Health Curfew??!!

I don’t know whether this is the situation in Malaysia or not, people wearing mask around the street.  However, today news are quite shocking for me as the Malaysia’s government is actually thinking of going to the health curfew route.

“KUALA LUMPUR: Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said the influenza A (H1N1) outbreak is a “national health emergency” but the government will only consider declaring a health curfew if the mortality rate goes above 0.4 per cent…” (source: NST Online)

Apart from the curfew route, the ministry of health also announced that a penalty (under Section 12 (1) of the Disease Control Act) will be enforced.  The penalty involve a maximum fine of RM10,000.00 or 2 years jail or both.  Wuu this is a hefty fine over here, so what measure or act that will trigger the fine? Well according to the health minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai, the act will punished people with influenza-like illness symptoms but who failed to seek treatment, isolate themselves or wear MASKs.  Alright fair enough for the later two actions but the seek treatment stuff??!!  What I heard is Malaysia’s hospitals or clinics are congested with people and in order to SEEK for treatment one need to queue an average of 4 hours to get treated by the doctors.  What the hell, FOUR hours just to meet a doctor??  For those student who have plenty of time its ok but howabout those who need to work?  Just get a MC (medical certificate) you might say, well in current economic situation no MC is allowed (of course this is only the rule of thumb not written in black and white) unless you want to eat FRIED SOTONG (get what I mean…).    

After all, just take care guyz and wear your MASK. LOL