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All this stuff is such hooey, really, unless you'r...

2009-07-05T18:28:16.653-07:00

All this stuff is such hooey, really, unless you're about to perform surgery, in which case utter perfect antisepsis is paramount (especially if you're cuttin' on ME!:):)---I am terribly casual about stuff like this, to the point of careless, and have had precisely TWO headcolds in the past three years---one very recently, the last before that in March 2007 (I remember because I had to stay home from LE's fancy firm meeting down in New Orleans, and was mightily displeased.) I have a personal and highly unscientific theory that by not being over-fussy about hand-scrubbing and mask-wearing and such, we actually build up immunities. Bottom line, if you're gonna catch a bug, you're gonna catch it, and all the obsessive-compulsive measures in the world won't keep you safe.

Reminds me of the stories you hear about visitors ...

2009-07-05T12:40:00.878-07:00

Reminds me of the stories you hear about visitors to casualty to have vacuum cleaners removed from certain parts of their anatomy. "I was vacuuming in my robe, when..."

This gives me a chuckle. Our company (through our...

2009-07-03T14:55:55.913-07:00

This gives me a chuckle. Our company (through our Medical Compliance Officer) decreed we had to use a certain type of soap dispensed from a particular type of container to combat a rash of staph infections last year.

The soap had to be recalled because of several cases of severe testicular burns! Hehe! What makes it so funny are the forms we have to fill out for ANY saftey incident. Full descriptions, witness statements from everyone aboard, "root" cause analysis, lessons learned. (Now we have to fill out a form if someone takes an aspirin or pepto-bismol)

We still use the dispensers and the liquid soap, but a different one. You still have to touch the dispenser to get the soap, so I'm not sure how it helps all that much, but it does make everyone feel better.

Isn't that interesting - water is the best antivir...

2009-07-03T13:17:04.586-07:00

Isn't that interesting - water is the best antiviral.

I wonder how that works, whether it rinses the viruses off or whether water has some antiviral properties?