[Publib] hand sanitizer in libraries

[Backwage at aol.com]

Back when I was a probation officer, Satan had just finished inventing  
AIDS.  About a third of my clients were HIV positive or in full-blown  AIDS.  
Somebody in the admin department decided that we were to:
 
1.  Refuse to shake hands with clients henceforth.
2.  Wash our desktops after each client visit.
3.  Never let 'em use the phone.
 
Mind you, I was out there in the men's room taking their urine samples  
(don't ask) and all other manner of contact except conjugal visits.  And of  
course, the admin folk never got around to figuring out that AIDS presented no 
 problem, but that the hepatitis certainly did, not to mention body lice,  
influenza and seizures brought on by inhaling the breath of some gent who'd 
been  smoking crack if not sniffing glue.
 
I wish there had been something I could have sprayed on to eliminate the  
memory of having to tell several clients they had this new autoimmune 
disorder  that the county doctor didn't explain sufficiently.  
 
Seriously, libraries do need those disinfectant wipes when their client  
base includes homeless folk with the usual propensity for hepatitis.  
 
M. 
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