Friday, July 31, 2009

At our doorstep and beyond

Ladies and gentleman, it's official. We have H1N1 in our midst nobody can deny it unless they're deaf and blind and possibly mad. And so this has ( for some of us ) become our latest fashion accessory. If the level of safety is proportional to the uncomfortableness of this contraption, then it would be incredibly fool-proof.

Try wearing it for an hour. And I'ld be pleasantly surprised if you don't slum down in a corner somewhere from lack of oxygen. The mitigation period is over. And so we now treat them in various hospitals around the country. The suspected are no longer shipped to designated hospitals. That being the current situation, we now need to equip ourselves with stock of tamiflu as well as some common sense to tackle this potential epidemic.

2 comments:

Anna, Fair and True said...

They say it doesn't really help except maybe if you're on a plane or some other confined place. But I guess that it makes sense in a hospital!

edina monsoon said...

yes...the Infectious disease folks says wearing these in ICU when you're attending to a ventilated patient and doing suctioning is needed to prevent spread. Hmmm and how is it in your country?