H1N1 Flu

The swine flu has officially hit Singapore. I heard 7 people have been infected and they have all been from somewhere in North America. We have been affected in several ways. First, at any airport we fly into, when we get off the plane, they have a heat sensing camera that will look at your temperature. In Malaysia, two people in our group were pulled aside and their temperature was read through a thermometer that reads through their forehead.

Here on campus, there are several signs of awareness. I walked by the hospital the other day and EVERYONE was wearing a mask. It looked like something out of a movie. Also, NUS (the university) provided everyone with a thermometer. When we first arrived, we had to take our temperature and reporter. Periodically, the school sends out an email and we have to report our temperature by 10 am the next day. Nobody in our group was aware of this timeline. As such, we all got the email last night/this morning and promptly ignored it. Someone came to our class later to yell at us since not a single person had reported their temperature. You can either text it in through your cell phone or report it online. Since we were all in class, we all promptly made up our temperatures and texted those in (anything between 36-38 Celsius is acceptable). I would feel bad for making this up, but if you go online, you can simply check, "I do not have a fever," if you don't feel like you have a fever.

I'll let everyone know if I start oinking any time soon ;-)