Make no mistake, reading the quarantine blogs (1, 2) shows us an upbeat group of teachers who have bided their time sun-tanning, reading, chatting, and generally acting like kids at camp. They appear to be well fed, healthy, grateful and respecting their hosts’ house rules.

But both bloggers inside have now reported that their quarantine regime is tightening despite negative flu symptoms.

While earlier grumbling centered around the restriction against smokers and sunbathing outside, the health officials have now begun to put into place an individual quarantine which isolates the teachers from each other 24/7.

Quote from Ruby Canary:

“So there has been a complete change in game plan.

We have been told all of the folks sent to the hospital this week have tested NEGATIVE for H1N1. We are all happy that everyone is healthy and that the symptoms were any combination of side effects from moving to a new country and not swine flu.

In spite of that, we are all being put into solitary confinement, and will only be allowed to leave our rooms to go to the bathroom. They have announced they will be posting guards in the hallways, and anyone caught outside for an unreasonable amount of time will have to start their quarantine over.”

We liked the sense of humor of this commenter, so upbeat!

I give it three days until you see inmates riding flaming mattresses down the stairwell just for kicks.

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