I have a touch of OCD so it's 'just another day at the office' really.
Things I've been doing for years are suddenly trendy.
Everyone's doing it.
Don't feel so alone in my contamination crusade
My concern over this particular strain has been no different to concerns over any other contagion.
Like I said, just another day at the office.
Aye, same here.
When I hear of people doing X thing for this, I keep thinking "Er.... but you should have been doing that ANYWAY. You know, to deal with the ALREADY DANGEROUS AND ALWAYS FREAKING THERE influenza virus? And all that bacteria and whatnot?" But everyone ignores stuff like that DESPITE it being dangerous because it's not "new and scary" and isnt being constantly trumpeted by the accursed media.
To most people, washing their freaking hands and being careful of what they touch in the first place seems to be this incredible marvel of science that the medical community only just now came up with. To me, it's just Tuesday.
No, seriously, I'm already germ paranoid (despite the fact that I'm super resistant anyway) and CONSTANT sanitization is pretty much my whole thing. I have soap. SO MUCH SOAP. And it wont even occur to me to do something like touch my face after my hands have recently touched.... any other freaking thing. And if someone does touch me, it'll BUG me. Like, store the other day, right. Getting at something on a shelf, I have to reach in, and I realize suddenly that my long hair is dragging on the shelf itself as I reach that deep in.
Whole rest of the store trip, my only thought is "OMG CORRUPTED HAIR NEED WASH, RED ALERT, RED ALERT". If I recall correctly, once I got to the car (probably walking slowly so my own blasted hair doesnt hit my mouth) I'm pretty sure I did something like take a bunch of anti-bacterial wipes and run them down that part of my hair.
Yes, this is all as silly as it sounds. Probably look like a damn fool dealing with it. But it's how I *always* am.
I figure, it's better than being the disgusting little poo goblins that most of the general public is. Well, now maybe some of them will learn to be less pooey, eh?
Other than that, I just keep to myself.
The ONE thing I am genuinely a bit concerned about: We have a trip coming up, down to the island. That means getting in one of those flying Pringles tubes for 2 hours. Again, I'm super hygenic and extremely resistant anyway, BUT, we're going to have The Baby with this time. My nephew, actually, who is less than a year old. And him, and my brother and his wife have all been sick ALOT lately. My brother works at a school, you see (germ farm), and his wife works as a nurse at some hospital (germ FACTORY), and then the little one is at daycare often (germ playground). So they've already been sick at random intervals for awhile now, and now they want to go get on one of those blasted metal birds with this going on? My brother and his wife, they can handle it, I'm sure. But a baby is always at risk.
So yeah, that's the current worry. Though, in all honesty: It'd be a worry even WITHOUT the new virus, because AGAIN, it's freaking flu season and there's all sorts of gross bacteria and, I dunno, monster bugs all over planes, and yeah, baby. Only difference is that I'd be the only one worrying in that situation, everyone else would just be doing the whole poo-goblin thing.
So that's my thoughts on it.
. If one good thing comes out of this at least maybe more people will wash their hands after using the loo, the amount of people I've seen just walk straight out of a public toilet without doing so over the years is horrifying. People are gross.
