This Little Piggy Went to Market

This little piggy went home.

This little piggy had roast beef,

This little piggy had none.

And this little piggy had a fever, which is usually high (but unlike seasonal flu, is sometimes absent), cough, runny nose or stuffy nose, sore throat, body aches, headache, chills, fatigue or tiredness, which can be extreme.

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The swine flu paranoia has hit my school. Elementary school is shut down. Mothers are pulling their kids out of kindergarten. Everyone is wearing masks. We are sacrificing a boar tomorrow before dawn.


And there are a lot of strange politics at play. We can't really close down because we are a Hagwon, an after school program.. Maybe next month the mothers will not send their kids here. So we have to stay at school and call our students at home to see if they have done their homework. They don't do their homework when they are going to see me the next day. And we won't close the kindergarten down because that would look bad, too. It doesn't matter that this is a disease and  it doesn't reflect anything on the school itself.. I mean, the kids didn't get sick here, they got sick at the elementary school they go to in the morning. But that doesn't seem to matter.


It is an interesting thing. And I know it is a serious disease, and no one is more concerned than mothers are, but it is a very strange way to deal with it.


For Halloween I think I am going to get a pair of wings, a surgical mask and a pig snout. Swine Flew.