H1N1 has finally landed... in Malaysia

So, we are finally on the H1N1 map - 2 confirmed cases. Problem is it's flu; I guess everyone becomes a suspect the minute they start to have flu. The gahmen says we are prepared... they say they've given out the instructions to those in the health services, both private and public, that they've mechanisms in place, experience from SARS and Nipah, etc, etc...

The thing is, talk to any private practitioner and they'll tell you also that what they know, they get from the mass media or internet. The gahmen has not really done the briefing or whatever they say they have been doing. They give us the impression that they are on top of things... and lull us into complacency as a result cos we think someone is in the know when they actually are not.

Even the US is having a hard time... my conclusion ... since both the confirmed cases came on the same plane from the same place. How did they get on board of the plane? Airport scanners? I thought they say those scanners are supposed to single out those people with fever? Doesn't seem to be so, it seems. I wonder whether the front line people have been given their flu jabs (which actually don't protect against this strain) as announced earlier?

H1N1 doesn't seem to be that lethal as thought to be but WHO worries that it'll mutate. All this promiscuity, the hopping around... viruses mutate to survive! Think Spanish Flu! Anyway, this flying swine flu has landed... mutation of swine, bird, human and what-have-you-not combi. Kinda reminds me of the mutation that Ben goes through in Ben 10. He did 'mutate' to become stronger, didn't he? ... whacked all the aliens and send them running away with their tails between their legs and all that!

Add that to the way our politicians handle things and how our professionals have also started handling things ala-politician style... God help us if it breaks into an epidemic in our country!