The third time of class closing

It has been a long time since I posted last journal.
Recently I had been so busy with my work, taking care of my children who suffered H1N1 flu and so on.

The number of flu patient is increasing day by day in our region.
My youngest daughter’s class closed twice so far and another period of closing is to start from tomorrow again for one week due to the outbreak. She suffered the flu between the down periods. The pediatric clinic that we usually go to was packed with the patients. So we had to go another clinic. The symptom was not so serious than what the media have been saying.

I think that it is necessary to be absent from school when you come down with the flu, but closing the class is really needed? The city’s fiat is that when we have 2 patients of the H1N1 in our class, we have to close though it was changed to 4 patients as its outbreaks dramatically spread few days ago. Much more second time around or third time around?

For kindergarten kids, they can’t stay alone at home while their parents working daytime. How do full-time working mothers handle this situation? Even for me, part-time teacher working once a week, I had to ask my mother to take care of her or bring her to nursery specialized for sick children. I can imagine that it is so much stressful for full time working mothers.

With this spreading speed, I think it seems most human have to come down with the flu.
Take care of yourself.