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With all the talk of swine flu in our school, it is normal to be paranoid about contracting it. As for me, I wasn’t going to let that ruin my daily activities. Yes, I am still afraid of contracting this flu on roids, but despite the fanfare, I regarded swine flu as somewhat like a trend. Like Crocs. Or Keith Martin.

But then, last Wednesday something happened to me. Maybe it has something to do with talking to people who were in direct contact with people who had swine flu. Or me talking to people who had swine flu but failed to mention to me that they had swine flu and told me they had swine flu at the last minute. Or maybe it was because I was just stupid enough to run around Taft avenue without an umbrella during a rainy afternoon. Maybe it was all three of these reasons because fact of the matter is, I got, wait for it, sick.

Under normal circumstances, if I got sick,

1. My mom would give me 10-15 reasons of how my getting sick was my fault

2. Take my meds

3. Go to my room

3. Do a 360, inverted, fadeaway, backflip and land in my bed.

4. Sleep

5. Wake up and feel well again

But nowadays, if you get sick or even appear to be sick, this is what would probably happen:

1. You’d be refused entry in school just because your nose got irritated by the cheap perfume of one of the lady security guards in school.

2. Your ID will be blacklisted (OA noh?)

3. Either of two things: you’re angry because you want to go to school / you’re happy cause you finally have a valid reason to cut classes.

Of which, the latter is the most likely scenario.

4. You head home because you’re a.) really sick, b.) spent all your money on DOTA, c.) you just wanna see your momma.

5. Mom would gives you 10-15 reasons of how my getting sick was my fault

6. Momma gets uber paranoid and covers the door to your bedroom with cocoon-like material. Like bubble boy.

7. Momma goes to Uniwide or Makro and buys a shitload of facemasks.

8. Get tested and find out all the hype and paranoia of me getting swine flu was uncalled for.

9. Take your meds anyway.

10. Do a 360, inverted, fadeaway, backflip and land in my bed.

11. Sleep

12. Wake up and feel well again

Needless to say, this is what I went through during my 3 day self quarantined state. Can’t wait to go out and be done with all this swine flu nonsense.