Nail Biz Hepititis B

The Business of Nails
NAIL-BIZ by the Dragon

Those of you who know more about us may already be aware that we have concerns about the
cheap services, the cheap materials, the cheap attitudes, and the cheap outlooks towards
safety and sanitation that exists in so many of the quickie discount nail shops. We know a lot
of the owner/operators of such shops and some tell me that I have the
"You Americans Worry Too Much About Nothing" syndrome.

Ok, so you probably already know that we are not fans of the super
low priced nail boards that are shipped in from overseas.

And yes, I guess part of that is because you could say that we have an attitude
about the unfairness of those imports. We concede that the actual quality is
probably not much different from low priced nail boards made in the USA.

We don't seem to like that it means less jobs available here in our own country
for low skilled workers. And wouldn't it be better to at least manufacture
them in Mexico,,,, the Mexican people need the jobs just as much as the Chinese
do,,, and the Mexican people are a whole lot friendlier towards us than the
Chinese are.

In places such as China they lure poverty stricken peasants to the factory
zones and pay them $40 to $50 a month to work 14 hour days, 6, sometimes
7 days a week. They often use political prisoners, and young children. There
are no worker benefits, to the contrary, the workers are treated like slave labor.
The money over there doesn't go to the people, it goes to the 'fat cats".

Most of us have little idea of the reality of the filth and ignorance and dirt that
fills every moment of life in those countries. I have traveled China, and
Vietnam, and Cambodia, and Thailand. The conditions in those countries
make the conditions in most of Mexico seem to be hospital scrub fresh clean.

So that introduces the sanitation question.

Now I'm not a Hepatitis B expert.
But I do know that in parts of Asia over half the population have active
hepatitis B or are carriers of hepatic B. And I did marry into an Asian family.
And I had the $350 triple series of vaccinations prior to marrying. And of
course, my babies, like everyone's, got the vaccine - but babies in the US only
began receiving the vaccine in the past few years.

Hepatitis B is a serious liver disease caused by a virus that can infect anyone
who comes in contact with it. People can get hepatitis B from coming in contact
with blood, with serum, with saliva, with semen, with vaginal fluid, with snot,
with feces residue on unwashed hands.

The hepatitis B virus can remain alive and infectious on DRY surfaces
for up to a month, longer on moist surfaces.
The vaccine that prevents hepatitis B disease is only 90% effective.

I already mentioned the problem of ignorance. Last month I took my
brother-in-law to the health department because his blood test revealed that
he is a hepatitis B carrier. Hepatitis B has become a big issue with the health departments - the disease is on the verge of spreading big time in the US.
And the health departments are really attempting
a huge effort in educating and telling people like my brother-in-law what they
must do to protect their own health and the health of family members and
what care to exercise on their job and with friends. In fact, they took a blood
sample from me while I was there cause like I said the vaccine is only 90%
effective and they wanted to check me again to be certain that I haven't
picked up the disease since my last blood test.

SO... I am driving my brother-in-law home and I ask him,,,
"Did you understand most of what they told you?". He replies....
"Yes". "But I don't have hepatitis B" "I'm not sick".
"You Americans worry too much about nothing".
Begin the see what a frustrating situation is involved?

So maybe I'm a fanatic. Maybe I am just so wrong.
But in my mind I see
this filthy, hot, dirty rundown factory building overseas..
filled with these uneducated, overworked, ignorant peasants..
with God knows what for toilets, no running water, no soap, no towels...
extreme poverty means no handkerchiefs or tissues....
so you blow your nose onto the floor or the product on the table ....
wipe the snot on your nose with your hand and then pick up the next product..
do you have an open sore or wound that is not bandaged......
are you careless and cut yourself on the product and leave some blood
on the product you are packaging.....
I don't know.

I cannot imagine being concerned about protecting our clients against
the possibility of HIV/AIDS and not also being concerned about
protecting them against the possibility of Hepatitis B infection.

And this is one more reason (among many reasons) that we try our best to
educate the consumer/client/customer that there is a risk (ok, perhaps a small
risk) in patronizing some of the discount salons:::::: be they called discount,
non-standard, chop shop, or whatever.

Wow, I think you guys are a little ..... intense ?.. about some things.
Yeah, could be.
Say, do you eat chocolate? M&Ms, Milky Way, Reeses?
Do you know that chocolate comes from slave labor?
CLICK HERE for infomation.

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