Flu – Pls fly away!!

As the H1N1 virus enters our living space there is wide spread panic among all individuals. These individuals consist of educated ones like you and me and uneducated ones like my rickshaw driver today who was wearing a handkerchief around his nose and mouth. Surprisingly the authorities are quite chilled out in their responses to the general public, their reasoning being that people die of more of other diseases every day than from the H1N1 virus. That may be true but they need to understand that for those “other” diseases there is some treatment, some vaccine and for the H1N1 virus the jury is still out on that one!

What has really upset me about this sudden biological attack is that the ones who are suffering the most are the children!! :( Which brings me to another controversy that is moving around – are closing down schools and colleges going to make a difference? Maybe yes, because of the near proximity of the children. Here authorities are playing safe and precaution is better than cure.

Indians are tolerant about a lot of things but when they are faced with something they do not understand they do tend to panic. This can be seen on every station, every bus stop in the city these days. Like someone said – it looks like everyone has turned into surgeons overnight with masks covering half their faces!! Everywhere you turn you see an assortment of masks – white ones, green ones, blue ones, even yellow ones! I too got my green ones! But got fleeced in the bargain!! The guy at the chemist charged me Rs. 20 per mask instead of the reported Rs. 5 – 7!! After I came home I realised that I was not the only one being fleeced the TV news brought it up too with the Health Minister. And kudos to him I actually liked the reply he gave the TV channel – if you are so upset with being fleeced and have proof of the same, file an FIR and the State Government will resolve the issue and take the chemist to task!

Hope that the deaths get curtailed and that everything returns back to normal soon!!

Take care everyone!!