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Yesterday's Nouvel Obs (24 Aug 2021) says that the Haute Authorité de Santé (HAS - France's FDA) now recommends the following:

- 2 doses of J&J because 1 shot is insufficiently effective against Delta

- more generally, all over-65s should have 3 shots of whatever takes their fancy.

My BP was low till I was in my 50s, when it started to creep up to middle range, where it stays now at age 72.

But reading this thread may have deleterious results ...

34 minutes ago, cclub75 said:

Meanwhile... no one is wondering... China used its vaccine a lot on the domestic level (hundreds of millions of doses)... But how strange... the terrible Delta virus... doesn't seem able to spread overthere...

 

3 or 5 cases in megalopolis like Beijing... the first one... in six months !

Source : https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/29/china/nanjing-china-covid-outbreak-intl-hnk/index.html

 

... But then nothing.

 

Despites the fact (everybody say it worldwide) that this variant is extremely contagious.

 

And even islands like Australia and New Zealand with extreme mesures are defeated by the virus. It can spread anyway.

 

But not in China.

 

How lucky they are.

 

Must be the air. The water they drink, perhaps combined with Sinovac.. Strange chimical reaction that protects the population ? ????

Just better than other countries at hiding their caseload.

1 minute ago, malthebluff said:

Got acknowledgement email that I'm successfully regestered on 1st august and to wait for email for appointment then nothing I'm in surat thani age over 60

Same here Surin.

Signs of movement.

9 minutes ago, chrisjinla said:

I got a text at 5PM today telling me my appointment is 100KM away tomorrow morning...

 

I registered on August 3rd

What province?

2 hours ago, steven100 said:

The Taliban just won the lottery  ......          how the heck would anyone ever let the enemy have all this  !!

 

more than 2,000 armored vehicles, many new,  including U.S. Humvees

40 aircraft potentially including UH-60 Black Hawks, scout attack helicopters

100's of ScanEagle military drones

600,000 infantry weapons including M16 assault rifles, 162,000 pieces of communication equipment, and 16,000 night-vision goggle devices,  boxes and boxes of ammunition. 

small arms seized by the insurgents such as machine guns, mortars, howitzers.

 

I think the Chinese are planning on winning the lottery too. They need only 2 or 3 samples of each piece of kit ...

2 hours ago, placnx said:

There was a Thai woman, tourist, going around Afghanistan, so she was trapped in Herat when the city was surrounded. It is very far from Kabul, but only 120 km from the border with Iran at Islam Qala, which was controlled by the Taliban. After Herat fell, some people fled to the border, so maybe she got out then.

Pretty exciting place to be a tourist! even at the best of times.

I've been through Xinjiang province in China, and Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and Russia, and the most dangerous place was the Moscow railway station ...

I'm hoping to be driving on 12 September from south Surin to Khon Kaen (300kms/600 round trip) for my first shot (Pfizer).

Never been to KK before. Does that count?

 The French variant on the slightly peculiar Usofan concept of 'freedom'.

In the French case it's less ideological & mostly translates into plain agin-the-guvamint bloody-mindedness.

The basic evidence to date (as I understand it) is:

(1) SV + SV gives about 50% protection and is OK for the early virus variants but ineffective against Delta

(2) SV + AZ (in that order) is as effective as AZ+AZ (ie c80% or more)

Haven't seen anything on SV+Pf or SV+Mod. Presumably if you have access to Pf or Mod you're unlikely to be starting out with SV ...

Wonder what the 4 Thais were doing in Afghanistan.

Any number of possibilities, I guess.

I am as usual in the middle of reading about 10 different books. When I get bored with one or too tired to concentrate on the argument I turn to another ...

B/f spends every day at the family farm (where we are building our 3rd house for the family). So that leaves me with peace 'n quiet, which I love, to do a few house chores & then settle down with the books. Every day. No complaints. If I get really bored I have a snooze.

Optimism: necessary for survival.

Excessive optimism: sign of incompetence.

1 minute ago, 4MyEgo said:

I am coming to think that 3 would mean a group in the time slots allocated, or it represents a hold till they get a firm confirmation that they Pfizer heading their way sometime between 5 September and 12 September as sone have mentioned.

Yes, could be. In any case we're all on hold till we're not.

I must say I have considerable confidence in the KK process (clean, well-designed rego form etc) but no longer any expectations of the expatvac site. (Though the latter may come to the party just in time to present us with awkward choices at the last moment. If that were to occur I think I would stick with KK despite the 600km round-trip, partly because of the need for certainty re the 2nd jab to follow.)

12 minutes ago, KeeTua said:

I'm certain that's not the case. When I registered there were dozens of slots open at different times. But the fact you show a 3 also and you're in the 1400-1500 time slot eliminates my earlier guess that the number may indicate the time slot chosen. Maybe group priority ranking? I registered as over 60 (I am under 65). No underlying disease.

When did you register? Can't exactly remember when I did mine but about 4 or 5 days ago I think. If your registration was before that then there's no necessary conflict between your 'dozens of slots open at different times' and my chosen slot showing only 3 slots available for Pfizer at 1400-1500 on 12 Sept. And the number '3' showing for me now simply means: Competing for one of 3 slots at that time on that day.

4 hours ago, KeeTua said:

Did you check your status here:
https://it-nurse.bkn.co.th/checkstatus.php

 

Thanks to 4MyEgo for pointing out the ability to check!

When I click on that & enter my p/p number as requested, I get the same as others above - my 2 given names + the number '3', and all in red. And nothing else to do by way of click for further information.

I had registered a few days ago & asked for Pfizer on 12 Sept. I'm remembering now that the number 3 is the number of slots there were available at the time I chose on the 12th, namely 1400-1500. So there may well be more than 3 of us competing for those 3 remaining slots at that time (sob sob).

10 hours ago, cclub75 said:

That's a ridiculous statement.

 

Because a lot of people would have refused such a deal... if told.

 

They were misled.

 

Authorities said : "take the jabs, and the world will go back to normal".

 

But basically : it's a scam.

 

It can't work with a coronavirus that mutate/recombines a lot.

 

Now... you want a jab every 6 months. Sure.

 

Explain to us how you'll achieve that for 7 billions people ? Look at the problems that Thailand faces with just... 1 jab.

 

It's the proof that such an idea is absurd.

And your alternative is ... ?

20 hours ago, ericthai said:

It seems its possible with any of the vaccines. A friend of mine in the USA got bells palsy after his 2nd shot of the Pfizer vaccine. 

Yes, an example today of a New South Wales government Minister on TV and one eye drooping/almost closed. He had no idea what it was and people were ringing in with great concern for him.

I don't suppose he had had SV vax (unknown in Oz)!

Just the usual sweet nothings between international heads of government. Doesn't mean anything.

"Assistance in the supply of" could mean anything at all eg a phonecall from ScoMo to the DG WHO ... Doesn't have to mean supplying Oz supplies to Thailand.

Meetings, even via Zoom, are just warmup exercises to keep everyone happy. No substance. Main purpose of this call will have been encouragement to keep looking West, rather than NE.

2 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:

This might be worth a try for getting on board:

https://it-nurse.bkn.co.th/index_vaccine.php

Have just registered for 12 Sep Pfizer. Ex Surin, some 280km away (which is nothing for an Aussie, though for half of it I'll be at the mercy of my b/f's driving aaaggghhhh).

Awaiting confirmation of booking.