I have been trying to be zen about it up to now. People are paranoid about this new flu, I'm not, I know better, this is a mild flu that kills very few people. I'm from Europe, I'm used to it, nothing special, silly Thai people.

But well, now, if officially there about 9000 cases of people infected by the flu and 65 dead, half-officially, according to the Thai Health Authorities, more than 500,000 could have contracted the H1N1 virus in Thailand. Not that it surprises me that much, 90% of the people infected probably do not go to hospital, nor are they tested for the H1N1 virus (so maybe the number of people infected is far more than 500,000...).

But this flu is a mild one, as said before, so why am I paranoid about it?

Because it kills people who have respiratory difficulties and my son is one of them, he has asthma.
Any infection of the respiratory tract lands him in hospital, he just can't breathe anymore.
So what will happen if he gets this virus?
I'm sure not in a hurry to find out and decided to not put him back to school up to the time a vaccine is available.
He is only 3, so he won't miss much by not attending school.

There are risks I'm sure not ready to take, and this one is now top of the list.
Yes, I am now paranoid.