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Once again you ignore the fact the different countries have different rates of testing. Naturally those countries that have a higher test rate will detect more cases of covid. You should look up "statistical artefact".

At current exchange rates that amounts to slighty less than US$15. It that's going to be an impediment to some people, they probably shouldn't be traveling at all.

As for keeping up, can you remind me what you claimed about Indonesia?

First off, Indonesia certainly does not have one of the highest vaccination rates. As of Oct 3rd, 19.1 percent of its population was fully vaccinated. https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus/country/indonesia As for Singapore, its numbers reflect that fact that widescale testing has been mandated for certain sectors of its population. And businesses are strongly encouraged to test and given free test kits to do so. https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/health/expanded-testing-health-risk-warnings-and-alerts-among-new-measures-to-control

Name of it?

Actually, to be precise, it is allowed to not quote in full. But what is prohibited is selectively quoting in such a way as to alter the meaning of what was written.

What no one else in the forum seems to have noted so far is that this Korn character offers absolutely nothing concrete that Thailand can do to protect itself from this possibly impending disaster. And there's a good reason for that: there is very little that Thailand can do. Its proximity to the world's 2nd (or 1st in terms of PPP) means that its economy is necessarily highly vulnerable to Chinese economic distress. There's a basic and universal applicable economic observation characterized as gravity. Basically it means that the closer you are to a country, the more you will trade with that country. (There are a few obvious exceptions in the case of nations that have embargoes foreign trade). And that effect is amplified or lessened depending on the size of their respective economies. It's pretty clear how that consideration describes the relation of Thailand and China.

Soros Calls BlackRock’s China Investment a ‘Tragic Mistake’ George Soros criticized BlackRock Inc.’s China push as a risk to clients’ money and U.S. security interests, in the billionaire financier and philanthropist’s latest broadside against investment in the world’s second-largest economy. “Pouring billions of dollars into China now is a tragic mistake,” Soros wrote in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. “It is likely to lose money for BlackRock’s clients and, more important, will damage the national security interests of the U.S. and other democracies.” https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-07/george-soros-calls-blackrock-s-china-investment-tragic-mistake And there are lots of others, as well.

No one is demonizing anyone who has a sound medical reason for not being vaccinated. If those were the only people refusing to be vaccinated, the problem would already be solved.

There's an obvious and huge difference between asking people to give up bad habits of a lifetime, such as smoking, drinking, drug abuse,or unhealthy eating and submitting to a few jabs of a hypodermic needle. If that werent' the case, there wouldn't be so much effort and so little success in getting people to give up habits which they acknowledge are unhealthy. Unless, of course, there are people who are addicted to not being inoculated. Haven't heard or read anything about treatment programs for such an affliction.

What don't you understand about the fact that in some states rationed care is now the order of the day or has been in the past thanks to covid? ANd 85% capacity and above is not a situation which makes for good medical care. COVID-19: What it means for a hospital ICU to be at capacity Capacity refers to the percent of ICU beds currently occupied. Generally, an ICU is considered functionally full when it reaches 85 percent capacity. Right now, many ICUs in the state are running at over 90 percent full, and based on what we know about positive test rates, they’re about to get busier. https://intermountainhealthcare.org/blogs/topics/covid-19/2020/11/covid-19-what-it-means-for-a-hospital-icu-to-be-at-capacity/ "In Alabama, all I.C.U. beds are currently occupied. In recent days, dozens of patients in the state have needed beds that were not available, according to data published by the Department of Health and Human Services." "Hospitals in Houston constructed overflow tents last month to handle the influx of patients, and the rate of hospitalizations in the state is now 40 percent higher than when the tents were built." "During past surges, hospitals have been forced to improvise by having staff care for more patients than usual or by setting up temporary intensive care beds in other wings of the hospital." https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/09/14/us/covid-hospital-icu-south.html As for your links to ICU capacity. Do you understand that it's only in some parts of the country at any one time that hospitals are overwhelmed with covid patients? So, naturally, a majority of hospitals won't be overwhelmed. And the fact is that in those parts of the country where vaccination levels are highest, hospital ICUs are a lot less likely to be overwhelmed. A lot. As the map I provided shows, the south is particularly afflicted thanks to low levels of vaccination. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/09/14/us/covid-hospital-icu-south.html

But it was his final comment on the issue in that post, and he clariified what he meant. And you simply ignored it. Treated it as though it didn't exist. If your critique was an honest one, you would have noted it as a minor point, given the comment that followed.

And yet this was your conclusion in the comment I addressed: "so statisticians understand it's all about the process, and the containers, not the contents (raw data)."

Before you move on to semantics. you've got first to master basic reading comprehension. So what do you think ozimoron's second part of his comment meant? Ya know, this one: That it's not 100% effective doesn't mean that it's not effective.

More importantly, is transam preferred drink wine? f so, his claims are irrefutable. After all, in vino veritas which translates to "in winos there is truth".

It's clear the ozimoron addressed this in the second part of his comment that you for some reason, left out in your reply.

You got evidence that anyone on this thread fell for it or disseminated it? Maybe you believe that Rachel Maddow is a member of thaivisa.com? Overreaching much?

Without data to confirm its soundness, methodology is not meaningfully different from a religious ritual.

Well, those scientists who claim that mean that the virus will successfully commander cells and reproduce itself. That's all they mean. They don't mean that everyone will develop symptoms of covid.

I don't think so. Being exposed to a virus does not mean being infected. Everyone is constantly inhaling all sorts of viruses and bacteria. Are we being infected by them? If the aren't commandeering bodily resources to reproduce themselves, then they have not succeeded in infecting us.

Yes exactly. Here is the medical definition of infection "The invasion and multiplication of microorganisms such as bacteria, viruses, and parasites that are not normally present within the body." https://www.medicinenet.com/infection/definition.htm

It isn't a question of the virus entering one's body. It's whether or not it can commandeer cells to start reproducing copies of itself. Antibodies can stop that from happening.

Thanks for the nonsense. What does it even mean to say "something wrong will happen with vaccination, because it usually does, statistically"? The odds being 1 out of ten, and 1 out of million are both statistics of a sort. The question is which one? One out of ten is truly alarming, 1 out of a million not so much. Most people understand that being realistic is not at odds with imagination. But I guess if someone's imagination is inflamed, they might consider realists unimaginative.

Are those your only 2 sources of information?

That's because the younger you are, all other things being equal, the stronger your immune system is. So it tends to generate a stronger response.