Pandemics

So today I walk into work and everyone is in lather over the Swine Flu and the girl missing from Myrtle Beach.
What makes us all get into an uproar over things like this? One lady here loaded each desk up with rubbing alcohol and hand wipes. The seventeen year old girl missing is a tragedy but in the news report (and we can’t always believe that) said she was prone to leaving or running away. Poor girl needs to get her some help.
The Swine Flu is another interesting story, Cari the office germ freak, decided to wash everything down with Clorox. I about passed out from the smell and there’s not been any cases reported here yet. She actually had a book out of Reader Digest “Back to Basics” like she was going to go camp out on her husbands parents farm and live off the land. When and if the day does come she will be a train wreck.
I talked to Luke last night in Atlanta and they have a few cases reported there, their kids are not school age, Kyle is in a Mommy’s Day out like thing so he’s on vacation from that, because just like his daddy, if there is a cold to be caught Kyle will get it.
Jacks said there were two unconfirmed cases where he is and a few more reported this morning. They closed down the schools and daycares there, but not his college classes. He’s too rowdy to catch anything but he did mention his heads been hurting the last few days and throat is sore.
Lori is worried that it will come this weekend, since she wants to go see the movie again she was cold busted on before. I don’t get the closing schools and then the little runts are running around the malls and on the beaches together anyway. If they do close she may end up in class until Memorial weekend.
What blows my mind the sheer panic some are going through, stock piling gas and foods, tightening up houses? Some of the younger kids are all up in arms and the problem hasn’t even hit close to here yet.
Whatever the out come will be……no matter how hard you wash your hands.