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1 minute ago, GroveHillWanderer said:

How many of those causes are transmissible diseases? And of those that are, how many have no established preventative or therapeutic treatments and are currently increasing exponentially in almost every country in the entire world (apart from a very, very small number).

What"s your point?A death is a death.

Plus vast majority of Covid deaths are people past the country life expectancy

age who were already ill.

Every year, around 9 million people die of hunger, according to the international relief agency Mercy Corps. 

How much is the world doing to prevent this?Are people in favour of social distancing,masks and lockdowns because it "saves lives" doing something for this?Or this is not cool enough?

1 hour ago, kingofthemountain said:

The night curfew in Thailand was pretty nice too

very quiet long nights for sleep and less

deaths and wounded on the roads, a win\win

 

the most irritating was the closure of the beach

swimming pool and gyms

Yes very nice, we should keep covid restrictions forever.

Amazing world

Just now, Jeffr2 said:

Right.  Fast approaching 2MM deaths globally (that's an undercount) and it's nothing to be worried about.  Tell that to the families who've lost loved ones due to this.  Good luck with that.

Wow 2 millions, take a look at how many people die each year on earth for different causes.

Do you also tell that to those whov've lost loved ones?

Or only those who died of Covid because media tell you so?

Hypocrisy at its finest

Just now, Jeffr2 said:

Please show a list of the hundreds of other deadly viruses worse than CV19 that are in Africa.  And yes, I've been there many times also.  Just this year as a matter of fact.

Just do a simple google research, the death rate of Covid is ridicolously low.

Just now, Jeffr2 said:

It's beyond me how people could dismiss the severity of this virus so easily.

It's less severe than many other viruses, I won't live my life in fear of getting it.

I been to Africa many times where I could get hundreds of other deadlier viruses, I think people like to live in fear.

It's beyond me how people could get so scared about this virus

15 minutes ago, micmichd said:

Not to me. The reason why they locked me up was that I wanted to go to Thailand. And they called that a mental disease. As in Germany doctors (however incompetent they may be) are supposed to be always right and even rule the courts there isn't much you can do. 

I was only set free because I had an IT job and money in a bank. So they took the effort to find another mental doctor for me. 

The result was OK, but the doubtful fact remains that I needed mental doctors emigrate to Thailand where I have a family. 

 

You still think Germany is not an authoritarian country? 

If Germany is an authoritarian country I don't know what country is NOT authoritarian

2 minutes ago, micmichd said:

You can get questioned in mental hospital, and if you don't say what you want to hear, you can get locked up there. Without any rights whatsoever. 

 

I am sure this can never never happen in Thailand

8 minutes ago, DrTuner said:

Well for an anarchist everything except anarchy is oppression, innit? I do partly agree with that though, socialist taxes are a form of oppression.

I wonder if anarchists are also against compulsory face masks or those are okay

4 minutes ago, micmichd said:

I'm from Germany (EU), and I can rest-assure you authoritarian oppression is worse there. At least for an anarchist like me. 

Can you give me an example?

2 minutes ago, steven100 said:

just goes to show Yemen, Indonesia, Myanmar and many other places must have high rate of infections walking around untreated and undiagnosed.

Very serious and alarming situation outside ......  imo

There have been quite a few people returning from Thailand and tested positive lately as well.

9 minutes ago, alyx said:

You are certainly right but I wonder why France wants to reduce the quarantine to seven days

Because otherwise who is going to work if everyone have to spend 14 days locked up for Covid?

If this strain is so harsh why in Europe death rate is so low and vast majority are asymptomatics?

This is getting boring AF

1 hour ago, Bkk Brian said:

Possible but of course he could also have been the one infected first at one of the clubs he works at then passed it on to his family?

Seems more likely he got it from them considering they are only carrying traces of the virus(suggesting an older infection almost completely gone from their bodies?)

4 hours ago, Sheryl said:

 

But they do not. All family members tested negative.

 

And it sounds like he lived alone.

 

They are focusing on him because he has the virus, had not been abroad so it is a case of community transmisison. Where there is one such case there will be others.

They do

"Six members of the man’s family were tested with five found to have traces of the virus. A total of 156 people who came into contact with the individual during his visit to the Criminal Court are to be observed for a total of 14 days despite testing negative to infection."

This means he probably got it from one of his family members

If all his family members have traces of the virus, it means they got if before him.

I don't understand why they are focusing on him now.

1 hour ago, jacob29 said:

Indonesia daily death rate is double what it was in May, which is in turn double that of March.

 

I know someone who caught COVID just recently, first person I know personally. It has been pretty rough for them, despite being under 30. Their boss who they caught it off, under 50, is in an ICU on a ventilator. Not serious my <deleted>.

 

I still feel the response has been overblown, but suggesting it's nothing to be concerned about is nonsense.

In Europe vast majority of people infected are totally asymptomatic, I bet the real numbers of cases in the world are in the hundred of millions because most don't even know they have it.

Useless waste of money, with that amount of money you can feed millions of starving kids in poor countries

6 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

100% agree. My wife - a 41 year old school teacher - had never heard if 9/11 and the towers until she married me 5 years ago, one of the biggest events in modern history !

This is insane but quite common.

Ever tried to talk about geography with gilrs here? Last one told me Brazil is in Africa.

1 hour ago, EvetsKram said:

Have you ever noticed that thailand only considers the hospitalised in their covid count, many many more cases but they don't count if suffering at home.  Kind of like the garbage road death figures

Do you know they hospitalize all those tested positive, even you are totally asymptomatic(majority) you will be put in hospital

5 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Well it only takes 1 germ to take over a government and destroy the country, and unfortunately its become a common occurrence worldwide.  I have made several flights lately in Thailand.  Masks are worn, but no social distancing is done anymore on the airplanes, even when they are less than half full.  Flew to Phuket and Back on Bangkok Air and there were 12 of us on the down flight and 20 on the return flight.  Hotel we stayed at had no more than a dozen other folks there, and it felt like we had the whole resort to ourselves which was great.  The resort checked your temp on arrival, and that was it, many of the folks running around were not wearing masks as they moved around the resort except the employees, thankfully it was not busy.  Flew to Chiang Mai from Bangkok and back as well, flight with very few again, and the resort almost empty.  People on the street and in some of the stores we went to were not wearing masks at all, and you could see, even though not many around, that people were living life like it was normal and there was no Covid. 

Because there is no Covid according to offical figures, I don't expect people keep social distancing and wearing masks forever since even your own government is telling you there's no Covid.