Did that headline get your attention? As a stay-at-home worker, I am pretty safe from any viral global pandemics. But I know a guy who has been affected by the swine flu. He is a colleague on a project with me. He is from New Zealand and was flying back from Los Angeles last week. On that same flight were some New Zealand high schoolers who had come to Mexico for a school outing. 2 of them caught swine flu. Colin, my friend, did not, but he has been quaranteed to his house by the government for the last 5 days. Is that strange?
That is how this stuff spreads. It is such a big world that seemingly random situations, like a high school group from New Zealand taking a trip to Mexico the week this virus breaks out, do occur because there are just so many people out there and our global travel systems allows people to be easily connected. An odd story but something I thought worth sharing.
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