Swine Flu 2!~ (Singaporean)

Swine is really a headache!~ Safety precaution can be seen anywhere. From working buildiing to school. The most obvious scene seen is temperature control. Office building is starting to engage external contractor to set up station to take temperature for every visitors. Students and employee is also advise to carry a thermometer with them, and monitor their temperature twice a day. Thermal scanner had been setup at Changi International Airport since 27th April. All this measures will interrupt the timely schedule of each and everyone.

The outbreak of this swine flu had seen drop in certain products, but there is also a rise in some products. Recently, the facility team of my company wanted to purchase hand sanitizer for all the staffs. The team faces difficulty in purchasing hand sanitizer as it has been sold out in most of the stores. To date, it is only one week after the outbreak, and the hand sanitizer has been sold out. Besides hand sanitizer, all other products that can kill bacteria such as Dettol is also selling fast. Is Singapore too health concious, or is it due to the attribute of "Kiasu". In this case, i don't really mind Singapore being "Kiasu". This "attribute" can certainly prevent Singapore from being affected.

Source:
http://mis-asia.com/news/articles/asia-prepares-for-swine-flu-pandemic

Swine Flu!~

Let's face it. The swine flu is affecting our life ever since the first break out. It has already reached out to Asia country such as South Korea and Hong Kong. What's come worst is that, the swine flu cannot be detect immediately even if the person is carrying the virus. Furthermore, IT do KILL people as reports already verified.

This is really a tough year for us. People already faces the bad economy now, and the news of this certainly do not help. It is affecting those food industry with "Pork" as their main stream of money income. On top of that, big companies could not travel overseas to meet their clients which may also results in the lost of business. Although teleconference may help to solve this issues, it is certainly not as effective to tie up business in this way.

According to the articles i read so far, people cannot catch swine flu from eating pork products. However, people will still have fear in them. Take Singapore as an example, newspaper in Singapore had reported that there is a drop in those food stall that sell pork based on the research they had done. The reason for the drop may due to the chinese medical name given for the swine flu - "Zhu Liu Gan" in which, "Zhu" stands for pig. The "name" is printed out so big as headlines in Chinese newspapers which will mislead people, especially those that do not read in details. That is the power of media.

I personally think there is a need to change the chinese medical name. The name will definitely will cause some misleading to a small portion of people. The best way so far to prevent the swine flu from spreading is to adopt a healthier hygiene. Wash your hands more thoroughly, use tissues to cover your nose or mouth when you cough or sneeze respectively. Since there is no cure for the virus so far, we all must do our part to prevent causing harms to our love ones.

A friend of mine told me that her parents make sure she only go out where there is school. When i think of this, i felt it's quite true. We cannot ensure who we come in contact with everyday. Especially when we travelled in public transport, there might be a "hidden victim" in it, but we will not know. Unless government announce that work/school to stop functioning for the day, we will still need to travel to work/school. We cannot travel to work/school everyday by cab to avoid the crowd in public transport, but we can do our part to be considerate for others.


Cover your nose or mouth with tissues when you cough or sneeze, do your parts and save the people around us!


References

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http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-SwineFlu/idUSTRE5410V720090504
http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/

Source:

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE53S6VD20090430
http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/
http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-SwineFlu/idUSTRE5410V720090504
http://www.phuketgazette.net/archives/articles/2009/article7303.html