Wednesday, August 5, 2009

H1N1 - Are we doing the right thing?

My long lost cousin visited me yesterday, i was surprise to see him since it is not a semester break. He told me that a few of his friends were infected with H1N1, the university was closed for a week. I was shocked that the university did not quarantine the rest of the students or restrict their movements, monitor their health status for certain period of time before let them out of the campus. If some of those students were infected and have not shown any symptom yet, wont they spread it further by mingling with others?

Today i heard that my 10 years old niece's school mate was hospitalised after she was confirmed having H1N1, the brother in the same school also having a fever but not confirmed it is H1N1 yet. The school authority said that he cant close the school because the instruction given was the school can only be closed when there are 2 confirmed cases, is this true???? To make matter worse, the insensitive or perhaps inconsiderate headmaster still insisted to have after school tuition in the afternoon despite knowing one of his pupils are down with H1N1. Why cant the ministry make public the ruling so that we parents can be better informed?

Is wearing mask actually prevents you from getting H1N1??? I know that it helps you from spreading it since it helps when you sneeze of cough but does it help in preventing you from getting it???? Since it is not airborne but spreads through contact! Wouldnt it be good that the Health Ministry clarifies this so that we do not have this false sense of security of putting on mask, when it doesnt help in preventing you from getting the virus????

I just saw that 3 more deaths in Melaka today, condolence to the family! I really feel that the government should and could have done more in educating us, the people. People are dying and we should not be afraid that people will be panic in an all out awareness campaign because we ARE already PANIC!

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