Avian flu pandemic
#16
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Terra Australis Cognita
Posts: 5,350
I was in Thailand last year during the first bird flu outbreak (and in Singapore during the SARS outbreak, for that matter). People were absolutely hysterical about not touching chicken: I remember going to eat out with a few Thai colleagues and ordering a sausage platter. Everything else was polished off... except a few chicken sausages, which I've always figured are about as dead as meat can be (boiled, sterilized, pumped full of preservatives, frozen, reheated and grilled!). I ate one and got strange looks from everybody else... and a day later PM Thaksin was on TV eating his way through a bucket of KFC in an attempt to stop the chicken industry from collapsing.
One year later, bird flu is still around, but nobody gives a damn anymore. ^ And Thai chicken is doing better than ever, because these days they process it locally and ship it out cooked, adding more value than the previous style of just selling raw carcasses.
One year later, bird flu is still around, but nobody gives a damn anymore. ^ And Thai chicken is doing better than ever, because these days they process it locally and ship it out cooked, adding more value than the previous style of just selling raw carcasses.
#17
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: new york, ny
Programs: aa exec plat, spg gold, IC ambassador
Posts: 101
Going to bali in november and the bombs and bird flu bothers me somewhat. Now here seem to be some cases in north africa. but, i am going regardless and carry tamiflu with me.
#20
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Phuket, Thailand
Posts: 102
Originally Posted by Kibison
Remember, the media is not in the news business but in the advertising business. Add bird flu to the long list that started with the Killer Bees and continues with Global Warming. The Sky Is Not Falling!
There was a reason Michael Crichton named his book "State of Fear" - fear brings in the big bucks.
I still remember people hyping the coming "Ice Age" about the time I was graduating from high school (1969).
Last edited by tedkarma; Oct 23, 2005 at 9:02 pm