Can you avoid the flu while traveling this holiday season?

No one means to move about the country making other people sick, but it happens all the time. When we get on an airplane or other form of public transportation, we take our cold or flu with us. We also can pick up someone else’s, and literally, spread those cold and flu germs to people in another region of the country.

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano spoke yesterday about holiday travel safety and specifically the spread of germs. She was joined by representatives from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Together these federal agency super powers recommended that we practice good hygiene, get flu vaccines and stay at home if we are sick.

It all sounds a bit simplistic. But — it’s true. That is what it takes. Wash your hands, cough into your elbow and stay out of public places when you are sick.

I have explored the idea of selling pandemic flu gift boxes. My research shows that they might sell well, but I can’t see how they will really help people. We put hand sanitizer and tissues in our Ready Auto Gift Boxes because these are the two emergency essentials that everyone needs for multiple situations.

The idea behind the Ready Home, Ready Auto and Ready Dog Gift Boxes is to help you be prepared today and tomorrow for the many hazards that you may experience. Tissues and hand sanitizer just makes sense in so many circumstances. The cheap face masks and alcohol wipes, we see promoted in some e-commerce stores, just don’t.

My suggestion for holiday travel: try and have some fun, don’t panic if someone near you sneezes, and keep practicing good hygiene.

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