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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 8094817" data-attributes="member: 22779"><p>Just a point about masking in Japan.  It's actually a fair bit longer than just the avian flu.  That didn't actually hit here all that hard.  But, ever since the Spanish Flu back a hundred years ago, they kept up the tradition of wearing masks.  And, back home, you get the flu, you stay home a day or two and go back to work, no biggie.  Here, you get the flu, you stay home from school, mandatory, two weeks.  If enough students catch the flu, they shut the school down.  They treat the flu really seriously here.  Far more than we ever did.</p></blockquote><p></p>