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Re: What would we have done if swine flu hit during a regional?
umm- we might have gotten sick?
seriously- creating hysteria about the disease is not productive. Being cautious about spreading the germs is. We haven't had massive deaths in the US due to swine flu yet and the building hysteria is scary.
During the Championships we discovered a fair part of team 25 was in the midst of contracting strep throat (did anyone notice the change in our alliance selection guy). Other kids there in FLL were diagnosed with Chicken Pox.
It seems that there is always some disease that these large crowds manage to develop. Should we shut down the robotics world for that?
If a swine flu pandemic epidemic (which isn't anything near what we have seen quite yet) hit during FIRST events the robotics would be the least of our worries.
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