Now I apologsie for what is going to seem like a naive question (I seem to ask a lot of these

Now with the current swine flu pandemic threatening to break out into a much more deadly strain and the media (whether or not it's just the media doing what the media do best - making a good story) predicting that we could see as many as 10000 cases per day. My question is do people think it's a good time to be away from our country?
Also, they've now seemingly decided to immunise the whole country and we probably won't be here.