When Pigs Flu

Any news channel nowadays is carrying a lot of stories on the H1N1 virus and the anchors demonstrating the technique of wearing a mask (....holding the edges between your thumb and index finger...pun intended for those who read instructions). Its become almost a scare to feel even a slight itch in the throat...did i smoke more than normal yesterday or God Forbid!!! :O. While it is saddening to hear about the deaths happening everywhere, nota bene wonders "What can one do in such a situation?" "How long can one keep wearing masks?". Long ago i was quarintined out of my 2 weeks before my +2 exams coz my younger brother got chicken pox. i returned after 10 days from my aunts place long after my brother recovered but the darn bug must have been waiting in ambush. Poof after two days and just a weekend away from the all important exams i see these blisters coming up and oh the misery and heart break of not getting to be a doctor coz i couldnt write exams well for over a week of chicken pox.
I had a theory then. Instead of panicking and running away to a sterile environment and coming back with absolutely no immunity thus contracting the virus, would it have been better if i had stayed on at home? Would the exposure to the lifecyle of chicken pox that my brother had over five odd days blessed me with immunity or a milder version of CP?? The question still haunts me.
Pan to the H1N1 scenario. While it is definitely a much more serious little bug, are we really serving its purpose by queueing out and thus creating crowded ecosystems and affecting all those who may just have a normal flu. Picture this. The H1N1 has just been coughed out from an infected person and look what it sees...scores of people lined up with their immunities already down with common flu! :)
Are we not letting nature take its own course by being overly panicky about the whole situation? Like in the closing credits of the movie "War of the Worlds" are we slowly trading our species' Right to Survive in the long run for a few additional cures in the short run? We still dont have a vaccine, the cures are not fully tested or effective yet, so shouldnt we just let this thingie burn itself out? Just a few vague thoughts at a vague hour with a vague mindset!