An associate's relative was informed of that just yesterday. He turned up at some designated place to get checked out for the "swine flu" as part of what he thought was his civic duty after having gotten quite sick while around Quintana Roo in Mexico last month and displaying flu symptoms. Not only did he submit to the Q-tip swab or whatever they stuck deep up his nose enough for it to hurt at least some, they also wanted to charge him for self-reporting and getting tested upon their request. They released him given he was at the trail end of whatever illness he had picked up while in Mexico but not until after getting him concerned about a possible involuntary quarantine.

This swine flu is probably going to amount to just another SARS-like hysteria that carries on while thousands of more people die in car accidents every day than die of this flu over the course of this month.