10/11/09
While driving my daughter and one of her friends back from a soccer game this morning, I heard one of those now ubiquitous public service announcements regarding H1N1. (Remember when we used to call H1N1 swine flu? One can only conclude that political correctness, and raising regard for the feelings of others beyond all other considerations, now extends to livestock. But I digress.) The message alerted the citizenry to do three things to avoid H1N1:
--cough into one’s elbow or a kleenex
--stay home from work if one feels ill, and
--wash one’s hands frequently with soap and water.
No one means to minimize the danger of the H1N1 outbreak, or, at this stage, epidemic. The number of people infected with this very dangerous disease has reached record levels and is almost certain to increase, causing untold human misery and horrible strain on our medical system. H1N1 has hit uncomfortably close to home with last Thursday’s tragic death of my daughter’s Naperville North classmate, Michelle Fahle. All of us are affected, some more than others, by H1N1, and we would all help ourselves and our neighbors by taking common sense precautions.
As cognizant and respectful as I am of the very real dangers of H1N1, as one with libertarian leanings and what some would describe as an obsessive concern with personal hygiene, I have to ask…
What has come of our society when the government has to tell us to wash our hands?
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