People around you will shun away from you.
Last Sunday, after letting Zyan off to attend his violin class, Karinna and I went to Stabucks nearby for a coffee.
Whole I was walking towards to place, I let out a few coughs as my throat was itchy.
In a jiffy, we saw few people who were about a short distance from us, hurriedly walked off.
They were in front of us, contemplating about visiting Starbucks, from what we were able to deduce at the distance away from them.
Oooops. My few coughs cost a little business for Starbucks. :P
Well, this Wuhan coronavirus definitely is causing quite a lot of inconvenience and worry everywhere.
No stock for masks and sanitizers on most shelves of supermarkets.
Then government so nice right? Distributing masks to residences
Each household (rather, resident address) will be given 4 free masks. Information had been disseminated on various channels, letting the people know where they can possibly get the masks.
Collection centre will be centralised at certain location, and each address will be allocated to collect from a specific location.
6 to 9 Feb 2020 (today till Sunday) are the dates allocated for my estate's distribution.
As part of the neighbourhood committee, I went to help out this morning.
My duty is allocated as 0930 to 1300 hrs.
Spent the first few minutes to understand how the agency wants to do the distribution.
The logistic was far from perfect, but to arrange this within a short timeframe, I would say it would still be applaudable.
Small issues here and there can be handled with. No problem.
Perhaps it was the morning time, the crowd was not overwhelming. Only the first 15 minutes there were more people.
Subsequently, only a few people would stroll in now and then to collect the masks.
To collect the masks, just need to show NRIC for proof of address. The address will be matched against the data obtained by the agency for verification purpose.
Probably the busy time would be evening time, when people are off working already.
As expected, now and then will have some people asking for more masks. Their household have 5 persons, given only 4, then the other 1 how? etc.
Seriously, even if your household only have 1 person, and given 4 masks. If you need to use on daily basis, it would still be not enough.
Anyway, there is no single way that will please everybody. This thing bounds to happen.
As I had something to do in the afternoon, and evening, I took my leave after 1pm.
Perhaps will drop by tomorrow also. But tomorrow there are other activities as well. Will see how.
