their pastors with bottles of hand sanitizer, in addition to setting up sanitary areas for church-goers.
- A juror in Chicago was excused from his duty because his wife and child were sick. The judge feared the entire jury would get sick, so a healthy alternate stepped in.
- Hospitals in Rhode Island and several other states are temporarily banning patient visits from children, since kids are often big germ-carriers. (Exceptions are allowed for terminally ill patients.)
- A business in Kentucky is asking its employees to only bring in individually wrapped snacks. Got a cake? Slice and wrap it at home.
Are these precautions over the top, or totally justified? How are the people you work/go to school with keeping safe from the swine flu?
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Comments (8)
It does sentence you to cold sores... so gross.
Only if you suck at it. More incentive to make the shot...
No just kidding but seriously, put water in the cups and drink from your own bottle i have never seen it played any other way, not that i play it/ see it played often. But com'n college student use that "knowledge" they're giving you. I mean gosh not just swine flu, but everything else on the face of this earth.
Hahaha, what an interesting post!
There are different variations of beer pong to make sure everyone isn't drinking out of the same cup.
Beer pong isn't that bad... it's alcohol, whatever germs get on the cups are dead anyway.
@snowandstarstone@xanga - I am no expert but I do believe 5% alcohol isn't going to sanitize anything
@snowandstarstone@xanga - @Pcgecko85@xanga - ya true story, considering hand sanitizer is usually 95%. (good brands at least like purell and vicks) lol alcohol in beer and malts sanitizes shit. I really hope( and by saying I hope, i mean i don't hope) you're drinking pure everclear.
This is over the top. Especially that hospital temporarily banning children's visits to the doctor. That actually makes me angry with it's stupidity. In cases like that, if a child is sick they have to go to the ER and that is far more expensive and totally unnecessary.
Aside from that, trying too hard to keep totally germ free is a good way to make yourself even more vulnerable to germs. The less germ exposure we have, the less resistance our bodies build up against germs and what they can do to us. So, when we finally do catch something it's far worse than ever it had to be.
I understand the fear of H1N1, but this is just insanity. I'm sorry, but if I was banned from bringing my child to the doctor, I would see if there was any kind of legal action I could take against the hospital or clinic. The doctor is a place you are supposed to be able to go when you are ill, not banned because you might get someone else sick.
I never thought I would see the day when hospitals and clinics would start banning patients who might be sicker than other patients just for the possibility that they might make someone sick. It blows my mind and makes me rather angry.