Man, the "sky is falling" today!
Closing schools for 2 weeks does not happen every year
Errr, yes it does. They're called school holidays!!
All that has happened is that the authorities have brought forward the
scheduled Easter holiday break by two days. Removes the young-uns from the 'disease exchange centres' (aka schools) as the media continues to sell papers by proclaiming another "shocking outbreak". Whilst the deaths that occured are an enormous tragedy, I think all this talk of pandemics and the imminent destruction of civilisation is just a tad over the top.
Let's see:
It has been an unusually cold & prolonged winter,
therefore the Flu has been widespread and persistent these last few months,
We live in one of the most densely populated areas in the world,
Children have less developed immune systems.
ergo: MANY are getting sick and KIDS are bearing the brunt of it.
Please don't confuse several, dare I say it, statistically insignificant incidents as some sort of doomsday scenario. Most likely, an extremely unfortunate chain of events in these individual cases led to untimely or innacurate diagnoses and tragedy was the result.
The Swiss Cheese model isn't the sole property of the aviation world.
Logic Rant off.