My younger son started high school today. For much of the summer I have been telling him and his brother (already in high school) that they should use hand sanitizer almost constantly throughout the day at school -- after using the bathroom, after touching a computer keyboard used by other students, before eating, after touching a doorknob, after touching a handrail, after hearing another student somewhere within 100 feet sneeze or cough, etc. A few days ago I bought 2oz bottles of hand sanitizer for both kids for this purpose. The goal, of course, is to avoid catching the H1N1 virus.
But then, yesterday, I started to have second thoughts. Constant, obsessive hand sanitizing could very well label a new ninth grader as, um, weird.
So the question becomes: Which is worse, contracting H1N1 or being a social outcast?
Sheesh.
