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31 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

The CDC stopped reporting cases of mild and asymptomatic COVID cases on its website.  It continues to monitor breakthrough infections resulting in hospital admissions and death.

 

My comment on ICU admissions is independent of the CDC. It's Australian data.

 

The number of unvaccinated people is declining. It's logical hospital admissions of unvaccinated people would also decline.

 

But then, logic is not usually a strong suit of conspiracy theorists.

 

Don't worry, RFK will sort it all out for you.

I understand that reading comprehension isn’t your forte but if you go back to my post….and read sloooowly….you’ll see that I used the word “proportionally”.  
 

It’s a big word but I promise that it’s in the dictionary.

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6 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

The key is that the Thai recipient could decide one day not pay for stuff and all of it would still legally be all her money.

Yup.

6 minutes ago, bradiston said:

Get a jab!

Lose some weight!

4 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

My understanding is that would be irrelevant IF the wife is actually paying for living expenses for both. If she wants to pay the rent, make car payments, pay for dinner, why not.

Sure….I can understand what you’re saying.  But I wouldn’t be surprised if there is an audit to see if all of the sudden someone’s historical remittances go from a million baht per year down to zero.

1 hour ago, Jingthing said:

If I understood him correctly, he's remitting from a foreign account in his name directly to a Thai account in his wife's name. I think he's excluded from tax in the case. If it hit his named account in Thailand for one minute, then moved to his wife's account, then taxable.

But what if he is doing so in order to circumvent the taxes and then subsequently live off that “gift”.

Sounds like an interesting loophole but I wouldn’t be surprised if it raises some flags for the TRD.

1 minute ago, transam said:

What a load of tosh................🤣

If you really don't want a covid jab, you don't need to have one, it is that simple.....

Oh whatever.

I’ll bet I can find quite a few posts that you either made or “liked” that tried to shame us.

But I don’t want to trawl through your 92,000+ posts on the forum.

Get a life.

23 minutes ago, SenorTashi said:

My parents and their best friends were all in good health until they got jabbed.

Since then they've had all kinds of problems. Their friend Barry had two heart attacks,

a stroke and now he can't take care of himself and can barely speak.

The last time I saw him he was in fine form, in 2021.

He was teasing me for being unjabbed.

He said 'Look at me, I've had two of them and I'm fine!'

A few weeks later he had his first heart attack and he's never really been out of hospital since.

The doctors say they don't understand why he's so ill. 

One has to wonder about all these doctors who seem to be playing the “gee…I dunno” card.  The doctors that I know who have seen the light are ones who have private practices and aren’t beholden to a system via some sort of diktat.

“it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair

3 minutes ago, transam said:

That is a stupid assumption.............🙄...........

They keep popping up on this thread to tell us about them.  All their fat friends and family.

It’s like a round people convention on here.

12 hours ago, rattlesnake said:

It's compartmentalised to a large extent, most people involved take care of a specific aspect and don't actually see the bigger picture.

Sounds a bit like the movie “Cube”.  The only person who escaped was the innocent idiot, with no involvement with the construction of the cube, who was able to walk out in the end….but walk out to what?

Sorry for the spoiler 😅

32 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

No, quacks are quacks, which by my definition simply means: people who have repeatedly spread false and misleading information that has been proven to be false and misleading by multiple, credible sources. Has nothing to do with whether they say good or bad things about anything.

 

 

Maybe you'll settle for the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Policy and Research, and its director, Dr. Michael Osterholm:

 

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/michael-t-osterholm-phd-mph

 

"From 2001 through early 2005, Dr. Osterholm, in addition to his role at CIDRAP, served as a Special Advisor to then–HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson on issues related to bioterrorism and public health preparedness. He was also appointed to the Secretary's Advisory Council on Public Health Preparedness. On April 1, 2002, Dr. Osterholm was appointed by Thompson to be his representative on the interim management team to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). With the appointment of Dr. Julie Gerberding as director of the CDC on July 3, 2002, Dr. Osterholm was asked by Thompson to assist Dr. Gerberding on his behalf during the transition period. He filled that role through January 2003.

 

Previously, Dr. Osterholm served for 24 years (1975-1999) in various roles at the Minnesota Department of Health, the last 15 as state epidemiologist. He has led numerous investigations of outbreaks of international importance, including foodborne diseases, the association of tampons and toxic shock syndrome, and hepatitis B and HIV in healthcare settings."

...

"He is a frequent consultant to the World Health Organization (WHO), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Department of Defense, and the CDC. He is a fellow of the American College of Epidemiology and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)."

 

And he did a recent podcast where he addressed what it means when doctors and other public health professionals refer to vaccines as being "safe and effective", as follows in an excerpt limited in length by forum quoting rules... but the full exchange is posted in transcript form here:

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/episode-173-what-safe-and-effective

 

Dr. Osterholm:

"Let me start by saying I want to be clear that a vaccine being safe and effective does not mean that it is entirely without some risk to the person receiving the vaccines. Vaccines are widely accepted as safe can still cause very rare complications. It is essential that we properly communicate this to the public in order to reestablish trust in public health, we need to be transparent about these risks while also assuring that the general public understands that the risks that occur due to infection are much greater. [emphasis added]

 

Let me give you an example. If we look at the MMR [measles, mumps, rubella] vaccine, it's one that's often cited as potentially a risk to individuals. One possible complication associated with the measles vaccine is a condition called immune thrombocytopenic purpura, ITP. This is a disorder that decreases the body's ability to stop bleeding. Studies have found that in the six weeks following vaccination, the incidence of ITP is about 1 in 40,000 children. In fact, the risk of ITP is 13.2 times higher after measles infection. So yes, it can occur among a vaccine. However, the risk of your child having ITP is so, so much higher with the disease itself. ... And so, I want to just point out to you that when we talk about safe, we're not trying to hide the potential impact that a vaccine can have. But it is very, very rare."

...

I think this discussion right now is really healthy about vaccine safety, but please do not be confused by what you're hearing out of the likes of RFK Jr. and his colleagues there. They're talking about extremely, extremely exaggerated risk with Vaccines without any consideration of the benefits. And that discussion is not helpful. It's scary, and it's going to be responsible for kids not getting vaccinated and eventually kids getting infected with vaccine preventable diseases and dying."

 

Five more pages please.

Some guy with a PhD?

Worked with the D.O.D.? (In addition to the CDC, WHO, NIH and FDA)

Sketchy

27 minutes ago, rattlesnake said:

 

One of the great unresolved mysteries of this forum is whether you actually believe the outrageous BS you post. I tend to think you do.

It’s funny how he has gone with all the “every doctor who has ever said anything bad about the vaccine is a discredited quack” spiel.

You’d get a kick out of watching the nobody of a doctor who he quotes (Ziyad Al-Aly) on his YouTube interviews with other even lesser known podcasters.  They’re hilarious.  Definitely the perfect portrait of health.

He also has some glowing write up in Time magazine.

“Al-Aly is the first to admit that, prior to 2020, he knew almost nothing about postinfectious illness; back then, much of his research focused on the health effects of air pollution.”

 So will he ever go back to researching air pollution? “I identify as a Long COVID researcher now,” Al-Aly says

https://time.com/6966812/ziyad-al-aly/

I wonder why they’re usually these foreign born and educated doctors who end up spouting the Covid narrative?  Would they be deported if they didn’t toe the line?

I don’t know about you but I’d prefer a doctor who got his MD from University of Michigan, Anne Arbor (#19 in best global universities per US News and World Report) vs American University of Beirut (#381)

😂

They’d put a lot of street food stalls out of business with their Costco dogs.

40 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Somehow very fitting that a lot of the nonsense COVID anti-vax threads posted here are sharing space with discussions about whether the Earth is flat or round, and about whether the religiously purported "Virgin Birth" really was...  🙂

 

Is talking to yourself a vaccine side effect?

17 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

Did I ever tell you about the time I got pick pocketed by a Viet hooker in the old Nana short time hotel?

See…I was right.  Vietnamese like Americans.  😁

46 minutes ago, Flyguy330 said:

Yeah, <deleted> 'em, eh.

Why do all the pro-vaxxed have multiple friends who died from Covid?

Did you all go to fat camp together?

2 hours ago, fredwiggy said:

So Vietnamese people, who might not have spoken English, came up to you and told you they didn't like Americans? Just how many did this?

I’ll go with none.

I have visited Vietnam 3 times and am currently here (coming up on 3 months).  I have been treated wonderfully every time by all the Vietnamese I have interacted with.

I too originally thought they would hate us Americans (United States citizens for the pedantic among us) but when asking about it, I was informed that only the oldest generation (mostly dead now) harbors any resentment and most actually are quite interested in the USA from politics to music and sports (Lebron James was a favorite of one hotel manager)

Maybe people who think Vietnamese (in general) don’t like Americans are mistaking a generalization with the fact that they probably just didn’t like him.

I visited the elephants at the Krabi elephant hospital a number of years ago.  
 

I was feeding bananas to a young elephant under supervision of the mahout.   No teasing, no withholding, nothing.  

All was fine until the bananas ran out and the calf grabbed my wrist with its trunk.  The animal obviously didn’t know it’s own strength and could have easily broken my wrist had the mahout not handled things in an expeditious manner.

I will never go near one again.

9 hours ago, still kicking said:

Well I know this is an Expat forum but most poster don't actually live in Thailand, I do not anymore, I moved back to OZ a few years back as everybody knows. so where you come from?  most posters seem American  posters posting like or dislike Trump but there is more countries in the world so the question is why posting about American problems in every second post?

You should spend more time in Thailand in order to brush up on your English.

26 minutes ago, rattlesnake said:

 

And as unfortunate as that is, the solution to this issue (unhealthy people susceptible to a variety of ailments) is not to inject the entire population with an experimental drug produced by the same companies who made people unhealthy and weak in the first place.

 

Big hopes for Trump admin 2 and RFK, who is aware of the fundamental issue, which is the poisoning of the population from birth in order to create lifelong clients for the pharmaceutical industry.

I thought the solution was a culling.

1 hour ago, Tigger01 said:

Unfortunately those who succumbed to COVID are unable to post the same are they? I know 3 people who died with COVID symptoms....

Time for another group cry.