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Just wondering how everyone is faring in the sickness category. This week I have had 3 out, 1 all week, 2 today. The flu is widespread here. Over 100 out in the high school, out of approx 750. Not saying it is the HINI virus, as no one is testing anymore here. If you have some of the symptoms, they are saying you have it......from what I understand not much difference in HINI than the season flu, other than may get vomiting/diahhreah with it, or the fever last longer.
I have been dilligent in cleaning daily, bathrooms, toys, doorhandles, spraying lysol, washing things up, etc, and am not sure what else to do. I have always done these things, but now do it double or triple each day. I have put some toys on time out for a few weeks, things they tend to put in mouth or are harder to clean.
So far, no one has had a fever when here, thankfully, but from what I was told yesterday, you can still be contagious up to several days after your fever is gone. I know our schools are really bad.
There was a picture in our paper a few days ago, of a janitor's hands spraying disinfectant and cleaning a drinking fountain at a local elementary school. The headline was something like "Taking extra precautions at the school",.....I thought what the hell, you should be cleaning the drinking fountains throughout the day, EVERY DAY! Not make it be a big thing when a sickness outbreak occurs. My sister works at the same elementary school, she said the custodians were actually wiping down the bannister railings, can you imagine how many hundreds of kids hands slide down that bannister handle daily. YUCK, especially after they sneezed in their hands or wiped their nose on their hands...yuck yuck yuck.
I have been dilligent in cleaning daily, bathrooms, toys, doorhandles, spraying lysol, washing things up, etc, and am not sure what else to do. I have always done these things, but now do it double or triple each day. I have put some toys on time out for a few weeks, things they tend to put in mouth or are harder to clean.
So far, no one has had a fever when here, thankfully, but from what I was told yesterday, you can still be contagious up to several days after your fever is gone. I know our schools are really bad.
There was a picture in our paper a few days ago, of a janitor's hands spraying disinfectant and cleaning a drinking fountain at a local elementary school. The headline was something like "Taking extra precautions at the school",.....I thought what the hell, you should be cleaning the drinking fountains throughout the day, EVERY DAY! Not make it be a big thing when a sickness outbreak occurs. My sister works at the same elementary school, she said the custodians were actually wiping down the bannister railings, can you imagine how many hundreds of kids hands slide down that bannister handle daily. YUCK, especially after they sneezed in their hands or wiped their nose on their hands...yuck yuck yuck.
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