Like other Santas, Lake Elsinore man worries about H1N1 virus SDNN: San Diego News Network
28.11.09
Swine flu has become such a have relation that the Amalgamated Order of Real Bearded Santas featured a seminar on the illness at a recent colloquy in Philadelphia. The group also urged its members to use hand sanitizer and take vitamins to boost their immune systems.
The president of the league said he also hopes parents will keep sick kids away.
“We don’t want any child to go without seeing Santa, but it’s not significance bringing your child to the mall, infecting the Santa and infecting the other children,” Nicholas Trolli said.
Ernest Berger, president of another dispose called Santa America, asked an Alabama congressman last week to designate Santas as immediacy group for the swine flu vaccine, like health care workers or infant caregivers.
Berger hopes the Jocose St. Nicks will use hand sanitizer and encourage children to do the same, without turning the experience into a hygiene lecture.
John Scheuch of Prairie Village, Kan., said he might advocate to parents that they come back another time if a child is visibly ill. Scheuch, executive director of Santa America, has entranced some personal precautions. “I’ve had my H1N1. I’ve had my seasonal flu shot. This is my year for my pneumonia booster” he said. “I don’t be versed what else I can do except encapsulate myself in plastic.”
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