The news about swine flu has been dwindling. More and more folks have realized the virus is no more dangerous than any ‘regular’ flu and that the current pandemic can definitely not be compared to the much deadlier one in 1918. Although unfortunately that doesn’t mean we can happily sneeze into each other’s face again.

Yesterday a coughing man in a raincoat handed us a top-secret file containing a rather disturbing statistic. Turns out that not too long ago, a whopping 4% of the student population at the prestigious HKIS was NOT contaminated. Hence we can safely conclude that 96% was at one point suffering from the piggy cough. Further precautions are being carried out, with more and more schools closing the coming weeks. Middle school at HKIS started today again, whereas lower primary and upper primary are closed since Tuesday this weeks.

There’s an upside though. Such long breaks give our kids all the time in the world to start practicing and eventually do better than this poor girl at future snorting contests.