Flu (4)
Day 5 of the Great Hyogo Flu Pandemic. The government and media are beginning to step back from their response of "OMG STAY HOME EVERYONE OR WE`LL ALL DIE!!!" and admit that they may have over-reacted a teensy bit. Their excuse is that the flu pandemic procedures were developed with bird flu in mind, and bird flu would much more deadly than swine flu, so oopsies, our bad! Many of the people who were sick are already better, and they`ve moved away from required all diagnosed patients and the doctors who diagnosed them to stay quarantined in the hospital to letting most people go home instead. I took the day off yesterday and went geocaching and did some shopping at Jusco on the way back, and I noted that everyone I went all the employees wore masks but only maybe a third of the customers had them on. I saw a bit on the news were a reporter was standing in the middle of Sannomiya station in Kobe going "whoah, look at all the people in masks!" The reporter was wearing a mask too - pulled down so it covered his mouth but not his nose.
Today I came in to work expecting that the only "work" I would have to do all day would be putting my stamp in the attendance book, but to my pleasant surprise I got to help disenfect half the whole school. In each classroom we had to shove the desks to one side, sweep the floor, mop the floor with disinfectant, shove the desks over and do the other have, put the desks back in place, and spray and wipe the surface of the desks. Repeat times fifteen classrooms. It was nice to have something to do, even if the mask and latex gloves I was wearing were uncomfortably moist. Oh yeah, keep in mind that there haven`t been any flu cases at my school - all our disinfecting was just in case.
Now my hands smell like latex.
Today I came in to work expecting that the only "work" I would have to do all day would be putting my stamp in the attendance book, but to my pleasant surprise I got to help disenfect half the whole school. In each classroom we had to shove the desks to one side, sweep the floor, mop the floor with disinfectant, shove the desks over and do the other have, put the desks back in place, and spray and wipe the surface of the desks. Repeat times fifteen classrooms. It was nice to have something to do, even if the mask and latex gloves I was wearing were uncomfortably moist. Oh yeah, keep in mind that there haven`t been any flu cases at my school - all our disinfecting was just in case.
Now my hands smell like latex.