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=EQ #4= Why is it important to balance personal, short-term benefits and society’s long term welfare? toc

Keshav
I say that it's imporant too keep to world in mind when thinking about doing something for your own benifit, regardless of what it is, but especially for welfare. For example, say you decide to save your precious sleep time by skipping the shower for some days, even though you'd get plenty of sleep either way. In the begining, the effects don't show so much; you go on living your life as normal. However, just because the effects aren't showing dosen't mean that they're not there. Not only is the sweat that's building up on your skin slowly starting to make you stink, but it's also providing an adequate factory for micro-organisms like bacteria to multiply quickly. As a result, there will be many bacteria on your skin, and they can eaisily spread airbone, foodborne (if you take a piece of food that someone else takes after you, for example), and through person-to-person contact, and infect other people. Oh, and you're not just putting other people at risk by not taking a shower, you're putting yourself at risk too; not just for infection either, because, as I mentioned earlier, you will start to sink (and repel other, "clean", people). You will also probably start itching too, as there are dead skin cells still on your body. Soon enough, you will start feeling uncomfortable in your own skin. You could even start a disease that will spread school-wide. So please, if not for yourself, but for the sake of everyone around you, please shower everyday! [] This picture relates to my work, as it shows a (rain) shower, but a shower none the less. It shows that even nature can keep itself clean. :) Back To Top Ernie :Keshav I thought I had posted mine first why isn't mine on the top?

Ivory
Personal hygiene is something very important. You might have heard this sentence numerous times from your mom. However, taking personal hygiene matters isn’t just for your own good. As we all know, when someone is sick, the people around him/her starts to get sick too. The disease spreads quickly as everyone starts to fall sick. The ways this could happen is through airborne, food borne, and person-to-person in physical contact. Instead of trying to avoid these ways of transmission, you could take simple personal hygiene measures. This could mean just washing your hands before you eat, covering your mouth when you cough, sneezing into your arm, and even things as basic as showering frequently. Easy measures such as this can affect and benefit a society’s long term welfare. For example of this is that you are having a cold. You sneeze into your hand and without washing it; you shake someone else’s hand. By doing so, you have just let the other person come in contact with the virus. Sooner or later, that person will fall sick and the spread of the sickness slowly spreads throughout the whole community. You never know when you have pathogenic virus or bacteria in or on your body. They are microscopic and can’t be seen without a microscope. Just in case, you should always take personal hygiene measures to not make yourself and the people around you sick. A personal hygiene measure could be washing your hair regularly. Without doing this, your hair could get lice which would spread to other people and make them have lice too. No one wants lice now do they? The next time you decide to not wash your hands before you eat; think of the numerous people that could suffer from your little mistake. To benefit a society’s long term welfare, everyone should remember to have personal hygiene habits which could range from just washing and cleaning your body to taking proper medications and preventions to diseases. Your actions can affect your friends and family members so don’t be inconsiderate! Keshav: I like how you talked about how the effects won’t show immediately but could still be there. [] Money is something that is passed through people frequently. Therefore, money is not a very clean object. Personally, I would think it's a good idea to wash your hands after you come in contact with money. Think about it this way. If an extremely unhygienic person went to the bathroom and didn't wash his hands afterwards. Then, he decided to go buy something at the store. He took out the money with his dirty hands and handed it to the cashier. The cashier than decides to take a lunch break. He didn't think to wash his hands before he eats. The fingers that is reaching for the roasted chicken is also the one that had touched the money which has been touched by someone's hand that had been used to clean his/her butt. Not very appealing, is it? Michael: Thanks. I lost my appetite.

Ernie
Personal If you keep your hands clean, you will not get sick offten. If you keep on washing your hands and keeping clean. You will keep your friends,family, school a bit more clean. Even if you for get it once in awhile it will still help if you wash your hands. Also if you sneeze you need to cover up your nose. You will make alot of people get less bacteria. You wont spread it that quickly. If you have a long term and blance personal welfare you could save alot of people from getting sick.I -EQ4 Why isn't my picture showing?

=Dhalyn= I agree with Ernie because if you don't keep your hands clean then of course people are going to get sick. Also to add what Ernie said about when you cough and sneeze it would be better to cough in your elbow and not your hand, because you barely touch things with your elbow but you touch a lot of things with your hand. If you wash your hand you can also prevent the spread of disease and bacteria. If you keep this up then the spread of disease will lower but, it won't stop completely.

The reason I chose this photo was because, this boy is sick and not covering his mouth. If we do this then people would keep getting sick but if we cover our mouth and nose and wash our hands then, it will help prevent this.

Haley
I think that it's important to balance the welfare of yourself and others because you can make bacteria resistant to anti-bacterial drugs, & make other people sick/spreading diseases. An example of that is if you don't wash your hands and then go eat, you could make yourself sick and make some of the people you touch sick too. You can think of it as second hand smoking. People don’t want to inhale someone else’s smoke. Would you like to get a deadly disease just because someone was didn’t take 30 seconds to wash their hands? I didn’t think so. To remind yourself to wash your hands, you can think of all the germs on your hands as deadly little viruses. Washing your hands could save your whole school from getting sick!

I chose the picture below because it's of someone taking their time washing their hands with __regular__ soap. Michael: I agree. I wouldn't want to inhale in air that a person just smoked in.

Michael

 * When you sneeze, for example you cover your mouth with your hands. If you don't cover your mouth you will infect other people that breathes in the air you just sneezed in. Also, after you cover your mouth, you should wash your hands. If you don't and you go shake someone's hands, that person will get sick. So best wash your hands after you sneeze or sneeze into your sleeve so you don't get your hands dirty and you don't infect the air. Also, wash your hands after you play ANY sports. Sports are all dirty because if you play a sport that requires you to touch or hit something, everyone else will have to touch of hit it too. So you should wash your hands. Also, when you play sports, you sweat, and sweat can cause bacteria and viruses to stick on your body. So wash your hands to wash off the viruses because they will move with the water. Lastly, wash your hands before and after lunch, breakfast, and dinner. If you don't and you use your hands to eat, you might get a food borne illness. Also, if you don't wash your hands before you eat, everything you touch will get infected. Think about it. Would you want to get sick from using a fork that someone that just came from the bathroom and didn't wash their hands? I wouldn't.

Basketball, is very dirty because the ball touches the ground and other peoples sweaty hands. ** []

Keshav: Correct Michael. You could get a wide range of people ill by not covering your mouth when you cough or sneeze, or by not washing them afterwords if you do.

Robert
I say it is important, because if you don't, such as not washing your hands after you come back home from somewhere else, it is very likely to get sick. When you are home, you take your shoes off. When you are taking your shoes off, you touch the bottom of your shoes, which contains lots of nasty stuff. People spit on the ground,dogs pee on the ground, and you walk on the ground. If you touch contaminated things like that, you have to wash your hand. You rub your eyes, and nose, and those bacteria and viruses' are going to contact with your eyes, nose, skin, and etc. You won't notice that you're sick instantly but the disease will worsen.



This is why you should wash your hands. You will be able to kill germs like the picture above. You have to wash your hands alot!!

=Alice= I think that it's important because let's say that you're sick. You cough into your hands and without washing them, you walk down the stairs to the subway station while holding on to the railings. The germs are now swarming on the railings and many people hold onto them or lean on them for support everyday. Then, those people get sick and can't go to work. It just so happens that the President of the United States is going to the subway station too and grasping the railings for support. He gets sick and misses a really important meeting with the President of France. That meeting was set so that they could discuss the situation of Iraq. The President of France has just now missed a great oppurtunity to present his opinions and ideas to the President of the USA. He can't do it now because his flight just left for France and the President of the States is still sick and raging with a fever. This could cause an economical crisis in America and all this happened because you didn't wash your hands after you coughed on them.

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This picture relates to my wiki entry because you should always cover your mouth when coughing

=WooHea= It is important to balance balance personal, short-term benefits and society’s long term welfare, beacause if we only think of our own good, and don't care about a society's long term fair, we might have a serious problem after. Take a disease for an example. Let's say I have a very serious problem without knowing I have one. And I don't wash my hands often and I just go around the school touching everything. I might touch books in library, art materials such as crayons, color pencils in art room,or anything that is used by not only myself but also other people in school. I might also shake hands, hug with other people. If the disease that I have is easily transmitted by objects and person to person, then my stupid action like not washing my hands often can affect whole bunch of other people. Besides, if the disease is so so serious, it can be spread to all of Shanghai.To put it in more drastic way, I kill people. So, I think people have to balance balance personal, short-term benefits and society’s long term welfare in order to make our life more comfortable, and happy. :) This picture(hugging) shows one of the examples that can spread disease person-to-person. []