This is a Bernama's report which means that the event is true.
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KUALA LUMPUR, June 25 (Bernama) -- Information Communication and Culture Minister Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim today suggested that all media return to using the terminology "swine flu" instead of Influenza A(H1N1).
He said this was to ensure that the people realised the danger of the disease and to get the message across to them more accurately.
It is also easier for (radio and television) announcers to state "selsema babi" (swine flu) than H1N1 in Bahasa Melayu, he told reporters after an official visit to Pos Malaysia, here.
Rais also said that the ministry would monitor programmes broadcasting health-related advertisements to ensure that there was no confusion as to the accuracy of the message as well as the people's understanding of swine flu.
"We should not combine health-related matters with confusing advertisements," he said.
BERNAMA
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Now why is it that the use of swine and babi will "ensure that the people realised the danger of the disease and to get the message across to them more accurately"?
Why? Why? Why? I cannot fathom that. Didn't WHO already declare that the flu be called A(H1N1) for standardisation and easy recognition? Hasn't the Health Minister asked that the terminology A(H1N1) be used? The flu has got nothing to do with pigs as initially thought.
Why selsema babi? Is it because that pigs are considered dirty by Muslims and as such anything associated with pigs will trigger and scare the Malays? How shallow! If this is Rais' view, then what about the balance of 40% of Malaysians who have nothing against Babe? Or does Rais view Malays to be so not-so-bright that they cannot understand the true nature of this flu or any media reports for that matter? Is that so?
This is another rubbish coming from another rubbish minister in Malaysia. Damn! We Malaysians have fucked up leaders.
To take the lead from Rais, from now on lets make sure that the "people realise the danger and to get the message across to them more accurately" on how dangerous being stupid is. From today, I encourage everyone to subsititute any words or actions that are stupid and stupid related with the word "rais".
Here are some examples on how "rais" can be used.
You visit a government agency and nobody is at the counter to serve you. (If you are a government agency virgin, please be made known that this is quite routine.) Everyone seems to be standing around at the back office chatting and minding their own business i.e. doing nothing. After 15 minutes, you let out a big scream "What a matha fucking rais department! You rais officers makan gaji buta!".
You are rushing a report out and a junior colleague has been tasked to draw a line chart. 5 minutes before deadline, he presented you with a pie chart because he likes more colours on his presentation. Under stress you shouted at him "What is wrong with you rais young farts? Line chart... Line chart... You are so rais!". Then you got screwed by your boss and you explained yourself, "Peter did a rais!".
You are at the Shah Alam Stadium watching Selangor vs Kedah. After 20 minutes, the referree sends off the Selangor goalie for doing a macarena while waiting for the Kedah striker to take a penalty. The Selangor fans go into a rage against the referree for this rais dismissal. You start a crowd chant "Referree rais! Referree rais!".
Here are but some examples. Feel free to be creative in using "rais" in your daily live. Betui-betui rais punya menteri. (That's another way you can use it - even in BM. Try it in Chinese or Tamil too!).
Hahah! I'm pretty dumbfounded on why he wanted it to be called something else when WHO already has ask for the stadardisation of the name of the flu. Malaysia wants to be different? What the frak! Rais is a biggest joke ranked high up there with Zainuddin Maidin and Botak Syed.
We must not forget Nazri Aziz too. For example, he said the lawyers were intimidating the police during the Wong Chin Huat case. That was why they were arrested. I wonder how did the lawyers intimidate the police. Confused the police with truth, logic and letter of the law?
Nazri was also the one that was defending the Lingam farce. He even tried to say that tapes were fake.
Nazri.... haha! He's one ftoopid frakker. Pardon me French. Whatever that comes out from his mouth is full of crap!