Chomper Higgot

From the article you have linked: “There are 123 people with COVID-19 in hospital, including 12 people in ICU and one requiring a ventilator. Of those hospitalised, 73 people are fully vaccinated, 12 are either unvaccinated or partially vaccinated, and 38 have an unknown vaccination status.” First observation, the vaccination status of 38 of the 123 cases is unknown. So before you start calculating percentages to make your argument over 30% of the data set is uncertain. Moreover, there is zero data on the vaccination status of the 8 people who are reported dead. But such obvious gaps in the data didn’t stop you reaching for your calculator, so you gave us: “60% of hospitalized ignoramuses are fully vaccinated.“ Firstly let’s correct your math, 73 fully vaccinated out of 123 total cases is 59,3% (rounding up to help your argument is a tell). Let’s assume you don’t understand uncertainty created by missing data and go with your inflated 60%. From the article you linked and are basing your argument on: “Currently 92.7% of eligible South Australians aged 12+ have received their first dose of the vaccine, 88.5% have received their second dose “ If the vaccines were having no positive impact the percentage of fully vaccinated patients in hospital would be 88.7%. Forgive me if pointing out the gaping holes in your understanding of the information in the article you choose to post causes you any embarrassment, it’s not personal.

Infection and outcome of infection are not the same thing. It’s not vaccinated people who are filling up ICU units. Despite their lower absolute umbers, it’s the unvaccinated that are winding up seriously I’ll in hospital: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/23/covid-patients-in-icu-now-almost-all-unvaccinated-says-oxford-scientist ‘Let’s go Darwin’.

Greatly assisted by the people of Thailand (citizens or otherwise) complying with public health policies.

Good night Sidney, Rest In Peace. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jan/07/sidney-poitier-obituary

The evidence of your posts suggests you have achieved your preferred option.

I don’t need to live in NZ to read and understand the data.

And …. erm…. Nobody has suffered side effects from the particular alternative you had?

Feeling safe is very important to our well being, but it’s not the same thing as being safe.

But you did bother, you got the vaccine and then spent months supporting anti-vaccine messaging.

OK. Let’s look at deaths per million inhabitants: New Zealand =3.7 Thailand = 304 USA = 2,418 UK = 2,184 Singapore = 139 Sweden = 1,476 New Zealand are doing something right. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deaths-worldwide-per-million-inhabitants/

Regardless of what the law says and whether or not the laws are enforced its a good idea to carry ID when cycling, if only in case of an accident. I carry a laminated copy of my passport Bio Page, on the back of which is my wife's phone number and my preferred hospital (in Thai). I also carry my medical insurance card. The one accident I've had I remained conscious but nevertheless had all the documents I needed to immediately be admitted and commence treatment at my preferred private hospital.

I would say in all honesty, reading literature is not a defining trait of Thai society. However, many Thai people are, like ‘readers’ elsewhere avid readers. ….. As an aside, I chuckled to myself last night while watching an episode of ‘Shetland’ in which the detective remarks the suspect had a copy of Finigan’s Wake on his book case, to which the observation is made ‘nobody reads Finigans Wake’. It reminded me of an Italian I worked with who used decorate his house with books ‘casually’ scattered for visitors to admire the titles. Oh and I have read Finigan’s Wake. ….. As another aside. I have a relatively extensive library of books which I had arranged by subject matter and author. Returning from an extended overseas trip I entered my study to find my cleaner had taken all the books off the shelves and replaced them in arrangement by color and size. Through the mist of rage I managed to find some solace in recalling Tom Sharpe’s account of ‘The Dundridge Decimal’ in ‘Blott on the Landscape’.

What does it matter what sort of people are dying?. Putting aside they are all somebody’s wife, husband, parent or child and the human grief associated with their deaths, they all require health care during their illness. The impacts of over a million deaths are of course no concern to you.

You clearly do not understand the risks in play.

But in the moment of being killed by that tree, the woman didn’t infect anyone else with being squashed by a tree. Random accidents tell us nothing about pandemics.

51 deaths to date. They’ve got something right. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/new-zealand/

There’s just the problem of you personally avoiding being one of the dying. On that score, vaccination is your best bet.

Former PM Chuan Leekpai was asked on British TV about the ‘flesh trade’ in Thailand. He responded by first calling an aid onto the stage who handed the PM a large envelope, Leekpai emptied its contents onto the table and explained these were ‘calling cards’ collected by his staff from phone boxes in the vicinity of his London hotel. Point 1. It’s a UK problem too. He then explained that the ‘flesh trade’ in Thailand will shrink and eventually become inaccessible to ‘sex tourists’ as Thailand’s economy grows. It’s generally a slow process but it is well underway and occasionally rapidly reduces ‘participation’, the rise of the Bhat against Sterling being an example with the subsequent departure of Brits. (Cast your mind back to the angst filled discussions on the exchange rate as guys packed up and went home). As noted above, the development of higher earning businesses is also pushing property prices up, prime locations are being developed and the bars are being pushed further out, dispersed rather than concentrated in one area. Point 2. The contribution of the ‘nightary entertainment sector’ to the Thai economy, and perhaps more importantly, to the profits of real estate owners, is greatly over estimated. These businesses will always exist, but they’re progressively becoming more dispersed and more expensive. The ‘glory days’ are long gone.

“I would have more faith in Singapore's Ministry of Health than the CDC or the NIH.“ I lived in Singapore for over two years and frequently visit on business. I like many things about Singapore, but I have little faith in any Singapore government department reporting news that might be detrimental to business or the image of Singapore. Back in the days of the Indonesian forrest fires creating smog in Singapore, I would check the official smog report (visibility in the hundreds of meters) and then compare that with the pea-soup 15meter visibility on Orchard Road. If Singapore stopped reporting data there is a reason why they did so.

Link please.

I feel lucky to have the choice.

There’s more criminality behind the leniency Epstein was given. If he properly been dealt with in 2005 non of his later crimes would have happened.

Clearly despicable and yet so many eagerly offer excuses, apportion blame or otherwise attempt to assuage the guilt of the perpetrators. Why they choose do so is a question deserving an answer.

A universal vaccine, desirable as that is, will face the same anti-vaccine misinformation as the vaccines that have already saved countless people from serious illness, hospitalization and death.

You are wrong …. Again: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/42/section/59A/2013-04-06#:~:text=[F159ATrafficking people for sexual exploitation&text=relevant offence%2C or-,(b)A believes that another person is likely to do,commission of a relevant offence.