Death Stalks Among Us

As it stands now the alleged pandemic is very close to home. More and more people are being struck down with Das Schwein. Apparently on July 17th the World Health Organisation stopped recording individual cases of H1N1 but in the last count I could find there were 1748 confirmed cases in Pennsylvania and four deaths.
Now when I say it's close to home I mean it. The other day at Crossroads Middle School which is just across the road from my school there were two hundred students absent and they were sending an average of twenty students home at the end of every class, and even at my school there are noticeable gaps in the student body. I'm not certain how many of these were cases of Swine Flu, but I do know that at least some proportion of them were as someone I know caught it.
It's really hard to gauge how serious it is as what people say about it varies so much. I've heard alternately from a lot of different people that if you have it in you're in hospital sick as a dog barely able to move and isolated in quarantine or that it's not that much worse than a cold, plus everything in between. The only thing we really hear from school is WASH YOUR HANDS, WASH YOUR HANDS so I'm really not sure what to think about the whole thing although it's hard to argue with the fact that there have been multiple deaths from it...

Also I joined the lumberjack club, biatch...

Lots and lots of love,

Luke