Sign in to wowOwow

Enter the email address that you used when registering at wowOwow.
The password field is case sensitive. Click here if you have forgotten your password.

Please register for wowOwow

Newsletter subscriptions
Sign up to receive wowOwow's weekly newsletter and get our best picks delivered right to your inbox. Our newsletter content is hand-picked by the wowOwow editorial team and provides the top features, news, and commentary from our site. Subscribing to our newsletter is free and safe. We will never share your email or other information with a third-party without your direct consent.
By registering, you indicate that you have read and agree
with our privacy policy and terms of service.
Home › Politics

Poll | 04/27/2009 12:00 am

How worried are you about swine flu?

Read more about: Government, Health, Swine Flu

122 Reader Comments (so far…) Sign In or Register to comment

Connie Godin

Abuse of power, it’s everywhere.

By Connie Godin on 04/28/2009 6:15 am
Suzanne de Cornelia

CA Rose….glad you had a nice trip.

"YOU appear EXTREMELY stressed…just CALMDOWN…NOTHING you say is going to stop me from doing MY job.’ I don’t know about the rest of you, but that is about the most irritating thing they could say to me while manhandling my medication with the same gloves they had on touching everyone else’s luggage."

I used to fly 150K miles a year and the above is one reason I avoid it at all costs. Yes the outsourced rent a cops are given scripts they repeat like robots. It’s irritating beyond words, the manhandling of personal things. Ugh. Bush Inc’s FAILS in their jobs TOTALLY and look how much it has diminished ALL ASPECTS of life. We used to be able to breeze onto an airplane at the last moment with a hello. Now we’re in an armed camp. I have somewhere to go that’s a 90 minute flight, or a two day drive, which am going to do instead. Pre-Bush would have just hopped on the plane no second thought.

By Suzanne de Cornelia on 04/28/2009 2:23 pm
Jennifer Dooley
Just popped on to say Hello. Been going back and forth to Cali. with my Mothers current situation. Life is very busy, but  got on for the first time today that was not work purposed. Self Responsibility and common sense, always seems like a good idea to me!  Do have to ask, Does it seem plausiable that this maany varrients and strains from so many widespred global origins, does it seem plausiable that it occurence is Natural, or more probable that Baxter Oppsed! again?
By Jennifer Dooley on 04/28/2009 12:29 pm
Lizzie R.
They had a Swine Flu scare back in the 70s when I was working at Fairfax Hospital in VA. Nothing radical ever came of it, but they sure are trying to put the scare factor into us. You must just exercise caution like you should always do.
By Lizzie R. on 04/27/2009 3:00 am
Nancy Pea
i remember that scare also. just like the legionaires virus it vanished as quickly as it came!
By Nancy Pea on 04/28/2009 1:45 am
Bonnie Oliver
I have been told that if everyone simply washed their hands thoroughly often during the day, the reduction of flu and cold cases would drop dramatically.  I wonder if that is true?
By Bonnie Oliver on 04/27/2009 3:27 am
Kelly In Texas
One easy way to know if you have washed your hands long enough is to sing the Happy Birthday song through twice. It also makes it more fun for children to comply.
By Kelly In Texas on 04/27/2009 12:15 pm
deber B
So true, Bonnie.   Washing your hands often is a sure way to ward off those nasty little critters.   Small children especially!
By deber B on 04/27/2009 5:38 am
Sam Mirando

All great comments, WOWsers!  I carry a bottle of handwash (Purel) in my bag and use it often when I am out and about.  When I come home, the first thing I do is wash my hands.  Call me Lady Macbeth if you like :) 

Don’t touch public doorhandles (use your sleeve or your scarf to cover your hand, for example) and keep your fingers away from eyes, nose and mouth too.

By Sam Mirando on 04/27/2009 7:19 am
Green Tears
One other thought from my husband: use your own pen at all times and never share it! That keeps even more germs from passing around.
By Green Tears on 04/27/2009 1:47 pm
deber B
How are you, Green Tears?    What a great idea about the pen.   Those nasty escalaters and doorknobs are everywhere.
By deber B on 04/27/2009 2:44 pm
Green Tears
Hey, deber, all is well here! No flu, just got back from the Carolinas trip with my daughter - a big thumbs up to CofC and Clemson, no thank you to schools in NC! We came through all the public ‘exposure’ of vacation in good health. One funny moment occurred when we were offered ‘smoking section’ in a restaurant - my daughter had no idea that such a thing could even be a possibility and the look on her face was priceless.
By Green Tears on 04/27/2009 7:23 pm
Sam Mirando

Yes!!  I have often thought of the germs on pens in the supermarket and at the P.O. but my little brain never solved the problem in the elegant manner proposed by your husband :)

From now on, I’ll use my very own pen.  Bravo, Mr. Tears.

By Sam Mirando on 04/27/2009 4:02 pm
Green Tears
Sam, I will pass on your accolades to ’Mr. Tears’ (love that!). I’m not married to Matt Lauer, but he and my husband were definitely cut from the same antibacterial fabric!
By Green Tears on 04/27/2009 7:26 pm
Sam Mirando
Maybe, I shouldn’t have assumed that you took your husband’s last name when you married him ;)
By Sam Mirando on 04/27/2009 7:34 pm
« first‹ previous12345678next ›last »