What are you hoping for?

[petra]

As things start to ease up from the strictest lockdown, what are your hopes?

Comments

[mesotablar]

I'm hoping that people realise the benefits of hand hygiene, not going out when sick and social distancing in large groups of strangers. Apparently flu cases are 1/4 of what they were this time last year. Whooping cough and headlice are also much less common.

[petra]

Those would be great things to normalize. I want this to be the watershed year when everyone learns to wash their hands properly, so that in the future people look back at the advent of handwashing and wonder why it took so long for the world to get from "handwashing is good" to "and here's how you do it right."

[mesotablar]

Last year was a bad flu season and there was a doctor recommendation about hand washing and quite a few tv special reports of families amazed that their kids were suddenly healthy all the time just because they started washing their hands properly several times a day. I'm hoping that this 2 year in a row hand washing focus gets lots of kids into the habit so ultimately the future can be a healthier place!