Hi, On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Phares Kariuki<pkariuki@gmail.com> wrote:
fibre, which GoK had to be kicked from the back and pulled from the front to implement, what else is going on?
Not much.... As an aside, you should see the half comical, half hysterical and not useful at all way of screening for swine flu at JKIA. When you get to customs, you bump into a bunch of people milling about, filling forms on the floor, or using the walls as a writing surface. These poor souls are squinting at forms photocopied to death and illegibility (I presume there's a toner scarcity). So you being a good person, you get your form from a health official who's shouting, has a mask covering her mouth but her nose is exposed and is doing everything in her power to be frightful. In calculus-speak as her audio output increases, the more convinced you are that she's a banshee. Anyway, you look for your spot in the milling crowd to sit, practice the arcane arts of esotropia/strabismus and finally fill the form. The questions are - Name - DOB - Physical address - Postal address - Phone - Are you suffering from fever(NO),coughing(HELL NO), joint paints (The cabin was cramped)... etc Of course am not going to say Yes to any of the above. I mean, agreeing to any of these might cause a stampede and I definitely do not want blood on my hands. So off you go to customs, get your passport stamped and give the passport ctrl officer the form whereupon the kindly lady tells you that you were supposed to give the form to the health officials back there. (Oh! So I could have just walked out... How silly of me for being a conformist). Anyway, Amble back to the HO, give the guy a form he doesn't look at, he rips my (?counterfoil?) part of it using his hands and gives it to me. I walk out free... That's the swine flu screening going on. If it was up to me? I'd - Get 20-30 digital thermometers, - Have 6 HO's stand 3 layers deep - As you get your passport stamped, get a temp reading - 2 reserves sterilize the used thermometers. - If you have a fever, go to a quarantine section for further tests FAIL! : http://www.get.co.ke/files/get/43
what more can I say....tragic!! ./Ok3ch On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Lmwangi <lmwangi@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Phares Kariuki<pkariuki@gmail.com> wrote:
fibre, which GoK had to be kicked from the back and pulled from the front to implement, what else is going on?
Not much.... As an aside, you should see the half comical, half hysterical and not useful at all way of screening for swine flu at JKIA. When you get to customs, you bump into a bunch of people milling about, filling forms on the floor, or using the walls as a writing surface. These poor souls are squinting at forms photocopied to death and illegibility (I presume there's a toner scarcity). So you being a good person, you get your form from a health official who's shouting, has a mask covering her mouth but her nose is exposed and is doing everything in her power to be frightful. In calculus-speak as her audio output increases, the more convinced you are that she's a banshee. Anyway, you look for your spot in the milling crowd to sit, practice the arcane arts of esotropia/strabismus and finally fill the form. The questions are - Name - DOB - Physical address - Postal address - Phone - Are you suffering from fever(NO),coughing(HELL NO), joint paints (The cabin was cramped)... etc Of course am not going to say Yes to any of the above. I mean, agreeing to any of these might cause a stampede and I definitely do not want blood on my hands. So off you go to customs, get your passport stamped and give the passport ctrl officer the form whereupon the kindly lady tells you that you were supposed to give the form to the health officials back there. (Oh! So I could have just walked out... How silly of me for being a conformist). Anyway, Amble back to the HO, give the guy a form he doesn't look at, he rips my (?counterfoil?) part of it using his hands and gives it to me. I walk out free...
That's the swine flu screening going on.
If it was up to me? I'd - Get 20-30 digital thermometers, - Have 6 HO's stand 3 layers deep - As you get your passport stamped, get a temp reading - 2 reserves sterilize the used thermometers. - If you have a fever, go to a quarantine section for further tests
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I dont think they are really bothered by the swine flu mess, they are just doing it to impress the internationals .... [sorry to say this but in africa health care is too expensive a government expense to bother with a disease that is yet to be confirmed as a sure killer ] In Benin, we simply avoided the jab by handing them our yellow fever certificates. [Which i had bought for a fee from a reliable hospital in Nairobi a day earlier and filled it with my own handwriting]. The guys, complete with paper masks on their faces could not read. [I wonder if viruses are that scared by the white paper, why do they put dust masks for a virus spore ?] They thought our yellow fever certificates were for swine flu. So they simply handed us back the small yellow booklets and let us pass. Two days later, my throat began to itch.....
Haiya! On 03/07/2009, ndungu stephen <ndungustephen@gmail.com> wrote:
I dont think they are really bothered by the swine flu mess, they are just doing it to impress the internationals .... [sorry to say this but in africa health care is too expensive a government expense to bother with a disease that is yet to be confirmed as a sure killer ]
In Benin, we simply avoided the jab by handing them our yellow fever certificates. [Which i had bought for a fee from a reliable hospital in Nairobi a day earlier and filled it with my own handwriting].
The guys, complete with paper masks on their faces could not read. [I wonder if viruses are that scared by the white paper, why do they put dust masks for a virus spore ?]
They thought our yellow fever certificates were for swine flu.
So they simply handed us back the small yellow booklets and let us pass.
Two days later, my throat began to itch.....
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