Outbreak 2009.

When I first deplaned @ Narita Airport, I was a bit on edge because I saw numerous people wearing face masks. I automatically and ignorantly thought that they had a strain of the bird flu. The masks where everywhere. On moms in the mall, kids on the subway the woman in Gucci. After asking my dorm manager, who knows everything about anything, Aki, he said that the reason they wear the mask is most likely that they have the common cold and don't want it to spread to those who are around them. How polite is that?