EXACTLY! Panic, hysteria and make-themselves-importants.
I wonder if those people who won't send their kids to school anymore have also never taken one of Abu Dhabis "Golden Taxis"?
What will come, will come. Did you never touch a water-tap, shake hands with somebody, sit on the seat of a train, breathe the air inside a closed building, drink from a can, or even pat your sweet little dog on the head?
H1N1 may be dangerous, but so are millions of other viruses all around us all the time. If you want to be 100% safe, stop breathing.