Today the death toll from the H1N1 virus in Malaysia reaches 26.

You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to understand that we are facing a big problem here. There is no vaccine nor any good way to stop the disease from spreading (you cannot expect all people to stay indoors for weeks to come in a tourist country like Malaysia where foreigners keep on flying in to spend their holidays…).

So basically we are all sitting ducks for the swine flu. All you can do is make sure you boost your immune system as good as possible by eating organic food and sleeping a lot. Breathing fresh air is quite impossible due to the haze that keeps on hanging above Malaysia:

You could pray that nothing happens to you, but why would a God spare you and kill all people around you? That doesn’t make much sense either.

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For those who have been reading the French newspapers, no need to repeat
the controversial death of a Mongolian girl related to the highest politician
in office in Malaysia as for today.

If you followed the new political strategy in place once the new PM came
in office, you have noticed that they take out the opposition one at a time:

• be it by the usual Sodomy trial against Anwar Ibrahim,
   
• putting pictures of naked Elisabeth Wong: a female opposition member in the newspapers and
   
• holding by-elections in each constituency each time a chair gets vacant due to death and when it suits the majority right (because there weren’t any by-elections in the state of Perak at a time a chair got vacant)

But do you really need to kill people in order to get a vacant chair? Or is all this an "accident", just trying to scare the hell out of somebody in order to get a vacant chair?

Talk in the streets has it that it’s the latter when it comes to the murder of Teoh, 30: a political secretary to Selangor Exco Ean Yong Hian Wah who was found dead on July 16 on level 5 of Plaza Masalam after giving a statement as a witness into alleged abuse of state government allocation at the Selangor Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission office.

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First time we heard about the swine flu – Mexican flu – as it was called those days, my Mexican sister in law told us not to worry, as the flu only kills the poor people that don’t have access to basic medical treatment.

That was then… Latest outbreaks of swine flu are indicated on Google’s operated swine flu map.

Meanwhile Australia reported their 29th death swine flu patient out of about 11,000 confirmed cases nationwide. The last few patients that passed away lived in Sydney. Knowing that Australian health care is easy accessible to its citizens, we can no longer ignore that the swine flu is "only a poor men’s problem".

Add to that from the about 1000 confirmed cases in Malaysia, half are imported by tourists of which roughly half come from Australia.

For those who want to be better safe than sorry: avoid being in airports and avoid destinations to or hub airports between Australia and the rest of the world.

Do like me: avoid flying all together.

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