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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Almost 800 swine flu cases in Malaysia and haze above Kuala Lumpur: breathing air in Malaysia becomes dangerous.

Although the Malaysian government says that they have everything under control, simple mathematics shows that there is a big problem looming: Malaysia keeps on having new H1N1 – swine flu – cases each and every day:

• imported by tourists, mainly from Australia
   
• domestic infections

The bad news however is that the swine flu is more aggressive than first said: since the many deadly cases of swine flu recorded in nearby Thailand and the Philippines, the US has stated that swine flu attacks the respiratory system more severely than the regular flu, causing pneumonia more easily than was first reported.

Add to that the haze that’s looming over Kuala Lumpur: you can smell that "somebody is burning some bushes"… Bad news for many Malaysian tourists that were expecting clear blue seas and fresh air…

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He looks like a retired French farmer full of "Joie de vivre"…

Like the French love their liberty, RPK is the only Malaysian freedom blogger with balls to write what he thinks about his beloved country Malaysia and its politicians.

All in good fun, he even jokes about us expats, or about our wives, as if expats are only men…

Unlike we expats can be poked around and take some constructive criticism, the wife of the actual Malaysian Prime Minister has a different sense of humor. That’s why she accused him of criminal defamation.

Now we all know that when you enter Australia, you have to declare and sign a paper that you have or haven’t been convicted.

If RPK failed to make such a declaration, he could be stripped of his visa and sent back to Malaysia immediately. Yet RPK is not convicted of anything in Malaysia, he only has some court cases running against him.

On the other hand, RPK can also claim Refugee status in Australia to obtain a protection visa, because all Malaysians know that RPK will be dead meat once he shows his face in Malaysia.

So if RPK is really in Australia, I hope Australians remember where they came from: convicted prisoners sent in exile… Please embrace the most funny of all almost convicted Malaysians: RPK. 

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