You know what? My recent posts have been pretty short. And I just love to see long posts in my blog.. No kidding. It makes my blog look, ‘compact’ and ‘full’… lol… (though I know 90% of the people who sees this won’t read even half of it.. hah) But here I am, trying to make my blog look nice. In my eyes at least. :] So, let me tell you guys a story. One that I thought of or am thinking of now at the current moment, and making it up along the way. :)
There was once a centre of education, in a country, in a world, in an era, hit by the a pandemic virus –if I may. It had similar appearances in the past, but of different names. From my knowledge, there was the Spanish Flu. It happened from year 1918-1920 and was called the “the greatest medical holocaust in history”, killing an estimated 50 million to 100 million people. [As it happens, our beloved Edward Cullen was dying of the Spanish Flu before he became a vamp. =D] There was also the Asian Flu (1957-1958) which killed approximately 69, 800 people worldwide. More recently, there was the Avian Influenza, or more commonly know as the Bird Flu (avian-fly-bird?) which was solely contracted by coming into contact with birds . Yeah there were other strains of influenza which were terrorizing the world killing millions of lives, but none of them killed more that 5million. Now, we have, the Swine Flu. For those numbskulls out there, it is NOT contracted by coming into contact with pigs. So feel free to continue eating pork. :)
Back to my story, this country, which was where the centre of education was, was hit by this particular strain of influenza alright. The A(H1N1) strain. Oddly enough, the death toll now, at the moment, with 44, is higher than other countries which contracted the virus much earlier than us. It doesn’t add up. It’s illogical. Shouldn’t we be having less deaths compared to other countries who’ve had the virus longer? I sense something fishy or piggy if you must. Some say that our country’s not taking the necessary precautions to curb this problem. The Government thinks (says) otherwise. Having a nostalgic moment, I recall that there was a case of Influenza A (which hasn’t progressed to A(H1N1) yet) in a particular class in this centre of education. The Ministry of Health (which I have found out is the only one with authority to close down centres of education), sent home the students who sat around that person infected.
Of course, that was way back when the virus was relatively new in our country and the deaths were merely a handful. Now on the other hand, the number of fatalities have quadrupled since then, and numerous centres of educations have been closed down nationwide (aside from the rest of the world which I won’t be going in to). The most recent shocker was when we found out that our beloved class monitor had gotten the Influenza A virus, and was tested to be 70% A(H1N1). Well, everyone considered it to might as well be A(H1N1), so there you have it; this centre of education’s first positive H1N1 case. Though she herself didn’t seem sick. She seemed perfectly fine, saying that it’s just a slight flu. Everyone else was in a state of disbelief when this news came to us by an employee of this centre of education, stating that they received a call from the centre of health which specializes in this virus, confirming that our beloved monitor has this strain of virus.
To makes matters worse, that same employee of this centre of education was feeling ill that day, coughing terribly while working. As it seems, the next day, she was confirmed to be having Influenza A and was also quarantined for one week. Despite all this, all the Health Ministry did was to ask students who were sick not to go to school, and stay home. Well, what if they didn’t know they were sick and spread the virus to other people in the centre of education? Many people were already coughing and having flu (?!) and fevers. Why isn’t the centre of education or at least the CLASS sent home to be quarantined? Why didn’t they announce to the rest of the attendants at the centre of education what was happening? Are they trying to keep it a secret so to not scare other people? Well that’s self-centred…
Would you rather be in the dark and live your life gaily-happy-go-lucky, or take extra precautions so to not contract this virus and not put your life at risk? I know which side I’d rather be.
Today the papers stated that the Ministry of Health will only close a centre of education if there are alot of people absent from the centre of education due to this, problem. I’ve got two words for ya; BS.
At the current moment, it seems as though the centre of education’s employees are afraid to teach my class, and we have been branded as the class with H1N1. We’re not allowed to go back to our class but only to stay at the open hall. And do what? Carry out classes as usual? I Don’t Think So. The last day I went to school, we ended up playing police & thief… How ingenious of a bunch of 17 year olds. Nonetheless, I had fun. haha. Well, because of this state of our class, I have done many productive things in a place which is safe and well, safe. I baked muffins a couple of days back. Well, it looks more like small cakes rather than muffins.. Haha.. When I have prefected it only I’ll let other people try. Anyway, it was so unlike me. I don’t bake. But that day, I did. Maybe it was simple-I saw it being made on AFC and took down the recipe. And I fried keropok lekor today… Fish crackers. I’ve become a Domestic Goddess! =P Again, very unusual of me. Must be all this hoo-haa commotion about H1N1 that’s gotten to me. *Sigh* Nonetheless, I loved to eat the end results of my peculiar behavior. LOLZ…
I have also found some loose artistic-ish tops from my mum’s closet which I love. I look forward to wear them one day. And I think this year’ll be the first year ever that I don’t wear a dress for prefects’ farewell. What’s more, it’s MY farewell. I’m very reluctant to actually. Furthermore, the top is very, kimono-like! Hmm… Ftw mann… I so don’t know…. Finee… I’ll wear it.
Still feeling so reluctant…
Hmm… my blog looks ‘artistically messy’ now.. I’m satisfied, so I’m out. Goodbye my fellow readers and bloggers. I’ll leave you all with a saying that I heard and came to love.
“Work like you don’t need the money, Love like you’ve never been hurt and DANCE like nobody’s watching!” =D
.x.X.Nise.X.x.
Source regarding the different strains
of Influenza obtained from www.wikipedia.com