If it's that widespread among kids then it puts yesterday's headline of "!! 76 kids die of H1N1 !!" in perspective. It is unfortunate but 76 of a lot of cases is better news than 76 of a small number.

I bought a bunch of N100 masks this summer for me, parents, lazy friends, etc, thinking they'd at least make great Halloween stage props, and that they might become a lot more expensive & rare this fall. I may yet use mine for real...