Markit
The article: [url=http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/breaking/17491937/]Bali death rate 'a reason for WA holiday' - The West Australian[/url]This guy is as thick as 4 short planks. What a wonderful quote: "[I]I think one Australian dies every single week in Bali, (and there has been) a significant increase in the numbers of people with Barmah Forest Virus and other medical conditions coming back[/I]"Help me out here but isn't Barmah Forest Virus ONLY found in Australia? Therefore if they're coming back with it, then they must have left with it too? Which means they're endangering us here on Bali or?Are all (both?) of the people in WA as funny as this? Hell, I'll book tomorrow.
joji gulapetis
31 Aussie tourists died in Bali in 2012, so its 1 tourist death every 12 days (including suicides). And yes, Barmah Forest Virus is only found in Australia, and it is non-fatal. Barmah Forest virus is a virus currently found only in Australia. Although there is no specific treatment for infection with the Barmah Forest virus, the disease is non-fatal and all infected people recover.[/QUOTE]So I think the Minister of Tourism is talking crap. He is a medical practitioner, this minister chappie. Maybe thats why he became a politician, all his patients went to Bali to recover.Fear not Markit, the virus is neutralised by doses of Aussie cheddar cheese.
hinakos
Beats me why people hate the Bali Bashers.I for 1 love them.Spread as much dirt as you can....keep the hordes away. Despite the fact I have a vested interest in tourist numbers booming (as do all villa owners, tourist industry buffoons and everyone else who gets a cold beer from another tourist walking past the immigration counter) - i'd give it all away for how it used to be.IF we really want it how it used to be, aren't we supposed to be trying to decrease the marketing power of Bali? Why do we bag the Bali bashers.....when we should be encouraging them?Heres to all the self serving WA journos, negative press and smear campaigns. Pick up the tempo.And heres to the Oz dollar falling, hope it lights a fire and shit goes mundur for a bit. Weeds out the part timers.
joji gulapetis
@ Hinakos ... - i'd give it all away for how it used to be.Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,Tears from the depth of some divine despairRise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,In looking on the happy Sawah-fields,[B][U]And thinking of the days that are no more.[/U][/B][/QUOTE]:topsy_turvy::topsy_turvy:
Adam
And heres to the Oz dollar falling, hope it lights a fire and shit goes mundur for a bit. Weeds out the part timers.[/QUOTE]'Cos expats are the only ones who deserve a place on Bali, right?
hinakos
'Cos expats are the only ones who deserve a place on Bali, right?[/QUOTE]hopefully the oz dollar falling has a knock on effect in regards to tourism which in turn cools development.the mining boom in oz combined with the stoopidly (unsustainably)high oz dollar and budget airlines 200$ return flights has seen a whole new demographic move to bali and join the building game.so yes, if the dollar drops and cools this crazy development bubble - its a good thing - read into it and reprint it any way you like.
ferdie
I didn't even realize the existence of Barmah Forest Virus in this whole wide world and he is pointing his finger to Bali? How smart is this guy? :icon_biggrin:As for statistical argument, OZ's mortality rate in 2012 was about 7 per 1000 person, so the death rate of OZ's having fun here is minuscule to that number:icon_evil:
joji gulapetis
Statistically, Bali is safer for Australians than Australia is. 5.7 Australians per 100,000 of population die from traffic accidents, 1.2 per 100,000 die from violent acts (1.6 per hundred in western Australia, the highest rate in the country), about 20 per 100,000 die by their own hand (hara kiri). That adds up to about 27 per 100,000 or population. About 800,000 Australian tourists visited Bali in 2012. 39 of those tourist died from various causes in Bali. that works out to about 5 deaths per 100,000 tourists.Please don't tell the Australian news media this, or they will publicize this and then the Balinese will be turning back the Aussie boat people trying to get to safety in Bali. (and Hinakos will hate me as he has his heart attack). :topsy_turvy::topsy_turvy::topsy_turvy:
Markit
What was the sequence now? Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics.
joji gulapetis
@ Markit... What was the sequence now? Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics.[/QUOTE]Why worry, be happy. :barbershop_quartet_:barbershop_quartet_:barbershop_quartet_:barbershop_quartet_
SHoggard
I think I can say without fear fo contradiction that the Aussie death rate per 100,000 tourists in Papua New Guinea is statistically lower than Bali, someone should give their tourism authority a boost and promote that as fact ;)
Markit
If that is your metric then all of Oz will be off to fecking Uzbekistan next year since not one Ozzies has died or been seriously hampered there. I mean that's how bloody stats work isn't it? 2 Ozzies go to Uzbekistan and nothing much happens to either - hence multiply that times 50000 and there you have it! The safest place for Ozzies on planet Earth. Lies, damn lies, statistics.
