Schools Deploy Sanitizers Against Swine Flu Threat

VIA THE WASHINGTON POST:

In their quest to fortify themselves against the H1N1 virus, known as swine flu, Matsunaga and other schools across the Washington region are building up chemical stockpiles and barraging students with lessons on how to wash their hands and cough into their elbows. There haven’t been any cases of H1N1 at Matsunaga, the largest elementary school in Montgomery County, and Judy K. Brubaker, its principal, would like to keep it that way.

“When I buy it, I buy it at 400 bucks a pop,” Brubaker said recently while giving a tour of her school’s defenses. At least twice now, she has purchased 70 40-ounce bottles of hand sanitizer.

Each classroom has multiple defenses. In Philip D’Agnese’s second-grade class in a temporary trailer, there were no fewer than six bottles of soap, one at each of the classroom’s hotspots — the computers, the pencil sharpener, the homework baskets — and that wasn’t counting the box of “antiviral” tissues.

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