Thursday, June 9, 2011

why dont we wear sick masks when we're sick?

when i was in taiwan last dec,
other than the good food and night markets everywhere, something that caught my attention was how there were always people wearing masks. not a lot, but because they wore really cute masks, so i would take notice.

like this kid for example,






and it is not uncommon along the streets to see a shop like this, selling all entire masks only!
( at first i thought those were underwears)





images credit to google image.

and i know hongkong, japan and korea have this habit of people wearing masks when they are sick. it's a form of hygiene and respect. it's basic.


and that really helped a lot during the sars period.

however, i dont understand how come we dont cultivate that in sg! and it really annoys me!

1. i take the mrt everyday, and everyday i must say, i meet at least one passenger that has cough. have you ever met an auntie, who coughs without covering her mouth, and coughs so much that you think she must have pneumonia or some deadly cough disease?

everytime somebody coughs in the train, i can almost see the germs flying around in the air and i will hold my breath for as long as i can!

and wish people would just wear masks.

mrt one cabin can have 50 people! if there's just 1 person who is sick (which confirm have lah, cough or flu or fever or something), then infect the whole cabin already what!

VERY CONTAGIOUS! mrt so small during peak hour everybody crowded like tinned tuna... wtf.

2. if you wear mask, everybody avoid you like you got disease. like that i also dont dare to wear mask right!

3. even if you dare to wear mask, the masks sold here are all the freaking ugly green surgical paper mask, so flimsy it feels useless anyway! WHY ARENT THERE HELLO KITTY ONES SOLD? okay fine, or just plain colours, like pink????



okay, just thinking.

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