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The streets are as crowded as usual, nobody seems to be holed up in their apartment. If I didn't read it in the paper you wouldn't know anything was amiss. If you're scared call in sick.
The streets are as crowded as usual, nobody seems to be holed up in their apartment. If I didn't read it in the paper you wouldn't know anything was amiss. If you're scared call in sick.
No way man. I'm an international cargo pilot living on the edge. But be sure to update us if you start vomiting up blood and sprouting feathers.
A few years ago Hong Kong was experiencing an epidemic of avian flu, with a number of folks dying from it. We had a trip that stopped there with about a 48 hour layover, then went to Subic Bay, then up into China, and then back to Hong Kong for another reasonably long layover. The company gave us a few masks to wear, you know the kind that a painter or someone doing some light sanding might use, the kind with the two elastic bands that hold the mask to your face. It wasn't very comfortable to wear and by the time we had left the main terminal, we both had already removed them. Lots of folks walking around downtown were wearing masks, but not us. On the positive side, when we went to dinner, there were no crowds, and all we needed to do to have the place all to ourselves, was to cough loudly. That really cleared the place out in no time.
A few years ago Hong Kong was experiencing an epidemic of avian flu, with a number of folks dying from it. We had a trip that stopped there with about a 48 hour layover, then went to Subic Bay, then up into China, and then back to Hong Kong for another reasonably long layover. The company gave us a few masks to wear, you know the kind that a painter or someone doing some light sanding might use, the kind with the two elastic bands that hold the mask to your face. It wasn't very comfortable to wear and by the time we had left the main terminal, we both had already removed them. Lots of folks walking around downtown were wearing masks, but not us. On the positive side, when we went to dinner, there were no crowds, and all we needed to do to have the place all to ourselves, was to cough loudly. That really cleared the place out in no time.
Wasn't that SARS and not bird flu? Us UPS types were holed up at the Hotel Regal hotel for a few weeks. The whole thing was an overblown fiasco. Statistically one had greater odds contracting TB than SARS.
Good job Fedex pilots moving there cannot afford to send their kids to local schools. Seems like the union knew what they were talking about when they did not negotiate schooling for our pilots families...
Just trying to save us all from the flu by making us home school...
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