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Swine Flu: Handshakes are out; curmudgeonry is in? Hobart Keltner seems to have had it right By Ed Waggener With the latest H1N1 death total in Kentucky standing at 10, one area of social interaction is getting a lot of attention: The Handshake. It's one tradition which needs to go. It spreads disease. While touchy-feelies of the world see this as a doomsday setback, for many of us, it was about time, swine flu or no swine flu. Nobody would be laughing today at Hobart Keltner, the hermit of the Flat Woods suburb of Portland, KY. for the extreme hygiene he practiced years ago, before it became a essential to staying alive. Hobart had it right. Because of the swine flu outbreak, using alternate forms of greeting, including,
For those of us who live in horror of falling into the outrageous grips of touchy-feely, power hungry authoritarians ruining otherwise enjoyable social occasions with forced huggings, handshakes, faux geniality, and other unwelcome cultish familiarities, the new health dictums a welcome relief. I can't count on one hand the number of churches I've vowed never to enter again because some Sister or some Tupperware party wannabe insisted on making everyone -Ed Waggener, curmudgeon, and proud to be Chelfian on this issue KENTUCKY SWINE FLU STATUS:Latest update, as of October 22, 2009, lists 10 swine flu deaths in Kentucky since August 1, 2009. For a complete county-by-county listing of flu activity in Kentucky, Click Here This story was posted on 2009-10-24 07:27:10
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