The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Syndaryl:

#12 Earl, #14 albatross:

I have to say, my primary associations with the term "information hygiene" are all negative (re: willfully ignoring anything that conflicts with your worldview)...

But to be strictly honest, that's basically what I do, very aggressively. We don't have cable, satellite, or even an antenna for our TV. No newspaper or magazine subscriptions (although I do flip through Readers Digest when trapped in a waiting room from time to time). Heavily filtered internet browsing for self-defense has the side effect of blocking most advertising, and internet browsing in general tends to lead you from like-minded site to like-minded site, leaving you cocooned in a protective bubble of similar people.

Often you bump into the same people at many of the places you go on the 'net - it's at times downright incestuous.

I do read the BBC newsfeed, though. Does that count?

#111 - Eeee! Weeks! I guess that's why you're supposed to kill it all daily. Good to know.

#109 Eirin: Not An Expert here, but somewhere bouncing around in my head is the idea that it's ~24 hrs on surfaces. I could be horribly wrong, I could be remembering something about the common cold, or I could be remembering salmonella. *waves hands*.

The general advice from the CDC is to not share towels or bedding at all, and to wipe down hard surfaces near the sick-bed daily with bleach-water or another disinfectant. That suggests at least 24 hr survival on hard surfaces - it might be longer on soft bedding.

Stefan - dogs can catch influenza from horses and get very sick with it. I don't think they can catch Type A influenza, but they could transmit it on their fur just as easily as a human can with their hands.

More so, because a coughed-over dog is more likely to get a stranger hugging it and rubbing their face in their fur than you are going to get a stranger hugging your hand and rubbing their face on it.

Hi everyone, I'm posting from Canada, a few hours drive from Toronto, one of the SARS "hotspots".

I'm mostly posting to report on the general mood around here, which is a combination of alarm and "Well heck, we know what to do with flu here!" That last one is probably bravado.

I'm also kicking myself, because just last week I was congratulating myself on escaping yet another flu season unscathed... As an asthmatic and a gal with chronic sinusitis, the prospect of the flu right in the middle of my allergy season fills me with horror.

I don't really care if it turns out to be "just" flu, rather than OMGWTFBBQFLU. I Don' Wannit either way.

Fortunately, this isn't flesh-eating demon flu that can drill through walls or follows me down dark hallways to mug me, so if I've survived this winter by keeping my hands clean and not touching anyones runny-nosed kids, I should make it through the new outbreak too. *crosses fingers*

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