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I'm guessing you think that these 2 sentences somehow that these migrant workers aren't fleeing armed conflicts? Aren't fleeing a regime that murderously represses its civilian population? It's not incumbent upon you to comment about a subject that you are clearly unfamiliar with.

Now, if there were a pandemic prevalent in this part of the world, then you might think that the Dept. of Disease Control would be keeping a tally. But since nothing like that is occurring....oh wait...

What you're reporting is false. Whether you came up with it or it's an invention of your brothers, it's fake. That would definitely make the news. Where did this alleged incident occur? Something tells me you don't know and don't care. And someone laid way too much icing on the cake with that maudlin nonsense about the father being anti-vax and never forgiving himself. Ever heard the phrase "jumping the shark"? The reason there is a vaccine court is that pharmaceutical companies weren't pursuing creating vaccine for fear of being sued. So that's why vaccine courts were created. Not a response to Covid. And as for you "hey, what do I know"? you've got a point. If you knew, you would know whether it was millions or billions. So, the answer to your question is "Not much." As for what the VAERS is and how it works. Basically anyone can report any adverse incident following a vaccination with covid. You'll note that they are called "adverse incidents" and not "adverse effects". It may come as a surprise to you that there is no vaccine that makes someone invulnerable. People get ill and die all from all sorts of things every. Biostatisticans are constantly combing these reports to tease out anything significant. Even when a correlation has been found, statistically speaking it still makes more sense to get vaccinated than not because the correlations are relatively minute compared to the consequences of not being vaccinated.

Also, as a middle income nation, Thailand isn't eligible for handouts from Covax.

I would suggest you read that paper and not just look at the graphs. "While there has been recovery of hard coral cover, this was driven by Acropora corals which are vulnerable to the common disturbances affecting the GBR" So diversity of species, which is what makes coral reefs so special and valuable, has not recovered much. And as the report pointed out, in 2020 heating wasn't high enough to do much damage. But we know the oceans are getting warmer.

Wow. You lead an amazing life. Not only do you not know anyone who died from covid but despite a self described anti-social life you manage to know through your brother of a 7 year old child who died from a covid vaccination. What's more astonishing is that there has been absolutely no news about this at all. Your claim is so believable. As Oscar Wilde remarked that after reading the death of Nell in Oliver Twist, when I read your comment about the anti-vaxxer father who could never forgive himself, I could help but burst...out laughng. You should be writing trite fiction.

Especially given that there's no evidence that religion had anything to do with it at all.

Got an actual link for that?

How convenient that you decided that its' "doubtful" deaths reports might not be accurate. Perhaps the total number of deaths reported is accurate, but that doesn't address the question of excess mortality. Our worldindata.org provides excess mortality reports about 41 countries. For instance, Russia has a total excess mortality of 940,000, yet only about 250,000 of those are ascribed to Covid. Amazing coincidence, no? Another amazing fact is that despite the fact that Thailand is judged to have an excellent public health system, it doesn't report on excess mortality. So ourworldindata.org or other research bodies don't have the official figures they need to make such reports.

Well, your opinion has a special authority. After all, you, like these Burmese lived under a brutal paranoid military govt that destroyed the education system and pretty much cut off the country from dealings with the outside world and crippled the economy and plunged the populace into poverty. And despite the fact that members of your family were murdered repeatedly in the course of vicious campaigns by the military, as was also the case in Myanmar, you somehow managed to prosper in whatever hellhole of a country you hail from. Your life story is an inspiration to us all.

No one actually knows yet whether or not more boosters will be needed. Some vaccines require more than 2 inoculations to provide long lasting protection. In addition to which there are oral and nasal vaccines in development which early test results indicate may be far more effective at stopping transmission.

Well, that article did say that minks in fact did transmit covid to humans. That said, I think it would really only be dangerous if it started infecting livestock the way influenza affects ducks and pigs in China.

Well, I actually read the link, and as the author of that letter points out, what we may be looking at is a statistical artefact. That is to say that those who are tested aren't being randomly chosen. It's based on people who voluntarily come forward to be tested. So it's not a random sampling. And I don't think it's hard to understand why those who choose not to be vaccinated would prefer not to come forward, given the official stance on vaccinations. There is also the question of an overcount of the eligible population So your preference that the agency continues to report reality would only be valid if the reality was being reported all along. Also, what possible immunological explanation would there be for the vaccinated to have a higher rate of infection than the unvaccinated? Especially given that the unvaccinated are still at a much higher risk for severe cases and death. And those numbers re severe illness and death, are the most important ones.

And you bravely and unselfishly refuse to concern yourself about the risk of tying up valuable hospital resources if you come down with a case requiring hospitalization. You are an inspiration to all of us!

Thanks for sharing with us your expertise about these criminals from Burma. Just like all those losers from North Korea who cross over into China illegally.. Their pathetic excuse is that they are ruled by a brutal, murderous government that cares nothing about them and prefers to let hundreds of thousands starve to death rather than relinquish the tiniest bit of control. Why don't these Burmese losers just stay home and buckle down to work and make something of themselves?

Well, I was certainly throwing my confusion into the mix by mixing up Phuket and Pattaya.

For your suspicions to be justified, there would have to be a massive conspiracy among the researchers at the CDC. I'm afraid yours is the kind of convenient, if specious, ratiocination that characterizes so much of the political right. And why it's those people who are dying in disproportionate numbers in the USA and elsewhere.

Your conclusion is only accurate if you want to fly in the face of rationality and claim that the huge jump in unexplained excess mortality is due to something other than covid. In Russian alone that would amount to almost 700,000 deaths.

Where does 2020 figure in those charts? There's a reason I suggested you take a 2nd look.

If I were you I'd take a 2nd look at those charts. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/the-top-10-causes-of-death

Some think an undercount? Some authority who graduated from the University of Youtube? Maybe those unacquainted with the field of biostatistics might and completely at sea when it comes to numbers. But no rational person should sensibly doubt the huge correlation between the rise of covid and the rise in excess mortality well above what covid would account for alone.

And this is particularly ironic given the tagline you use for your comments: "If you're not part of the solution, then you are the problem"

And thanks to people like you, hospitals are being overwhelmed and the quality of care degraded. Thanks again.

And for what year is the data derived from in the article linked to f? Hmmm.... 2019. Does that tell you anything?

Why do you think mandates are necessary to get people to buy EVs. More to the point, even if they help now, you think that they're going to be necessary for the next, say 60 years? As I've pointed out, EVs become cost competitive with ICE vehicles when the cost per KWH of storage is less than $100 per hour. If there was a flood of demand for EVs projected for Thailand, you'd have a better point. As it is, the kind of oint you make could just as easily been invoked when automobiles were still new. Do you really think that demand won't drive automakers to be competitive in the auto market. And if that means people want EVs, then that's what they're going to have to sell.