On a day when state health officials cautiously declared the swine flu an epidemic in South Carolina, county schools superintendent Bennie Bennett was trying to convince a Bishopville baseball team it was safe to play in Newberry.
But after nonstop media coverage following a group of private school students’ trip to Cancun, Mexico, two weeks ago, fears of the disease had grown so much that janitors wearing surgical masks spent the afternoon wiping down third-grade classrooms in Newberry with nonacidic disinfectant bathroom cleaner ”” even though no students there were infected.
Newberry County’s 6,000 public school students are at home today. A cancer research fundraiser that had amassed $120,000 in early pledges is canceled.
I think this is about the most overblown thing I have seen in a long time. The media are carrying on like it’s Black Death, and its just ridiculous. We shouldn’t blow it off, but the fact remains that variants of the flu crop up all the time.
I agree, there were 1,300 deaths in the US from the flu this past season, and that did not make the news. Currently we have one death, a toddler, which fits the usual pattern of flu related deaths. Since the flu virus does not live long outside the host body, spending all of this time and money to wipe down the school is a big waste. However, I’m sure their legal staff probably told them to do that to help with any potential lawsuits.
One good thing about the “scare” is perhaps a renewed awareness that folks who are sick (with colds, flus, digestive bugs, etc.) owe it to their communities to stay home until they get well and the reminder to wash our hands frequently. The closing of all these schools and events is ludicrous. How many people today have a stomach virus and are out usining public bathrooms and spreading the those bugs? We are heading to New York later in May. I will not stay away from the theatre or off the subway because some school kids who went to Mexico got sick and had mild illnesses. Not many people who go to Mexico avoid some sort of food borne illness and we don’t close down schools. I will wash my hands frequently — but then I do anyway.
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