Krataiboy

Just now, Yme said:

Google is your friend. Try typing outside of Thaivisa for your news

it's called common sense. Air travel is just about finished. Again, try looking outside of Thaivisa. 

You're preaching to the converted. But thanks for the good advice, which one hopes others will follow.

4 hours ago, steven100 said:

There will be NO travel bubble now or in the near future.

Air Asia shares have been halted as of today and the airline is in financial difficulty.

 

Forget international travel for the foreseeable future. 

Links?

The future? Its either Huxley or Orwell. Take your pick. If you don't, "they" will.

13 hours ago, Eric Loh said:

Certainly overdue for some positive development on the vaccine front and also hope that if successful, it will be a global sharing response to the production and proliferation devoid of geo-politics brinkmanship and self serving politics.  

The last thing we need is another dodgy vaccine rushed to market with without proper safety tests to line Big Pharma's already-bulging, taxpayer-subsidised pockets.

And especially not a groundbreaking RNA based variety, with the potential risk of a dangerous autoimmune reaction, or DNA shots which may permanently change an individual's genetic makeup. 

By the time a safe COVID 19 vaccine becomes available, there may well be too many strains of the  fast-mutating SARS 2 virus for it to prove anything other than partially effective, and in any case the pandemic itself could well be on its last legs.

For these reasons and the older people most at risk from COVID do not respond well to vaccines, the decision whether or not to have the shots should be at the discretion of the individual, not mandated by government or corporate sources.

https://needtoknow.news/2020/03/jon-rappoport-explains-the-dangers-of-experimental-dna-and-rna-vaccines-for-the-coronavirus/

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/in-depth/coronavirus-vaccine/art-20484859

1 hour ago, heybruce said:

You are challenging other people to do the research and find the sources that support your "facts". 

 

No.  Do your own d*mned research!  And if you won't support what you claim are facts, don't expect people to believe them.

A total reversal of what I said, which was to do their own research (my own is based on months of trawling a huge number of resources and condensing my findings into easily digestible factbites) and challenge me with any which disputes the conclusions I have reached.

Kao jai?

3 hours ago, johnpetersen said:

Honorable people back up their claims.

They're not claims. They are facts. Stop being lazy and take up my challenge.

2 hours ago, johnpetersen said:

Thank you for sharing that  information with us. Nothing inspires confidence quite as much as anonymity of sources. Please do not share that information with us. I want to believe.

Believe what you like.

I'm certainly not going to mollycoddle you by citing the numerous sources of the information I posted. Do your own research and I'm happy to debate facts you come up with which dispute mine.

6 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Better look again. Just read about an 87 year old woman in a nursing style home who recovered from Covid only to be reinfected a second time. Her daughter is furious.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wbaltv.com/amp/article/she-cant-keep-fighting-off-that-disease-family-furious-after-87-year-old-tests-positive-for-covid-19-twice/33175130

Has it been verified? If so, it will be a first. The tests are notoriously unreliable. They often throw up positives for different corona viruses already in the bloodstream,.

5 hours ago, Starmocihc said:

I don't think the economic impact has been anywhere near fully realized in Thailand yet. It will though, sadly. 

At least one media outlet seems aware of the damage that has been done.

. . . Thailand’s exemplary performance in fighting the Covid 19 threat at such a heavy cost to the public and the economy which has been left devastated (my emphasis).

https://www.thaiexaminer.com/thai-news-foreigners/2020/07/04/thailand-red-lighted-uk-quarantine-purposes-with-asia-china-us/

Died in his sleep. Way to go, old man. RIP.

Monkeys are just the tip of the global iceberg of animal exploitation. Thailand has a lot worse. What about cockfighting, a cruel multi-million dollar "sport" that's still legal? Or elephants, first broken then humiliated by being clad in outsize knickers and forced entertain tourists with phony football games?

And what about all the plight of all those countless thousands of wild animals snatched from their natural habitats and locked away in insanitary, badly run Thai prisons called zoos for the benefit of gawping humans?

I don't even want to imagine what conditions must be like like in Thai slaughterhouses. Just seeing the suffering of pigs and cattle packed like sardines on lorries taking them to meet their maker is more than enough.

Much of the foregoing also applies, of course, to so-called "civilised" Western countries, which claim to love our furry and feathered friends and are home to some of the biggest animal charities in the world. Talk about hypocrisy!

Thought those monkey nuts tasted funny.

Most of the infected returnees recently have been from Islamic nations where some preachers are convinced the COVID virus has been sent by Allah to punish the infidel.

This unfortunately hasn't prevented nearly 50,000 Kuwaitis becoming infected and Sudan locking down its capital, Khartoum, awash with new cases.

Well done, Thailand, for taking steps against the importation of a possible "second wave".

What could possibly go wrong?

Charged 850 baht to send an envelope containing five A4 sheets to the UK. Sent home first to get my passport to prove my identity. The counter staff mumbled something about customs.

Good news. Why it took so long to run such a well known high-society madam as Ghislaine to earth has yet to emerge. Hopefully, to save her skin, she will be persuaded to spill the beans on at least some of the powerful and wealthy pedophiles she and her former lover catered for.

Maxwell's publishing tycoon father Robert is believed to have been a double agent, who worked for Mossad as well as UK intelligence services, and we know Epstein had links to US intelligence. The Epstein saga is far more than than the tawdry "sex scandal" depicted by the controlled mass media.

For an idea of the depth of the swamp the millionaire playboy ran and the subreptary creatures he shared it with, I recommend the meticulous work of YouTube blogger Amazing Polly. Her probe into the mysterious Maxwell connection is a good place to start.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j_JjvKK1VE

16 minutes ago, GroveHillWanderer said:

As has been reported in numerous articles on the matter, it's almost certainly the case that the numbers of deaths due to CoVid-19 are being way under-reported in India, simply because of the comprehensive under-reporting of all causes of death in India.

 

According to a BBC article about why India's numbers are so low:

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-52435463?prompt

 

Assuming the figures for CoVid-19 are subject to the same lack of medical  certification as all other deaths in India (and I don't know of any reason why they wouldn't be) then the number of CoVid-19 deaths there is bound to be way, way higher than the official figures.

 

Nothing would surprise me when playing this numbers game. The entire COVID debate is bedevilled by the lack of reliable data on infections and deaths, resulting from unreliable tests and widely diverging criteria for determining whether an infected individual died OF the virus or simply with it.

2 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:

Agree with most of that aside from the herd immunity steps, a very long way to go on that and whether it will actually be achieved is highly unlikely unless there is a huge amount of further infections, unfortunately. 

 

"Health officials in South Korea have concluded that the idea of a community forming herd immunity from Covid-19 is "wishful thinking".

The Deputy Director of the Korean Centre for Disease Control (KCDC), Kwon Jun-wook, said the organisation had come to that conclusion after analysing both domestic and international data.

South Korea has started antibody tests in random samples of the population to find out the true infection rate within the country. The serology tests will examine the blood of around 6,000 people to find out who has immunity to the virus. These tests will be conducted every two months and will be completed by the end of the year.

So far, in random blood tests of over 1,500 people, officials found that 0.1% of the samples had anti-bodies for Covid-19."

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-53230389/page/4

 

In describing the increased number of infections among younger Americans as a "helpful step" towards herd immunity, I deliberately did not speculate on how quickly this might be achieved. The reason for my caution was simple: nobody knows.

Experts are divided even on the core question of what percentage of a given population would need to become infected with Sars-COV-2- with some setting the figure at around two thirds and others as high as 90 percent.

The tendency of this  virus constantly to mutate is another obvious obstacle to attaining this goal - just as it is to the development of an effective COVID vaccine. We have learned the hard way that seasonal flu shots can lose their efficacy over time.

It seems likely, therefore, that the virus responsible for the current pandemic will to be around, in one form or another, for years and best contained with a combination of partial herd immunity and a safe, properly-tested vaccine

50 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Sorry thought I put the NY Times news link in as well. My mistake, here it is:

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/us/coronavirus-cases-young-people.amp.html

Thanks for the link. No cause for alarm, I think. As the report points out, because a lot of old people who realise they are the highest-risk group, the virus is migrating to younger folk as they start to mix again. This is a helpful step towards herd immunity so long as numbers can be controlled to avoid strain on hospital facilities.

The other good news for these youthful Americans, and anyone else under pensionable age and in reasonable health, is that the chances of becoming serious ill, let alone dying, from COVID 19 is extremely small. But they should be aware of the danger of spreading the infection to older relatives and friends.

2 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

Better look at this Krataiboy, if you did not read it earlier.  The biggest age group now coming down with Covid is in the under 40's age range and on top of that the scientists are seeing some new things with Covid.

https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-06-26/inside-the-body-the-coronavirus-is-even-more-sinister-than-scientists-had-realized

Wow! Scary stuff. But let's wait until we get the peer-reviewed version in a respectable journal before jumping off the nearest skyscraper.

I wasn't aware that the virus had switched its attention from us golden oldies to the under-40s. Got a link?

(Apologies for my two separate bits at this cherry. I thought my first posting had disappeared into the ether. . . a bit like COVID in Thailand?!!)