During college I worked at an electronic repair shop. Well, during breaks and summer I worked there. One day I was working in the employee day care waiting for one of the boss’ to pick up her kids. Almost everyone had gone home already- it was just me and her 6 month old son and 4 year old daughter in the day care. There were a handful of other people around when things suddenly got interesting. She had opened a Christmas card and found white powder. She called whoever it is you call about suspicious powder and the police came and a bunch of other people to investigate what the substance was worrying it might be anthrax. Immediately the entire building was quarantined, what’s worse is we were told to stay where we were so that if we had not yet been affected by it we wouldn’t end up affected. Tents and tests were set up. I was stuck trying to keep a 4 year old and 6 month old happy for nearly 3 hours. The incident made it on the local news. It was after 8 P.M. by the time they determined it was not anthrax and we were allowed to go home.
I think the same thing is happening with the swine flu. I mean, we’re talking the flu, and a relatively mild case at that. I guess I just don’t get what the big deal is. There aren’t even 1000 people WORLDWIDE who have been confirmed as having this flu. Let’s not over react.
