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Singapore has an active campaign to fight against persistent dengue fever infections, which kill maybe 30 people a year? In a city of 4.5 million but sicken many more. There’s giant ads on the sides of buses, a five-step mozzie wipe-out drill one is meant to do every Sunday, and public notices of clusters of infection. I have received two $100 mosquito-breeding tickets in my 14 years here, pots tuned over behind the house by the drain with water in the inner rim, in one case, and potted plant that had grown roots to clog the drain of its dish in the other. The mosquito police can come in your house anytime and check the water in your flowers! And during the SARS outbreak they closed schools, which they also do periodically when there are big outbreaks of foot and mouth (the girls and I have had it twice, it’s not awful. We pretend to be sheep who need to be burned in a sad pile.) They were taking the girls’ temperature at school every morning for quite a while and turning away all children with fevers. The Singapore government is all up in your business. They send you letters when your kid misses vaccinations. Along some axes of life this intrusiveness would be unwelcome, but here I tend to feel like, carry on, warn me about a nearby cluster of dengue fever! I think it is the anti-Liberia of public trust/buy-in on health interventions.
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