JUST LIKE I'VE BEEN SAYING

for the past couple weeks; it's just a flu. No need to close down schools and such. I think everyone's been freaking out because it's not December/January.
Regular flus kill people with poor immune systems [ie, old, young, sick, weak] every year.
I've even gotten the flu twice in the past couple weeks. Don't know what kind, but both times it lasted two days, sucked just because it always sucks when you're sick, and that's it.
GET OVER IT!
As just written on Perezhilton.com,
"

Okay guys, put your medical masks away.

It turns out the Swine Flu is no worse than the regular seasonal flu, the government is now saying.

But we're not out of the woods yet, because there is still a concern that the particular strain of the virus may return twice as strong.

Despite these concerns, the World Health Organization is refraining from raising its alert to a Level 6 because they are not "seeing continued spread of the virus to countries outside of one region."

So far the US Center for Disease Control reports 279 cases across 36 states, with most of its sufferers along the median age of 16. In other words, it's a bunch of kids - who normally get the flu.

Regardless, China - which still recalls its SARS outbreak - is taking no chances, holding Mexican and United States citizens in quarantine.

Hardcore!"