Global flu

Well, well, well, as my friend Adrienne put it on April 30, when Stevens Elementary School in Seattle was closed for a week to combat seemingly non-existent flu cases in the school:

The H1N1 flu has arrived in Japan, despite the government's aggressive efforts to test and quarantine foreigners arriving on suspicious airplanes.

A bunch of high school kids in Osaka and Kobe have it. And now 2 students -- that is, 2 human beings out of 35 million people in Greater Tokyo - also have it.

So what's the proper overreaction? Lucinda's school has canceled tomorrow's planned Sports Day to prepare just in case the city of Tokyo orders all schools to close indefinitely. The teachers would use the school's website to post assignments for students to complete (and parents to manage), and if this disaster comes to pass, I'm sure all the kid-friendly places (like the Children's Castle or Children's Hall) would also be closed. And we would all go crazy.