We got the notice on Friday. One case in the day care.

We have since found out that the case was NOT in our daughter's classroom but it was in the classroom of the sister of one of her classmates AND we were at the little one's birthday party yesterday (they are good friends of ours). The little girl woke up last night screaming and had a temperature over 103. They took her to Patient First and she has A flu but they couldn't determine if it was H1N1.

My little one has a slight fever (99.5) my wife has a 100.5 reading but I have nothing (probably thanks to exercise). They are okay. I just got back from a massive grocery store run so we are going to have a family eating and fluids fest for the rest of the day. We were supposed to go to another birthday party today but we called and told them we couldn't make it- it wouldn't be responsible for us to bring what we know we have into their house. I don't blame our friends there was no sign of any illness until suddenly last night and no I am not kicking myself for going to the party yesterday. You do have to live your life.

So... for the political slant... I have been saying for a few weeks that this episode of swine flu is worse than we are being told about. This is typical of the news void that we live in. There is a real threat, certain interests kick and whine about it not being a threat (this is mostly a territorial thing as THEY have been using fear and terror for 30 years and don't want to give it up), the news media either ignores it or has two dismissive stories for every fact based "here is where we are" story, The HHS director was being held up in a purely political grandstanding move to string along the abortion crowd and *snap your fingers* this flu thing comes up and her appointment is pushed through the next day not that we are ever reminded of that........and so on.

Now I am NOT blaming this on them but they whole thing is indicative of the strange odd world we live in and let me finish by saying something I have rea..... OOH LOOKS!! BALLOON BOY!!! let's go to on the scene reporting....