3 posts tagged “social”

First and foremost, I would think RPK won't lose sleep over this once since it's not his abbreviation being mentioned in the title.

The World Health Organisation has declared the spread Swine Flu/ Selsema Babi/ A H1N1 influenza as a pandemic flu alert. In other words, people should start panicking as if the world's about to end and billions will perish throughout the world.

Next thing you know, we'll be a soon to be extinct race fighting off robots.

The WHO is being rather hypocritical in declaring just what exactly makes a phase 6 pandemic, aren't they?

Let's look at the statistics.

Patient Zero of the Swine flu/ Selsema babi/A H1N1 influenza virus is still alive.

The reasoning given to raise it to a "Phase 6" pandemic as highlighted by Ban Ki Moon was that it was widespread geographically, but not how virulent it was. - Bernama

Well, I happen to know a virus that has been geographically widespread since the 80's and has killed 25 million people worldwide regardless of race, religion, location, sexual orientation and even age.

The Human Immunodefficiency Virus, or HIV.

So while the world is going around panicking about how people are getting the flu with not all of them dying, and even having a supposed vaccine in the form of Tamiflu, I'm just wondering why they can't or won't do the same for HIV.

If that's too descriminately gay for those descriminatory people out there, think again. It's not just a gay person's problem. Statistics in Malaysia are showing that heterosexuals are the majority of those infected by this virus.

Particularly standing out is the fact that straight women are the one's being infected.

We know very well that HIV spreads particularly, not through the sharing of needles by drug abusers, but through sex.

And yet, we have a government and every single religious body preaching abstinence instead of safe sex with condoms, which, I might add, will also stop newborn babies being found in dumped into toilets, garbage cans and even landfills.

During an open discussion with some friends, it was highlighted by a doctor that he had gone on Al-Jazeera . Also in that interview was a representative from the religious right wing in Malaysia.

According to the doctor, when he highlighted the use of condoms in sex to stop the spread of HIV, he got this reaction from the right winger:

"No feeling."

Okay......

Now while I have yet to ascertain who that moron was and who to write to, it is without a doubt the stupidest excuse to stop the spread of a virus that has killed 25 million people, is it not?

This story in the papers this morning really shocked me. How can it be that 39% of Malaysian women in relationships are being abused, and this is based on reports made to the police.

However, looking through my own eyes, I think the abuse goes both ways. I'm sure guys are also abused in relationships just as well, but I doubt it is reported to the police.

Really scary, though.

You know, it's one thing for an Australian to write bad things about the country, but when a Malaysian who migrates to Singapore decides to join in the country-bashing ceremony, I think it's high time for a reaction.

In this "Carpe' diem" letter of hers, she notes that Malaysians need to grow up. Well, truth is, dear, that Malaysians have matured to the point that most of us have reached the age of questioning sensitive issues such as faith, politics, race and sexuality. So your argument on us being immature, is definitely way out of the ballpark.

And next, you state that many young Malaysians like to migrate out of the country. Yet another misinformed fact. You see, unlike you, most young Malaysians stay in the country and voice out their grievances from within Malaysia's borders. They do not do so in the cowering borders of a neighbouring nation.

That's another slice of proof against your "Malaysians-are-immature" theory. Please rethink that.

On the note of lacking talent, innovators and leaders. I have a simple theory on this.

You have been living in Singapore too long.

We have talents such as Shanon Shah, who is also politically sound. We have Yasmin Ahmad, who is showing the integration and harmony that some of us desire from Malaysian society. We have leaders like Shahrir Zaid and Mukhriz Mahathir who actually voice out their thoughts, even if they are outnumbered.

Of course the foreigners are writing about us. They always have and they always will. The US called our ISA a draconian law. Look at what they are doing in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. Singapore prides itself on the ability to recycle water as well as their desalinization capabilities. And yet, why are they still needing water from our side?

It is true that the Malaysian people have need of an attitude adjustment (well, some of us, especially those in high places), but you know what?

Most of us in Malaysia are actually doing something about it, without having it pointed out by a person who cut and ran to Singapore.