Thorough Hand Washing
Thorough hand washing is one of the things you can do to prevent the infectious disease, but I haven’t seen anything better than the demonstration published by Korean governmental agencies.
A couple of years ago I saw this small poster sticker on the mirror in the public toilette of one of my previous work places in Seoul. The phrase and numbers stand for ‘ 손씻기: washing one’s hands, 1: per day, 8: eight times, 30: for thirty seconds.’ I was surprised by the advisable frequency of washing hands, ‘eight’ times, and realised I had never washed my hands that often.
Soon after this incident, I found a picture of demonstration of thorough hand washing in my grandma’s room when I visited my parents’ place. I guess she was given the poster by civil servants who must have visited seniors’ house where she goes everyday to chat with her friends.
Looking at this demonstration, I was surprised again how delicate hand washing can be. Since these two discoveries, I’ve been trying to wash my hands as thoroughly, often, and long as possible. If you haven’t done hand washing like this before, why don’t you start it now?
Youngsin:
You meant ‘30 seconds’ (not ‘30 minutes’), right?
Btw, walk backwards with your bare feet slowly on the grass
16 May 2009, 8:23 pmearly in the morning. It helps you to clear your mind
and lessen your headache. Believe it or not…
Dick:
Ha, a good idea, the Mexican flu is spreading out, take care.
16 May 2009, 9:35 pmI have headache sometimes, I’ll try it out, thanks.
Sunkyoung:
Youngsin – Doh! Thanks for correction. I often mix words like minute & second, left & right, eye & ear. Walking on the grass with bare feet sounds nice, but I’m afraid I’d do that here, where you can often find geckos and even snakes. :S
Dick – Considering the Spanish flu back in 1918, it came back in the autumn with more mega impact. So, yes, we should take good care of ourselves. It seems like my headache has been caused by dehydration so I’m going to buy some ion supply drink today.
17 May 2009, 12:41 pm