There are headlines today about all international flights being banned in the event of a human-humna transmissible bird flu pandemic...
Personally I'm hoping for one to break out, oh, around the first week of January.... If not I might just start the rumour myself...
"Sorry Boss, I'm in quarantine... Where? Soi Seven Beirgarten, can't miss it, full of off-duty nurses... May get transferred to Phuket... it's a sort of a leper colony for people like me..."