It is one of the
darkest periods since I started my practice…When I returned for my training,
SARS was haunting our society. We had massive community transmission, in-hospital transmission and the disease itself was so terrifying, patient
suffered from severe respiratory distress and face either death or serious sequels
in the future. However it was a period where we knew who to watch out for; only
those febrile would transmit the disease. Febrile patient was seen outside the
ED, rapid test was done to confirm if they were safe.
SARS- COV-2 is not
same as its predecessor; those infected might not have fever, just only cough
or ASYMPTOMATIC….We had facing the enemy we cannot see… blind folded…
The local authority
had however made the hospitals believed that by screening fever at the gate
could stop the disease. Slow down – yes, but STOP might not be practical…. Eventually
all measures would fail as the only way to stop the disease is do what KJU did,
which could not be attained by any democratic country. We are apparently losing
the war, slowly.
The local
authority had however had a good start by controlling the face mask
distribution and production during the early stage of the disease. The safety
supplement for all the hospital had been raised from week to almost 30 days at
the moment. Nowadays, you do not need to queue a long duration to buy face mask
(limited to 2 per week[ 3 starting at the end of the week]), but some area are still facing shortages,
however there are a few apps that could show you the storage of every pharmacy
in the country.
Even now the local
authority is still trying to tell the local peoples that there is a limited
spread of the disease in only a few families instead of community transmission;
but for us, the defense line had retreated from the immigration gate to the
city street…
The declaration of
community transmission would cause massive panic causing a further dampened the
supply of face mask. If the truth is revealed, people would panic and wish to
put on their mask all the time outside their residence. Imaging that you would
need to supply one face mask to 23 million peoples every day (the current
production is 8 million per day)…A lot of people had started to buy cloth to
make their own washable cloth face mask (which could be reinforced by adding a
middle pouch to insert a non woven fabric to strengthen its protection
ability); Ving said that the textile shop was filled with peoples trying to buy
cloth, it would take a few hours waiting time to be served.
There is still no
local transmission case noted at the southern part of the country. I sincerely
pray that it would stay the same for as long as it could.
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