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Joe helped me out a lot in my first couple of years. Mainly by factual guidance, but also relief that there was a rare cool hand at the wheel.

RIP

"back in some form"

orange is the new black

6 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Well he could try, but given the evidence of him  inciting the attack he can easily be considered a coconspirator - good luck getting the pardon from a coconspirator to hold up in court.

As far as I know, presidential pardon is not reviewable by any court.

July 2: 

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President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he believes the coronavirus will "just disappear" even as cases explode across the U.S. and top health officials warn that the country needs to do more to stop the spread.

"I think we're going to be very good with the coronavirus. I think that at some point that's going to sort of just disappear, I hope," Trump said in an interview with Fox Business Network.

 

Trump will "pounce like a tiger" when these great predictions come through just in time for the debates !!!

I'm so grateful to be a healthy and fit 69 year old. If I was obese with health issues I'd be totally on it planning to switch my retirement and take my Thai wife to elsewhere, even though she is government retiree and I get medical "benefits" as her husband. Maybe go for Columbia, which which I hear welcomes retirees, and has government health care that is available, affordable (relatively cheap), and not too shabby.

"The suspect had allegedly jumped from hotel to hotel" 

Maybe karma was impelling him to re-live what he had done to her. 

2 hours ago, Nigel Garvie said:

When I travelled to India in the early 1990s my Scottish doctor insisted I take chloroquine to avoid Malaria, 1 week before leaving, all the time there, and for 4 weeks on return. It made me feel absolutely Krapp. Next time I visited, a good local Indian doctor said "What the hell are you doing that for, you will seriously damage your liver".

Ditto 

During my stint as a Peace Corps volunteer in West Africa (1974-76), the U.S. government policy was for us to be on a continuous schedule of taking chloroquine to prevent malaria. This was somewhat controversial at the time - the British volunteers did not take anything until they had an onset of malaria.

Even with the chloroquine, I got malaria a couple of times and it was like an extremely painful flu. At one point, I got hepatitis A (food borne), and the doctor took me off the chloroquine because they said it is a stress on the liver, adding the hepatitis stress on the liver.

My opinion is that one has to weigh the risks. Humans are not very good at that. So it is irresponsible for a leader to promote any drug that has different risk profiles for different groups and individuals.

May be just me, but if I was so horrified of the police and visciously critical of a country's culture, I would not be living in that country and wasting my time posting angry rants on threads about life there. 

50 minutes ago, PatchinExPat said:

I intend to give it about 2 more years if my health holds out then take a slow boat

back to the USA

These days, with cv19, a fast boat would be better. 

7 hours ago, Xaos said:

 

I bet if u get covid positive, first thing u try would be hydroxychroloquine and azythromycin 

Well, no. Since about 80% of people with CV-19 do not have serious problems, no reason to dose yourself straight off.

This news should be spread widely. It might prevent people who trust the orange word salad king from killing themselves -- like the old couple who dosed themselves with aquarium cleaning pills because one of the ingredients was chloroquine (one of them died).

I actually took chloroquine for two years while a volunteer in United States Peace Corps (1976-78). It was U.S. Peace Corps policy that volunteers in our region take the pills as a malaria preventative. Had some temporary liver damage, maybe due to alcohol + chloroquine.

12 minutes ago, petedk said:

1 hour ago, Canuck1966 said:

I live in a small village near the beach Chaam and the tannoy last night told everyone to stay inside as a woman from 7/11 had died of Whu flu

Strange because the announcement of another death says it is a 70 year old male from Samut Prakarn.

If what you say is true then maybe there are more deaths than announced.

Humans are very prone to base-rate fallacy in their thinking. Since Thailand has almost 50,000 deaths per year from influenza/pneumonia without COVID-19, that must be kept in mind when espousing panic-conspiracy theories based on rumor.

From worldlifeexpectancy.com :

In Thailand, approximately 69.87 out of 100,000 people die of influenza or pneumonia annually.

So for the total Thai population (about 69.80 million), about 48,800 people die annually from influenza or pneumonia.

This makes is difficult to assess how many more of the annual virus deaths have been caused by COVID-19 so far. Things will be more clear if the doctors and hospitals become more transparent about testing and confirming that deaths are specifically due to COVID-19.

U.S. National Public Radio article (click for reference)

"Viruses spread through respiratory droplets that are released when an infected person coughs or sneezes. And the droplets are more likely to spread under certain conditions. 'What we know is that they're [the droplets] are better at staying afloat when the air is cold and dry,' says McGraw. 'When the air is humid and warm, [the droplets] fall to the ground more quickly, and it makes transmission harder.'"

Coronavirus ‘highly sensitive’ to high temperatures, but don’t bank on summer killing it off, studies say
Pathogen appears to spread fastest at 8.72 degrees Celsius, so countries in colder climes should ‘adopt the strictest control measures’, according to researchers from Sun Yat-sen University in Guangdong province

click for article: South China Morning Post article

Not to say the sky won't fall in Southeast Asia. The sky just seems to have sagged down in slo-mo for awhile.

12 minutes ago, geriatrickid said:

Correct.  There is no evidence that "herd immunity" applies here. People are embracing anything they can that makes them feel better

United States Center for Disease Control:

Q: Can people who recover from COVID-19 be infected again?

A: The immune response to COVID-19 is not yet understood. Patients with MERS-CoV infection are unlikely to be re-infected shortly after they recover, but it is not yet known whether similar immune protection will be observed for patients with COVID-19.

27 minutes ago, Tayaout said:

https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/thailand-coronavirus-updates-is-the-thai-government-planning-to-use-a-new-herd-immunity-model-approach

thailandmedicalnews.com

LOL - did you clip the "Donate" button and give them your money?

Earlier articles by thanlandmedicalnews, citing themselves as a source, claim that COVID-19 originated outside China.