This weekend, SNL brought back one of my all time favorite recurring Weekend Update segments - “Really?!” with Seth Meyers and Amy Poehler. The deserving target of this week’s tirade was finance behemoth Goldman Sachs, who got H1N1 (that would be the Swine Flu) vaccines for all their employees, even though there’s a nationwide shortage. In case you were wondering, this means that bankers are more deserving of, well, everything, than we regular folks are.
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Have you ever uttered - or heard someone else utter - the phrase “I don’t have time to get sick”? Well, for people who don’t have the time or desire to be sick, a Japanese clothing company called Haruyama Trading has developed a suit that they claim can help ward off H1N1 (aka the swine flu).
It is coated with titanium dioxide, a chemical commonly used in toothpaste and cosmetics and that breaks down when reacting with light, supposedly killing the virus upon contact.
Shinto Hirata, vice director of merchandising at Haruyama, says the suit is proven to kill 40 percent of the latest flu virus in about three hours and will retain its protective capability even after being washed several times.
I guess this is the next thing you’ll have to expense for your boss. It costs $590, which is a lot of fancy lunches.