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Post by cuteshoes on Oct 6, 2009 15:19:42 GMT -5
How are you planning to display and exchange your cookies this
year with the threat of all these flu's going around? Suggestions
will be helpful. Thank you
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Post by Robin on Oct 8, 2009 21:22:25 GMT -5
I am not changing a thing because every winter is flu season. I can only recall one year (of 19) where we had a "flu out". I always have open cookie platters. If someone thinks they may have the flu then they have no business showing up. (You don't want their cookies anyway) In theory, if you have one sick person at the party, they can make the whole group sick just by being there and breathing around them and sharing communal party foods; appetizers, hors d'oeuvres, etc. I would like to say that I've never heard of any epidemic happening from my parties.  |
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Post by Robin on Oct 9, 2009 12:24:21 GMT -5
I just thought of something concrete you can do. Buy a couple bottles of hand sanitizer and leave them around. Have one in kitchen or what ever room people will be eating in. Pass the sanitizer around right before the swap. This may help ease your mind a bit.
However, all it takes is one sneeze to spread a cold or flu and you don't necessarily know the health status of each household the cookies come from.
I hope this helps.
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Post by bumblebeas on Oct 24, 2009 10:42:49 GMT -5
My second year I went to a local restaurant store and purchased several sets of 6" tongs. They are a simple beige plastic and are set in a bucket on the cookie table with the rules given prior to exchanging: to choose cookies you must use the tongs. No hands. Anyone caught using their hands forfeits choosing any more cookies.
People really watch one another and stop someone they see starting to use their hands. You could also use plastic gloves but the tongs come in handy for parties and other things throughout the year.
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