Taking Personal Responsibility for Public Health

All right quiz time. It's 6:30 in the morning and you’re getting the kids ready for school and little Johnny or little Jane doesn’t feel good. What do you do? Take a day off work, that you really don’t need to take? OR… Give a  dose of Tylenol to your feverish child and load them up for school only to be called later when the medicine wears off.  What do you do? Well folks, school has started and parents that send their child to school with a fever need to think twice.  The H1N1 or “Swine flu” threat is real. All the Purell and Kleenex in Region 8 are no match for a feverish, germ-spewing third grader.  As parents, we are not only responsible for the health of our own children. It is also our responsibility to respect the health of others. So, if your child has a fever, keep them home. School administrators and teachers are also at risk when you send a sick child to school so it truly should be a "no-brainer" if they have a fever, keep them home. And employers watching this… Well,  please be flexible. There is a good chance that we will have more sick kids this fall than ever before. That means more employees out caring for sick kids. Please understand. Work with them. We need to do everything possible to keep our schools a little healthier. It will make this a Better Region 8. 

 

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[STOP THE VAX]

Vaccines are POISON. The only one[s] who benefit from vaccines are PHARMACEUTICALS. Lots of Vitamin D will protect you from the flu and many other diseases. DON'T be fooled by paid off media hype. STOP the sickening assault on humanity.