Hong Kong Radiation Fears

The effects of the recent tsunami in Japan is reaching Hong Kong in waves of despair. While the outpouring of sympathy for the Japanese people was slight evident there were more pressing concerns in the Special Administrative Region.

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Hong Kong hosts many Japanese restaurants and of course they have their customers wallets to entertain. The continuing supply of genuine Japanese raw fish for sushi was in doubt.

Knocking on the door is the continual spewing of radiation that is spreading and invisible cloud of warmth over Japan. Now the door has been opened and the importation of Japanese food has been banned in the country.

With increasingly high rent and the fear of eating potentially radiated fish by customers I wonder how many of those establishments will survive.

Home grown fears of radiation have seen a somewhat deluded idea that salt will protect the population. A rush on salt sales has occurred with prices sky-rocketing for the white condiment to many times their original. Unfortunately the protection does not work and excess consumption of salt will probably make them more sick than any impending radiation.

The government has tried to put the populations fears at rest by indication that there is no threat from any radiation cloud in Hong Kong. This comes at the same time as the Meteorologist at the Hong Kong Observatory have started to publish radiation levels form various locations.