Alas, we hurried to give advice on personal hygiene, wearing masks in public places, scrutinizing port entrants, massive cleansing of everywhere you could think of. It seems logical, eh ? I shall take you through some politically incorrect considerations:
- Are the measures useful ? If it is not transmitted by fomites, what's the value of cleaning everything with clorox ? (More so, if it is not transmitted by mosquito, why on earth do we ask our senior officials to tackle sewage pipes in our backyard ?) In fact, if there comes more evidence that the disease is airborne (rather than via droplets), are we going to ask everything to wear N95 ?
- Let's assume the measures are useful or important, why do we do it now - but not earlier or regularly ? Is it because we have evidence the swine flu and ordinary ones are biologically entirely different diseases, or because the former has a much higher mortality?
PS. An old Chinese duilian (對聯) suddenly comes to my mind: 上台須念下台日, 看戲無非做戲人.
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