Thinking about getting Chinese food? Think again.

Where is that, Korea? China?

Either way, that's some unsanitary poultry handleing... E-coli poisoning waiting to happen.
 
I think you guys missed the WHOLE fucking point. THEY ARE BUYING DEAD CHICKENS. Chickens that have died from god knows what, and then cooked in unsanitary conditions.

BIRD FLU ANYONE?
 
Perhaps if I was in Asia I might give this more than a passing glance, but as it is, I'm confident enough in my local Chinese food restaurants (with government inspections and certification).

I'd still risk local food in Asia.
 
Meh, I dont think I'd risk the asian Chicken... but at least i know that the chicken at that local korean place i used to eat at was actually made of stray dogs. (they got shut down 3 weeks ago because of it... gotta say though, dog meat is good).
 
IMO the risk is not eating the damn bird yourself, but in being infected by some Chinese “businessmen” who just returned from visiting mainland china. This is why we had SARS outbreak in Toronto a while ago.
 
What makes you think only Chinese and "businesswomen" visit mainland China?

Besides... what's the news? This is the only reason the flu ever managed to come to man. Intimate contact (no, not THAT intimate) with chickens.

Oh, and because someone said it's not an epidemic if there's only 50-odd people dead: Yes it is. It's on its way to being a pandemic already -- or was. Not a human one, mind you, but if there's gazillions of birds infected and dead ones turn up as far away as the UK, then that's a bloody epidemic for me.

The "ZOMG we're gonna die!" panic of the tv people was absurd nevertheless.

Does anyone still cover that topic? Our news stopped reporting after a few weeks because they had a new "shock": runny meat being recycled and resold. "Gasp".
 
True, the bird flu ain?t that dangerous yet. Only 54 people dead. The main thing is that a hellawa lot of birds have died because it?s a dangerous virus. It spreads easily and for now it?s just in birds (mostly...54). When it attacks people in the same rate (it does attack...54) as it attacks birds...then we are fucked. For some reason it hasn?t yet done that.

The thing is that the bird flu spreads like wildfire. Combine that with something that is dangerous to humans...oh crap. The thing we fear now is a natural development of such.

Combining viruses is nothing unusual in biological warfare. They take something that kills you, and combine it with something that spreads fast (usually some sort of influenssa).

The worst thing at the moment is that we have a disease that spreads around the world quite fast and we can?t control it. Not to mention that it has the potential to kill people. When those things get welded together permanently (only small outbreaks of that ...54).

I can?t remember the death ratio on bird flu.
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frissy said:
True, the bird flu ain´t that dangerous yet. Only 54 people dead. The main thing is that a hellawa lot of birds have died because it´s a dangerous virus. It spreads easily and for now it´s just in birds (mostly...54). When it attacks people in the same rate (it does attack...54) as it attacks birds...then we are fucked. For some reason it hasn´t yet done that....

I can´t remember the death ratio on bird flu.



OK OK, but who's going out and counting? What's the life span on a chicken anyway? We're talking about very secluded areas...

Furthermore, we have people going out and counting the dead chickens and not counting how many civilians the bombings in the Iraq war killed? Absurd again. (Even more so because they base whether they will actually bomb a specific locale on the projected civilian casualties, if it's more than 30 they won't bomb, a strange algorythm. They don't CHECK those numbers is all I'm saying.)

Ashmo said:
Oh, and because someone said it's not an epidemic if there's only 50-odd people dead: Yes it is. It's on its way to being a pandemic already -- or was. Not a human one, mind you, but if there's gazillions of birds infected and dead ones turn up as far away as the UK, then that's a bloody epidemic for me.

Sorry, Ashmo but...

From medterms.com:

Pandemic: An epidemic (a sudden outbreak) that becomes very widespread and affects a whole region, a continent, or the world.

By contrast:
An epidemic affects more than the expected number of cases of disease occurring in a community or region during a given period of time. A sudden severe outbreak within a region or a group as, for example, AIDS in Africa or AIDS in intravenous drug users...

The word "pandemic" comes from the Greek "pan-", "all" + "demos", "PEOPLE or population" = "pandemos" = "all the PEOPLE." A pandemic affects all (nearly all) of the PEOPLE. By contrast, "epi-" means "upon." An epidemic is visited upon the PEOPLE.
 
What are you, some kind of anti-meat boy? If so, go watch that video PETA has on their site about cows.
 
You make my head hurt.

"Epidemic" and "pandemic" both have the root "demos" in them.

That means "people" (as in "the people (=populace/population) of Afghanistan", not "those two people (=persons/humans) over ther").

"Epidemic" is commonly used for humans and animals alike. It doesn't make sense to say that "pandemic" can't be used that because of the ending "-demic".

We also use the word "population" for other creatures than humans. If you don't want to see non-speciecist reasons as justification for that usage, at least accept it as a metaphor -- just as "tribe", "state" (as in "nation") and similar words are used for phenomenons in the animal "kingdom" in English and other lanuages.


In other words, you just made yourself look like a total looser and imbecil asshole again.

Sad. It seemed as if you had evolved (that was another metaphor, in case you still don't understand the concept).
 
Ashmo said:
You make my head hurt.

"Epidemic" and "pandemic" both have the root "demos" in them.

That means "people" (as in "the people (=populace/population) of Afghanistan", not "those two people (=persons/humans) over ther").

"Epidemic" is commonly used for humans and animals alike. It doesn't make sense to say that "pandemic" can't be used that because of the ending "-demic".

We also use the word "population" for other creatures than humans. If you don't want to see non-speciecist reasons as justification for that usage, at least accept it as a metaphor -- just as "tribe", "state" (as in "nation") and similar words are used for phenomenons in the animal "kingdom" in English and other lanuages.


In other words, you just made yourself look like a total looser and imbecil asshole again.

Sad. It seemed as if you had evolved (that was another metaphor, in case you still don't understand the concept).


Sorry if being strict about my grammar makes me a loser. The correct word is "EPIZOOTIC" look it up, "PANZOOTIC". :) Sorry for being an *imbecile asshole again or do you mean imbecilic? It's the adjective...
 
as far as i know imbecile and imbecilic can both be used as adjectives.

thanks for your attention. :D
 
Epizootic, eh? That makes it a matter of SEMANTICS (and semantics are a very relative issue in the first place).

My typo regarding "imbecile" (yes, it's also an adjective of the meaning "gourdless" -- in fact, "imbecilely" would, as an adverb, be entirely wrong, although I suspect you may have attempted to showacase sarcasm with that) is a matter of SPELLING. Congratulations for finding a spelling mistake, though. Before you point it out, I also accidentally left out a "e" in "there" in the third paragraph -- although that's definitely a typo.
Make sure sending me notifications per e-mail and PM if I ever dare to leave out an "e" again -- maybe the key is sticky and I don't know it.

Neither has anything to do with GRAMMAR, though, which makes me wonder if I really should rely on you as my guide to the mystary (don't bother, that one was intentional) that is the English language.
 
Yuck! It reminds me of something I bought at a well-known market in Roma, durning my trip to Italy. Something of the kind, sort of a vietnamese kebab. Shit, it cost 4€ and smelled like a bad breath!

I haven't touched anything Asian since...
 
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