Graduating seniors at Bloomington high schools this week will don caps and gowns, get their diplomas, but won't get any congratulatory handshakes from school administrators on the commencement ceremony stage. In recent days, separate confirmed cases of swine (H1N1) flu have been recorded at Bloomington Kennedy and Jefferson high schools, prompting officials to skip the traditional handshakes for public health concerns. Instead, students will get a nod of the head from school district leaders.
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I think its stupid. people get sick so they would have to go to school!
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Why is it such a big deal? It's just a flu and we already have medicine to prevent it.
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It's a big deal because although it is just influenza, it is different from seasonal flu. We do not have a swine flu vaccine and even if we did, the best way to prevent flu transmission is to limit physical contact and wash your hands!
Public officials, including school admins, have to be extra careful. You can bet someone would sue if their child caught H1N1 from an infected person during graduation. Sadly we are too litigation happy in this country...
h1n1 is just as harmful as the regular flu, which kills thousands each year. there was. just a big hype because scientists thought it was going to be a pandemic.
i think it was a smart idea not to give out handshakes to the graduates durring the graduation
I think its stupid. people get sick so they would have to go to school!
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