Bkk Brian

I agree and a lot of this seems to be derived from the rhetoric on Russian TV media about hangings and eliminating Ukraine. Orders from the top are certainly something not to be ruled out: Similar to the question if we are at the stage of Genocide now, some experts sqy we are others say its on the cusp and more evidence is needed first. Eugene Finkel, an associate professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins University, believes genocide is underway in Ukraine. He says there is evidence of killings, carried out in Bucha and other places, of people based on their Ukrainian identity. "It's not just killing people, it's targeting a national identity group," he says. However, it's the rhetoric coming from Moscow that tips over into genocidal intent, Mr Finkel says. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61017352

The Dr maybe somewhere near the mark, at least according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation current model for Thailand. Its not been updated since March 14th but on that date as we can see the mean estimate was decreasing and at 250,000 per day. If it was following the trend down then it would be around 150,000 a day now. However to contradict that, the ICU numbers and ventilated cases are going up so who knows....lol https://ourworldindata.org/covid-models#institute-for-health-metrics-and-evaluation-ihme

TBH I expected this but the important numbers were 93 in favour and 24 against so Russia got kicked out and quite rightly. Next stop we want International Criminal courts to issue warrants

I think I covered that: "medical professionals will or should do all they can to help a patient survive if they think there is a chance of it" Although perhaps I should have worded it as "if they think there is a chance of the outcome being beneficial for the patient..............."

I understand what you are saying but that is after the fact, medical professionals will or should do all they can to help a patient survive if they think there is a chance of it, they cannot always be right.

Well over 50% of all those intubated survive. One of the longest lasted over 100 days intubated, he had multiple comorbidity and survived. In Vietnam an English patient spent 68 days on a ventilator and survived. Your post really did make it sound like those with comorbidity should be disregarded and smacked of throwing them under the bus. In reality all patients should have the treatment to survive no matter how old they are. Only when ICU's are full should Triage be used, meaning that a choice must be made between patients who receive the needed ICU or ventilator care.

In this holiday period when case counts are sporadic at best then I guess better to keep an eye on the ICU and ventilated cases, they both hit a record high for this year.

PCR test positive cases, total of 25,140 official new infections. 89 official covid deaths recorded. Rapid tests positive cases, 23,751 bringing the total of PCR and ATK results to 48,891 https://ddc.moph.go.th/covid19-dashboard/ OWD rolling 7 day average, cases and deaths up to 6th April https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus/country/thailand

The Wagner Group possibly responsible for many of the murders in Bucha....................... German intelligence intercepted radio exchanges between Russian soldiers who discussed killing civilians outside Kyiv German officials, who presented the intelligence to lawmakers in Berlin on Wednesday, say the intercepts indicate that the murder of civilians in the town of Bucha near the Ukrainian capital was not an act by rogue forces, but may have been part of a deliberate strategy to foment terror. In one conversation, a soldier is heard to claim that he shot and killed a cyclist. In another, an individual can be heard saying that bystanders should initially be questioned, then shot. The German information indicated that mercenaries from the Wagner Group, a private Russian military company, may have been involved in the atrocities https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-07/germany-tapped-russian-chatter-on-bucha-killings-spiegel-says The PROOF Putin's soldiers and Wagner mercenaries carried out Bucha atrocities: German intelligence 'intercepts Russian troop messages discussing murders as part of strategy to sow terror' The audio messages have been relayed to German parliament by the BND to further debunk baseless Kremlin claims that the bodies were staged by Ukraine after Russia withdrew from the city in a 'monstrous forgery', Spiegel reported. The wiretap recordings also show that the Wagner Group was present in the city and played 'a key role' in the massacre, and that there are likely similar scenes of slaughter elsewhere in the country. The shadowy military company which has been linked to a string of killings, rapes and war crimes around the world is known as Putin's private army which carries out his dirty work at an arm's length from the state. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10695223/The-PROOF-Putins-soldiers-Wagner-mercenaries-carried-Bucha-atrocities-leaked-messages.html

Russia has suffered "significant losses of troops", President Vladimir Putin's spokesman has said. But asked again if Russia has lost thousands of troops, he said: "Yes, we have significant losses of troops and it's a huge tragedy for us." https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-61032786

President Joe Biden said NATO would respond “in kind” if Russia uses weapons of mass destruction in Ukraine. “We will respond if he uses it,” Biden said, referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin. “The nature of the response depends on the nature of the use.” He was referring more to chemical weapons however I presume his response would be about the same for Nuclear weapons. Basically the start of WW111 if this is not already the prelude to it.

Not quite no. "Running a mercenary army is against the Russian constitution," "However, Wagner provides the government with a force which is deniable. Wagner can get involved abroad and the Kremlin can say: 'It has nothing to do with us'." https://www.bbc.com/news/world-60947877 Very handy when war crimes are committed

Or this: The notorious Rusich group (St Petersburg neo-nazis affiliated with Wagner) says it is now deployed in Ukraine. Its commander Aleksey “Fritz” Milchakov has been wounded, so his friend Yan “Slavyan” Petrovsky is now in charge. https://twitter.com/leonidragozin/status/1511732742093950985 https://twitter.com/Hromadske/status/1511895440417079296

They do need to move quickly, the problem is there are so many crimes that they are inundated with investigations but work has started: "The International Criminal Court, which typically prosecutes only a handful of high-level perpetrators, has opened an investigation into atrocities in Ukraine. Ukrainian prosecutors have launched thousands of criminal investigations, while prosecutors in Poland, Germany, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, France, Slovakia, Sweden, Norway and Switzerland have opened investigations of their own. And there have been growing calls to set up a special tribunal to try Russia for the crime of aggression in Ukraine." https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/bucha-ukraine-civilian-deaths-justice-tribunal-international-criminal-court/ Here is an updated list of 95 war crimes so far although its not got all in Bucha yet as they are still gathering all the rest of those. 95 Potential war crimes documented in Ukraine https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/interactive/ap-russia-war-crimes-ukraine/

From the Washington Post, its behind a paywall. Here's a screenshot from the twitter link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/06/bucha-barbarism-atrocities-russian-soldiers/

You should also consider testing rates. In countries where there are low rates of covid testing then covid deaths is one of the primary causes of death in the pandemic. Thailand is lucky to carry out 50k pcr tests daily so I think that qualifies as a low rate of testing? Thailand's previous lockdowns additionally helped reduce road death considerably and would also need to be taken into account.

Interesting update from MSNBC ‘Continuous Drumbeat That Sounds Like Genocidal Language’ On Russian State TV Journalist Says

WHO Thailand weekly update, severe/ventilated cases and deaths. https://www.who.int/thailand/emergencies/novel-coronavirus-2019/situation-reports

So much more to discover in other towns that were occupied, the nightmare going on in Mariupol must be hell on earth for the civilians there, here we have a first hand video report from the town of Trostyanets by UK Channel 4: Distressing footage from #C4News reveals undocumented atrocities in Trostyanets, Ukraine - including the bodies of people apparently executed with their eyes taped and hands bound behind their backs. Warning: this report contains very distressing images.

Must have been more of those Thai dinosaurs giving this fake post 4,000 likes: "The Russian invasion of Ukraine has sparked another baseless internet rumor, this time about the alleged capture of a top NATO leader in Mariupol, Ukraine. The tweet not only got Cloutier’s military rank and title wrong — he is a lieutenant general and the commander of NATO’s Allied Land Command since August 2020 — but it also set off a flurry of social media posts falsely claiming Cloutier was captured. One Thai-language Facebook post spreading the same message received more than 4,000 likes in a matter of hours. The false claim was promoted in posts on the pro-Trump and QAnon internet forums patriots.win and greatawakening.win, both of which have played host to far-right and extremist content in the past." https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/apr/05/tweets/no-nato-allied-land-command-leader-wasnt-captured-/

PCR test positive cases, total of 26,081 official new infections. 91 official covid deaths recorded. Rapid tests positive cases, 24,728 bringing the total of PCR and ATK results to 50,809 https://ddc.moph.go.th/covid19-dashboard/ OWD rolling 7 day average, cases and deaths up to 4th April https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus/country/thailand

Yea the Times has carried some of it also: "Timofei Sergeitsev wrote in a column for state newswire Ria Novosti on Sunday. He called for Ukraine to cease to exist as a state, its elite to be “liquidated” and added that “the social swamp which actively and passively supports it must undergo the hardships of war and digest the experience as a historical lesson and atonement”. ‘Poorly trained actors’: how Russia’s state media twists revelations of atrocities On Tuesday, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev wrote on the messaging app Telegram that Ukrainian nationhood, “[that has] fed on anti-Russian poison and all-encompassing lies about its identity, is all one big fake [that] has never existed in history”. He vowed Russia would “change Ukrainians’ bloody consciousness”, as Putin had ordered. https://www.ft.com/content/9d58d7b1-ceb3-429d-b952-3e7da76aace3 If its behind a paywall you can read the full article here: https://web.archive.org/web/20220406092412/https://www.ft.com/content/9d58d7b1-ceb3-429d-b952-3e7da76aace3

A series of off topic baiting and troll posts

No fortunately we don't all accept the propaganda without question, only the Putin Apologists that I referred to in my post.

Whats the big deal with the bio labs? Its been transparent with the US and Ukraine for years. April 22, 2020 The U.S. Embassy would like to set the record straight regarding disinformation spreading in some circles in Ukraine that mirrors Russian disinformation regarding the strong U.S.-Ukrainian partnership to reduce biological threats. https://ua.usembassy.gov/u-s-ukraine-partnership-to-reduce-biological-threats/ It was the Russians who took it one step further than reality and turned it into a conspiracy theory claiming they were bio weapons labs and had sent infected birds over to Russia, among many other hilarious claims. I'm afraid the special UN meeting Russia called on it turned out to be a historical farce and no evidence to date has been received.