tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29619734.post115343327117165640..comments2024-03-05T04:04:40.331-05:00Comments on Get Ready: Welcome to the APHA "Get Ready For Flu" blogGet Ready Team, APHAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16985321532000499848noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29619734.post-1155478146659095662006-08-13T10:09:00.000-04:002006-08-13T10:09:00.000-04:00In our community, we're sending pandemic-specific ...In our community, we're sending pandemic-specific information home via the schools; approaching our very active churches (brochures in with pledge cards); asking major shopping sites to post hygiene posters specifically referencing the flu; contacting pet owners through local shelters (if we're not prepared, we cannot care for pets); contacting seniors through senior nutrition and recreation sites and social services; asking grocery stores to have "supply lists" (add a can for preparedness)for shoppers, etc. A major question I would love to have answered: if the virus lives without a host for 48 hours on impermeable surfaces and for 12 hours on porous surfaces such as paper, how do we protect or disinfect our dogs who must go outside? Our horses?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29619734.post-1153688100213505532006-07-23T16:55:00.000-04:002006-07-23T16:55:00.000-04:00Thanks for this. I,too, was one of those "cry wolf...Thanks for this. I,too, was one of those "cry wolf" types, but I recently had a conversation that changed my mind. Gregory Peterson appeared on my podcast, The Cranky Middle Manager Show (http://cmm.thepodcastnetwork.com Show #56) to talk about why companies should prepare for the flu pandemic and the role individual managers should play in those plans.<BR/><BR/>I went from skeptical to mildly worried in about 20 minutes. <BR/>As a manager with people on my team scattered around the world, i know how vulnerable we are. Thank you for all this good information.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com