Quarantine. According to Webster, is from the Old French quarante or forty, the number of days that ships were detained offshore when suspected to hold contagious disease. Its been the word of the week since being notified that our group was expected to do a week-long “self-monitoring quarantine” until it could be assured that no one traveling with us has H1N1. Considering thats just enough time for your body to just start feeling the hit of jetlag, Chinese tap water, and the apocalyptic haze that greets you in Beijing, its going to be interesting see how people's bodies adjust.
To be fair, we can’t blame them when just three days ago an Oregonian traveling in a student group tested positive for swine flu. The only thing worse than getting the swine flu and ruining one vacation is getting the swine flu ruining 65.
Other instructions include to "avoid coughing," to "report any coughs" that occur while in the airplane and to “stay 3 rows distance” from the person coughing. So in essence. . .cover your mouth like you've got SARS.
Other instructions include to "avoid coughing," to "report any coughs" that occur while in the airplane and to “stay 3 rows distance” from the person coughing. So in essence. . .cover your mouth like you've got SARS.
So relax.
Take a deep breath. . .
. . .and hope that it lasts fourteen hour ride.
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