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On ‎3‎/‎1‎/‎2020 at 7:26 AM, dbrenn said:

True - anything that can kill you is scary. But we should put it into perspective. If in an absolutely worst case, a third of the population ends up catching it, and 3% of those 33% die, 75% of which are over 60, then:

 

1) For the over 60's, there is a 0.75% chance of any one of us dying

2) For the under 60's, there is a 0.25% chance of any one of us dying

 

Compare that with 62 people dying on the roads every day - that's a 0.16% chance of any one of us dying in the next 5 years, and every 5 years after that, but we still venture out and cars haven't been banned yet.

 

Stay safe ....

Come on now, you can't expect facts, logic and reason in the TVF new section, it is not a done thing here ???? 

2 hours ago, Henryford said:

Who lets a complete stranger take their car for a test drive alone !!

Try reading it.... The regular customer took the car for a test drive and came back to announce that it was perfect and she would buy it. 

22 hours ago, Tug said:

First I wish the guy off the cruise ship a speedy recovery it’s good to know it’s recoverable.but sir with all due respect I don’t think the Chinese government shut down their economy both domestic and foreign over nothing I still treat this virus very seriously indeed

it is not like government ever get things wrong or overreact, right? 

5 hours ago, meshborg said:

He definitely Thai.Only a Thai person thinks all other races inferior.

except that at no point did he say that

Funny as Trump and his supporters are always banging on about 'MUh FrEEzE PeACh'

9 hours ago, Golden Triangle said:

And you don't understand sarcasm, that's why there is a smiley in there, never mind.................

what a cop out

3 hours ago, geriatrickid said:

The other issue is that  Covid 19 is very infectious, more infectious than influenza, or the common cold.  The 3% mortality rate must be taken within the context that far more people will be infected so it is  indeed a killer because the disease burden is so heavy.

That is a big leap to make, how do you know far more people will be infected? 

"It means stopping the outbreak might be more difficult, since people start to become infectious early on in their disease or may even spread the virus when they’re asymptomatic. But to confirm these two findings, we’ll need more science, said Jennifer Nuzzo, an infectious disease expert and senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. “We still don’t know to what extent people without symptoms can infect,” she pointed out."

18 minutes ago, anto said:

Dr Campbell is a bell end .He believes the Chinese figures .He also believes that this virus came from an animal ,when the more likely thing is that it came from the grade 4 bio lab in Wuhan ,probably by accident .

Well evidence does show it came from an animal. The only evidence it came from a lab is fruit-loops online shouting about it very loudly, kind of ironic really ???? 

2 hours ago, teacherbrendan said:

More and more countries are now banning entrance to anyone that has visited Thailand recently despite Thailand not declaring any new cases for weeks. This clearly shows that nobody believes the Thai governments official reporting of coronavirus cases. 

 

I say 'slap it right up em'. Hopefully a back breaking few months of low tourist numbers puts thousands of liars, cheats and scammers out of a job and puts some manners on the Thais as hosts. Sadly we all know that its more likely they will only con, deceive and cheat the farang that still visit.

Did you forget your meds today?

23 hours ago, Rookiescot said:

Battle honours awarded to the regiment included:[10]

Early Wars: Mysore, South Africa 1835, Tel-El-Kebir, Egypt 1882 '84, Nile 1884–5, Chitral, Tirah, Defence of Ladysmith, Paardeberg, South Africa, 1899–1902

The Great War: Mons, Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914 '18, Aisne 1914, La Bassée 1914, Messines 1914, Armentières 1914, Ypres 1914 '15 '17, Langemarck 1914, Gheluvelt, Nonne Bosschen, Neuve Chapelle, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Aubers, Festubert 1915, Hooge 1915, Loos, Somme 1916, 18, Albert 1916 '18, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières, Guillemont, Flers-Courcelette, Le Transloy, Ancre 1916, Arras 1917 '18, Vimy 1917, Scarpe 1917 '18, Arleux, Bullecourt, Pilckem, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcapelle. Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 '18, St. Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Rosières, Lys, Estaires, Hazebrouck, Béthune, Soissonnais-Ourcq, Tardenois, Hindenburg Line, Canal du Nord, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914–18, Piave, Vittorio Veneto, Italy 1917–18

The Second World War: Withdrawal to Escaut, Ypres-Comines Canal, Dunkirk 1940, Somme 1940, St. Valery-en-Caux, Odon, La Vie Crossing, Lower Maas, Venlo Pocket, Rhineland, Reichswald, Cleve, Goch, Rhine, North-West Europe 1940, '44–45, El Alamein, Advance on Tripoli, Mareth, Medjez Plain, North Africa 1942–43, Landing in Sicily, Sferro, Sicily 1943, Anzio, Rome, Italy 1944–45

 

How many battle honours do you have?

My grandfather was part of the Gordon Highlanders at St. Valery. They held out there until they had just about run out of ammunition. It was units like the 51st Highland Division that kept a lot of German forces busy and allowed for the evacuations at Dunkirk. 

On ‎2‎/‎22‎/‎2020 at 1:55 PM, Somtamnication said:

I showed a year 9 class pictures of the holocaust; they fell out of their chairs laughing!

I will take 'Things that never happened' for 500, please. ???? 

On ‎2‎/‎21‎/‎2020 at 9:19 AM, DeeMak9 said:

My god, you have no idea right? The death rate of seasonal flu is 0.1% vs. 2.5% for COVID19 (currently). Number is only expected to go up as its very likely that not all current infected will recover. Its also AT LEAST as contagious as seasonal flu.

 

Is this the end of the world? Nah. But ask you self what's more dangerous, denial like yours or taking proper measurements and making people aware of the risks.

I didn't deny anything - I said it should be dealt with without the hysteria, try reading what I said. 

Hysteria, as in saying it is like the Pandemic Movie doesn't help anyone. As another poster said, drugs are running out in Germany, things are not being sent from China.... that is cos of hysteria and hyperbole not cos of actual measures to combat the virus

On ‎2‎/‎23‎/‎2020 at 8:17 AM, Hayduke said:

 

True....but it's not going to happen any time soon. It's quite obvious the rank and file 'populace' doesn't feel strongly enough about military oppression to really 'do' anything. They've never known political freedom and it's never been a part of Thai society. Now, if the court dissolved Facebook...it would be completely different...we'd be looking at a violent, full scale insurrection. The Thai people know what's important.

 

 

So the protests in late 2000s never happened in bizaro TVF land? All those people shot by the military never happened too? 

2 hours ago, Somtamnication said:

Like the Pandemic movie. This stuff is scary.

No, it is nothing like the Pandemic movie.... it is not killing most people who contract it. The death rate is similar or close to the regular flu virus.  Just like the flu, which kills around half a million people a year (does that number scare you?), this virus (which is a variety of flu) kills old people and people with health conditions.

Should we try and contain it, find a vaccine for it? Sure, but this kind of 'Oh my god, we are all going to die' scaremongering doesn't help anyone.