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16 hours ago, mohinga said:

50% is the minumum required effectiveness required to be granted emergency use authorization (EUA). Sinovac was granted this by the WHO a couple of weeks ago. Meanwhile, Sputnik V, with over 90% effectiveness (the highest of all vaccines except for the mRNA ones) has yet to be granted EUA by either the WHO or the European agency. Politics paramount in all aspects of this pandemic and vaccines. AZ and J&J approved despite many serious risks being reported. Sinovac and Sinpharm approved with slightly more than mimium effectiveness.

Then there's the question of the political stigmatization of anyone, including many doctors, who posit the possibility of hydroxychlorquine and Ivermectin as treatment... despite an abundance of anecdotal evidence.

The fact that experimental treatments, such as the vaccines, cannot be granted EUA if there is an effective treatment available is not reported in the media. All that is stessed is that one must get the jab in order to be allowed some portion of the freedoms that we all once took for granted.

I would opt for the Russian jab if it were available. But it is not. There are some rumours of it getting the WHO approval in the coming months. But, failing that, I would get one of the Chinese old school endovirus jabs. Maybe not very effective, but at least it would allow me to operate on a longer leash.

At best they could potentially lessen the severity of symptoms if one were to get the virus.

And the risk of serious side effects seems minimal. The same cannot be said for the 2 mRNA jabs.

100% agree. I'm less keen on getting an mRNA vaccine due to how much safety testing can have been done in the time allowed. I'm with the billion people who have Sinopharm.

One wonders why this isn't front page news. If anything can push Thailand back to 3rd or 4th world status it is an increase in corruption. 

Nothing says 'vacation' like tar balls in the sandbox.

With Thai authorities unwilling and unable to get any website, booking system to work properly, they might like to become the 'hub of paper' and skip the digitalisation.

Sloppy headline.....of course there is a 'link'...they all had the vaccine. The issue is, and always will be, did the vaccine cause the side effect? Is this 'cause' and 'effect', or is it a result of random 'noise' in a large population?

You cannot ever rule out cause and effect because you would need to do a huge randomised controlled double blind study of treated vs non-treated people, simply to say it is, say, less than a 1 in 20 chance. Such a study cannot be implemented anyway under current medical ethics rules.

Does anyone else know of a country that has thousands of police press conferences every day. It seems that the purpose of the police is to collect tea money and get their mugs in the pages of the news papers. How do we know the police aren't using the same stash of drugs that they captured 10 years ago??????

Bottles every time.....I hate the taste of 'can'. Sure cans go cold quicker in the fridge, but they warm up faster than a bottle. Personally I like beer served in a nice glass with ice.

3 hours ago, petermik said:

Lies Lies Lies....unless quarantine appeals to you....

Hey there may be wealthy tourists whop are into that. Get yourself imprisoned in Phuket; escape and go to Chiang Mai for a public whipping; then on to Koh Tao and drown yourself in a swimming pool. 

16 minutes ago, BestB said:

And they surprised?

 

What did they expect? tourists lining up to spend 14 days in the quarantine even though fully vaccinated paying premium prices and having to jump through hundreds of hoops which change daily.

 

Once again, poor planning, poor execution and  no clear future

Yup, it's fire, ready, aim with our junta.

This is looking totally crass.

Fiddling while Bangkok burns. Leant to focus Prayut....switching attention from Covid to a minor irritant of gambling is an idiotic thing to do.

High time for Anutin to be removed from the government for incompetence. C'mon Uncle show some leadership and squash this poor excuse for a minister.

I have Mac hardware....phone, iPad, computer etc. Mac software seems to have problems with Thai institutional websites.

Pants on fire......

Some Nic e words which will achieve less than nothing. Does anybody believe these clowns......there is much more corruption in Thailand now than in the Thaksin eras. And the massive borrowing by our current leadership has been wasted producing no discernible economic growth.