Railroad
Routinely Derailed
Time for the annual rant about the Great Incubator of All Pestilences: Public School
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I remember with no fondness whatsoever the years in which my children attended public school with the horde of their peers, pestilence-ridden varmints all, whose parents and guardians and whomever felt compelled to send to school when sick. At least in those days, a sick kid could at least get an aspirin to keep the fever down.
Snot-slinging is an art form practiced primarily by children, as is germ-spraying, accomplished by turning bodily fluids into noxious aerosols expelled with each sneeze and cough.
Having blended their germs in the nurturing soup of classroom air, they return home to their adults, who work at the place of employment even when at death's door, passing on each and every germ and germ-derivative so that the pestilence can be delivered in the workplace.
Thus, we have Kid Season - some cleverly call it "flu season" to transfer the blame for the epidemic to one of the more infamous viruses and not the irresponsible carriers of that and many other pestilences.
The only protection, I've learned, is to stay away from parents and grandparents and guardians of young children, teachers, and of course, the germ-laden little monsters themselves.
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[RANT]
I remember with no fondness whatsoever the years in which my children attended public school with the horde of their peers, pestilence-ridden varmints all, whose parents and guardians and whomever felt compelled to send to school when sick. At least in those days, a sick kid could at least get an aspirin to keep the fever down.
Snot-slinging is an art form practiced primarily by children, as is germ-spraying, accomplished by turning bodily fluids into noxious aerosols expelled with each sneeze and cough.
Having blended their germs in the nurturing soup of classroom air, they return home to their adults, who work at the place of employment even when at death's door, passing on each and every germ and germ-derivative so that the pestilence can be delivered in the workplace.
Thus, we have Kid Season - some cleverly call it "flu season" to transfer the blame for the epidemic to one of the more infamous viruses and not the irresponsible carriers of that and many other pestilences.
The only protection, I've learned, is to stay away from parents and grandparents and guardians of young children, teachers, and of course, the germ-laden little monsters themselves.
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