According to Channelnewsasia:

SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Health (MOH) has elevated Singapore’s alert level from “green” to “yellow” to guard against swine flu.

While there have been no known cases of human swine flu in Singapore, 17 cases have been referred for further medical assessment.

16 have been referred to the Communicable Disease Centre (CDC) and one case was seen at Singapore General Hospital (SGH).

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YELLOW ALERT! This is almost like telling everyone to brace for impact and it seems so much quicker then SARS where there are still majority of the people ignoring any warnings even thou many people died.

This evening as my mum went for a massage at the (TCM) Traditional Chinese Medicine shop at Jurong East St 24 Blk 253 in Singapore, I saw like at least 5 coughing sick patients inside a clinic and one of them having serious flu like symptoms all of which did not don any N95 mask and coughing indiscriminately with their family members around them.

I tried my best to avoid them but I did happen to walk behind a elderly guy whom cough out and before I know it I was walking right into his path where he coughed.

Yes, I can’t prevent the above situation while I was not wearing ANY mask at all…and my fears is neither are the rest of the whole world whom DID NOT take any precaution due to fear of being laughed at wearing a stupid mask that cover all the important entry points of any flu virus.

I realized I need the mask and the news said the old mask that we had stored away since the last attack was “EXPIRED” as it’s usefulness only last 3 years…that means me and my family member have ZERO protection?

Last few months I had bough a few mask for other purpose such as haze caused by future burning of land in the region to clear land illegally and the following is both of them…but I think it’s kind of excessive…

Unfortunately the strap for the spray paint mask kinda broke off slighly but it’s still wearable and the ebay seller for the full face mask did not include the filter cannister and makes it unusable unless I buy the filter canister…which is quite rare in Singapore.

Obviously I am not going to wear like above in public hence I will choose to get a common N95 mask if given a chance but I heard they were sold out in Singapore phamacies as the people here buy in bulk and it was completely emptied within a day (Not verified but my friend told me so)

Seriously are we reaching the point where everyone is either too complacent or too panicky to cause a total meltdown in the society in a sense that those who panicked reduced the chance for the rest of the population to buy masks may cause even worst disaster by surrounding themselves with MORE chance of infected people walking without mask on.

It just take a single 8.30 am MRT train load of infected ones to spread to the whole country in a day and many more within buses load with nobody wearing mask and many coughing indiscriminately.

While I am writing this, I felt light headed and feverish…probably due to the fact that I spend 30 minutes in a extremely cold bus 185 with a extremely wet shirt due to “excessive” sweat due to the warm weather of Singapore just now…but I am not sure.

Time will tell…I guess.

I will be going reservist tomorrow to CMPB and they don’t seems to have any fever detection equipment there at the guard house….do they? I am not sure…I guess I have to don a mask tomorrow and I hope the guard won’t mind.

I have a couple of none N95 standard mask which supposedly expired…What should I do now? Feel free to comment if you are still there.