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COVID makes comeback in Thailand as booster fatigue leaves door open
rabas replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
Not scientifically or medically accurate. Vaccines can prevent you from getting infected and it can be shown that you did not actually have a 'mild' infection. This requires a control group, then you can show the vaccinated group got fewer infections. See the large Israeli Pfizer study on early vaccines strains. Note, the word 'infected' varies but must be defined around real world measurement methods. A definition based on what one imagines might happen inside a cell or nose is not medically accurate. So what was claimed at the beginning was medically correct at that time. Read this, it may help clear it up. https://www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj.o298 They found that reduced transmission occurs mainly when the vaccinated person really does not get infected. -
COVID makes comeback in Thailand as booster fatigue leaves door open
rabas replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
Reuters Factcheck: https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-data-idUSKBN29J2TH watch till the end... -
COVID makes comeback in Thailand as booster fatigue leaves door open
rabas replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
MedicalExpress (May 2023) sourced: British Medical Journal: More than 1 in 6 unvaccinated people report health effects of COVID two years after confirmed infection -
Top Chinese scientist says don’t rule out Covid lab leak
rabas replied to Social Media's topic in COVID-19 Coronavirus
But then he adds "But where is the evidence?" video Good God George! Only he would know. He was head of China's CDC when they deleted the entire 20,000 virus database from the WIV's website on Sept 12, 2019. If there was evidence, it was in there. September is also the best estimate of when the virus originated. [ref] Entire Wuhan Institute virus database taken offline on 12 September 2019 -
Russia’s Kinzhal missile is not hypersonic. Nor is it invincible
rabas replied to onthedarkside's topic in The War in Ukraine
In other words, a hyperbolic missile. -
Assault on Kiev: Russian helicopters swoop above Ukraine's capital
rabas replied to Chris.B's topic in The War in Ukraine
Columns Of Russian Troops Leaving Donbas Back To Russia -- After a volunteer raid near Belgorod, the Kremlin withdrew part of its forces from the front. https://charter97.org/en/news/2023/5/25/549398/ "The Russian command is transferring part of the Russian troops from the Donbas to the territory of the Russian Federation. They will strengthen the borders of the Belgorod, Bryansk and Kursk regions, the vulnerability of which was clearly demonstrated by the raid of Russian volunteers from the Freedom of Russia Legion and the Russian Volunteer Corps a few days ago." Kyivpost Anton Gerashchenko, a Ukraine Interior Ministry official, reports similar withdraws suggesting some Russian troops are being sent to reinforce areas further south in eastern Kherson and Zaprizhia sectors, in the path of a potential Ukrainian assaults. It begins. -
Exact reason the US did not agree to the proposed purchase. BANGKOK – The United States (US) has rejected the request Thailand for the procurement stealth fighter jet F-35 sophisticated. The reason is that the Southeast Asian country is not ready in terms of infrastructure facilities to accommodate the fifth generation fighter jet. ref
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Public advised to protect themselves as COVID-19 cases surge
rabas replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
Your US data clearly shows Omicron was significantly worse than Delta in the US. See CDC here for variants. The Thai data is also correct as is my earlier global results for Omicron vs Delta. -
Public advised to protect themselves as COVID-19 cases surge
rabas replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
Delta and Omicron deaths are probably similar. The graph is a global average so individual variants are spread out. Delta did not get going even in England until after the 2nd highest peak (deaths). https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/one-year-since-the-emergence-of-omicron -
Public advised to protect themselves as COVID-19 cases surge
rabas replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
this is simply not true at all. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ Power posting doesn't change facts. It is factually true... The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (world experts) report 18,572,492 estimated Covid deaths and 7,727,905 reported deaths as of today. -
Coronavirus / Face Masks Intl Traveling Report
rabas replied to TallGuyJohninBKK's topic in COVID-19 Coronavirus
I somewhat agree about mandates, it all could have been done better. OTH, the vast majority of cases that spread Covid were not high risk groups, rather, younger mobile people and everyone else. Lots of graphs show this. Had they been able to cut spreading in half, high risk deaths would have dropped accordingly. -
Just some questions to clarify the issue. -- If you do not switch the breaker on and off, does the compressor (cooling) ever turn back on by itself? -- Is this a split unit or a single unit? -- Has the unit been cleaned recently? --Do they mean it is happening a lot to other rooms in the condo? Is it happening only in the last month or 2, or all along? --Is this your aircon or it belongs to the condo (i.e., all condo aircons are the same model) The recent hotter than usual weather can add new stresses on aircons or power systems.
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Faulty logic. Just because climate phenomena existed in the past doesn't mean they're not affected by climate change. The currently predicted strong El Nino almost certainly is. It follows a highly unusual 3 year, wrongly timed La Nina that drove California's recent drought. A new paper now shows the abnormal La Nina was triggered by massive particulate matter from abnormally severe Australian bushfires 2-3 years ago, almost certainty due to climate change. Here are refs, some with neat graphs and videos. https://news.mongabay.com/2023/05/australia-bushfires-may-have-caused-global-climate-phenomenon-la-nina-study/ Original paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adg1213 https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/graphics/2023/05/20/graphics-el-nino-is-building-what-this-means-for-the-worlds-weather/70211954007/
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It’s Not Enough for Ukraine to Win. Russia Has to Lose.
rabas replied to onthedarkside's topic in The War in Ukraine
Very true, Russia has always been behind in petro and many areas of technology. Russia is a conundrum. It has some of the best scientists and engineers but under Putin's kleptocracy did little to develop Russia's technological base, consumer industry, or anything except horrific weapons and oligarchs' personal wealth. -
It’s Not Enough for Ukraine to Win. Russia Has to Lose.
rabas replied to onthedarkside's topic in The War in Ukraine
Any suggestion Western views of Russia's problems are propaganda are destroyed by Yale professor Jeffery Sonnenfeld, top expert on Russia's economy. In truth, it's much worse as even Western media is inadvertently repeating parts of Putin's complete wall of lies. Listen to the fascinating no holds barred interview: Summary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU0resswOds Full unabridged interview https://youtu.be/B643JWVOO2g?t=141 -
It’s Not Enough for Ukraine to Win. Russia Has to Lose.
rabas replied to onthedarkside's topic in The War in Ukraine
Russia — 6,257 (1,458 active, 3039 available, 1,760 retired) United States — 5,550 (1,389 active, 2,361 available, 1,800 retired) France — 290 available United Kingdom — 225 available [ref] Note: US nukes and delivery systems are more reliable. The MAD policy holds. Putin is highly unlikely to start a global nuclear war. Interesting fact. Maintaining aging nukes' reliability requires much higher technology than making them. Only the US has such high tech. -
It’s Not Enough for Ukraine to Win. Russia Has to Lose.
rabas replied to onthedarkside's topic in The War in Ukraine
When Putin and his cronies hang in Red Square. Don't buy the propaganda that Russians all like him. They don't, especially ones with some education. They know he has ruined the country and prevented it's advancement. Aside from minerals and oil controlled by Putin's cronies, Russians have almost nothing. They also know all Russian buildings have windows. -
Coronavirus / Face Masks Intl Traveling Report
rabas replied to TallGuyJohninBKK's topic in COVID-19 Coronavirus
Again wrong. If exposed... ... to sufficient virus to have a 50% chance of infection, adding a properly fit N95 mask will reduce your chance of infection to 2.5%. -
Coronavirus / Face Masks Intl Traveling Report
rabas replied to TallGuyJohninBKK's topic in COVID-19 Coronavirus
Wrong. 10% infected means 10% of the people exposed got infected. 10% pregnant means 10% of your girlfriends got pregnant. Your just being silly now. -
Coronavirus / Face Masks Intl Traveling Report
rabas replied to TallGuyJohninBKK's topic in COVID-19 Coronavirus
Even worst case, a properly fit N95 mask still reduces your exposure by at least 95% for respiratory exposure. IOW, a 9.5 hour flight with mask is equivalent to a 6 minute flight without a mask. Of course you can also by N100 masks but they're expensive. It's 'at least' because the 95% rating is for worst case particle size, which is usually 0.3 micron. -
Former US bank bosses call collapse '"unprecedented"
rabas replied to Social Media's topic in World News
That was just the internet. Enter stage left, full blown AI ...