有朋友送來曾醫生的信,文中有這段:
「曾華德醫生(曾華倩哥哥)一個在香港非常有名的呼吸系統專科醫生
Letter from Kenneth Tsang, Specialist in Respiratory Medicine and Honorary Clinical Professor, University of Hong Kong
2/2/2020 Dear all.
There has been a lot of panic for this Wuhan Pneumonia (WP) in HK.
…Hence there is no need to panic. There is clearly a lot of political panics and a lot of Western manipulation of this process. Let me tell you that influenza causes 40,000 deaths in America every year! Wuhan Pneumonia so far has a death rate of 2% only, God keep it like that please…”
我睇完即刻回覆他,指出曾医生的…
“Thank for the info xx,
How to distinguish panic and caution?
Washing hands after going back home for 2 times is cautious.
But washing hands for 5 times is panic.
Washing hands the whole night is Phobia.
If it prevails for years, that’s a kind of obsession and people enjoy it very much.
So measure yourself which category you belong to.
I don’t know what is the context as a “Political Panic” meant to be, the term “political panic” itself is very very political.
Is this a Western manipulation?
The central government put Wuhan in a virtual lockdown, sealing off the city and banning citizen to get out and stop transportation and private cars from roaming its streets, it is the first time since 1949.
A lockdown of a city populating over 10 million
and the government elevate the situation into wartime level to
contain the outbreak.
Western manipulation?
Fact check:
Northern Korea: the comradeship and brotherhood country shut the border totally down then comes the other cadres: Vietnam and Iran and Mongolia.
As a medical professional, Dr. Tsang shouldn’t compare the mortality rate between influenza and coronavirus.
As of 2017-18, the mortality rate of influenza is 0.13%
(Over 40 million infected and 61,000 deaths) but the death rate now adjusted by Western scientists of coronavirus is about 6-8% or above), if you believe in 祖國 scientists then it is above 2% but then this is a very very serious number, influenza has vaccines to inject and patients could recover fully afterward.
Influenza makes you scare but coronavirus left behind scar.
Finally, coronavirus is a brand new virus and we don’t have handy information about it, if this is a Western manipulation then the Virus must be part of it, then this is out of my capacity to comment.
At this critical moment, I pray for God that all of us especially our youngs and aged be dwell under His arms and got through this predicament.
Ting.
少出街,同朋友討論下,醒醒腦袋。
(最早個post 美國流感死亡率是0.0013%是錯的,現在已經改正為0.13%)
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毅夫母親的生日宴會就在遊艇上舉行。
遊艇從大稻埕碼頭出發,徐徐航向淡水河出海口。此時此刻,他們全在頂層的甲板上。離太陽下山還有四十五分鐘。
依照邀請卡上的行程表,合理的場景想像起來應該是大家人手一杯香檳,邊享用著點心,邊吹著海風,或談或笑,等待著迎接即將到來的淡水夕照。衝著這個想像,心彤決定放棄經典的Dior套裝,選擇浪漫的地中海風格做為今天的造型。不過從一登上遊艇開始,她就徹底後悔了。
眼前頂層甲板上,除了心彤、毅夫和景柔三個年輕人外,到場的清一色都是毅夫母親那輩的長輩──包括了毅夫的兩個阿姨以及一個姑姑。除了毅夫母親胸前的鑲鑽山茶花別針,以及藍色領巾稍有彩度外,老太太們清一色灰撲撲的色調,凸顯著心彤色彩鮮明的連身長裙。
本來出門前還很得意的胸前深V領口,現在覺得有點不安了。驚豔全場的經驗心彤並非沒有,但如果盯著她的乳溝看的全是一群過了更年期的太太夫人,又是另一回事了。
香檳酒不用說是沒有的,甲板上供應的只有礦泉水。椅子被圍出了一個半圓形,坐著毅夫的長輩。心彤和毅夫就坐在這個半圓形正前方的兩把椅子上。各式餅乾、小點心就放置在邊桌,但沒有人伸手去拿。儘管大家全裝出愜意浪漫,等著欣賞夕陽的模樣,但那種嚴陣以待的氣勢,就是讓心彤無法不聯想到大型公司的面試現場。
「聽姐姐說妳是南加大畢業的?」提出最多問題的是毅夫的小阿姨。
心彤心虛地點點頭。
「這麼巧,我家Jennifer也是南加大畢業的。景柔也是吧?」
景柔也點點頭。「我經濟系的。」
「今天簡直可以開南加大校友會了。」小阿姨說:「去年我去洛杉磯看Jennifer時去過一次南加大校園,印象中有一個很大的圖書館,前面有一座噴水池。」
「Leavey圖書館。」景柔說:「考試的時候,我們常常到那裡K書。」
「春天的時候,那裡開滿了紫色的花,真的很漂亮。」心彤趕緊背考古題答案,「我最喜歡坐在那裡吃早餐、喝咖啡,看著人來人往。」她瞄到毅夫嘉許地點著頭。
「是啊,」小阿姨若有感觸地說:「真美。」
遠遠地已經可以看見關渡大橋了。
現在輪到大阿姨錢麗慧上陣。「聽姐姐說潘小姐在外商公司做事。」
「是。」
「哪一家呢?」
心彤遲疑了一下,這個問題沒準備到。
「奧美,」毅夫連忙說:「她做廣告的。」
「臺北奧美嗎?」
心彤猶豫了一下,只能說:「是。」
「我姐姐的公司去年一年,光是花在廣告上的預算,少說就有三、四千萬吧。」
「伯母是我們的大客戶。」心彤客氣地說。
毅夫母親錢麗華忽然開口問:「Jennifer不是說要過來嗎?」
「你們聊,我問一下。」說著,小阿姨拿著手機起身走到另一個角落去打電話。
毅夫母親補充說明:「Jennifer正好回臺灣來出差。今天難得有這麼多南加大校友,就請她一道過來熱鬧熱鬧。」
「當然。」毅夫說。
心彤注意到景柔不安地看了毅夫一眼。
才說著,小阿姨已經打完電話了。她轉身過來說:「Jennifer再五分鐘就到漁人碼頭了,遊艇開過去碼頭接她上船,應該還來得及看夕陽。」
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Jennifer穿著大紅色的套裝,說話也像她的衣服一樣大剌剌地。儘管上船時彼此點了個頭,看夕陽時,心彤卻四處遊走試圖避開她。
看完落日之後大家走進餐廳用餐,心彤發現她正好被安排在Jennifer的座位旁邊。
餐廳並不寬敞,八個人坐在一起雖然不算擠,但在心彤看來,卻太親密了。
一坐上桌,毅夫媽媽錢麗華立刻逮住機會介紹心彤。
「Jennifer,妳來得正好,這位是潘心彤小姐,她跟妳一樣,都是南加大傳播學院畢業的。」
心彤連忙問:「Jennifer是哪一年畢業的?」
「二○一三年暑假畢業的。」
「我二○一三年秋天才進南加大的。可惜我們沒碰上。」
Jennifer問:「那個Professor McQueen還教你們嗎?」
「還教。」心彤不知道她是誰。
有人把大沙拉盤傳了過來。心彤夾了一些到自己的小盤,又把沙拉盤傳給Jennifer。
Jennifer夾了菜,又把沙拉盤傳給景柔。「我記得McQueen的課超早,而且每次一定點名,沒有人敢遲到。大家修她的課都修得戰戰兢兢的。」
「是啊,」心彤邊淋沙拉醬邊說:「她是一個令人尊敬的教授。」
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心彤不知道那是什麼,不過她還是點了點頭。「上啊。」
景柔在桌子底下踢了踢她的腳,連忙接腔說:「我們剛剛在聊常在Leavey圖書館前面的噴泉池吃早餐呢。」
「唉,說到我們學校,最傷腦筋的就是吃。我最受不了宿舍裡面的自助餐,」Jennifer問:「妳們三餐都怎麼解決?」
「我也不吃宿舍裡面的自助餐。」景柔說。
「妳呢?」Jennifer又問心彤。
她根本就是衝著心彤來的,心彤感覺得到。「我啊,」題庫裡面根本沒有這題,「我吃速食。」
「妳吃哪一家?」
「Burger King吧。」心彤隨便挑了一家。
「Burger King,真的嗎?五號門外面那一家Burger King不是關了嗎?」
「附近,」心彤心虛地說:「還有一家。」
「來得及上課嗎?」Jennifer問。
「跑快一點,應該來得及。」
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毅夫大阿姨打斷了大家的談話。
「妳們別忙著敘舊了。來,」她舉起了杯子,「我們來敬大姐生日快樂。」
大家都舉起了酒杯。「祝媽媽生日快樂。」毅夫帶頭說。
所有的人也都跟著附和:「生日快樂。」
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宴會結束,毅夫開車送景柔以及心彤回家。看心彤一臉不悅的表情,毅夫問:「妳怎麼看起來那麼不開心?」
心彤說:「你幹嘛說我在奧美上班?」
「奧美很好啊。」
「萬一你媽去查,發現我根本不在奧美上班,怎麼辦?」
「她不會去查的。」
「萬一她去查呢?」
「奧美臺灣總經理是我的好朋友,萬一她真的去查,我讓他告訴我媽,說妳在奧美上班。這樣總可以了吧?」
心彤還是不高興。毅夫看了看心彤,又看了看景柔。
「我覺得心彤今天表現不錯啊,」毅夫問景柔:「妳覺得呢?」
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一直猶豫著該不該說話的景柔這時候終於說:「那個Marie McQueen教授,我剛剛上網去查了一下,總分五分,學生給她的評價只有一分左右,歷年來永遠都是墊底的。」
「所以她不應該是最令人尊敬的教授?」心彤頓時覺得烏雲罩頂。
「不過這種事,見仁見智。」
毅夫安慰心彤說:「每個人的觀點不同嘛。」
「還有一件事。」景柔說。
「什麼?」
「南加大附近什麼速食店都有,就是沒有Burger King。」
「沒有Burger King?」
「我上次為了想吃Burger King,花了一點時間去找。結果離南加大最近的一家,開車少說也要花十分鐘。」
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BACK TO THE FUTURE OF SKYSCRAPER DESIGN
Answers to the problem of excessive electricity use by skyscrapers and large public buildings can be found in ingenious but forgotten architectural designs of the 19th and early-20th centuries
A. The Recovery of Natural Environments in Architecture by Professor Alan Short is the culmination of 30 years of research and award-winning green building design by Short and colleagues in Architecture, Engineering, Applied Maths and Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge.
'The crisis in building design is already here,' said Short. 'Policy makers think you can solve energy and building problems with gadgets. You can't. As global temperatures continue to rise, we are going to continue to squander more and more energy on keeping our buildings mechanically cool until we have run out of capacity.'
B. Short is calling for a sweeping reinvention of how skyscrapers and major public buildings are designed - to end the reliance on sealed buildings which exist solely via the 'life support' system of vast air conditioning units.
Instead, he shows it is entirely possible to accommodate natural ventilation and cooling in large buildings by looking into the past, before the widespread introduction of air conditioning systems, which were 'relentlessly and aggressively marketed' by their inventors.
C. Short points out that to make most contemporary buildings habitable, they have to be sealed and air conditioned. The energy use and carbon emissions this generates is spectacular and largely unnecessary. Buildings in the West account for 40-50% of electricity usage, generating substantial carbon emissions, and the rest of the world is catching up at a frightening rate. Short regards glass, steel and air-conditioned skyscrapers as symbols of status, rather than practical ways of meeting our requirements.
D. Short's book highlights a developing and sophisticated art and science of ventilating buildings through the 19th and earlier-20th centuries, including the design of ingeniously ventilated hospitals. Of particular interest were those built to the designs of John Shaw Billings, including the first Johns Hopkins Hospital in the US city of Baltimore (1873-1889).
'We spent three years digitally modelling Billings' final designs,' says Short. 'We put pathogens• in the airstreams, modelled for someone with tuberculosis (TB) coughing in the wards and we found the ventilation systems in the room would have kept other patients safe from harm.
E. 'We discovered that 19th-century hospital wards could generate up to 24 air changes an hour-that's similar to the performance of a modern-day, computer-controlled operating theatre. We believe you could build wards based on these principles now.
Single rooms are not appropriate for all patients. Communal wards appropriate for certain patients - older people with dementia, for example - would work just as well in today's hospitals, at a fraction of the energy cost.'
Professor Short contends the mindset and skill-sets behind these designs have been completely lost, lamenting the disappearance of expertly designed theatres, opera houses, and other buildings where up to half the volume of the building was given over to ensuring everyone got fresh air.
F. Much of the ingenuity present in 19th-century hospital and building design was driven by a panicked public clamouring for buildings that could protect against what was thought to be the lethal threat of miasmas - toxic air that spread disease. Miasmas were feared as the principal agents of disease and epidemics for centuries, and were used to explain the spread of infection from the Middle Ages right through to the cholera outbreaks in London and Paris during the 1850s. Foul air, rather than germs, was believed to be the main driver of 'hospital fever', leading to disease and frequent death. The prosperous steered clear of hospitals.
While miasma theory has been long since disproved, Short has for the last 30 years advocated a return to some of the building design principles produced in its wake.
G. Today, huge amounts of a building's space and construction cost are given over to air conditioning. 'But I have designed and built a series of buildings over the past three decades which have tried to reinvent some of these ideas and then measure what happens. 'To go forward into our new low-energy, low-carbon future, we would be well advised to look back at design before our high-energy, high-carbon present appeared. What is surprising is what a rich legacy we have abandoned.'
H. Successful examples of Short's approach include the Queen's Building at De Montfort University in Leicester. Containing as many as 2,000 staff and students, the entire building is naturally ventilated, passively cooled and naturally lit, including the two largest auditoria, each seating more than 150 people. The award-winning building uses a fraction of the electricity of comparable buildings in the UK.
Short contends that glass skyscrapers in London and around the world will become a liability over the next 20 or 30 years if climate modelling predictions and energy price rises come to pass as expected.
I. He is convinced that sufficiently cooled skyscrapers using the natural environment can be produced in almost any climate. He and his team have worked on hybrid buildings in the harsh climates of Beijing and Chicago - built with natural ventilation assisted by back-up air conditioning - which, surprisingly perhaps, can be switched off more than half the time on milder days and during the spring and autumn.
“My book is a recipe book which looks at the past, how we got to where we are now, and how we might reimagine the cities, offices and homes of the future. There are compelling reasons to do this. The Department of Health says new hospitals should be naturally ventilated, but they are not. Maybe it’s time we changed our outlook.”
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Excessive (adj)/ɪkˈsesɪv/: quá mức
Skyscraper (n)/ˈskaɪskreɪpə(r)/: nhà trọc trời
Ingenious (adj)/ɪnˈdʒiːniəs/: khéo léo
Culmination (n) /ˌkʌlmɪˈneɪʃn/: điểm cao nhất
Crisis (n)/ˈkraɪsɪs/: khủng hoảng
Gadget (n)/ˈɡædʒɪt/: công cụ
Squander (v)/ˈskwɒndə(r)/: lãng phí
Reliance (n)/rɪˈlaɪəns/: sự tín nhiệm
Vast (adj)/vɑːst/: rộng lớn
Accommodate (v)/əˈkɒmədeɪt/: cung cấp
Ventilation (n)/ˌventɪˈleɪʃn/: sự thông gió
Habitable (adj)/ˈhæbɪtəbl/: có thể ở được
Spectacular (adj)/spekˈtækjələ(r)/: ngoạn mục, đẹp mắt
Account for /əˈkaʊnt//fə(r)/ : chiếm
Substantial (adj)/səbˈstænʃl/: đáng kể
Frightening (adj)/ˈfraɪtnɪŋ/: kinh khủng
Sophisticated (adj)/səˈfɪstɪkeɪtɪd/: phức tạp
Pathogen (n)/ˈpæθədʒən/: mầm bệnh
Tuberculosis (n)/tjuːˌbɜːkjuˈləʊsɪs/: bệnh lao
Communal (adj)/kəˈmjuːnl/: công cộng
Dementia (n)/dɪˈmenʃə/: chứng mất trí
Fraction (n)/ˈfrækʃn/: phần nhỏ
Lament (v)/ləˈment/: xót xa
Panicked (adj): hoảng loạn
Lethal (adj)/ˈliːθl/: gây chết người
Threat (n)/θret/: mối nguy
Miasmas (n)/miˈæzmə/: khí độc
Infection (n) /ɪnˈfekt/: sự nhiễm trùng
Cholera (n)/ˈkɒl.ər.ə/: dịch tả
Outbreak (n)/ˈaʊt.breɪk/: sự bùng nổ
Disprove (v)/dɪˈspruːv/: bác bỏ
Advocate (v)/ˈæd.və.keɪt/: ủng hộ
Auditoria (n)/ˌɔːdɪˈtɔːriə/ : thính phòng
Comparable (adj)/ˈkɒm.pər.ə.bəl/: có thể so sánh được
Contend (v) /kənˈtend/: cho rằng
Liability (n)/ˌlaɪ.əˈbɪl.ə.ti/: nghĩa vụ pháp lý
Convince (v) /kənˈvɪns/: Thuyết phục
Assist (v) /əˈsɪst/: để giúp đỡ
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