There's some people getting sick around here, too (I guess it's the Being Close To Mexico thing? Probably not?) but since I only have to deal with students for 2 more weeks, I'm not too worried :\ I don't eat pork anyway, although I imagine that has nothing to do with getting it. STILL!
Thanks :D. I wish I could use Winamp on my netbook. Damn thing runs on Linux and for some reason I can't install Wine ;_;
I don't think you can get it by eating pork but the proximity to Mexico probably plays a role. But then, they confirmed cases in Spain so it does spread. Nothing in Germany yet, though.
I wish those handy masks they use in Japan would be as easily available here. I'd hate getting ill one and a half weeks before the finals, even if the survival rate is as high :/ (and given that Mexico D.F. has a population of approximately 25 million people, normal gang wars account for more victims than the swine flu).
I am thinking, a month later, that really it's all a lot of hype over something that's totally normal - pigs get flu. We get pigs' flu. It is just the way of things. People die of flu every year, etc etc, the flupocalypse has not happened...etc. ^^;;
Kind of true! And that they were as socially normal as they are in Asia, because really people can be gross when they're sick even WITHOUT pigs to compound the problem. (...Also so true. Perspective, people!)
Last week we had, I dunno, 20 new cases or so, and they all appeared at the Japanese school in Düsseldorf (which is somewhere far up north. Don't ask me. I've seen far more of Greece and Spain than of Germany ^^;;). But from what I heard only one death yet in Europe... a Scottish woman, I think.
I just need to remind myself to not get too close to anyone on the airport. But given my proximity-phobia (is there a name for that? O_o) this isn't likely anyway...
*lol* I wonder when they'll start stockpiling milk and veggies in tin cans like they did after Chernobyl...
But I suppose if I was closer to the Mexican border I wouldn't be as cynical. Or maybe I would? At least my own family doesn't seem to think that this is so serious (which can mean that it isn't serious but also that the information policy of the Mexican government sucks).
>___> so I've decided to reinstall winamp, possibly 2.7x, so I have something low-resource to use when I'm photoshopping or trickstering. (We'll see whether it's actually lower resource than itunes or not.) So. :D I get to use pretty skins now. And maybe I will finish MAKING some of mine?
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There's some people getting sick around here, too (I guess it's the Being Close To Mexico thing? Probably not?) but since I only have to deal with students for 2 more weeks, I'm not too worried :\ I don't eat pork anyway, although I imagine that has nothing to do with getting it. STILL!
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I don't think you can get it by eating pork but the proximity to Mexico probably plays a role. But then, they confirmed cases in Spain so it does spread. Nothing in Germany yet, though.
I wish those handy masks they use in Japan would be as easily available here. I'd hate getting ill one and a half weeks before the finals, even if the survival rate is as high :/ (and given that Mexico D.F. has a population of approximately 25 million people, normal gang wars account for more victims than the swine flu).
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I am thinking, a month later, that really it's all a lot of hype over something that's totally normal - pigs get flu. We get pigs' flu. It is just the way of things. People die of flu every year, etc etc, the flupocalypse has not happened...etc. ^^;;
Kind of true! And that they were as socially normal as they are in Asia, because really people can be gross when they're sick even WITHOUT pigs to compound the problem. (...Also so true. Perspective, people!)
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I just need to remind myself to not get too close to anyone on the airport. But given my proximity-phobia (is there a name for that? O_o) this isn't likely anyway...
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But I suppose if I was closer to the Mexican border I wouldn't be as cynical. Or maybe I would? At least my own family doesn't seem to think that this is so serious (which can mean that it isn't serious but also that the information policy of the Mexican government sucks).
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