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iggyb
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 Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 12:27 pm Post subject: SARS vs Swine Flu -- anybody here back then? |
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Anybody here teaching when the SARS scare occurred in 2002? How did it influence the ESL industry and TESOLers?
I was back in Korea at the time but doing something else. I remember there was hysteria with it too. I had to use a lot of public transportation each day, and twice within six months, I got very ill.
Cute story....I was on the train coming into Seoul and feeling like death warmed over. I had a high fever and chills. I looked that up in the English-Korean dictionary, and when I got to Seoul station, I went to the pharmacy and said it and showed it in the dictionary then mimiced the symptoms as I said it in English --- (from my experience, most doctors and pharmacists have good enough English for you to get by with...)
The guy laughed at me a little. A short chuckle and smile, then gave me the medicine.
Later, I took a look at a different dictionary -- a Korean-English one and looked up the Korean ----- and saw I had told the guy I had malaria... |
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ontheway
Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Location: Somewhere under the rainbow...
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SARS was barely an issue. People discussed it. Nothing closed down.
Swine flu hysteria is already a thousand times bigger. |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 5:03 pm Post subject: Re: SARS vs Swine Flu -- anybody here back then? |
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| iggyb wrote: |
| Anybody here teaching when the SARS scare occurred in 2002? How did it influence the ESL industry and TESOLers? |
I was in Toronto on vacation during the middle of it. It was taken way more seriously there than in Korea. I came back from T.O. and no one here batted an eye. |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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| Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 5:16 pm Post subject: |
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I came in during the tail end of it, I believe. Koreans called it, "SAAHHS" or "SAAHHS-uh".
They were basically concerned about travel to/from Hong Kong or China. |
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Changwon Charlie
Joined: 22 Aug 2009
Location: Changwon
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| Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 7:39 pm Post subject: |
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Koreans talked about it but as there were virtually ZERO cases of Koreans contracting SARS in Korea there was very little worry about it.
I remember the reason stated that Koreans were immune to SARS was because of Kimchi.
http://theseoultimes.com/ST/?url=/ST/db/read.php?idx=74 |
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Goon-Yang
Joined: 28 May 2009
Location: Duh
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Two different issues. Kimch cured/prevented SARS. Kimchi does nothing to swine flu.
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Carla
Joined: 21 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 12:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Changwon Charlie wrote: |
Koreans talked about it but as there were virtually ZERO cases of Koreans contracting SARS in Korea there was very little worry about it.
I remember the reason stated that Koreans were immune to SARS was because of Kimchi.
http://theseoultimes.com/ST/?url=/ST/db/read.php?idx=74 |
I was watching an old k-drama a few months ago.... and the guy was telling the younger guy to eat more kimchi because it is good for you and prevents SARS. LOL
But ya, I was here, and entry was pretty much the same. They checked you on entry into the country with your temperature and questionaires. |
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Seoul'n'Corea
Joined: 06 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 6:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Carla wrote: |
| Changwon Charlie wrote: |
Koreans talked about it but as there were virtually ZERO cases of Koreans contracting SARS in Korea there was very little worry about it.
I remember the reason stated that Koreans were immune to SARS was because of Kimchi.
http://theseoultimes.com/ST/?url=/ST/db/read.php?idx=74 |
I was watching an old k-drama a few months ago.... and the guy was telling the younger guy to eat more kimchi because it is good for you and prevents SARS. LOL
But ya, I was here, and entry was pretty much the same. They checked you on entry into the country with your temperature and questionaires. |
Wow and for some reason Kimchi doesn't prevent Antibiotic resistant strains of TB, Mad Cow or the ever abundant yearly Hep-B infections in Seoul does it?
Wow, the media here really know how to spread BS don't they.
They got off lucky with SARS, the next time Korea won't be! |
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