Reporter Sneezes the Wrong Way in Front of Secy Sebelius

In Obama’s America, white people who sneeze will shot, turned into soap, and sold in Iran….
So Al Qaeda terrorists can slather their bodies with the remains of your grandparents… as they plan for war against America.
Meanwhile, the soap proceeds will be used to finance the first all-gay NASCAR team, complete with an unbeatable superharged, rainbow car. ACORN is going to bus their people into the Talladega speedway to have a giant sit-in.
I heard it all on Limbaugh.

You report on this, but not on ACORN?

Poor Chuck, now he has to run a “how to sneeze” report

@gobot
The ACORN tapes I saw via the internet had white people and a person of Mexican heritage in it. Did I miss the videotapes with black people? Guess you didn`t.
Posted by: Thomas L. | Sep 17, 2009 12:05:33 PM
What are you doing surfing the web?
Like I said, you gotta tune into FOX. Otherwise you’re just going to get biased stuff like the things you saw on the internet.
Rush Limbaugh is good, too. He did an entire spiel on segregation…. and his listeners have responded very, very favorably. I guarantee it will leave you feeling reinforced in your biases.

gobot “That’s why I ditched the stinkin’ GOP.”
So you ditched the GOP because you think you heard Limbaugh say something about segregation?
LOL.

Maybe next the government will tell you that you can not use your right hand to wipe your butt… Wake up America the Government is not your Momma,too much power,with too little common sense,and we get the governemnt telling us how to sneeze, safely?

‘Most Republicans have been deeply unhappy with the Democratic health care proposals so far, and Republicans on the Finance Committee were said to be bracing for two possibilities:
a partisan proposal that they were going to oppose, or..
a bipartisan proposal that they were going to oppose. ‘

“Maybe next the government will tell you that you can not use your right hand to wipe your butt… Wake up America the Government is not your Momma,too much power,with too little common sense,and we get the governemnt telling us how to sneeze, safely?”
Yeah telling one not to sneeze in their hands is the path to dictatorship.
How deep is the right wing paranoia?

Maybe next the government will tell you that you can not use your right hand to wipe your butt… Wake up America the Government is not your Momma,too much power,with too little common sense,and we get the governemnt telling us how to sneeze, safely?
Posted by: Marion | Sep 17, 2009 12:58:02 PM
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Apparently “the government” hasn’t mandated intelligence yet. I’m looking forward to that initiative.

She could have simply said “bless you”.

The government has NO business telling people not to spread the flu.
If I want to spread the flu, that is my right as an American.
Sure, the “scientists” like to tell that the flu is caused by a virus. But did you know that many other scientists have proven that the flu by global cooling?
This swine flu scare is just a crisis cooked up by the liberals in Washington so that we will accept changes that will cripple our economy, so people will stay home instead of shop. And then, when we are all locked inside our houses, waiting for Obama to tell us when it is safe to come out. He is going to round up all the conservatives and put them in camps. And then he’ll just say that the patriots all got sick with the flu and passed away… because they did not listen to him.
Can’t you see what they are doing?

“This is pathetic,on a par with Biden suggesting that air travel was unsafe. When are these lawyer-politicians going to shut up and leave the public health issues to the profesionals?There is no proven evidence that covering your sneeze with your arm instead of your hand decreases the spread of H1N1,particularly if you practice good personal hygiene.”
CDC on Seasonal Influenza
“Stop the Spread of Germs that Make You and Others Sick!
Serious respiratory illnesses like influenza, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), whooping cough, and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) are spread by:
* Coughing or sneezing
* Unclean hands
To help stop the spread of germs,
* Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when you cough or sneeze.
* If you don’t have a tissue, cough or sneeze into your upper sleeve, not your hands.
* Put your used tissue in the waste basket.
Clean your hands after coughing or sneezing
* Wash with soap and water.
or
* Clean with alcohol-based hand cleaner.”
The lesson as always? Right wingers lie.

This video was funny. There is nothing like a little humor to teach an important lesson.
ABC, I like that you show a few humorous videos. We all need to laugh a little each day to keep our stress levels down.
gobot, you got me laughing again. Thanks.

Does Charlie Gibson know about this?

A General once told his troops: Flies spread disease, so keep yours closed.

What is she, our mommy or our school marm?

that look on her face is really scary…. kind of like Momma before she cracks down on you hard

” She could have simply said “bless you”. ”
no, that would infer ” God bless you “, and would violate church & state decorum.

That reporter should have stood up and said, “I don’t need YOU to tell me how to sneeze!”

I think this scoundrel of a reporter owes an apology to Mrs. Sebelius, the President and Congress and the contemptuous American people (smelly serfs). Never mind that real issues in this country that affect individuals on a personal level are being ignored. I think the liberals should tar and feather this person for life and that Mrs. Sebelius should have a committee look into this reporter’s improper handling of a sneeze at the smelly serfs’…. I mean, tax payer’s expense, find that he should be criminally prosecuted and his family thrown into a gulag. Everyone, please email Mrs. Sebelius and Congress to make sure we take care of this serious matter AND DEMAND THAT THIS WILL NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN. Thank you again from the Ministry of Love.

Chuck Todd is a Typhoid Mary when it comes to disease! Secretary Sebelius should be quarantined, sterilized and de-loused immediately ! ! !

sammy, but it must make you think twice that car experts, auto mechanics, the auto industry, etc. for years were saying improperly inflated tires would hurt your gas mileage. I’m old enough to remember experts saying the same thing thirty years ago. This is not new information.
Your experience with your old car is not the norm. Your engine might be too worn for it to make a difference, you might be accelerating too fast which sends a lot of unburned gas out of your exhaust, you may have over-inflated your tires, you may have used an improper method to calculate your mileage. Experts say properly inflated tires will increase gas mileage 6%. That’s not a lot but multiplied by millions of cars, it is a lot.
I drive an old car, too. I noticed the biggest difference in its gas mileage when I stopped doing those jack rabbit starts.

This woman is deplorable. So very rude. Achoooo Ma Sebelius – get some manners.

She probably wouldn’t approve of me blowing a snot-rocket then.

Lighten up, commenters. Enjoy a little humor.

Tell Sebelius to shut her cake hole and that it’s a free country, you’ll sneeze how you want.

2010 here we come!

Wait until the Sneeze Czar hear’s about this!

Thank you Mommy! It takes the Trial Lawyer Lobbyist Gov Sebelius to teach us what is right and what is wrong! Thank Heavens for those Trial Lawyers lucky for Chucky T he didnt get sued with unlimited damages!!!!

Sneeze Police…
where is all of this swine flu at?! Never heard, know or seen anyone that even knows of anyone that has gotten it.
What kind of “Smoke screen” are they selling us.

Everyone knows the proper way to block a sneeze is to muffle it in the nearest liberal.

What ? We need the government to teach us how to sneeze ? what else wipe our
noses?
It was done in humor but seriously, a man is publicly humiliated for doing something outside the “approved” government way.

Everyone just stay about 50 feet away from me and you want have to worry where I sneeze.

Hmmm… Imagine Sebelius contracting H1N1…

I’m amazed she didn’t have the reporter jailed for daring to infect them all…

everyone know you sneeze into your hand and wipe it on some elses sleeve

I found this hilarious. Maybe it is just me…

You don’t cover the ACORN scandal, but THIS is news?

Let’s get this error over with

I just can’t help it.
Hey Sebeilus, sneeze on this!

What should square dancers do??? All the forearm interlocking is just going to spread germs like wildfire. ;-) Time to ban square dancing.

This is what passes for news on ABC? Oh yeah, it is part of the main stream media and by definition in bed with the libs.
Here is a big farmer’s sneeze to ABC!

Just wait, pretty soon they’re going to be telling us how to wipe too.

To Kenneth Bauman Sr.
Thanks. I’m already singing it.
Imagine that Sebelius,
It’s easy if you can,
Gets H1N1,
err… the brotherhood… um… man.
Anyway, the tune is catchy, even if the swine flu isn’t. But why waste a good calamity?
I just got over the flu, but I’m not sure how to send the body bags back.

Focus on business at hand.Whitehouse is full of morons isn’t it.

i see abc getting an award for this in depth reporting. ACORN,Tax Cheat Rangel, Murtha airport funding, Iran nukes, Honduras president not allowed to visit UN but Iran Presidend, Hugo Chavez welcomed? Good reporting ABC. NO WONDER YOUR LOSING VIEWERS.

Does anybody really care about the sneezing czar? How about Congress and Eric Holder lack of investigating ACORN and it’s ties to the White House and with the help of the main stream Obama loving media not reporting on this. Thanks Glenn Beck!

Rome is burning and this is a story?

The pool of corruption is filled with Franks, Dodd’s, Rangel’s, Reid’s and Pelosi’s but no you want to talk about sneezing. No wonder you guys are getting hammered by Fox news reruns.

what? Oh my gosh. Next week, Toenail fungus.
ABC- “That’s news to me”

And I thought the Carter Admin. was a disaster! I suppose it has to get worse before it gets better!
ABC, NBC and CBS are on a down hill slide along with Obama’s ratings.

what was that abc workers name? that didn’t know anything about acorn? . i don’t . i boycotted abc years ago when it was obvious they were no longer journalists. anyway, did he figure out that acorn criminal activity was news worthy? why would anyone still watch abc, nbc, cbs? dont you want to show them you do not respect them?

I can’t believe she gets paid by my tax dollars.

Many people seem to be missing the point of Secretary Sebelius’ comment. It is one of her responsibilities to keep people informed about all sorts of Healthcare issues. Currently many schools and Day Care faciliites advise students to sneeze into their own sleeves. While this may seem ” discusting” to some people it is much better than a child’s initial reaction to sneeze into their hand or not even bother to contain their sneeze at all. Most children to not have tissue readily available and even that is not always the best answer since those tissues are not always disposed of in a healthy manor. If you want to avoid the h1n1 virus, get a flu shot if you are in a high risk category and contain your cough and sneeze germs in the best way possible. Commend Secretary Sebelius for passing on some good pointers instead of nitpicking what she does.

This is just like Obama saying the only thing we have to do to save money on gas is to properly inflate our tires. Another example of trying to treat cancer with Band-Aids.

I am curious to know how many people will actually get the swine flu vaccine after it just came out clinical trials. Any takers?

What a completely obnoxious paternalistic inept administration this is. How much longer?

Perhaps the Obama administration should appoint a Sneezing Czar who could bolt together a new “tax per sneeze” package.

Bread and circuses

Does this remind anybody of the “Duck and Cover” campaign? Another useless public safety announcement…Rome is burning people! Wake up and stop interrupting press conferences for trivial tidbits.

These folks would really like to trim us down if they had their druthers. They are just being hipacritical about it. Or is it not cost effective. Or which ones bought the stock. Am I just too cynical.

What does she get paid for this briliance? Is she the sneeze czarina?

OH MY GOD THEY SNEEZED. EVERYTHING STOP. CHECK PAPERS, YOU MAY PASS.

How stupid do you Democrats think Americans are? If you have any sense of respect, please vote these idiots out of office in 2010.

ABC NBC and CBS are not journalist. They are propagandist.

I want you to get up right now and go to your windows. Now open them and stick your head out and yell ‘IM AS MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE! Things have got to change. But first, you’ve gotta get mad!…

“Find something more important to spend your time on.” This is Ann’s advice to we commenters. ABC should heed it.
We are commenting on this, Ann, because it’s on a NEWS BLOG which is supposed to contain NEWS. ABC thinks this is newsworthy, so why shouldn’t we comment on this blithering idiocy?

You are afraid to report real news so you report this nonsense.

To Ann who wrote that people should ” Find something more important to spend your time on. Secretary Sebelius made a comment to a reporter regarding the correct way to sneeze that is offered to young children of school age. Not many 5 year olds carry handkerchiefs and hand sanitizers in their packpacks and if they do they may not be available at the moment of the sneeze. Find something else to comment upon that is more significant.”
Ann, I don’t think many 5 year olds are watching press conferences looking to improve their sneezing technique! That is a grown man who at this point in his life probably knows how to catch his own snot.

in other news – the russians start rebuilding the iron curtain with the help of the Obama administration

Since politicians all carry their heads wedged up their behinds, then shouldn’t we worry only when they fart?

I seriously wonder if mainstream media journalists know how irrelevant they have become in the pursuit of truth. All the schmoozing with the liberal party has destroyed the objectivity. Hey, now that ACORN is old news, do you now have anything meaningful to add? Pathetic.

Thank you, Sebelius! I 35 years old and have no idea how to take care of myself and my family. Thank goodness that the government can show me how. I mean, really, how did I get along all these years without the administration holding my hand and showing me what to do? Stupid me, I usually cover my nose with my hands when I sneeze and then wash them, or use a wipe. I even use a napkin or tissue; but hey, I must have been wrong all of the time.
Oh, goody, what will my mommy government teach me tomorrow? Can’t wait!
And do any posters think for a moment that ABC cares about the actual news? That’s background noise to them. Maybe tomorrow we’ll be treated to an article about Michelle Obama’s wardrobe or the daily life of first dog, Bo.
Keep whistling past that graveyard, ABC. Whatever credibility that the network had was totally destroyed when your main anchor admitted that he didn’t “know” (sure, he didn’t; we aren’t that stupid) about ACORN.
If this wasn’t my country and my money at stake, all of this would be absolutely hilarious.

Flu virus particles remain viable on human skin about 3 times longer than they do on cloth, plus you don’t touch doorknobs with the insides of your elbows.

No offense Doctor but most of us who blow snot into our hands have the common decency of washing them after that occurs!

Beam me up Snotty! There is no intelligent life here! I sneeze into my hand, then watch my hands. I don’t need blobs of snot on my shirt. Maybe this works for less snotty folks. Don’t forget a presidential candidate who addressed US energy needs by saying we should properly inflate tires. These folks are in way over their heads, and this type of stuff is all they’ve got. God help us get to 2012 without any major events in the world or on our homeland.

Geeeze! Lighten up on the sneeze story! Every.single.post. does not need to be of great importance. Jake has covered them too.
P.S.
I’m proud to be a Righty.
=)

I think horses have it figured out – just let it fly all over the place.

Democrats have this uncontrollable urge to run every aspect of your life (what you can and can’t eat, weather, etc). Look for sneezing law next.

Ahhhhh, I feel so secure now that we all know how to sneeze properly. I’m sure that Iran will now drop it’s nuclear program and all our enemies will smile knowing how intelligent America has become since now we know how to sneeze – properly. American tax dollars well spent!

Dear Leader,
Please help all us stupid Americans who don’t know how to sneeze. Please appoint a Sneeze Czar and establish some Sneezing Re-education Camps.
Thanks,
Jane Doe Sheeple

Excellent!
This way none of these ‘thrill-up-the-leg’ LeftMedia stenographers will have to think about, investigate or report on ACORN.
Very impressive.
Maybe they should all run out and investigate steroids in professional sports….
Anything except look at the liberalism that is tearing America down.

Waaaahahahaa Purell! These marmy hand sanitizer types are the reason kids have so many allergies and autoimmune diseases. Yeah, that’s right, hurry stamp out the flu and wait until some superbug fills the niche and wipes us all out. It’s a prisoner’s dilemma, but if you don’t get the vaccines, you help everyone else out in the long run. It’s funny, but the flu fills it’s habitat just like politicians fill power vacuums, annoyingly. Stamp out a manageable one, and the next might not be so.

It’s easier to wash my hands than change my shirt every time I sneeze.

Remember those drills where they had school kids hide under their desks to protect against a nuclear attack?
Gotta love the absurd stupidity of government propaganda…

Am I the only one ‘out here’ who’s getting sick and tired of being told how to sneeze, where I can (or can’t) smoke, and in general being ‘parented’ by the government who, despite their failure to remember, was elected by me and is paid for by my hard earned and paid for taxes? (P.S. I’m a registered democrat.)

It would be better to direct your sneeze at the floor, especially if it’s a hard floor and there’s no one within a few feet. Most viruses will die quickly when they dry out, and people are not likely to come in contact with it, unless they are walking around barefoot.

This is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard. If you sneeze into your hand, at least you can wash your hand. Sneezing or coughing on your sleeve leaves germs that can be passed along to anyone who brushes against you in a crowded elevator, or touches something you might have been carrying in your arms, or handles your coat.
Hugging is right out too.

The issue is about transmission. If its on your hand there is a much larger risk of transmission before you get the change to clean your hand.

Lol u guys are hilarious

“Am I the only one ‘out here’ who’s getting sick and tired of being told how to sneeze, where I can (or can’t) smoke, and in general being ‘parented’ by the government who, despite their failure to remember, was elected by me and is paid for by my hard earned and paid for taxes? (P.S. I’m a registered democrat.)”
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As long as your cigarette smoke stays away from any place I may reasonably want to go, you should be allowed to smoke anywhere you like.
We could probably reach a compromise: If the “I wanna smoke” lobby would offer for smokers to get some kind of “bubble” to walk around in so that all of the smoke stayed on your own clothes, in your own lungs, etc., then we might well be able to get the politicians to let you smoke in public. Actually, it would be kinda cool to watch your bubble fill up… let’s try it!

Stay away from all germs. Live in an antiseptic bubble.
Uhhh, right. The immune system in every living being needs to be challenged. It’s how it functions.
It is why vaccines work, allowing the body to identify invaders that have been rendered harmless. Then, the body develops a program to recognize and effectively fight off live viruses which are all around us.
If these fruitcakes have their way, our immune systems will eventually be rendered impotent.
We’ll become like the invaders in the fiction “War of the Worlds”, dying from exposure to microbes that we had once fought off.

How is this news?
ABC, CBS, NBC- Here’s a tip for improving your ratings. Report the news. There’s alot of it out there. If you need help finding it, just turn to Fox News.

Disagree with Sebelius as I may, scary policies and all, radical leftist, white hair, micromanager, socialist hippie, still you gotta admit, she’s kinda cute.

This is obviously racisim being exhibited towards Barry. Sneezing into your hand instead of into your elbow/arm, means you hate black people. That is what our government has come to!!!

Another example of this “Nanny” government trying to control every aspect of our lives…”Oh, oh, we must do everything possible to avert this ‘pandemic’ swine flu!”

Sneezing at your arms is more unhealthy as you will be exposing others to your underarm odor(carbon footprint). Especially for libs…

Sneezing into your elbow is dangerous for square dancers. We need to promote sneezing into a less controversial body part.

Back in Texas when I was working so hard to earn a Ph.D. in Education, I never dreamed that someday an idiotic bureaucrat would presume to tell me how to sneeze.
Where did we go wrong???

I think she was doing her job when she corrected such a minor yet important thing that most people do without thinking about it. Working in a hospital, infection control is a major issue and if it cuts down on the transmition of disease and it is as simple as sneezing in your elbow then I think its totally worth it.
Its also comforting to know that someone in Washington is doing their job :-)

Health Secretary Sebelius was just demonstrating the democrat method of lying without enabling the public to actually read her lips!
Don’t be surprised if that same tactic will be used by Robert Gibbs, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Barack Obama.

Let’s see now…..they are advocating sneezing inot one’s sleeve versus one’s hand. I wash my hands many, many times throughout the day. How often will they wash that sleeve?

Great call on the Cat Lady!!!

Wow! The fact that such a humorous little exchange could prompt such incredibly hostile comments is scary. Folks, it’s just funny. And by the way, little things like knowing how to sneeze in a way that minimizes the chance of infecting those around you isn’t evidence of the “Nanny State,” it’s just the kind of good, common sense that we all used to see as a virtue. To paraphrase Sec. Sebelius, Geeesh!.

So freakin what? She told him to sneeze in his sleeve…SHE HATE’S AMERICA!!!
Get over it

Sneeze into your hands then wipe your hands inside your elbow while flapping your arms. It scares people away as well.

It really is the silly season.

I suppose they’ll soon be telling us how to get the most out of every toilet tissue square. I’m sure they’ll also touch on the fine art of pinching one off just right, especially the last one.
Of course, mild to severe diarrhea poses a unique problem. Using a washable cloth will save paper, in case they want to fry the working part of their burnt-out brains trying to figure that one out.
Then there’s the problem of more and more disposable diapers and all the Depends being discarded by the useless retirees who should have visited a death panel as soon as they retired.

Oh yeah, who but a child cares about snotty sleeves? I just turn my head away from people to sneeze. Will I be arrested and tried for attempted murder for that in a soon-to-be communist America?

She lectures us how to sneeze when her views on unborn babies is to kill them when they’re unwanted by their irresponsible parents.
Hypocrite.

I don’t think its about a political rant or blowing something, no pun intented, out of control, it’s about the arrogance on the part of this administration, looking down it’s nose at us like we can’t make a decision for ourselves. I mean come on do we really need the governmemt to tell us how to sneeze?

Whoops, that should have been cited to CN.

Nanny State indeed.

Ever watched how people stand? With their hands into their elbows, crossed arms? And they sneeze into said elbow, then put their hands back into the elbow to resume their stance…See the problem? Snotty elbows? Carry the hand sanitizer, carry a tissue, and wash your hands frequently..And whatever you do..Don’t grab someone’s arm when you are trying to get their attention! Nasty.

Being ‘PC’ I image one needs to bury their nose in their ‘left’ armpit.RIGHT???

You see, she’s just reiterating the recommendation of the CDC in Atlanta, which, as far as I know is not funded by the Democratic Party, Acorn, or MoveOn. The bitter Wingnut comments are not surprising since they never seem to bother to look into the scientific or medical basis of anything, they just reflexively spout their “feelings”. Shouldn’t some of your folks be getting back over to Faux, where they tell you how you should “think”?

The solution is obvious. Just ban sneezing in public places or tax it

such unpatriotic drivel from the Dems.

I’ll sneeze any way I want. A government official telling us how to sneeze and admonishing an adult like a little kid when he doesn’t sneeze “properly” is the height of the nanny state. I foresee a day when there will be a fine imposed on people who don’t toe the government line on sneezing, coughing, or farting. (To all liberals:That last sentence is meant as humor.Get a conservative to explain it to you. )

I can see by the all “quality” comments that Drudge still has a link up.

I hate to point this out, but here goes. When you sneeze into your sleeve, it’s still there until you change clothes, able to be rubbed off on anyone unlucky enough to brush against you. If you sneeze into your hand, a simple trick like washing your hands removes any germs from them. It’s nice to see that another of this administration’s officials has gone to the trouble to think things through.
Just as an afterthought, are we allowed to go back to the traditional way of covering a sneeze or cough, after the wondervaccines have been distributed? You’d think that if they work, there’s no danger of being infected from someone’s careless sneeze.

She comes across like some hick hillbilly. She is such a stupid clown it is .unbelievable

Hate to break all your bubbles gang but the elbow/sleeve is the way to go and every preschool and elementary school is teaching it and the medical community highly recommends it. Do a search on cough into your elbow and get a clue.
I just attended a trade show and got sick because there were so many people using their hands and NOT WASHING them because they don’t have sinks in their back pockets and were NOT carrying around hand sanitizers.

Buck,
I hate to break YOUR bubble Buck, but 50% of the students in the 20 largest cities in the US do NOT graduate from high school (includes Washington, DC).
3 out of 4 students in Oklahoma don’t know who the first US president was. Do you really think they’re going to care about sneezing protocol?
As for the “medical community highly recommends it”, virtually every single doctor and nurse I have ever seen does NOT wash their hands before seeing a patient. In my over 30 years as an adult I recall less than a handful that practiced acceptable pre-examination washing protocols, and one of those “good” offices was my uncle’s office. Recent articles show this problem continues to exist after decades of training (search net for “doctors don’t wash hands”).
Buck Bagaw said, Sep 18, 2009 7:46:37 PM
“Hate to break all your bubbles gang but the elbow/sleeve is the way to go and every preschool and elementary school is teaching it and the medical community highly recommends it”

Buck Bagaw said, Sep 18, 2009 7:46:37 PM
“Hate to break all your bubbles gang but the elbow/sleeve is the way to go and every preschool and elementary school is teaching it and the medical community highly recommends it”
Posted by: exgenica | Sep 18, 2009 9:24:00 PM
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I hate to break YOUR bubble, exgenica, but Buck didn’t say any of that; Melanie Bennett did.

Doctor Howard Doctor Fine Doctor Howard !!
A sleeve is not a handkerchief. Only a low class stooge would use it as such.
-I.B.McGinty

I cannot believe the number of men that do not carry a handkerchief anymore. HELLO- it contains the droplets in one enclosed space -it doesn’t make you look like a 4 year old wiping your nose and sneezing on your arm. IT KEEPS GERMS CONTAINED and not spredding to other people.

Kathleen Sebelius is an idiot. Sneeze on your sleeve? What if the sneeze comes with phlegm? Wipe it on her face? What about facial tissues?

Just because something is being taught a certain way right now doesn’t mean it’s right. The way we were taught years ago was different, and I’m quite sure it’s going to be taught differently in the future. This elbow thing has not been written by God on marble stones.
The elbow thing is also disgusting. Walking around all day with your shirt full of green phlegm, if wearing long sleeves? Gross. What, are people going to carry a change of shirt with them–several, in case they sneeze more than once? Or go to the bathroom to wash your arm?
I don’t see how walking around with a big green glob of snot inside my elbow is somehow, more hygienic than washing my hands.