“S” Is For “Swine Flu:” Plaza Sesamo Teaches Kids About The Flu

In light of the fact that people across the world have spontaneously combusted thanks to the swine flu, Televisa and Sesame Workshop have banded together to inform young children how to protect themselves from the dreaded zombie bacon virus.

Stars like Lucero, Jorge Poza and Adrián Uribe joined the show’s regular cast members to give facts about the flu and offer advice like covering one’s mouth when coughing all over the classroom finger paints. Because we love children (sauteed, with onions), we have our own advice to offer to the young ones during this time of strife, confusion and pork:

• Don’t eat pork products.

Sure, health officials and the pork industry have said it’s perfectly safe to consume your usual bacon-wrapped sausage balls, but eating too much pork will make you fat. And then you will have no friends. 

• Flu masks do nothing.

Flu masks are not enough to stop the swine flu virus from crawling up your nose or lodging itself under your tongue. To truly be safe from this illness, it is imperative to cover one’s entire person with strips of cloth soaked in formaldehyde. Luckily, since, as a child, you are small, you require less cloth.

• Stay out of Mexico

It’s scary! And, finally,

• Panic.

If you think you have swine flu, you probably do. In which case, it was nice knowing you. Please refrain from touching the playground equipment during recess. Thanks.

“Plaza Sésamo” educa sobre la gripe porcina [People en Español]