Virt

2 hours ago, possum1931 said:

Since when was the unelected soldier posing as a PM ever a politician? He is a soldier with a soldiers mentality, nothing more, only trying to rule the country after taking it at the point of a gun.

I think i was referring to the post where it was written that politicians worldwide informed people about the inflation.

7 minutes ago, tomazbodner said:

You should definitely change your location then... At least remove "Sadly" and "Yet!"

• Location:Sadly not Thailand. Yet!

I still hope they remove test requirement before July so i can get back to Samui 

If not I just wait until next year and spend my money elsewhere until then.

Plenty of places to choose from, but i would prefer Thailand.

This story pretty much sums up why i will never travel to a country that demand test on arrival.

6 minutes ago, mommysboy said:

Whilst Omicron poses little threat to reasonably healthy people especially children, it is still a significant threat to those with severe illness and immune suppression.  But that is also the way with many URT viral infections. It's a real dilemma what to do for the best. Thailand needs to get hold of a few million Paxlovid pills sharpish.  A game changer will be Evusheld which is a type of passive vaccine for the immune suppressed. Pfizer and AZ at the forefront again.

Also have to remember that delta is still in Thailand.

Even if it's only lets say 10% of the total cases, it's still several thousand of Delta cases a day.

40 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

He is saying what every other world leader is saying, in effect. His intention is to counter potential criticism that the inflation is due to domestic policies.

The average Joe knows what is going on and don't need the politicians to explain that.

4 hours ago, connda said:

I think that the machine gun executions of Thai condemned prisoners was brutal - but under these circumstance it makes one wonder if the punishment should fit the crime.  No respect for the sanctity of the life of another human at all. 
Sad.  Beyond words.

Place them in a overcrowded cell and give them some rice and water each day and that's it.

Leave them there until they die.

Committing a murder on purpose should be punished by life in prison without any chance of parole.

Life is the most precious thing we have on this planet, and if you take one on purpose,

you should lose all chances to get back into society.

Song class submarines.

How nice.

Now the sailors can sing while they sink.

How about they recycle the millions and millions of surgical facemasks used everyday in Thailand.

They can make a ton of amulets from those, and they will bring good energy and karma since masks in their precious life saved lives.

Looks like he couldn't find the door and crawled through the window.

18 minutes ago, connda said:

What's wrong with the rainy season?  Most days you get scattered rain in the afternoon.  Sunny and humid the rest of the day. 

Prefer as little rain as possible when on vacation. 

28 minutes ago, yimlitnoy said:

Yesterday Vietnam opened to international tourists without any restrictions...  Which economy will recover faster and where do you think the foreign tourists will go today?

How is Vietnam during July?

Any places where it's not rainy season worth visiting, because it looks like i'm not going to Samui,

if the politicians continue with these restrictions.

It's more than 25 for sure.

Or else they wouldn't find so many tourists testing positive on arrival.

I wouldn't be surprised if they did 35-40 cycles.

During the European championships in handball some players were allowed to play if they tested positive, but had high numbers of cycles.

It's reasonable to say that positives cases that are higher than 30-35 cycles have so little virus that it is hard to infect others.

At least he didn't try to snort it like Steve O.

35 minutes ago, Scott said:

A quick search doesn't reveal much, but I suspect it doesn't matter what variant.  I suspect it has to do with the seriousness of the infection:

 

The risk rose with severity of initial disease and extended to every outcome the team examined, including heart attacks, arrhythmias, strokes, cardiac arrest, and more. Even people who never went to the hospital had more cardiovascular disease than those who were never infected.

The results are “stunning … worse than I expected, for sure,” says Eric Topol, a cardiologist at Scripps Research. “All of these are very serious disorders. … If anybody ever thought that COVID was like the flu this should be one of the most powerful data sets to point out it’s not.”

 

https://www.science.org/content/article/covid-19-takes-serious-toll-heart-health-full-year-after-recovery

 

If i'm not mistaken that study is before Omicron surfaced if we're talking about the same study.

My technical english is not that great, so i might be wrong.

Please delete my post if i'm wrong.

Not saying covid are not lethal and does not cause a lot of problems, but if it does not cover the Omicron variant,

the data is "just" a history lesson and not something we could expect with Omicron.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-01689-3#MOESM1

A flowchart of cohort construction is provided in Fig. 1. Of 6,241,346 participants who encountered the VHA in 2019, 162,690 participants who had a positive COVID-19 test between 1 March 2020 and 15 January 2021 were selected into the COVID-19 group. 

 In the COVID-19 and contemporary control groups, 31 October 2021 was the end of follow-up.

This study has several limitations.

Finally, as the pandemic, with all its dynamic features, continues to progress, as the virus continues to mutate and as new variants emerge, as treatment strategies of acute and post-acute COVID-19 evolve and as vaccine uptake improves, it is possible that the epidemiology of cardiovascular manifestations in COVID-19 might also change over time²¹.

20 minutes ago, mommysboy said:

It is basically like that for most people, although some people suffer the heavier symptoms associated with a 'wicked cold'.

 

But there is a price to society for a return to normality, quite a high one really, because Omicron can become more pernicious with very old folk, and those who are immuno-compromised.  Consider what's happening in Japan at the moment and you'll see what I mean. Nevertheless, it's very debatable if these people are really dying ov Covid, or with it.

Japan started giving boosters late in the process which might explain parts of the story.

Since when has mental health issues, economical and social aspects been a part of what is known as long covid?

11 minutes ago, robblok said:

So your saying that because there are more men competing its harder for woman. I get that but the men playing there have to be exceptional too. If a game has no strenght element its fair then both need to be exceptional.

 

I do get your point though im not completely dismissing it as it certainly has merit. 

It's hard to know until the ratio is 50/50, but some women played against the men.

As far as i know it's possible for women to enter the mens snooker tour.

Didn't Evans and Un-Nooh participate in a few tours with the men in the last couple of years?