My bus driver today was wearing rubber gloves

[Roon]

at least he wasn't wearing a surgical mask..it was still weird to see..people are starting to flip.

[jeff30997]

1. Rubber gloves are pretty useless as protection from virus.

Strange idea IMHO.

[Roon]

3. Yeah, I thought it was strange too

I didn't hear anything about using rubber gloves to protect yourself from the flu.But there he was, wearing those bright blue gloves.

[tigereye]

2. apparently neither works- people should simply wash their hands, etc.

[MrCoffee]

4. Bus drivers around here wear gloves all the time

I would too if I were driving a city bus

[Roon]

10. I have been riding the bus for twenty years

and although I have seen a lot of drivers wear driving gloves, this is the first time I have seen one wearing rubber gloves.

[NewJeffCT]

5. Is it just me, or is 1,600 people getting sick in a city of 10 million

not really worthy of the panic coverage the media is giving it?

I mean, how many broken bones do the city hospitals treat in a day? How many cases of pneumonia?

[pokerfan]

14. Meanwhile, tuberculosis rages

Two million deaths per year. Nine million new cases per year. The world's greatest infectious killer of women of reproductive age and the leading cause of death among people with HIV/AIDS.

I don't trust the M$M to ever put anything into perspective. Is the flu a concern? Sure. So are a lot of other things.

[Roon]

17. Great point, poker!

TB is nasty. Worse than the flu IMHO. I halfway think that the MSM wants this to become worse because it would "look great on the TV"

[InternalDialogue]

6. You sure it wasn't Prostate Exam Tuesday?

RTD's trying to up ridership, you never know.

[Roon]

11. LOL!

too funny.

[Pierre.Suave]

7. I saw 2 people on the bus yesterday

wearing surgical masks.

[jeff30997]

8. Preview of next summer's fashion trend:

[Pierre.Suave]

9. Sweet

by next summer, I will finally be in style!!!!

[Roon]

12. Yeah ,I was wondering if i was going to see that

during my trip to Boulder yesterday and back home today. The only thing I saw was the bus driver wearing rubber gloves.

[Pierre.Suave]

13. At least he was trying

not very smart about it, but he was trying.

Hope you are well Roon. :hug:

[Roon]

16. Thanks Pierre

I am hanging in there. :-)

[datasuspect]

15. mine was wearing a rubber

[Roon]

18. How did you know?

[geardaddy]

19. That's all he was wearing.

besides his hat.

[Roon]

20. ugh!

Burn that seat...

[geardaddy]

21. lol