Declan Murphy wrote:
> On Apr 30, 9:20 pm, "John W." <worthj1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Apr 29, 1:56 am, Declan Murphy <declan_mur...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On Apr 29, 3:04 am, "John W." <worthj1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Apr 28, 12:35 am, Declan Murphy <declan_mur...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> I just received an email from the powers that be, that all student
>>>>> visa holders from Mexico, the USA, Canada, Spain, Nuu Jiirando and for
>>>>> some reason Australia (where there haven't been any cases as yet) are
>>>>> to be checked. "What about the customers from these 6 countries who
>>>>> are here on tourist or working holiday visas?"... says I. "There is
>>>>> nothing in the documentation about needing to check them, even if they
>>>>> are sharing the same classroom".
>>>> How many Mexican students do you have?
>>> 7 full-time, 2 part-time. 4 student visas, 5 other visa categories.
>>> The one who arrived last Saturday doesn't have a student visa though,
>>> so no check required.
>> As long as he is neither coughing nor oinking I think you're fine.
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> She is fine.
> 
> I'm getting a bit pissed off with the "panicky" emails and facebook
> messages though. We've gone through all this crap before with SARS
> etc. This morning I got a "panic panic panic" message from a former
> French student warning that the flu was going to arrive in Japan, via
> Aichi, "because of the Brazilians" etc. WTF? The Brazilians aren't
> flying in at the moment, there haven't been any lab confirmed cases in
> Brazil at all, and if this thing is going to come in, it will be
> carried in by a Japanese host. As always.

What???  You failed to see the screaming announcement that a four-month- 
old child who is sick with flu-like symptoms had come into Okinawa on a 
military flight from Texas?  The Japanese disease carrier who came in 
via Northwest Air to Narita didn't have the brand name flu, only a 
recycled Type A, so the Japanese press is back to having us being 
poisoned by the gaijin all over again.

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CL