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The reason you don't have multiple jabs for tetanus is it's a bacterium, not a virus, and it does not mutate. COVID does. You think you are getting the same flu shot as you were 20 years ago? Of course not. The only back-pedalling I am aware of is when the WHO stepped back from saying vaccines prevented COVID infection, to the position they prevented serious illness. Which IMO was an honest mistake, before the evidence Sinovac was only 50% effective. I still got Sinovac as being better than nothing. Your choice if you don't want to have a booster. A better choice for me is to get an antibody test done, so I can make a decision on an informed basis. I am more concerned with the long-term effects of COVID, than any long-term effects of vaccines. The data coming out of Australia is saying 30% of unvaccinated people develop long COVID, and it's quite nasty. Imagine you are a non-smoker who overnight becomes a three pack a day smoker. That's what COVID does to the lungs of some people.

An anti-vaxxer is a person who cherry-picks data, and is in denial of the facts, such as an unvaccinated person contracting COVID is 5 or 10 times more likely to occupy an ICU, or suffer the effects of long COVID. Anti-vaxxers recoil from explaining why the multiple jabs they have had for polio, tetanus, Hep A etc. have not harmed them. Social media is a haven for nut-jobs who can shriek their beliefs at maximum volume, and support the confirmation biases of one another, while calling sensible people sheeple. O the irony. Vaccines work, gravity is real, global warming and climate change are facts. Fluoride prevents dental caries. Get used to it.

You can get tested for COVID antibodies at a pathology laboratory. IIRC, it cost me 500 baht. I can't remember the unit of measure. I was told by a staff member if I had a count above 2500, I might be asked to donate blood to assist seriously ill COVID patients. Perhaps Sheryl can comment on what antibody level would make further jabs unnecessary.

You have a credible link for that statement, or is it the usual social media BS posted by demented anti-vaxxers?

Perhaps you would kindly post your medical qualifications, Sheryl has helped many members on this forum. OTOH, I can't recall any useful advice from you. Having had 3 jabs, plus COVID, my thinking is to treat COVID like flu from now on. Yearly shots, and maintain physical fitness to give my immune system its best chance.

I thought the title was a typo for an older Toyota model. Crypto is a belief system, Solana is presumably one of its more obscure gospels. It promises financial paradise to its adherents. Changing to EGLD is like opening a new chapter in the Bible. Religions demand worship of an entity one cannot touch, see or hear. A swarm of electrons whizzing around in cyberspace is remarkably similar. Religions have prophets, and leaders. The leaders usually fare better than followers. See where I am going with this?

I got COVID after Sinovac and AZ jabs. October 2021. I am not one of the morons who claims that proves vaccines don't work. My GF was in quarantine with me. She refused vaccination after social media posts from said morons. My illness lasted 3 days. Sore throat, runny nose. She is 23 years younger than me, had the full gamut of symptoms including nausea, loss of taste and smell, fever etc. She was really sick for ten days. QED. What baffles me about anti-vaxxers is their vocal opposition to COVID vaccines. At the same time, they probably have jabs for polio, tetanus, typhoid - a whole raft of inoculations. What's the difference? Vaccines work, but in this era of constant misinformation on social media truth takes a beating.

I was given Favipiravir while I was in quarantine, my illness lasted 3 days, no after-effects. I was back exercising after 5 days. I am in the most vulnerable age cohort. I can't say whether it worked or not. The hospital x'rayed my lungs on admission, said I had congestion typical of COVID. A week later, I was clear.

The OP presumably wants sensible discussion on this thread. Let me suggest a logical start would be to order his OP coherently, and use a spellchecker. I felt like I was having my head pushed into a bowl of verbal mush.

I don't worry about being called a farang, it's probably less derogatory than being called gweiloh ( Chinese ) or gaijin ( Japanese )

I enjoy the thought my continuing existence and pension entitlement annoys the hell out of politicians, who would much prefer I departed gracefully a couple of months after qualifying. Of course, they would never admit that.

I take supplements myself, Vitamins B12 and E, milk thistle, saw palmetto, zinc and magnesium. Although I probably don't need the magnesium if I have a snack of almonds. I compare pharmaceuticals and herbals on the basis of time and money. The pharmaceutical industry is well known for fudging results of clinical trials to get their products on the market, and most medications are less than 80 years old. OTOH, herbals have been tried and tested for centuries. Some work, some don't. It depends on individual physiology, and the placebo effect.

A bit low, but nothing to worry about. Mine is 74, which I blame on doctors who kept on prescribing anti-inflammatories for my osteo-arthritis for many years. It was as low as 56 about 3 years ago, thanks to their malpractice.

IIRC they charge a higher spread for small amounts, more than 100 in Euros or dollars it will be the standard rate. Away from the banks, the rates one gets are quite competitive. I sometimes wonder why the banks bother to have their rates on display, only a complete newbie would use them.

Cash, precious metals, and peer-to-peer. I have some cash in a share trading account, waiting for BHP to go back below $40. Or silver to go back below $30. I don't draw on the peer-to-peer monthly, I reinvest and take out money about once a year to supplement my OAP.

In 2017, there was a Royal Commission in Australia into banks, financial institutions and financial advisers. The findings were quite damning. I am not sure fund managers and financial advisers are the same beast, the lines seem to be blurred in Oz. Back in the eighties, I engaged a firm called Financial Wisdom, actually a subsidiary of the Commonwealth Bank. The representative recommended four stocks. Two stayed static, one rose by 20%, and the fourth tanked by 70%. I had mentioned to him a stock which I had been following for some time in retail food, I thought it was seriously undervalued. He was dismissive. Three months later, it doubled in price. After liquidating my holdings, I developed a rather jaundiced view of the industry. The fourth company declared bankruptcy about 2 years later. Not the same as a fund with a spread of 500 companies, but I think you get my drift.

Sakol or Superrich.

The Focus is a bigger version of the Fiesta. Ford in Thailand has a reputation for throwing its customers under a bus, and the brand didn't get the soubriquet Fix Or Repair Daily by chance.

Your post reminds me of a response by a fund manager, when he was asked if he lay awake worrying about the investments he made on behalf of his clients. He said " Why should I lose any sleep? It's not my money." I don't know what it is like elsewhere, IME fund managers in Australia are mainly concerned with their commissions/fees, and the kickbacks they get by steering clients towards investments they are pally with. They don't give a flying <deleted> about their customers.

Not sure what you mean, rather ambiguous. Schadenfreude is not my thing.

Statistically illiterate as well, in your case. I am financially literate enough to last owe anyone any money in 1974.

I suppose I got lucky, when I deposited the 800K for my retirement visa, it was 29.5.

Quite right, peer-reviewed research is a bridge much too far for many pundits. Unless you mean I am too old to benefit from such an approach, which is correct too. I can't recall you saying what your own age is. "he's got something" is a bit too vague for me, and a statistical sample of one does not impress me either. I did ask you previously whether you had checked your eGFR, I don't know how you can say you have no negative side effects without that information. And how do you know you are not quietly developing hyperinsulinemia, which the metformin is masking?

23.8, as usual fluctuating between that number and 24.2. Your prediction was it would not see 23.7 again, about six weeks ago. Do let me know when you cease reacting to single data points. People who understand statistics look at trends and outliers.

There are any number of gurus in their forties and fifties claiming to have found the elixir of life. AFAIK not a lot in their seventies and eighties. Dr. Sinclair has proved anti-aging effects of a couple of organic compounds in yeasts and mice. That is a far cry from humans, allow me to observe we are somewhat more complex organisms. When Dr. Sinclair can produce peer-reviewed research that proves taking pharmaceuticals prolongs life in a statistically significant population of humans when compared to a control group, I might take notice. Until then, I refuse to be a lab rat. What you don't seem to understand is the side effects of almost all medications are more pronounced in the elderly.