Word: bleaching
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Hong Kong bills itself as the City of Life, but since the SARS outbreak began, this has become the City of Disinfectant Bleach and Water Used in a 1:99 Ratio. Intensive-care units are busier than most restaurants and hotels, prompting those two sectors to lay off or order mandatory unpaid leave for 60,000 employees. An economics professor believes unemployment in the city could reach an astounding 10%. Analysts have been rejiggering their spreadsheets to input SARS and output diminished GDP growth figures. Standard Chartered Bank cut its GDP growth forecast for Hong Kong from...
...their new countryside digs. Now, they have traded their possibly virus-ridden apartments for temporary housing that might also be as conducive to spreading the killer virus. Sammy Mak, a 31-year-old clerk, spent her first morning in the holiday village disinfecting her cabin's toilet with bleach. She was told that relatives of afflicted residents would be separated from the rest of the quarantined citizens, but a neighbor whose mother contracted SARS has been assigned a cabin nearby. "It feels like being in prison," Mak says...
...advises: Keep a three-day supply of water and canned food on hand, and make sure you have ample duct tape and plastic sheets to cover windows in the case of a biological or chemical weapons attack. You should also have a flashlight, as well as "sanitizing" supplies like bleach, water and soap...
...Discover firsthand that empty bleach bottle mini-keg = bad idea...
...glob of paraffin in a pot and painting it onto the fingers and hands. The wax was then peeled off and treated with chemicals that react to gunpowder traces. If the chemicals turned up positive, you had your shooter--unless, of course, the chemicals were reacting with urine, bleach or fertilizer, which had a nasty habit of yielding identical results...