I predict (and hope) that in the next couple of weeks, the flu quarantine/panic/epidemic that has been haunting Kyiv will "poop" out and taper off into the sunset of faded Ukrainian memories.
In the dark days of early winter without much sun, one can only keep up the energy needed to feed on this story for so long before collapsing of exhaustion. I hope we are almost there now. I can't take much more of the saliva sodden, constant nose and mouth touching, home made gauze masks falling halfway off people's faces, here, let me pull it off one more time for one last drag on my cigarette before I serve you coffee, can I pick my nose through this thing, let me try, mask etiquette that's going on around me . Isn't the constant touching and adjusting of the masks causing more germs to be spread then just staying clear of these areas to begin with?
But I digress......
Some sanity has surfaced........Ukrainian Dr. Komarovskyy began to write about the panic on his blog and shared some common sense statistics about what is really happening with Ukraine's flu epidemic this year. While the flu is serious this year and people are dying from it, he offers some sense of perspective to the statistics and information that is flying around the country. Global Voices does a great job of sharing his experiences and translating some of what he wrote. Click HERE to read.
There is also an article at Global Voices on the current internet round up of talk regarding the flu epidemic in Ukraine. (Apparently Belarus is also under the grip of flu panic as well.) To read the article, click HERE.
2 comments:
Would like to add my two cents Michelle - Flu panic stoked by political malpractice @
http://ukemonde.blogspot.com/2009/11/flu-panic-stoked-by-political.html
Roman
Roman: 2 Cents welcome here! ;)
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