Apropos of nothing, whilst on holiday in Majorca one of the kids ran a high temperature, coughing, sore throat and sneezing. When we got back (without alerting anything to the airline) our youngest also came down with this thing. It seemed like a summer cold, and to be fair, we couldn't really be arsed running up to the doctors to be told "well, just to be safe...". So, they might have-not have had swine flu. The missus is sneezing as we speak.
Surely, though, flu actually puts you in bed for a week, and you feel bloody awful. I'm sure that's what it was like last time I had flu.
Anyway, it's better they get it now. It's alarming to think that by the winter loads of people will die of flu. I say alarming, but no more than every year. Apparently, 50,000 americans die from flu every year. Wouldn't that mean that half a million die every ten years? And 5 million every 100 years. Or maybe 50 million every 1000 years?
In 25,000 years nobody will be left in America, if we flippantly ignore this threat!!!!
Here's hoping.
