Public Health Management Techniques

GruntDoc passes along a useful tip on How to ameliorate flu panic: don't test the nasal swabs sent in to see whether or not they're positive.

Thus, no new confirmed cases, and no new confirmed cases=public calm!

You have to admit, there's something very straightforward and practical about this plan. Easy, too.

In related news, there's a probable case of H1N1 at one of the schools my library serves (presumably to be confirmed or disproved once a nasal swab is tested, should anyone choose to do this).

We're proceeding as usual for the time being.