Mass fear
By Helloqatar •
It is amazing that the Govt decided to shut the schools and still allows the scared parents to take their children to the malls and play areas. All children should be banned for the next two weeks from being in public places. If you think a school is a good place to get the flu, try the food courts or play areas at the malls.
It is too bad the Govt lost it's backbone and decided to give in to irrational fear and rumor. The flu is the flu, people get the flu, more people die of regular flu than H1N1.
Very good point funny we would have an accideent free day if they shut down the roads! Save Hamad Hospital a fortune.
I protest.. we should also have a break from work too!! Comon lets have a protest rally
There are too many stories about the conspiracy. Can this be the truth ?
http://dprogram.net/2009/08/27/startling-new-evidence-that-the-swine-flu-pandemic-is-man-made-2/
*Bunga*
more die from driving accidents or from dog bites but that didn't make them closedown the roads or ban selling dogs
Goodnight Qatarisun! See you in the morning.
LOL, MD the Qatarisun is very dangerous. Don't expose yourself to the Qatarisun!
The reason regular flu kills more than the swine flu is we have not as yet seen what the swine flu can do after one season of it then we will know the truth. Parents have to keep their children out of school if they are ill. What I have found in the MiddleEast is they don't take illnesses seriously they even take their children out with chickenpox its the lack of education about spreading illnesses. With so many nationalities that are educated differently it will be hard to change. I think the swine flu will spread far more in the industrial area where tons of labourers sleep together and they are not quarantined. Even in the States they have closed schools if their were many cases. Best defense is keep your hands clean and don't touch your face. Good luck everyone.
I am fine, MD! all i wanna do's just have some fun..:):)
... now you guys can take Sue, Sally, Molly, Dolly, Penny, Denny... I am out of here :):) night :)
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Ciao, QS.
I don't. I always lose my sun glasses. So I gave up having some. I am totally exposed to Qatarisun.
I always use my RayBan sunglasses to protect my eyes from the QatariSun.
Enough, edifis!
Hey, beautiful qatarisun, take it easy.
MD, do you mean
A week with (QS=woman) and no school= Lot of tears
ok,ok..stop pestering me... may be it was a bit more than couple of years... :):)
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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small compared to what lies within us."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
He will be crying for another week, edifis. (No woman, no cry).
Your Hubby must be enjoying the H1N1 vacation then! All schools are closed for a week.
Thats great, you have a baby hubby! Does he go to college then?
So he is still going to school then QS?
lol... and guess what, my hub is younger than me.. :):)
...you see, edifis, everything is possible...
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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small compared to what lies within us."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
2 years out of school and already married?
Novi, are you in UK?
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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small compared to what lies within us."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
sure edifis, at least that's what my hubby tells me :)
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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small compared to what lies within us."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Only for a couple of years. You are a still a kid then!
too bad I am out of school for couple of years already:(
...tomorrow back to work :(
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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small compared to what lies within us."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
This is so good for the kids. An extended Eid Vacation. It's time to enjoy.
quarantine in effect. All they are doing is changing the venue to spread a communicable disease AND sacrificing the education of an entire nation of kids. I seriously doubt they will even have the children make up the time missed because that would take them through next summer and then how could everyone leave Qatar for vacations abroad?
I think it is just another example exploiting fear and lack of knowledge and demonstrating how unimportant education is for some people.
I didn't drink the kool-aid! -- PM
I am very grouchy after hearing this news. It's ridiculous.
I can totally see closing a school where there has been a clear outbreak, but to close the schools doesn't help anything at all.
GRRRR!
in one week there will be an article in the local paper, said that something along the line that the government doing well to reduce the risk of the flu nationwide by closing the school for a week.
exactly...you get to see a lot of children at the malls here. are public places a lot safer than schools??? yeah right...
and what, in 1 week the flu will be eliminated?
Insha`allah...
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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small compared to what lies within us."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
brit, my kids meet their friends as if they were in school. Some of them developed fever and went to Hamad. There is no control at all. If they don't meet in school they'll meet in the City Center or elsewhere.
They are just trying to decrease the risk..
if the kids have an extra week off , husband have week off, you ladies can plan another a week holiday out of Doha somewhere.
How lucky you are ....
Honestly, I think they don't know what to do. And that's why we witness these helpless actions.
My thoughts exactly!
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Magic Dragon said the whole qatar need to be close down.