French Schools, Companies Ban Kissing Over Swine Flu Fears

Some French companies and schools are introducing kissing bans to try and stop the spread of swine flu, ITN reported.

In some places, even the traditional kiss on the cheek has been banned, the BBC reported.

A large insurance company, Axa, told its employees to wave at each other instead of sharing a kiss or a handshake, ITN added.

The mayor of Guilvinec in south-western Brittany, Helene Tanguy, has said that no child should kiss in her town.

The Guardian reported:

Mayor Helene Tanguy said: "I asked the children not to kiss anymore. I felt that the protections sought to wash hands regularly, not throw used handkerchiefs around, and not cough any old way had no meaning if we let the kids keep kissing."

No national ban has been called for at this time.

Comments

[henrypapillon]

07:33 AM on 09/10/2009

I see they have also banned large meals late at night, French wine and oral sex.

[BlackYowe]

02:37 AM on 09/10/2009

This is pretty dang silly!

[Katie Lynn 1]

02:04 AM on 09/10/2009

Tamiflu comes in a tablet form for adults. It is also available in fruit flavoured liquid form for children who are one year old or above. Those adults who find it difficult to swallow tablets can take liquid form.

Adults can take Tamiflu tablets in the strength of 75mg and for children, dosage of 12mg/ml flavoured oral suspension is ideal.

You can take Tamiflu medication with or without food. However, if you take this influenza medication with light food, it rules out any possibility of upsetting your stomach.

[Ishmael1]

01:29 AM on 09/10/2009

Mon dieu! How can this BE?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgjdm5qXTX4

As 1/4 Frenchman, I would willingly court death for l'affaires da couer. Any True Gascon would agree. Qu'elle Domage!

[sense oar sheep]

12:54 AM on 09/10/2009

microphobia is the disease, not influenza

[foureyedbuzzard]

11:02 PM on 09/09/2009

Are they just banning French kissing, or upside down kissing too? Kinda like banning baseball and apple pie...

[Winthorpe]

09:38 PM on 09/09/2009

Wave goodbye to my tourist dollars, France. If I can't kiss your women... wait, they never want to kiss me anyway.

[DallasDon]

08:24 PM on 09/09/2009

You know what they say; If you outlaw kissing, only outlaws will be kissing.

[MillinMn]

07:40 PM on 09/09/2009

Rather kiss and cough, than not kiss and have no human contact.

H1N1 is dangerous, but so are so many other things we face.

I can't imagine that a culturally-embedded social custom, like face-kisses in France, will change short of a highly fatal disease outbreak.

Nor should it.

[motu]

07:33 PM on 09/09/2009

Nnnoooooooo!
Ahh what a drag modern humanities life has become.

(though I understand. :)

[scpato]

07:07 PM on 09/09/2009

They're a land of passionate kissers and they banned kissing. We're a land of fringe lunatics. Can we ban fringe lunatics?

[MillinMn]

07:41 PM on 09/09/2009

unfortunately ... with similar likely effect, meaning none. perhaps we can get the lunatics to kiss each other alot ....

[foureyedbuzzard]

11:00 PM on 09/09/2009

If we banned fringe lunatics, we'd have to elect 537 new people to run the country.

[DarkWitch]

06:32 PM on 09/09/2009

Wow. You know it's serious when the French ban kissing!

[Tavallai]

06:16 PM on 09/09/2009

It's all due to the French penchant for preventative health measures in lieu of costly illness down the road.

I know, totally foreign concept across the Atlantic.

[whitewaterwillie]

06:01 PM on 09/09/2009

No tongues please.

[audadvnc]

06:12 PM on 09/09/2009

Maybe we could all pull big balloons over our heads before we kiss, as "protection"...

[tjwdraws]

05:56 PM on 09/09/2009

That's fine, I only "freedom" kiss! ;-)