Wednesday, May 13, 2009

A maneira correta de espirrar no Canada'...

Amig@s,

O assunto hoje é nojento, mas necessário: A maneira correta de espirar de acordo com o código de conduta e higiene dos canadenses.

Apesar de já ter testemunhado cenas escabrosas de canadenses (principalmente québecois) assoando o nariz em público, dentro de ônibus, no escritório, nos cafés... hoje me deparo com uma matéria educativa no Jornal 24 Hours de Ottawa e também com um vídeo educativo na Internet que explica como você deve proceder para evitar a disseminação do vírus da gripe, principalmente o da gripe suína – que atinge não somente quem é “porco”, mas também quem anda “limpinho”.

Por isso, se você não quiser chamar a atenção dos outros, espirre com classe sobre a manga de sua camisa (é o que se recomenda) para evitar de passar o vírus para a suas mãos e daí por diante... ou então ande com um arsenal de guardanapos Kleenex e mais aquele gel desinfetante para as mãos...

Agora, se você está rodeado de gente chata e quer ter um minuto de paz e privacidade em seu cantinho, eu recomendo você a dar um espirro bem alto e forte para a sua frente, pegar um lenço de pano, assoar o nariz escandalosamente e começar a dizer a seguinte frase: “Oye, por la Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, ¿qué pasa? ¡¡¡Siento que estoy con gripe!!!

... Pronto, tenho a certeza de que ninguém vai ficar por perto ou ao seu redor!

Um abraço,

Jean Roberth Souza


Assita o video educativohttp://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-sneeze-without-spreading-disease

Matéria do Jornal 24 Horas de 12 de maio de 2009

If you do the shirt sneeze, do it right 

ADRIENNE ASCAH URBAN LIFE
24 Hours Ottawa
12 May 2009

The British are doing it better.

While I prefer the original English version of The Office to the NBC version, I’m not really an anglophile. But when Mother England’s right, she’s right.

Amidst worries of spreading swine flu, now called H1N1, Ottawa Public Health is encouraging residents to wash their hands properly and frequently, stay home when you’re sick and cough and sneeze into your sleeve instead of your hands.

Sick people staying home and clean hands are crucial for quelling the spread of illness. But this sneezing and hacking into your sleeve business is another story.

In 2006, Maine ear, nose and throat specialist Dr. Ben Lounsbury created the educational video “Why Don’t We Do It In Our Sleeves.”

The five-minute video used humour to demonstrate the cough and sneeze guidelines accepted by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. It’s bad to cough and sneeze into your hands and then touch other people, phones, doorknobs, elevator buttons and other shared surfaces.

 By concentrating your expelled germs into your shirt sleeves, viruses are less likely to spread.

The problem is technique. I’ve seen people cough into the general direction of their shoulders, elbows or biceps. Most of the germs are expelled into the air.

You’ve got to make full mouth-on-shirt contact. Women wearing makeup, especially lipstick and foundation, are hesitant to do this, particularly while wearing a white garment.

One woman at my gym coughed into the general direction of her bare arm. If she’d coughed into her hands, she could have left her cardio machine and immediately used the hand sanitizer provided on the wall.

That’s why I prefer the British approach. AUK public health campaign urges people to “Catch it, bin it, kill it.” Sneeze into a clean Kleenex, throw it into the garbage and wash your hands.

Lacking Kleenex, unless you’ve mastered the full mouth-on-shirt technique, I still think it’s better to trap the germs in your hands and wash them.

 

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