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Lee Wei Ling:DEALING WITH H1N1 VIRUS Let it in while benign to develop herd immunity

Porfirio Rubirosa

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DEALING WITH H1N1 VIRUS
Let it in while benign to develop herd immunity

THE Influenza A (H1N1) virus is rapidly sweeping over the United States, Europe and Asia. It will be impossible to prevent the virus from entering Singapore just by screening those entering here who are ill and/or febrile.
We know that of all the patients who carry H1N1, at least 30 per cent are asymptomatic, and even those who will become symptomatic are infectious for at least the first 24 hours before symptoms appear. However, we are still doing temperature screenings at our borders and other public sites and buildings. A false negative is highly likely and is worse than not screening at all as infectious individuals may then go around thinking that they are well.

World Health Organisation director- general Margaret Chan warns that the virus may well return in a more virulent form after lying dormant in the warm months of the northern hemisphere. Singapore needs to rethink its strategy in this respect while we still have time.

We should stop temperature screening, which is ineffective for picking up infected subjects. When the pandemic started, there was a concern that it could be a virulent disease which makes sense for countries to err on the side of over-cautiousness and adopt stringent measures to prevent its spread. The situation has since changed as we learn more about the H1N1 virus. �It appears to be highly contagious, but with low morbidity and mortality. �

One possibility suggested by some doctors, including specialists in infectious diseases, is to freely open our borders, allow the relatively benign H1N1 to come into Singapore and allow our people to develop herd immunity. This way, if or when the virus mutates and turns virulent, our herd immunity may better protect us from a serious epidemic. In my view, there is merit in this idea. Continuing with the present strategy may invite more risks.


Professor Lee Wei Ling
 

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Re: Lee Wei Ling:biggrin:EALING WITH H1N1 VIRUS Let it in while benign to develop herd immun

The only LEE in Sinkieland who talks sense.
 

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Re: Lee Wei Ling:biggrin:EALING WITH H1N1 VIRUS Let it in while benign to develop herd immun

The safest place to escape from the H1N1 virus is to be where it's mostly easyly contactable....that's where wooden is now :rolleyes:
 

DerekDear

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Re: Lee Wei Ling:biggrin:EALING WITH H1N1 VIRUS Let it in while benign to develop herd immun

The only LEE in Sinkieland who talks sense.

It'll be awesome is she can LEEd by example and catch the HINI virus herself. We may have one less LEEder after that, hahhahahhaha..... Talk cock is cheap, especially for this CB kia


:oIo:
 

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Re: Lee Wei Ling:biggrin:EALING WITH H1N1 VIRUS Let it in while benign to develop herd immun

It'll be awesome is she can LEEd by example and catch the HINI virus herself.
:oIo:
I agree with your point-better still volunteer the whole Lee family as the first herd to get HINI followed by the families of the Senior Ministers, DPM's and then Ministers.When they all get it, convene Parliament and spread it to the MP's.
Stand Up for Singapore!
 

chingchong

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Re: Lee Wei Ling:biggrin:EALING WITH H1N1 VIRUS Let it in while benign to develop herd immun

I heard Singapore has a herd mentality.

No wonder so easy to control.
 

MarrickG

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Re: Lee Wei Ling:biggrin:EALING WITH H1N1 VIRUS Let it in while benign to develop herd immun

It'll be awesome is she can LEEd by example and catch the HINI virus herself. We may have one less LEEder after that, hahhahahhaha..... Talk cock is cheap, especially for this CB kia


:oIo:

Ha...agree. Why not we start with the LEEs...
 

cheekenpie

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Re: Lee Wei Ling:biggrin:EALING WITH H1N1 VIRUS Let it in while benign to develop herd immun

The next time the Lee's gather for an expensive sushi dinner at home they can have a nice swine flu party.

BUT PLEASE DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS CRAZY WOMEN!

This flu party nonsense is dangerous.....

'Swine flu party' a bad idea: US health official

WASHINGTON (AFP) — Cancel plans for that "swine flu party": a top US health official says deliberately trying to get infected with the A(H1N1) flu virus as protection against a future more virulent strain is a bad idea.

Having "swine flu party" is "a big mistake," said Richard Besser, the acting head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

"This is a new, emerging infection, and we're learning more about it each day," Besser said.

"But how an individual person will be impacted by the infection is not something that we know," Besser said Thursday.

"It's a big mistake putting individuals and children at risk, and the CDC does not recommend that people follow that course," he said.


The idea, which reportedly first surfaced on speciality Internet sites, comes from "chickenpox parties," where sick children infect healthy ones with the chickenpox virus.

Parents who do this usually oppose vaccinating their children, or want them to have stronger immunity against more virulent strains.

US health officials fear that the unpredictable and potentially deadly A(H1N1) flu virus could mutate and appear as a more virulent, drug-resistant strain later in the year.

The World Health Organization reports 2,099 cases of influenza A(H1N1) infections in 23 countries. The virus up to now has killed 42 people in Mexico and two in the United States.
 

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Re: Lee Wei Ling:biggrin:EALING WITH H1N1 VIRUS Let it in while benign to develop herd immun

I know she is trying to "Think Outside the Box" but in this case, it is the whole population's live you are talking about.
If it's something that only affect you or your family only, I respect that thinking but to recommend this to the whole country, she better think twice as some things are not reversable.

Like some of the shit her daddy planted for SG, our future generations will "Enjoy" his fruit.
 

Porfirio Rubirosa

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Re: Lee Wei Ling:biggrin:EALING WITH H1N1 VIRUS Let it in while benign to develop herd immun

i gather WHO has publicly come out to warn against 'H1N1 parties' because the nature of this new hybrid virus is still not completely understood
 
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