What Kills Us This Week!

Hong Kong is doing what it does best - panicking - and we're all now on ultra-alert mode at Lap Kok Airport as we prepare for an onslaught of DEATH, DOOM and DESTRUCTION.

It's the Mexican swine-flu-thing. And you know, don't you, that HK's very own Margaret Chan is global boss of this entire epidemic, so now the entire planet is about to experience a taste of what Hong Kong is all about: over-reaction and "we're all doomed" and preparing-for-the-worst-case-scenario!

Hong Kong's all-time favourite film is "Chicken Little", and we're so good at acting that out.

Of course, if this Mexican swine flu is about to spill out into a universal pandemic, then having a Hong Konger in charge is obviously a best-case-scenario thing because ... well, sometimes our Nerdy Girly-Swot Overcaution is the way to go. So Go Margaret, Go Margaret, Go Margaret!!!

But I must say that what we're relishing in all this is the fact that, this time, Ground Zero for this species viral jump wasn't Peaceful Markets in Gaungzhou as it usually is. In fact, China doesn't have anything to do with it for a change.

And what we're all particularly relishing is that Lap Kok is quarantining-on-arrival anyone who's been in Mexico ... and we all know who's just been there, don't we:

Aussie Christine!

We're all trying to reach her at the moment to let her know what awaits on her return, and, yes, it's all unholy mirth at her anticipated discomfiture ... although naturally we don't want her nor really expect her to have Swine Flu, because that thought is too horrible to be entertained. Discomfort, yes! Serious illness, NO!

So that's our choice for this week:

THREATDOWN

Hong Kong's "Chicken Little-ing"
Going Global!