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Any mail services shop near Victory Monument or maybe within a couple of BTS stops? I am looking for a place that's open in the evenings to send packages/letters etc. A convenient one in the Century Mall closed recently.

Will a DVD bought from Amazon USA play here? I have an LG player bought here. Thanks.

1 minute ago, Kelsall said:

Do you have a link, reference?

He doesn't. Because it's bs.

9 hours ago, markmaison said:

hey guys. any recommendation for clubs in bkk? I will be going for a vacation with some friends for some fun time.

Will be depend on what you all are looking for by way of entertainment. You can't club all visitors together (was that a clever pun or what).

38 minutes ago, WaveHunter said:

Why is it that so many jokers on ThaiVisa like you take a special delight in cutting someone down who simply wants to explore a serious topic in a serious way?  THAT is why I started a new thread...to get away from people like you.

 

Is it really that important to you to impress fellow trolls with your clever little one-liners and personally directed barbs?  How impressive you are; I only wish I had half the rapier wit as you.  I think you are a genuine legend (in your own mind).

 

1. There are multiple existing Covid threads you could've posted to/revived. Yet you start another one.
2. To post the exact same high sounding stuff about RO in each thread. And scaremongering.

3. When I started a civil discussion with you in a prior thread and quoted a NY Times article, you ranted along the lines "Media like NYT are criminal ..." without objective argument which makes me doubt your rationality.

4. You are not a med person as admitted in the earlier thread so I respectfully suggest leave posting about the scientific aspects of Covid to qualified persons like Sheryl.

Korat was about bloody revenge. All this guy wanted was a hug.

5 minutes ago, White Christmas13 said:

It didn't take long for Chinese bashing to start.

Yep, need to get your China bashing done quickly because

China’s Hubei province has reported its lowest number of new coronavirus cases since January, giving officials hope that the outbreak may be approaching its peak ...

as reported in

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/feb/12/coronavirus-china-reports-fall-in-infections-but-experts-remain-cautious

The dang thing should be over in a month. But you'll still have the Indians, Africans, Muslims, ... to get the little man bile juices flowing.

36 minutes ago, uhuh said:

I feel so happy that only old people over 60 and weak people die.

Guess how old I am? 

 

If the virus ever seriously spreads in Thailand this forum will become very quiet. 

Already the number of new infections reported per day is dropping in China so they seem to be getting it under control. And Thailand has a whopping 33 cases in a country of 60 million.

The whole thing looks like it will be over by the end of the month.

According to

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/world/asia/china-coronavirus-contain.html

Fatality rate? It's hard to know ... probably less than 3%.

More from the same article:

Among 17,000 people who were infected in China, 82 percent had mild infections, 15 percent had severe symptoms and 3 percent were classified as critical ...

And if those 15 + 3 = 18% were mostly elderly and infirm, as reports are, then a healthy individual is likely going to recover without much fuss from a bout of coronavirus. It's no more or less frightening than the flu of which it's a new variant.

Please, please, can someone tell me how to see Parasite. Yes, if it played in theaters already I missed it because I hardly go out to watch movies any more and don't keep track.

I just checked SF and Century Movie listings - blank.

I have a different take. Just like the Boeing 737 is probably going to be the safest plane in the sky when it's finally allowed to fly, the Chinese now are the safest group to be around.

1. Chinese travelers have to have a med certificate from home to enter.

2. They are being screened extra carefully here.

3. They are from ground zero, for crying out aloud. They know they are at highest risk, don't want to get sick and you can bet are taking every precaution possible inside their country and out.

So if you give me a choice of a breakfast buffet with a crowd of Norwegians vs. Chinese, I'll choose Chinese. Norwegians coming from one of the healthiest least polluted countries on the planet have no notion of wearing a mask, of washing their hands constantly and not touching stuff, while the Chinese ...

21 minutes ago, WaveHunter said:

These sort of assumptions being made by mass media such as the New York Times are pure rubbish, and it's almost criminal ...

At this time I shall declare you the winner and quietly walk backward without taking my eyes off you.

9 minutes ago, WaveHunter said:

So, irregardless of bias, 20% of confirmed infections will still require ICU care, and that number will eventually become greater than the capacity of the healthcare system to provide adequate care. 

Will? It's hard to say for sure:-)

In any case, some cherry-picked good bits from

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/world/asia/china-coronavirus-contain.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article

While the virus is a serious public health concern, the risk to most people outside China remains very low, and seasonal flu is a more immediate threat.

But the transmission numbers of any disease aren’t set in stone. ... When global health authorities methodically tracked and isolated people infected with SARS in 2003, they were able to bring the average number each sick person infected down to 0.4, enough to stop the outbreak.

Surely some thing of this sort will kick in with n-CoV within weeks.

Among 17,000 people who were infected in China, 82 percent had mild infections, 15 percent had severe symptoms and 3 percent were classified as critical, said Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, acting head of emerging diseases at the World Health Organization, on Feb. 7. Less than 2 percent of the people with confirmed infections had died. Many of those who died were older men with underlying health problems, Dr. Van Kerkhove said.

The 3% surely needed ICU but it's not clear about the 15% severe. But unlikely 20% to ICU as you suggest.

Talk to a pharmacist about cough suppressants. Maybe take a double dose which would numb the throat down to where you dont react to a coughing sensation.

I wouldn't worry about Suvarnabhumi. I came through earlier this week. It's a ghost town. You could easily find a spot with nobody around and cough to your hearts contents. The lines are very short too at all the controls.

The flight would be the issue. If you get a coughing fit in economy 30000 feet in the air you shall not be popular.

22 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

there's been zero mention that I've seen anywhere about the presumably substantial costs that have been incurred by the CV-confirmed Chinese tourists who've been in hospitals here (whether paid directly by the patient or any foreign/traveler insurance they may have that doesn't exclude such things).

You're kidding, right? With 10 million Chinese visitors a year who spend billions, I would guess they would be happy to treat all the (few dozen?) sick Chinese for free, get them cured and then throw in a week of all-paid recovery therapy in Phuket just for fun, all for the glowing press in Beijing and Shanghai.

4 hours ago, WaveHunter said:

Furthermore, consider that the Serious Complication Rate (SCR) for confirmed cases is presently around 20% (meaning that 20% of confirmed cases are currently going on to becoming serious complication cases requiring ICU care (i.e.: for pneumonia and ARDS) for an extended period of a week or more.

I am not a med person but I have a question about this based on the following assumption: A healthy person is less likely to catch n-CoV than someone less so (old, infant, ill, compromised immune system, etc.)  from the same amount of exposure.

I guess this is true for most infections. If this be so then the SCR rate is based on a pool of persons already "biased toward sickness".

In other words, a healthy person going down with n-CoV will have x% chance of running into serious complications vs. y% for an unhealthy one where x << y. The x and y can surely be teased out by further breaking down the SCR data pool.

All of which stands to reason if n-CoV causes flu-like symptoms as do the other coronaviruses. Flu sucks but at the end of the day an otherwise healthy person should be able to beat it back with rest, fluids and paracetamol.

I don't mean to downplay the seriousness of n-CoV as WaveHunter explains but I just want this in perspective.

45 minutes ago, geriatrickid said:

Sadly, I have read that hospitals have refused blood donations from non Thais.

I would say this is nothing more than malicious rumor mongering which would be good not to repeat.

I am not a medical person as far as I know there is no ethnic classification in blood types. Mine is good as yours as good as a Thais if types otherwise match. Ok, corona virus might add hoops for the donor to get through but why farang?

And there is nothing at all in this whole sad affair that is farang-related per se so let's not try to insert ourselves into it.

22 minutes ago, Thian said:

now he looks like a schoolboy with his cap, well that's what he is so the whole world can see it

You are getting to be annoying Thian. Go away for a bit. We'll call you if anything happens.

Just now, Brewster67 said:

Wife's cousin has now been freed by special forces after a 7 hour ordeal she will likely be haunted by for the rest of her days.

Glad to hear that.