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On 7/8/2020 at 5:37 PM, ncc1701d said:

I agree totally, but it just shows the hypocrisy of butting into hkg. There’s a perfect way to do something and that is to recognise Taiwan as independent. 
 

What are the repercussions?

If one country recognizes Taiwan, the CCP will bully it to reverse the decision, and the country will pay for it.

If many or all countries recognize Taiwan, the CCP will cry but then will swallow the pill.

I‘m so happy that there is no more SARS-CoV-2 in Thailand, so mask or no mask, regarding infections with SARS-CoV-2 the result is 100% the same.

1 hour ago, Traubert said:

Must be the shortage of running water.

Utter nonsense ! 
There is no shortage of running water in Kampot, not at all. There's even a nice river going through the city.

23 hours ago, Eric Loh said:

In the same way, if Taiwan pro independence government rocked the status quo of the political status, it will give China the excuse to use force. Hong Kong and Taiwan are non negotiable sacrosanct issues. 

What is that for a nonsense! Taiwan is a country, independent from CCP China, keep your fingers off of it!

On 7/6/2020 at 3:09 AM, webfact said:

If the government wants to maintain the money circulation as in the previous year, they will have to allow foreign tourists to travel to Thailand because foreign tourists spend approximately Bt8 billion per day, more than Thai tourists who spend Bt3 billion to Bt4 billion per day," he said.

OK, agreed, granted, do it already!

On 7/8/2020 at 1:46 PM, johnpetersen said:

But not in China. Or in Europe. In the USA now there plenty. But no so long ago it looked like Covid was on the decline.Let me remind you of which comment of yours I was replying to:

So what has China got to do with the rise of cases in Africa? Is China now claiming sovereignty over that continent?

 

You might be on to something, there a lot's of big Chinese investment in Africa, so this might be indeed be coming.

Back to the vaccine, and testing it, as far as I know you vaccine the healthy, not the sick. A vaccine is to help the healthy to not get sick. 

After you gave your new vaccine to healthy test subjects, you infect them and see if they get sick, or not.

Astonishingly there is a lot of confusion between vaccines and treatments even in the press. Nevertheless, you vaccine healthy people, and even according to you there are plenty in China. Then you try to infect them, so you need a virus, and I assume China has plenty of it, as you might know it was in Wuhan, China, where this virus started its journey. 

In any case, with this short development time, any vaccine did not go through the usual analysis and testing, to make sure they are not harmful, not damaging more than they help, not having too many side effects - a process which takes years. Therefore testing it now already it is a high risk for the test subjects. So why do Chinese pharmaceutical companies test in Brazil and US Companies (Novavax) in Australia? 

I agree with you that Russian and currently evener Chinese (CCP -censored) information sources are not trustworthy. Also the Twitter mob, where you never know who is behind them, are a bad source of information.

Nevertheless that's nothing new. We all know the massive influencing of the public opinion in the West through Russia and China. Russia got Trump elected, and now China tries to get Biden elected. Thousands of twitter bots, Cyber attacks, fake Fakebook users, FakeBook ads, paid (50 cent!) troll armies. 

It makes sense to not trust anything on FakeBook, but also press info from journalists, especially when coming from China (CCP censored) or Russia. Unfortunately the Western Press is not much better, bringing manipulated news to help the candidate the owners of them want to promote.

4 hours ago, geriatrickid said:

Many of your comments and claims are "borrowed" from Russian sources.

This is a malicious imputation, and you know it. Typical for your style, mixing half truths with personal attacks, and package all in long ramblings.

To protect myself from such misinformation, I try to understand who pays the journalist. CCP controlled Chinese press is one thing, usually easy to identify, Russia's RT another, I simply do not look at it. But there is also for example Jeff Bezos' Washington Post, or CNN, once upon a time my favorite news channel, but now blind on one eye. Then there are massive media payments by Bill Gates, which usually lead to the press at the receiving end to change their tone to be more Bill Gates positive (Germany's once critical magazine "Der Spiegel" being a prime example, receiving 2.5 million $ in 2018, source https://www.gatesfoundation.org/How-We-Work/Quick-Links/Grants-Database/Grants/2018/12/OPP1203082 ), and no critical word about Bill Gates' activities ever since.

Thus I prefer scientific studies as source for information, and you might have noticed that I posted quite a few here on TVF already. None from Russia or China though. 

And then, there are plenty of Western scientists, preferably university professors, which give information, interviews, and explain. They can hardly be Russia or China controlled.

2 hours ago, geriatrickid said:

Why not start with your source of information. Who is Statista and why are they reliable?

You toss out "data" from an uncorroborated source and expect it to be accepted no questions asked.
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Statista in large part takes its data from  public sources, but in other cases does not. No one knows where the info comes from.

The data is not correct?
Was it even more?

In any case, as usual, your claims are misleading. The accompanying article at Statista, which I quoted in the second post, says:
 

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U.S. billionaires saw their wealth surge 20 percent since the start of the pandemic according to an analysis by the Institute for Policy Studies and Americans for Tax Fairness. Between March 18 and June 17, the total net worth of 643 American billionaires increased from $2.9 trillion to $3.5 trillion while a further 29 individuals joined the club. While their collective wealth grew by $584 billion, some 45.5 million Americans filed for unemployment.

Here above I highlighted the source Statista mentions, to help you noticing it: "an analysis by the Institute for Policy Studies and Americans for Tax Fairness".

In the article Statista also mentions 
 

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Commenting on the report's findings, ATF's executive director Frank Clemente said that "this orgy of wealth shows how fundamentally flawed our economic system is" and that "if this pandemic reveals anything, it’s how unequal our society has become and how drastically it must change."

quoting "ATF's executive director Frank Clemente". 

Also, in case you need to question the correctness of the data, Statista names the journalist which wrote the article: "Niall McCarthy, Data Journalist, [email protected], +49 (40) 284 841 562)".

To make sure you get it this time: Unlike your claim "No one knows where the info comes from", Statista clearly says that the source is "an analysis by the Institute for Policy Studies and Americans for Tax Fairness" and mentions and quotes "ATF's executive director Frank Clemente".

On 7/5/2020 at 1:39 PM, mommysboy said:

I believe the main appeal of face masks is to provide the wearer with some illusory idea of control.  Supplementary aids to be considered might be a pocket full of posies, or a ring of roses.

That is my impression too.

And like religious sects they feel the urge to force their beliefs on everybody.

11 hours ago, Tony125 said:

No, Face Coverings Don’t Cause Carbon Dioxide Poisoning. Five Mask Myths Debunked.

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/no-face-coverings-dont-cause-carbon-dioxide-poisoning-five-mask-myths-debunked/ar-BB16uqsV?li=BBnb7Kz

Not a very credible article. Shows only the first paragraphs, then shows a poll overlay, which doesn‘t go away, demands cookies to be permitted. Same effect as a paywall.

7 minutes ago, geriatrickid said:

Sure. the only charade is the steady stream of false and misleading information put out by the mentally ill, and  certain countries who wish to undermine the stability of much of the world.

Now we‘re getting to the root of your conspiracy theory!

Please list these countries, and what they do to „undermine the stability of much of the world“!

1 hour ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Look at what the University of Washington is forecasting for the UK on the assumption that restrictions continue to be lifted.

Did they use the famous Neil Ferguson model?

8 hours ago, johnpetersen said:

Coronavirus vaccine developers have a ‘bizarre’ problem. There’s not enough sick people.

This must be fake news. I see article after article about a second wave everywhere, recently Bill Gates himself again announced millions of deaths in Africa.
 

Unless you claim that these are fake news?

The ten thousands of Chinese visitors couldn’t bring yet a Virus to Cambodia dangerous enough to kill a Cambodian, or an expat living in Cambodian. Therefore I think it won’t be a problem for Cambodia.

10 hours ago, robblok said:

Indeed.. id say the one selling tinfoil to people like the OP is benefiting. The tinfoil hat brigade has rissen a lot.

I don’t really get your problem with Statista. 
Do you claim that Statista, who published this statistics and the article, is in the tinfoil hat business?

Or do you claim that these 5 billionaires are in the tin foil hat business?
Or which is your conspiracy theory?

15 hours ago, webfact said:

China's Sinovac Biotech is starting Phase III trials of its potential coronavirus vaccine in Brazil,

Why in Brazil, why not in China? Too risky to test in your own country?

2 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

The hysteria as if every single arrival poses mortal danger to the whole of Thailands population is an incredibly paranoid delusion when there are already strong measures in place.

Exactly!

On 6/19/2020 at 10:42 AM, silver sea said:

“And then there is this little-known fact: Some Chinese researchers are in the habit of selling their laboratory animals to street vendors after they have finished experimenting on them.

If that happened in Wuhan, that gives the lab origin a much bigger plausibility.