Nowadays a new word is fuming around with lot of energy and anxiousness. This is called “Swine Flu” or “H1N1”. And unfortunately it has caught our campus also last day. L
From a long vacation of “Rakshabandhan” people came to the college yesterday and I could even felt that they are still in the mood of vacation and attending long classes are still being pain to them. Still somehow people were managing to attend classes and managing to be awake in the class and show their physical presence in the class!
Suddenly there came a spark came in the usual talk and somebody utter a word that NITIE has got few cases of SWINE FLU!!! That’s it. It was enough for the mass show their creativity and level of professionalism and calm. Here are the few points which I found in last 24 hours.
- The number of positive cases were not known, but there was a quite a good number of speculation going on by the experts. And the number was ranging from 1 to 10. Lastly we found that there was a person who had similar symptoms like flu (may be swine flu) and sent to hospital for further check-up and treatment.
- I went out near our college gate for taking money for paying mess bill. I found around 80% of people were having mask(!!) and that too made up of hanky! I don’t know how a hanky can stop a virus coming in to you.
- It was a good day for the chemist and general stores owners. Their sells shot upto 3 to 5 times than regular days and people were mad to buy hanky(!), dettol, maks (that too regular one which is used in the pharmacy lab), paper dishes, fruits(!), and many more things. Even people were asking about the “Tamiflu” medicine at the chemist shop and want to take even they don’t have any symptoms.
- Whole campus was covered in to this hysteria and you see people everywhere under stress and fear of swine flu with special masks and doing KD (Knowledge Display) of swine flu.
- It was very well known that flu can be spread by the air and mask can be helpful. But you should also avoid touching your face and nose and due to fear people were holding their hanky in hand and covering their face/nose and giving more chance to flu to catch them.
- Suddenly people were become so expert about H1N1, complete material about the matter is read and spread across the campus. And as usual IP Messenger was filled with the “Bhasad” (Spammed discussion where conclusion is zero) about it. Also there were demand of cancelling of classes and closing of institute (from a week to a year!).
- In this unfortunate event we have missed 2 tests and 3 classes, which we have to compensate in the letter stage were time will be more critical. People have started moving to their home. Don’t know where they are more secure, in campus being isolated or in trains and places where more people will be there and more chance to get exposed.
- Now there is a common view in the campus: meetings with masks being at distant with each other, people wearing mask and eating in mess (I don’t know how), If someone sneeze, it’s the sign of panic.
- Some of the good takeaways from this incidents:
o People have started having good health habits: sleeping early, taking bath regularly (!) And washing hands every time before having meal(hopefully it will be continue)
o Management have suddenly starting cleaning of premises and water arrangements (to stop flu!!)
o Food quality has been improved suddenly and fruits are also being served in the lunch time (hopefully this will also continue)
o Management may have check-up for everyone in the campus
