When it comes to illness I'm downright selfish, this cold/flu/thing that's going around the Salt Lake valley right now is mine, I hold the exclusive rights and no one else shall have it. I stay in bed and take my medicine and come out the other end refreshed, recharged and back to my old self. Other members of the public are more generous, they haul themselves around, sneezing, wheezing, coughing, and infecting the rest of us. I'm pretty lucky, I don't tend to catch much and I have a battery of defences including vitamin D, and home made ginger tea.but what I don't have is the authority to send a complete stranger home.
Picture the scene a quiet Sunday morning, in a coffee house. Half the booths are full and then this guy comes in and from the moment he sits down he starts to sneeze and not dust up my nose sneezes either. These are full-on my lungs are going to come out of my nose shortly sneezes. I've seen Mythbusters - I know how far and how fast a sneeze and its associated lurgy can travel. Apparently so did the rest of the room, the people sitting next to him moved as far up the room as possible. It's one thing when you don't know you're carrying anything - like the woman who arrived in New Mexico last week and was promptly diagnosed with measels. But when you can hardly stand the only place you should be heading is to the doctors - wearing a face mask.
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