The scene: Li has been feeling a bit under the weather recently, and woke up this morning with a cough, joking about how she has swine flu, she's the next Patient Zero or Typhoid Mary (Swine Flu Li), the one who dooms Africa to another pandemic, how all the kids at her school are going to be dead by next week and we won't be allowed to go back to the States. Ever. And as we're all joking about this, she opens her e-mail and blurts out "Ohmigosh guys, my sister's teaching assistant just got confirmed as a case of swine flu!" The same sister whose classroom she visited to make a film for her South African students the day before she left the country. So now we're all holding our breath, semi-literally, and praying that we didn't actually just bring another terrible disease on all these people who have quite enough disease to deal with already (and also that we don't die, which would put a bit of a damper on the whole experience).
NOTE: Just as a reassurance, we're pretty sure she's outside the window for presenting with severe flu-like symptoms at this point--no fever or aching joints--so we're fairly certain it's "crisis averted, full steam ahead," but still good for a laugh and a brief spell of blind panic.
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