And so begins my Self-paced Journalism adventure.
Submitted by Tullia on Thu, 2005-11-03 09:37.
Bloggy bloggy.Alright, so... since I can't seem to let myself be without an art class any given quarter, I am not in Journalism 2nd quarter. My first story is going to be covering Olde Columbine High's College prep night... that is what its called right? For those of you who weren't paying attention in governance yesterday and for some reason are actually reading this... its tonight, at... six? And there is pizza.Oh. I think a while ago Bud wanted me to tell a story about the Blood-borne pathogens class I had to take for my apprenticeship mentioned in my last story. They taught us how to properly put on, and take off gloves. It doesn't seem that that would be all that difficult does it? But there is a specific way to take them off without getting blood on yourself and defeating the entire purpose of putting gloves on in the first place. They squirted ketchup onto our gloved hands to represent blood... it made me laugh. I would go on to explain how to remove them properly, but I just realized it is extremely hard to explain without demonstration... and... I can't demonstrate on here?Interesting fact that will change the way you think about resteraunts forever(!) :It takes two-hundred and sixty degrees with thirty pounds of pressure and about sixteen minutes to sterilize any given metal object. (That is what all tools and jewelery are brought to in the auto-clave at the shop) Most resteraunts don't come even close to that when washing their silverware. I think they are only brought to about 140? So think about it... if someone with Hepatitis C eats at that resteraunt and accidently scratches his or her mouth with the fork provided for them, then that fork is put in a bin with a bunch of other forks, knives, and spoons all of which could conceivably now be contaminated, then they are all cleaned and redistributed to their food-seaking patrons, one of which happens to be you.. and you accidently scratch your mouth with the fork provided for you... you have that chance of contracting hepatitis c. freaky isn't it?Moral of that story... Get your hep. shots!And just to ease your mind, reports of hepatitis contracted from a resteraunt is rare, extremely rare. If it wasn't then I think all resteraunts would be completely sterilizing their silverware or spending a fortune on plastic utensils. Then you would be paying twenty dollars for a burger... and that would suck.
