A note from the office of Dr. TriMet: "It’s flu season: Cover your coughs and sneezes. Let’s fight the flu, together."
To fight the flu in all of its various strains, TriMet said today that it is pushing flu prevention information with signs inside buses and trains this winter. (See a picture of the "channel card" above). It has also launched a special web site.
"Channel card installation on TriMet’s 654 buses and 127 MAX vehicles will be completed in the coming week," spokeswoman Bekki Witt said.
Witt said bus and MAX operators have also been given flu prevention information and are encouraged to get a seasonal flu shot.
Witt said the transit agency decided to place the placards in vehicles because of the emergence of the H1N1 virus and expectations of a harsher-than-usual flu season. "We have them going at least through March," Witt said. "We consider it a public space, much like a grocery store or library."
TriMet's list of "preventative measures" looks a lot like the one in most offices:
• Get a flu shot.
• Don't spread the flu! Stay home if you're sick.
• When coughing or sneezing, cover your mouth and nose with either a tissue or your upper sleeve—not your hands. Dispose of tissues in the trash.
• Wash your hands frequently and/or use hand sanitizing gels or wipes.
• Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Germs spread this way.
If only TriMet would provide a hand-sanitizer station at the front of each bus. Those bus seats and hand rails have got to be a one-way ticket to germville.
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