like guile is necessary to outdo H1N1, at least until the vaccines are ready and made available. Here's what it takes: • Minimize touch in public places. • Frequently disinfect your hands – a pocket-sized squeezer costs eight riyals. • Squeeze out a drop and rub your hands when entering or leaving fast-food joints where hands sometimes grip the countertop in the push to place or pull out an order. • Such public show of personal hygiene might encourage others similarly conscientious to emulate. • At banks, on escalators, in lifts, when door-handling, pushing buttons at the ATM – do the squeeze. • And if you happen to duck or get hit by a cough-sneeze, your social commitment should perhaps raise an eyebrow over whether that possible burst of AHNI needs prompt medical attention or not. __
