The Birmingham News reports this afternoon that Mayor Larry Langford has ordered city hall closed tomorrow, with a thorough disinfection of the building to be done, because a worker had the flu.
Mr. Mayor, and anyone else contemplating similar action. Please read the word from the CDC:
"CDC does not believe any additional disinfection of environmental surfaces beyond the recommended routine cleaning is required."
and, also from the CDC:
Contamination & Cleaning
Q. How long can influenza virus remain viable on objects (such as books and doorknobs)?A. Studies have shown that influenza virus can survive on environmental surfaces and can infect a person for 2 to 8 hours after being deposited on the surface.
Eight Hours!!!! So, simply sending folks home overnight is enough! The virus will not live long enough to be there between the end of one work day and the start of the next! Send the sick people home...that's the key here.
Save the sanitation money for some other cause, unless there's a cleaning company just desperately in need of the contract or something...or you just want to make a public show of doing something.
So, the employees will get a nice, long weekend, presumably with pay.
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Bummin' ham is living despite all attempts - good, bad or indifferent - to kill it.
Kinda' like the veritable cockroach.
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