Will Influenza Affect RVing?
No matter where you go, you cannot escape the news of the new form of influenza. Newspaper headlines scream, and television news anchors look grim. It’s reached the point where one journalism professor had this to say to the Washington Post. “”Cable news has 24 hours to fill, and there isn’t 24 hours of exciting news going on. If you scare people, they’ll tune in more.”
Are you scared? Are you tuning in more? As an RVer, how is your lifestyle different than that of the ordinary “land based” folk, and how might that affect your susceptibility to influenza? We’ve looked into the matter and can tell you this: There’s more to fear in the fear of the influenza, than in the influenza itself. To a degree, RVers have a mixed bag of risks, and protection.
First off, let’s talk about the transmission of this new virus. Called H1N1, and often called “swine flu” in the media, this new bug is spread much like any other form of influenza–by person to person contact. Somebody sneezes of coughs, liquid droplets from that containing the virus are transmitte
