Don't hug my husband!

[Starr Luteri-Hicks]

It may be time to re-instate the Holy Water Font at the church door -- blessed with disinfectant. It's bad enough having the LOBHLs passing their ordinary germs to my husband every week. You know, the ones who proudly say, "I wasn't feeling well but I came to church anyway." Now with all the media noise about "pandemics," I want to stand in the narthex with sterile wipes. Any ideas?

[JBJONES]

I brought a flyer from the school I work - my wife modified it a little and placed it on the distribution table. Most were taken home that week. We also - having just given the SAT in May - brought home the remainder of the Hand Wipes which we placed in each SS classroom with copies of the flyer.

[Starr Luteri-Hicks]

Thinking about this, it wouldn't be such a bad idea to require hand wipes before everyone hits the coffee/cookie table in Fellowship hall.

[Starr Luteri-Hicks]

I'm beginning to wonder if this very mild swine flu "pandemic" might be harming us more than we realize. The alarm was sounded and everyone got scared - then the big scary epidemic seemed to fizzle. Symptoms are usually so mild that "victims" merely pop an aspirin and maybe a cough drop or two and that's that. Human nature is such that we tend to ignore repeated warnings when no danger materializes. As in the old fable, when the boy cried, "wolf!" just to see the townsfolk run, he set the stage for disaster. When the wolf actually did attack, no one turned out to save his skin.

What will happen the next time we hear the "pandemic" alarm? We may have set the stage for a true disaster.