Swine Flu Threat Changing Common Social Rituals »
Posted By torkuk 2 months ago in Health & FitnessThe swine flu is slowly changing many social rituals for Americans, reports The New York Times. As it becomes clear that the flu is not going away anytime soon and that some people who get it will become severely ill, many rituals are changing. Catholic and Episcopal churches are telling parishioners not to shake hands during the Peace, and some are skipping communion wine altogether. Communal bake sales and pot luck dinners are a thing of the past and hand sanitizer is now in place at most businesses and schools to try to stem the tide of infection which can have a devastating effect on businesses' bottom lines with massive sickouts.
But, perhaps most disturbing is the swine flu's effect on beer pong: it's been banned at many colleges.
Students at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., are being asked to refrain from playing beer pong, a communal drinking game, after an outbreak of illness that officials feared might be swine flu.
"I tell you, a lot of people don't know how to wash their hands," said Dr. Maureen Lichtveld, a professor and chairwoman of the department of environmental health sciences at the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.
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