How Viruses attack You

xoxoxoBruce · 11-07-2009, 01:57 AM

How Viruses attack Your body.

TheMercenary · 11-07-2009, 10:13 AM

Wonderful teaching tool. Thanks. I will be using that.

SamIam · 11-07-2009, 11:00 AM

Nice explanation, Bruce. Thank you. (and I didn't sneeze on my keyboard whilst typing this.

Shawnee123 · 11-07-2009, 02:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SamIam

Nice explanation, Bruce. Thank you. (and I didn't sneeze on my keyboard whilst typing this.

I did. Sneezing so much my muscles ache. Damn cold.

I'm with wolf: more coffee!

wolf · 11-07-2009, 11:36 AM

I just got a sheet of tips for avoiding influenza that the nuthouse is handing out.

Sandwiched in between sleep well and eat healthy meals is the wonderful recommendation to "drink as much of warm liquids (coffe, etc) as you can. This can prevent proliferation by washing of viruses from the throat into the stomach where they cannot survive."

Whoo hoo!! I'm ordered to drink coffee!!

Shawnee123 · 11-07-2009, 03:19 PM

On our tip sheet: recommended to use handicap door opening buttons to avoid touching door handles. I do this on my way to the cafeteria, though I used to swear it was the height of laziness to not open your own door if you can.

However, on a tip sheet for saving energy, a high-profile initiative: do not use handicap door opening buttons if you are capable of opening the door yourself.

Well crap. I caught a cold anyway. But I really don't like washing my hands to go to lunch then opening doors on the way to the cafe and back. It's another trek to another floor to re-wash my hands after depositing my lunch at my desk. I use the hand sanitizer but it's just not the same.

wolf · 11-07-2009, 03:36 PM

Take an extra paper towel from the bathroom and use it to do all the door opening.

Someday humanity will be devastated by a virus that feeds exclusively on alcohol based hand-sanitizer gel.

(I stole that from the headline crawlers on The Onion's Sony's New Expensive Piece of Crap that Doesn't Work news report)

Clodfobble · 11-07-2009, 04:53 PM

Shawnee, the trick is to kick the handicap access buttons rather than touching them with your hands. Also works when your arms are full of screaming toddler, incidentally.

Shawnee123 · 11-07-2009, 05:50 PM

I use my hip, or the very bottom of my 20 oz Diet Coke on the way back.

TheMercenary · 11-09-2009, 12:47 PM

Same for buttons on elevators. I never touch them with my fingrz.

monster · 11-09-2009, 02:27 PM

I get my kids to do that ...their hands are nasty anyway

Spexxvet · 11-09-2009, 03:36 PM

Just get one of these

Or these

Shawnee123 · 11-09-2009, 03:38 PM

The one with the beak would be better for pokin' elevator buttons.

monster · 11-09-2009, 04:04 PM

surely the top one would only be for the bird flu?

11-07-2009, 01:57 AM	#1
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 32,457	How Viruses attack You How Viruses attack Your body. __________________ Excuse me Miss, does this handkerchief smell like chloroform?

11-07-2009, 10:13 AM	#2
TheMercenary We must have you for dinner. Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 14,150	Wonderful teaching tool. Thanks. I will be using that. __________________ "He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." -Friedrich Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil Aphorism 146 "So you heard what you expected to hear, and assumed my intent." -LJ

11-07-2009, 11:00 AM	#3
SamIam Say! I like green eggs and ham! Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: One step away from the Land of Enchantment Posts: 444	Nice explanation, Bruce. Thank you. (and I didn't sneeze on my keyboard whilst typing this. __________________ "Our life is what our thoughts make it." - Marcus Aurelius

11-07-2009, 11:36 AM	#5
wolf chews 3 times on each side Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 17,203	I just got a sheet of tips for avoiding influenza that the nuthouse is handing out. Sandwiched in between sleep well and eat healthy meals is the wonderful recommendation to "drink as much of warm liquids (coffe, etc) as you can. This can prevent proliferation by washing of viruses from the throat into the stomach where they cannot survive." Whoo hoo!! I'm ordered to drink coffee!! __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

11-07-2009, 03:19 PM	#6
Shawnee123 aaaaachoooo Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: OH Posts: 15,923	On our tip sheet: recommended to use handicap door opening buttons to avoid touching door handles. I do this on my way to the cafeteria, though I used to swear it was the height of laziness to not open your own door if you can. However, on a tip sheet for saving energy, a high-profile initiative: do not use handicap door opening buttons if you are capable of opening the door yourself. Well crap. I caught a cold anyway. But I really don't like washing my hands to go to lunch then opening doors on the way to the cafe and back. It's another trek to another floor to re-wash my hands after depositing my lunch at my desk. I use the hand sanitizer but it's just not the same. __________________ The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. Walt Whitman US poet (1819 - 1892)

11-07-2009, 03:36 PM	#7
wolf chews 3 times on each side Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 17,203	Take an extra paper towel from the bathroom and use it to do all the door opening. Someday humanity will be devastated by a virus that feeds exclusively on alcohol based hand-sanitizer gel. (I stole that from the headline crawlers on The Onion's Sony's New Expensive Piece of Crap that Doesn't Work news report) __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

11-07-2009, 04:53 PM	#8
Clodfobble Gives sound advice Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 8,770	Shawnee, the trick is to kick the handicap access buttons rather than touching them with your hands. Also works when your arms are full of screaming toddler, incidentally. __________________ My new cooking blog

11-07-2009, 05:50 PM	#9
Shawnee123 aaaaachoooo Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: OH Posts: 15,923	I use my hip, or the very bottom of my 20 oz Diet Coke on the way back. __________________ The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. Walt Whitman US poet (1819 - 1892)

11-09-2009, 12:47 PM	#10
TheMercenary We must have you for dinner. Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 14,150	Same for buttons on elevators. I never touch them with my fingrz. __________________ "He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." -Friedrich Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil Aphorism 146 "So you heard what you expected to hear, and assumed my intent." -LJ

11-09-2009, 02:27 PM	#11
monster eyeball-driller Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Brit in Ann Arbor MI Posts: 10,493	I get my kids to do that ...their hands are nasty anyway __________________ chaos is my co-pilot

11-09-2009, 03:36 PM	#12
Spexxvet Pariah Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 4,716	Just get one of these Or these __________________ "I'm certainly free, nay compelled, to spread the gospel of Spex. " - xoxoxoBruce

11-09-2009, 03:38 PM	#13
Shawnee123 aaaaachoooo Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: OH Posts: 15,923	The one with the beak would be better for pokin' elevator buttons. __________________ The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. Walt Whitman US poet (1819 - 1892)

11-09-2009, 04:04 PM	#14
monster eyeball-driller Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Brit in Ann Arbor MI Posts: 10,493	surely the top one would only be for the bird flu? __________________ chaos is my co-pilot

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