The "Charlie Card" and Disease?

I'm not in Boston, but my strategy is to wallow in as much bacteria as possible so that my immune system has something to do. Have you ever seen a bored immune system? I tell you, it's something to avoid.

What's so attractive about pus?

Miller wrote:

What's so attractive about pus?

it comes in pretty shades of yellow and green




almost pastel in the right light...

I have to agree with you miller. It only takes one Typhoid Mary.
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Don't forget to rub up against smelly strangers!

Shewolfnm is right - bacteria can be quite beautiful with lots of different colors like this thermophile I recently saw at Yellowstone.

I'm not in Boston, but my strategy is to wallow in as much bacteria as possible so that my immune system has something to do. Have you ever seen a bored immune system? I tell you, it's something to avoid.

Chai Tea wrote:

I have to agree with you miller. It only takes one Typhoid Mary.
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The good thing about the really scary diseases is that they dont survive that long outside the body.

Truthfully, someone with TB could touch that screen.


Actually.. let me get a bit nastier..


I have TB.
I am next in line.

I sneeze on my hand, and leave a good amount of spit on my index finger.

I move up in the line, do my business and dont wipe my finger.

I actually LEAVE spit on the touch screen.

Next person comes up, and touches the screen.

does their business and leaves..


2, 3 , 4 , -20 people later.. they are all touching the screen right in the exact same place I did with bare fingers.


You know the odds of someone catching TB that way?

1-1000

And that 1 has to have -

1) an open sore on their finger

2) If no open sore, has to immediately touch their mouth , eye, nose or some other open warm wet part of their body with the same finger in a matter of seconds after contact.

Most communicable , and I say MOST for a reason..
most of them do not survive outside the body for very long.
They require a 90degree, warm wet environment to survive.

ANd I guarantee you that touch screen isn't 90 degrees..

In the scenario I laid out, the person standing right behind me would have had to been a type of person to STILL touch the screen with visible spit on it, NOT wipe their hands the minute they felt spit if they truthfully didn't see it, and with in less then a minute after using the screen, had to commence booger picking themselves.. or sucking on their finger.




ok ok

i will quit rambling.

Yes a touch pad is a bit dangerous

Pull out the gloves?

nah