Plague Mummies

[snoozequeen1]

Very loathe to blame mothers for this as well as everything else, but, I just wonder if anyone can remember exactly when it became The Norm to sally out without a hankie and spray snot and germs over everyone within snot-projectile distance?

And to teach your kiddies that this is what we do.

Okay, this is specificaly for the Dulwich mummy lady who was in Maceys chemist last Thurs with the sweet little blonde moppet who was so poorly he was howling - you know, the one with the terrible cough. The one who was spreading that cough to everyone else in the chemists. The expensively-dressed one with an expensively-dressed mother, who, however, was apparently too strapped to buy a packet of paper hankies.

How comes it, that people are obsessed beyond reason with the make of their kitchen, their pots and pans, shoes and their holiday destinations, yet they are quite willing to spray plaguey germy snot over everyone around them? Does it not occur that this detracts a little from the glow?

Can they not form the faintest idea that some of the people they snot-spray might be recovering or trying to recover from cancer, or leukemia, and could be sent back into hospital? Or an average healthy person could miss a week off work or getting a freelance contact that could affect their whole year?

Community snot wardens I will approve of.

[Jah Lush]

A double-barrelled snotgun perhaps?

[snoozequeen1]

Har! har! and I do need a larf.

Cough, splutter, fume, seethe.

[Moos]

Snot unusual to be loved by anyone... badabadabadaaa....

Poor snoozequeen, sorry to hear you're not well especially if it means you have missed out on work, that sucks.

Is it really the norm that kids are let loose on ED streaming with plague and without tissues? If this is the case, I will be withdrawing into Castle Moos immediately and pulling up the drawbridge behind me.

[snoozequeen1]

Thank you for your kind thoughts.

Snot that serious.

(Although have official bronchitis and what hurts most, not just missed work, missed the money too. Ouch).

[Jah Lush]

Was it the same kid who last week blew his nose into his hand and then wiped his snot on David Cameron's jacket?

[snoozequeen1]

I suppose political comment is exempt.

Worked recently with people planning for service provision in pandemic. Govt estimates min 30%, max 60% population "taken out" (lovely phrase) but I never asked if that was based on a handkerchief-using sample or not. If not, house prices would certainly be coming down, to about 13th century levels I would guess. Would be quite peaceful down Lordship Lane.

[macroban]

Don't worry, it's all in hand.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

That's reassuring to know my orifices can still be plugged in the normal way.

[snoozequeen1]

macroban Wrote:

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> Don't worry, it's all in hand.

Oh that's so reassuring, thanks.

Suppose a generation of adults that is so daft it can't carry or use hankies is bound to be culled by something. It's a wonder we got this far.

[macroban]

I suppose the East Dulwich mass graves could be at Hornimans and make a local myth come true.

[Guest]

Could we also use it for anyone who spits in public? I don't understand why smoking isn't allowed in pubs, full fat milk is regarded as injurious to adult health (by the standards of any other food it's actually low fat), fat people are the objective of universal criticism - and yet spitting passes entirely without comment. I wouldn't even mind if they spat discreetly into the gutter but they sort of regurgitate massive floppy oysters almost directly on their own shoes. Even children do it. Why???

[macroban]

I certainly remember when the public bar in The Ivanhoe had spitoons.

[Jah Lush]

Better out than in.

[Guest]

Urgh, makes me want to clamp both hands around their mouth and stroke their gullet till they swallow it back down, like when the dog has to take tablets. Probably get done for assault though.