According to a post in the Wall Street Journal’s Health Blog, a study from the University of Arizona’s Department of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences shows that the job exposing people to the most germs is … a school teacher. Surfaces regularly used by teachers had 10 times more bacteria per square inch when compared with other professions.
So kudos to all you school teachers for not only raising our next generation of good citizens, but also for being able to put up with 30+ out of control kids at the same time and for having some damn fine immune systems to boot.
Want to cut the number of germs at work? Use disinfectants. People who said they used disinfectants dropped the bacteria counts in their work areas by more than 75%.
By the way, know what the “least germiest” profession is?
Lawyers.
Really. Check the link above. I’m not kidding.
Probably a professional courtesy from the other germs.
Bwwwaaaaaahahahaha
He’ll be here all week!! Be sure to tip your waitresses! Leave the kids home for the 10 o’clock show – it gets a little blue!
Matt,
Surely you could do better! What kind of a legal disclaimer is that? (“Leave the kids home for the 10 o’clock show – it gets a little blue!)
Geez, you know it’s bad when I have to start lawyering!
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Lighten up, Francis. I was joking.
Besides I thought you’d given up lawyering until you’d finished reading the Constitution.
Actually, I was joking too – did you read the “disclaimer”?
And I have read the constitution. As a matter of fact, one of my good friends is second chair on “McDonald v. City of Chicago”, exactly on point of our argument – does the constitution apply to the states…
Not as clear cut a distinction as you would like (or imagine) it to be.
For example, the The Legal Information Institute (LII) of the Cornell Law School states (regarding the seventh amendment) “Courts in Which the Guarantee Applies.—The Amendment governs only courts which sit under the authority of the United States, including courts in the territories and the District of Columbia, and does not apply generally to state courts. But when a state court is enforcing a federally created right, of which the right to trial by jury is a substantial part, the States may not eliminate trial by jury as to one or more elements. Ordinarily, a federal court enforcing a state–created right will follow its own rules with regard to the allocation of functions between judge and jury, a rule the Court based on the “interests” of the federal court system, eschewing reliance on the Seventh Amendment but noting its influence.”
Just as an example. You know, just saying.
We’ll see which way the court goes in MacDonald but given the court is the largely the same as that which rendered the Heller decision, I think it is a foregone conclusion (which, I will admit, would put a nail in the coffin of my argument that states could set up “malpractice courts”)
I happily look forward to yet another decision for you to cite which doesn’t support your position.
Now who needs to lighten up Francis?
I said “happily”. It really does make me smile. Not as much as the professional courtesy line though.
Hmpf. I thought pond scum was nastier than that.
Wow. I believe it.
WARNING: Grossness ahead.
I work with 5-7-year old kids in a church program. Last Sunday night they were sitting around their table coloring pictures while waiting their turn for an activity. One of them was making comments about drool, another asked “what’s drool?”. So the original commenter proceeds to gather all the saliva she could, and let it drip from her mouth. Next thing I knew, ALL the kids were doing the same thing, and catching it in their hands, on their sleeves, and dripping on the crayons they are using. And laughing like banshees.
Can you say “flu epidemic, baby”?
Teachers, my hat is off to you for making that daily journey out into your jungle. It iswild and dangerous out there.
I have an RN cousin in her 50’s who contracted polio as a child. My Aunt swore it was because of dirty school kids. My Gram, her sister, told her it was because she never let the kid get dirty to build up immunities.
I agreed with Gram (and the cousin’s kids were allowed to get filthy dirty…Used to drive my Aunt nuts…)
OTOH, I worked in a daycare while in college and was sick all the time. There was a lot of junk floating around and I could never steer clear no matter how much I washed my hands.
Yep…kudos to the teachers. I couldn’t do what they do.
I’m a teacher and I’d believe it. I also agree with the strong immune system except it seems that when we fall, we fall hard (due to stress, lack of sleep, etc?)
Maybe you know the answer to this because my colleagues and I have always wondered: When it comes time to give out in demand vaccines, why are teachers not listed? It would seem to me that when we are in contact with a minimum of twenty-five kids a day (and 6 times that if we teach middle school or high school) that would be taken into consideration, but maybe there is something we are missing.