"Stay at home and study Hard!" - The school

Yesterday (Sunday) one of the school's Staff visited the dormitory to check on us. Despite the recommendation to stay home...guess what...i was the only one here ;). All my roommates where out.

One of them is quite happy. Since the school is closed, he can work everyday and get some more money...well, i guess it was not really the purpose of the quarantine, but they can't chain us to our beds...can they?

One of the requirements of the school, is that we send an email every day before 12.00 to confirm our health status and tell them if anything is wrong. The email should contain Name, Class and any symptoms we might have.

I was reading about this new Flu and the normal Flu. So far there have been about 80 casualties. Normal Flu causes yearly between 250-500,000 deaths worldwide of which 63,000 in 2001 in USA alone. It seems the risk is that this Flu might mutate into a more aggressive version.

At this moment, there is high demand of face masks, which saturday, after the last announcements, were completely sold out. Yesterday at the train station, the number of people wearing them was way greater than any other day before.

On saturday night i've seen a couple of classes of High School students at the station. ALL of them wearing masks. I think the school required them to do so. It was at that moment that i've realized that the thing was becoming big...

In any case, , let's hope it is over soon.

Today, is the first sunny day after a lot of rain. I'm not really wishing for the summer to come as in japan summertime can be really hot and humid, so i will just say "nice to see some sunshine again" ;)