(Thanks to our 11-year-old guest blogger, Paloma, for this timely reminder and her exciting design choices!)
When you sneeze or cough and then you touch something, you’re spreading germs all around.
For example, sneezing then climbing into the school bus, touching the hand rail and the backs and bottoms of the seats. Everywhere your hand touches, it leaves germs behind.
When a kid sneezes or coughs and doesn’t use a tissue or wash their hands after, they spread a lot of germs around. That’s how a lot of colds and flu and other diseases jump from kid to kid.
To prevent from getting sick or spreading your sickness around, you can wash your hands, and if you don’t have soap around, you can always carry hand sanitizer in whatever you have, like a satchel or a purse.
Kids should bring hand sanitizer to school because school is probably one of the most likely places where you can get sick because little kids are sneezing and touching things after and probably not using a tissue, but I’m sure they do sometimes.
You don’t always know where the germs are because they are little tiny germs and you can get them by just touching one thing that has someone’s germs on it.
Make sure to always wash your hands when you cough or sneeze, and if you don’t have any soap then sanitize. If you don’t have sanitizer make sure you go pick some up.
Germs hate soap and sanitizer.
NO MORE GERMS NO MORE GERMS NO MORE GERMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Always remember to cover your cough with a tissue and when you sneeze cover it up with a tissue. And when you sneeze into a tissue or cough into one you still have to wash your hands or use hand sanitizer. Soap would be better to use if you had some around. Always wash your hands before dinner or before you empty the dishwasher etc.
BE READY TO FIGHT THOSE GERMS!!!
Photo credits: Creative Commons, Mountainside Medical, Discovery School
