What You Can Do to Stay Healthy

There are everyday actions people can take to stay healthy.

Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Throw the tissue in the trash after you use it.

Wash your hands often with soap and water, especially after you cough or sneeze. Alcohol-based hands cleaners are also effective.

Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Germs spread that way.

Try to avoid close contact with sick people.

Influenza is thought to spread mainly person-to-person through coughing or sneezing of infected people.

If you get sick, CDC recommends that you stay home from work or school and limit contact with others to keep from infecting them.

-Remember how Bobby Jindal mocked stimulus spending for volcano prediction, and a few weeks later Alaska suffered a major eruption?

The same thing happened here, Republicans stripped $870 million in public health spending from the stimulus bill, a provision written by a smart Democratic Congressman who realized that an influenza pandemic would be disastrous for our fragile economy. And the GOP has held up confirmation of Obama's choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services. So the post is held by a Bush administration hold-over who is an accountant by profession.

Forget the nineteenth century, these Know-Nothing Republicans are trying to take us back to the dark ages.