FAQs - FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Q: What is the new Respiratory Etiquette or Flu Etiquette?
A: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention highly recommends the following basic actions to take:
Cover your sneeze or cough with a tissue, if it is available. If not, sneeze or cough into the sleeve or elbow instead of the hand.
Wash hands frequently in warm water and soap for at least 20 seconds or by using hand sanitizer.
Stay home if you are sick.

Q: What is the Flu-Buster Way?
A: The Flu Buster Way is an educational program designed to teach the new flu etiquette in the most effective way possible. The program introduces the concept of “The POO Factor” (“ Probability of Occurrence” ) which shows people how they can take control and lower the probability of catching the flu and raise the probability that they will not spread the flu to others. The program emphasizes the Common Sense approach of using all resources at one’s disposal including wearing the Flu Buster Armband, tapping into the Shared Wisdom of experts in the field, , using Technology such as the Sanitizer Wand and following one’s own source of Inspiration in order to protect your children, friends and neighbors.
Featured topics include:
The Flu Buster Song especially for schools
What Your Family Needs to Know
Where Germs Hide & Thrive
The New Flu Etiquette

Q: What is the Flu-Buster Armband?
A. The Flu Buster Armband is an adjustable cloth band attached by velcro strips around your arm wherever it is most comfortable - your wrist or higher up above your elbow. The cloth band has a pocket which holds a Kleenex pack of 15 disposable tissues. There is a an opening in the pocket so you can cough or sneeze directly into the tissue and then throw the used tissue in the trash. The next tissue is instantly ready for use. There is also a pocket which contains a small vial of hand sanitizer for convenience when there is no time to go to the bathroom to wash your hands. The adult version of the Flu-Buster Armband also has a pocket for using the optional pen size hand sanitizer spray.

Q: What is unique about the Flu-Buster Armband?
A: The Flu-Buster Armband provides the most effective way to stop spreading germs. Kleenex tissue is readily available to stop airborne germs from a sneeze or a cough from infecting people near by. Covering up with the Flu-Buster Armband also prevents a person from breathing in airborne germs from another person’s sneeze or cough. Hand sanitizer is readily available if a wash room is not close by.

Q: Why should we wear the Flu Buster Armband?
A: Because the use of the Flu-Buster Armband lowers the probability that we will be infected and also that we will infect someone else. Because the Flu Buster Armband develops good habits. Because the Flu Buster Armband teaches and reminds children of good hygiene practices. Because the world has now become one big island and everything we do affects someone else. Because we care.

Q: Who should use the Flu-Buster Armband?
A: In general, during the flu season anyone who feels that they are better protected from catching infectious germs and anyone who feels they don’t want to infect someone else. More specifically, anyone who works with children, with the elderly, with the sick. Any one who is traveling in airplanes, ships, trains, buses or ferries. Anyone who works with food such as in restaurants, grocery stores or warehouses.

Q: What is the Flu-Buster Song?
A: The Flu-Buster Song is sung to the tune of London Bridges and is an entertaining way to teach children the new flu etiquette. The verses are easy to learn and the words reinforce the actions recommended to develop good hygiene and sanitary practices. Children are our best role models for developing good habits and expecting their parents and adults to also practice good habits.

Q: Where can I get the Flu-Buster Armband?
A: 911 Health & Safety Products manufactures and distributes the Flu Buster Armband in the USA. For orders or additional information and a list of retail stores that carry the Flu Buster Armband, email 911@911seminars.com or call toll free 1-800-721-8222.

Q: How can I get my children’s school to use the Flu-Buster Way?
A: Tell your children’s teacher about us. Give her/him the contact information or send us an email and we will be glad to send additional information.

Q: Should my employees wear the Flu Buster Armband?
A: Businesses have a vital role to play in helping stop the spread of the flu. To help keep your employees healthy, the best way is to make sure they know the “New Flu Etiquette” so they can teach their families. But knowledge is not enough. People need the knowledge and the tools so they can take positive action to help solve the problems we are facing with a possible pandemic. Take positive action now and call us for information on how we can provide the training in the Flu-Buster Way and the effective use of the Flu-Buster Armband.