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I've been using the Howard Leight Laser Lites for the past 15 years. They're very comfortable and the best out of all that I tried. It took me a while to get used to riding with them but now I feel very uncomfortable riding without them. It will probably sound strange (no pun intended) but I can hear the engine and other mechanical parts better with the plugs in than I can without.

That and lower sensitivity could be the reason. A lab in Pakistan published a paper earlier this year looking at sensitivity of Lepu Medical kits and found ~50% and ~20% for nasopharyngeal and saliva samples respectively. Well below the 90% stated by the manufacturer and in line with the FDA's letter. Lower sensitivity would mean more false negatives and fewer positives. https://virologyj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12985-021-01505-3

A few weeks ago my wife mentioned that Anutin was asked about JnJ at a press conference/interview. He replied that JnJ has stopped taking their calls. If true then Anutin et al might have flaked and angered the people at JnJ to the point that they don't want to deal with the Thai government anymore. It takes a lot of resources to apply and shepherd an application through the approval process. You would expect that after jumping through all the approval hoops and ultimately getting approved that the government would then be eager to place an order. But we know that the Thai government has NOT been interested in ordering Western vaccines. I can imagine the run around that JnJ officials must have gotten from the Thai government. And with so many nations in need and lined up ready to purchase it would make sense to not waste time on Thailand. https://thestandard.co/anutin-cannot-contact-johnson-and-johnson-and-bought-20-million-doses-of-pfizer/

Seeing how the US government handled the exit from Afghanistan I'm not sure I'd want or expect their help for anything. Why not try for Pfizer at Medpark? At some point they will finish vaccinating people who are 60+ or have one or more at-risk conditions and start vaccinating younger people. When I registered I was allowed to choose Sinoxxx, AZ or Pfizer. They may still offer the same choice for younger patients as the Pfizer shots continue to roll in. I'd also enquire at the hospitals scheduled to receive Moderna as there will likely be slots opening up from those who signed up but were able to score Pfizer shots sooner.

Ditto here - Pfizer this Sunday at Medpark, driving up from Hua Hin. If not for the protests on Rama4 it would have been a perfect in-out experience. The only hiccup in the process is the confirmation email as others have reported. I was able to choose my preferred vaccine and date/time without issue. No confirmation email from them until I emailed them about 20 hours before my appointment. They did respond immediately though. I guess if it was perfect it wouldn't be Thailand...

By now with the number of infections, hospitalizations and deaths the government must have accumulated more than enough data to know how effective Sinovac and AZ are for each of the different endpoints. I haven't seen any such data published. Has anyone seen this? Every bioinformatics scientist that I've known would love to sink their teeth into such a dataset and would likely have summaries and conclusions ready in a day or so. If it hasn't been published it is suspicious and likely does not cast one or both vaccines in a good light.

Maybe a bad regulator-rectifier or malfunction caused a voltage spike? More about that here - https://ricksfreeautorepairadvice.com/can-a-jump-start-damage-computers/ This was news to me but makes sense.

Earlier this week my wife and I drove from Hua Hin to Bangkok and back again for her to get her first AZ shot (She quickly and easily registered through my/our cell phone provider but it's for Thai's ONLY). We did not see anything that resembled a checkpoint. Every weekend in HH we still see a large number of vehicles, mostly Mercedes, BMW's and Porsches, with Bangkok plates on the roads. It seems that the talk about checkpoints is just that and nothing more.

Look up "Testicular Feminization". or "Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome". It's a syndrome in which androgen signaling is impaired. The result is a 46,XY individual whose body only sees female sex hormones (normal females have a mix of female and male homrones with a higher ratio of female:male hormones compared to males). Such individuals have a female phenotype that is often extremely voluptuous. There's also Klinefelter's syndrome - 47,XXY . They present as more male than female but they don't measure up to 46,XY.

This is a matter of critiquing professionalism in patient care. Once someone is confirmed, the confirmation email should go out to them immediately and automatically especially considering that many people need to travel considerable distances and plan their travel itineraries. My wife tells me that I'm not alone here - a friend of hers did not get the email from Medpark describing the medical docs that she needed to bring with her until the morning of the appointment. She had to postpone because she could not get them under such short notice. I did not ask which side of the bed she got out of.

In 3 days I'm scheduled for a Pfizer jab at Medpark however I have not yet gotten a confirmation email. Only an email instructing me on which documents to bring. My wife called yesterday to find out if I'm really confirmed and the nurse told us over the phone that I am. However she could not send out the confirmation email since this was the IT department's job. Nothing yet from them however I understand how much work it takes to send out an what should be an automated email. It seems that whether it's a private or public institution, if there is an opportunity to screw things up (or maximize the chances of a screw-up) it is seized upon. If I ever get to Medpark for the jab I'd be surprised if they have functioning lights and air conditioning. I half-expect the staff to be straight out of a Thai version of The Hills Have Eyes. The incompetence and indifference for something so important and impactful to Thailand and human life is astounding.

Ouch. It's all good fun until someone loses an eye. I once shot down a pigeon in a warehouse, mid-flight, with the type of slingshot that uses a wrist brace. The steel shot went straight through the pigeon. Those things are no joke.

The intro to Delicatessen was pretty good. As it progresses it makes you wonder W.T.F. is going on??!? You soon find out nothing good.... Great movie btw if you haven't seen it.

I have a very close friend who has been on oxycodone and lately morphine for the past 10 years due to severe back pain. He has used both fresh kratom and also powdered kratom in the states. He says that the compounds in kratom definitely hit opioid receptors although the pain relief is not as good as morphine and no where near as good as oxycodone. It does have euphoric effects. No hangover that he's been able to detect. He's never had issues with dependence but neither has he for oxy or morphine. Personally I don't think it's any more dangerous than alcohol. Just to give some legitimacy to kratom, there's been work done on the active ingredient in kratom leaves, mitragynine, by a med chem group in Japan. They found a synthetic derivative that is more potent than morphine on opioid receptors and one that works in at least one neuropathic pain model in rodents. This last bit is interesting since opioids like morphine and oxy usually make neuropathic pain symptoms worse. Mitragynine and morphine, oxy, codeine etc are not structurally related. I'm not aware of data yet that shows how mitragynine activates or potentiates opioid receptor signaling however it seems clear that it is different from morphine et al.

I still remember people talking about the opening scene in "Jaws" when it hit the theaters in 1975. Living in the NYC area at the time I recall the effect it had on beachgoer's and coastal resort communities that summer. Scared a lot of people.

The International Criminal Court should expand "crimes against humanity" to include delaying, withholding or re-directing vaccines (especially donated vaccines) during a pandemic for reasons of graft.