Swine flu?

[Alex]

Sadly the pendulum has swung. We're so far into pre-emptive overreaction that I'm going to be disappointed if less than 10,000 people die in the United States. If this goes on much longer I'm going to require horse-drawn wagons calling for our dead while winding slowly through neighborhoods for satisfaction.

I heard (from "a guy") that all the schools in Minnesota have been closed because a student mentioned her mom had just been to Texaco.