Spreading Germs

[Alan W.]

While out and about today I ran into a restaurant to grab some lunch. A lady and her older child sat down two tables from me. The lady started a conversation with an acquaintance at the adjoining table. During the conversation I and half of the restaurant learns that she has just had her son to the Dr and that he has a particularly nasty case of Strep Throat. The boy was obviously sick.
Why would you want to expose people to this? I know some will think its just a sore throat and some antibiotics will take care if it, but I remember spending two weeks in the hospital trying not to lose my kidneys to Strep. Strep can damage the heart and kidneys. Just plain stupid.

 

[Jstpssng]

I was in a local sandwich shop years ago... the clerk had her young daughter behind the counter with her and as I waited for my order heard her tell everybody that came in "She has mono, and she may be contagious."
She got rather POed when I went up and cancelled my order, and told her that her sick kid had no business behind the counter where food was being prepared.

 

[s219]

Strep is nasty, highly contagious, and as you mention can have serious complications. I never had it until our daughter went off to pre-school, and then we were getting it 2-3 times a year. Got so bad I bought strep test kits to keep at home. We were super careful about sanitizing everything around the house, but most people don't know how contagious or recurrent it can be.

 

[ovrszd]

Not quite as serious, but, I change checkout lanes if the clerk has the sniffles.

 

[Industrial Toys]

I have abandoned several of my favourite pizza places. They seem to think it's OK to run such a business and a nursery at the same time in the same place. Never forget while doing security work in a chinese restaurant and a little boy in the kitchen with his hands in a giant bowl of fried rice. Also, why I avoid any more Mennonite (or other) home cooked or prepared stuff.

 

[3Ts]

I was at a Chinese buffet, they had the fried noodles in a bowl on the counter. One noodle had fallen out onto the floor. A little kid, I'm guessing 4 or 5 saw it and picked it up and put it back in the bowl. And no, the parents didn't see that happen.

 

[Jstpssng]

^^^^
Buffets in general are scary. We have no idea who has handled that food before us. A woman told me that she won't eat at one because she used to work at a restaurant
and saw how many times people will sample something, then put it back.

 

[Shaneard]

My mother in law can be sick, we don't want her around our kids. She always says "it's not contagious". I always ask "if it's not contagious, then how did you get it?". Stay home sick people!

 

[Thomas]

I've seen this number of times over the years college I work good share of students only thinks of themselves no one else when ill.

 

[CADplans]

We live next door to our daughter and her four children under the age of 9,,,

My daughter gets upset when we refer to her children as the four petri dishes,,,
If my wife and I are away from those kids for a month for some reason,, sure enough, whatever illness they have when we see them again,, we will get it,,

If we see the kids EVERY week as a minimum,, the wife and I do not get sick,,
it only happens after an extended period of being away from them.
This has been repeating for close to a half a decade now,,

ANOTHER reason for us to visit the children often,,,:thumbsup: