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[D.D.]

Slow down the speed of their lives and let them play and laugh and be merry. Keep working them like dogs and stress them out and the disease will spread because of the lowered immunity. So lets make them have normal school days like we did in our countries. I took school very lightly and played sports and still got into a good university. I was the opposite of Korean kids as I chilled in school and worked hard in university.

We should use the swine flu as an excuse to give the little buggers a break.

On another note I was asked if I had swine flu about 100 times by students today.

[zipper]

If there are any cases of swine flu in my school, then the school will shut down and become quarantined , and I will take a couple weeks off...

[yoja]

What age? If you're talking about middle & high school students, then yeah, don't get too stressed out.

But if you're referring to elementary school students, then I think the big secret is just to wash your hands with soap and hot water about 12 times per day...try not to touch (or disinfect frequently) commonly-used surfaces such as keyboards, telephones, and doorknobs...use tissues to deal with anything that oozes out of your body, and throw them in the garbage or better yet, flush them...and keep your hands away from your face as much as possible.

Swine flu spreads like regular flu. Young kids and those with weak immune systems are most susceptible.

I've been here for three years and the overall lack of basic hygiene still shocks and disgusts me.

[Skippy]

Yea I like that idea lets give the Korean Kids the same as Canadian and American Kids. They can be just a ignorant and bad at math and geography too.

Also I like my job. Thru it may be at a Hagwon, but if we did what you recommend most wayguk teachers would have to leave. I know it sounds bad but I do not want the kid to get a life. I want to keep my job. But lets fire and get rid of all the teachers to give little Kim or Ee some computer game time. Hey that sounds like a good Idea - lets run it past the "Anti-Spectrum" group.

You want to protect the kids. Simple tell parents that if there kid is a little sick keep him at HOME! He/She is not allowed back till he is all better, same with hagwon. Two - hire some people to clean schools and clean them properly - I mean with actual elbow grease, soap and HOT water. Three - teach people to wash hands and give them the instruments to do it! Four - educated people - tell them how to clean, what to do when sick, what will make you sick, what might increase you risk of getting sick.

True being stressed out and tired does make you more susceptible to getting sick. But we have to believe that kids and people will not get the flu if they just got some freetime and are not stressed out. Ya maybe a small reduction but in the end a vaccine would be better and more effective. Next you will be saying eat some Kimchi as that would help too.

[D.D.]

Just so you know you speak as if it's a fact that a vaccine works. This is not proven by independent studies. I just like how the medical profession gets us to believe concepts are actual facts. The funny thing is people will defend these ideas as if they are facts. I am not saying either way if they work or not. Just be aware how we believe things that are not really known.

I like the I don't know answer. Do vaccines work? Hmmmm I don't know. If people actually held that frame of mind we would learn more and would not be sheeple. Otherwise we just accept twisted and distorted facts as truth and pass them on as if they are the only truth.

[Chambertin]

Step one turn off the TV for good.

Step two stop making useless fear based posts.

Here's my responce to all BS flu threads.
http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?p=2149215#2149215

[yoja]