ThaiBunny

8 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

In the same vein as the OP, a science based approach:
https://www.sciencealert.com/what-really-works-to-keep-the-coronavirus-away

#3 is interesting seeing as everyone seems to be buying masks, showing that cloth ones are useless.

It's human nature - they feel helpless, they look around for something that might help, they listen to all the bul****t about masks, they go and buy masks

4 minutes ago, Dumbastheycome said:

AS has been suggested  it is not the  heat  but  the  humidity which  helps? Not so much as in killing  but  helping to lower airbourne  transmission?

Humidity = liquids, coronavirus is transmitted via contaminated liquids, typically sweat. Humidity = sweat. As the Americans say, do the math

4 minutes ago, UbonThani said:

 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8115879/COVID-19-Australian-researchers-CURE-coronavirus.html

Old news UbonThani (where is that exactly?)? The Economist magazine had a very long article in this week's edition (available last weekend) showing exactly where testing is at with existing drugs. Typical of a rag like the Daily Mail to sensationalise it. The headline says "cure", the body of the story reads "may cure"

8 minutes ago, simple1 said:

Here in Australia commenced today for elderly people only shopping from 07:00 - 08:00. I went today at 07:15 shelves for pasta, rice etc already empty. 

I'm staggered at the number of people who don't read the newspapers fully. Woolworths made it quite clear on Monday that they were closing their stores early on Wednesday evening so they could do a total re-stock overnight. The first day I'd expect the "Oldies Hour" (TM) to be able to access a reasonable supply of goods is therefore Thursday morning. The announcement re "from Tuesday" was clearly pure spin

5 minutes ago, bristolboy said:

As far as airborne transmission goes, "it's not the heat it's the humidity." At least that's the theory.

Urban myth - https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/why-experts-doubt-warm-weather-will-slow-coronavirus-spread.html & http://theconversation.com/will-warmer-weather-stop-the-spread-of-coronavirus-133208

6 minutes ago, damo said:

Re-booking for Loi Krathong.

I do love an optimist

7 minutes ago, seancbk said:

when you need to wash your hands go into any decent hotel or office building and use their bathroom.

I've noticed for the thirty years I've been spending time in Thailand that as a farang you will never, ever be challenged walking into the lobby of any 4-, 5- or 6-star hotel in Bangkok and using the bathrooms that are off their lobbies

Don't try Malaysia - they've just closed their borders

10 minutes ago, varun said:

Who in their right mind would use an unheard-of booking agent, when you can choose from reliable OTA's like Booking.com, Tripadvisor and Agoda?

People who think they're getting a special deal, presumably. Isn't it an old saying that there's a sucker born every minute?

14 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Thus far, American citizens abroad still seem to have the right to return, even though they might face a 14 day self-quarantine at home right now depending on where they're traveling from... But whether that will remain the case moving forward and how that might change, hard to know.

Citizens always have a right of return to their own country. That's the whole point of a passport, which is a document issued by a citizen's government requesting other governments to allow the passport holder "to pass without delay or hindrance". To refuse the right of return means the citizen's government is imposing on some other government unilaterally the burden of caring for that person

3 minutes ago, JerseytoBKK said:

Actually they were much older than typical population. There was a story that showed that there were many people over 80, more over 70 and even more over 60. I was surprised about the average age being that old. 

And fit.  The halt and the lame don't go on cruises

5 minutes ago, JerseytoBKK said:

Out of 3,618 that were exposed over a prolonged period, 7 died.

The underlying assumption is that the passengers and crew of a luxury cruise ship are typical of the population at large, and that their medical treatment is also typical of what would happen to large-scale numbers of cases

Testing: "The test itself, by the way, is not perfect. The swab may not be taken in the right way, and sometimes it turns up negative. The throat swab turns up positive quite a lot of the time. But it's a false negative some of the time. Sputum is much more accurate, but not everyone has sputum to cough up to test."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-16/coronavirus-questions-on-pregnancy-asthma-pools-and-schools/12058926

3 minutes ago, KhunKenAP said:

Why is this this Doctor not heading up the Health Ministry, instead of clueless and unqualified other buffoons?

It's not his turn

3 minutes ago, thecyclist said:

Travel history makes sense, nationality does not. 

Nationality is easy (passport), travel history may be impossible given the number of countries that no longer stamp the passport. You work it out

2 minutes ago, time2093 said:

Whats with all the toilet paper hording? I thought most Thais use the bum gun instead???

"Farang are doing in their own country, must be right thing to do"

5 minutes ago, Bruntoid said:

This is plain wrong - 5,000 people that had the corona virus have died - that does not mean they died from it. The vast vast majority were old, infirm people in the very late stages of life. 

 

In the U.K. alone 1,500 people die every day - just like these people. 
 

ALL of UK virus related deaths involved people in ‘at risk’ groups PRIOR to this virus which the virus may or may not have escalated. Or played no part whatsoever. 
 

I think their should be ‘panic police’ employed on here to curtail the nonsense! 

You heard it here first - latest conspiracy theory. COVID-19 is a plot by Western governments to cull the numbers of the elderly so as to reduce their welfare costs

2 minutes ago, mngmn said:

I shudder to think what would happen if an senior Australian Minister declared open season on Asians in Australia.

Like Little Johnny Howard you mean?

We would need a complete copy of your policy document in order to know, and even then ...

2 minutes ago, spiekerjozef said:

Is Trump qualified?

Not a single school in the world where you can get a degree to become a minister/politician. Why do you think it's such a mess everywhere?

On the other hand the view I've heard is that Elizabeth Warren was ultimately unelectable because she sounded too much like what she is - a Harvard Law professor. People trust - rightly or wrongly - those they can relate to. That's the point of both democracy and eg. trial by jury

5 minutes ago, Gervais Bilodeau said:

So from where comes the potential 60 % infection in UK?

The statisticians are inferring that because many people have Covid-19 but are asymptomatic, the likely range of those infected is anywhere from 30% to 70%.  Take your pick, depending how much of a Chicken Little you are

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus