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Care to provide a number and source for your allegation? I won't hold my breath.

By conservative estimates Phuket has about 400,000 Thais living there. Which is about 1/175th of the total population of Thailand. Since Apr 3, it has recorded 19 deaths. Since Apr 3, Thailand has recored 11,494. If Phuket was contributing a proprotional share of deaths, the total would amount to 67 deaths. So Phuket has reported only 28%, In addition, Phuket has been much more open than the rest of Thailand.. Perhaps vaccinations are keeping the death toll down?

13-14 percent after the first inoculation.

"From end May to beginning July 2021 in England, where there has been a highly successful vaccination campaign with high vaccine uptake, infections were increasing exponentially driven by the Delta variant and high infection prevalence among younger, unvaccinated individuals despite double vaccination continuing to effectively reduce transmission. Although slower growth or declining prevalence may be observed during the summer in the northern hemisphere, increased mixing during the autumn in the presence of the Delta variant may lead to renewed growth, even at high levels of vaccination." https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/90800 "One massive analysis of Delta transmission comes from the UK REACT-1 programme, led by a team at Imperial College London, which tests more than 100,000 UK volunteers every few weeks. The team ran Ct analyses for samples received in May, June and July, when Delta was rapidly replacing other variants to become the dominant driver of COVID-19 in the country. The results suggested that among people testing positive, those who had been vaccinated had a lower viral load on average than did unvaccinated people." https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02187-1

I thrive largely on cholesterol and a refusal to take supplements of any kind. Unlike you, I do understand that I am just one sample in a potential sea of them and that my personal experience is insignificant scientifically speaking. And that what's past is not necessarily a prologue.

Yes, those Norwegians, Danes, Finns, and Icelanders do tend to be more rational. Sweden is the unfortunate exception.

What angers me most is that they will reopen Thailand asap and yet the majority of Thais are still unvaccinated. But who gives a flying <deleted>, about that right!!!!

In fact, fluoxamine, a generic and low cost antidepressant is now in a large scale clinical trial to determine its effectiveness against covid-19 symptoms. How a cheap antidepressant emerged as a promising Covid-19 treatment In a large, randomized clinical trial conducted with thousands of patients over the past six months, researchers at McMaster University tested eight different Covid-19 treatments against a control group to figure out what works. One drug stood out: fluvoxamine, an antidepressant that the Food and Drug Administration has already found to be safe and that’s cheap to produce as a generic drug. These new results follow some promising findings in small-scale trials last year. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22619137/fluvoxamine-covid-ivermectin-together-study-mcmaster

As valid as calling the virus a "boogyman flu"? COVID-19 Is Not the Flu: Four Graphs From Four Countries https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2021.628479/full

You mean junk articles like this? COVID-19 Vaccinations 98 Times More Deadly Than Flu Vaccines (According to VAERS Reports) https://trialsitenews.com/covid-19-vaccinations-98-times-more-deadly-than-flu-vaccines-according-to-vaers-reports/

The COVID-19 outbreak has had a huge impact on core NHS services. In order to free up enough capacity to deal with the initial peak of the pandemic, the NHS was forced to shut down or significantly reduce many areas of non-COVID care during April, May and June 2020. i This, combined with fewer patients seeking care during lockdown, means that there has been a significant drop in elective procedures, urgent cancer referrals, first cancer treatments and outpatient appointments https://www.bma.org.uk/media/2840/the-hidden-impact-of-covid_web-pdf.pdf

Well, the problem is that lots of these patients are immunocompromised. So they weighed the risk of these people getting infected vs. getting treated. And of course, medical personnel were working overtime and around the clock to treat people who had filled up the ICU's. You know, people in immediate danger of dying.

I think you're making a good point...for a different post. But I was replying to someone who claimed regulations were keeping seriously ill people form being treated.

I haven't hesitated to criticize the government for the many errors and worse that it has done. But why criticize them for getting something right? If behaving non-reflexively towards what the government does qualifies as support, then I'm guilty of it.

So that's the reason they're being refused treatment? Regulations? Really? And not the fact that hospital beds are overflowing with Covid patients?

As long as they're just asking, you shouldn't have a problem. But if they start demanding...

And to hell with the evidence.

I accept you surrender.

Math challenged much? COVID-19 vaccines work — misreading the data can make you think otherwise Israel’s data shows that the COVID-19 vaccine works, but only if it’s analyzed correctly: the unfortunate story of the base rate fallacy... When we re-analyze the same Aug. 25 data to account for the proper base rate (cases per 100,000 in the three vaccination groups), we see that the rate of severe cases in the unvaccinated group (266 per 100,000) and partially vaccinated (58 per 100,000) are much higher than in the fully vaccinated group (19 per 100,000). https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/569730-covid-19-vaccines-work-misreading-the-data-can-make-you-think-otherwise

It takes no account of the lag time between infections and death. That is your idea of a good post?

In other words, you don't know for a fact that South Korea is donating the vaccines or selling them. So you try to deflect by claiming that anyone who points out the flaws in your arguments is a supporter of the general? There a lot of room between reflexive cheerleading and reflexive scorn. At least for some of us.

The editors of Frontiers in Pharmacology have taken down an article about the use of the antiparasitic drug ivermectin in COVID-19 patients. The paper, which was written by members of an organization called the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC), had been provisionally accepted and posted in abstract form by the journal in January, but was ultimately rejected this Monday (March 1). The editors determined that it contained unsubstantiated claims and violated the journal’s editorial policies. https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/frontiers-removes-controversial-ivermectin-paper-pre-publication-68505

I'm not supporting or questioning the veracity of the Thai Govt.'s figures but epidemiologists routinely do make predictions about when infections will crest and then begin to fall.

You're not taking into account the lag time between infections and death.. Infections always decline before deaths start to decline.

Tell the people who will be vaccinated if this happens that it's a failure. And by the way, I didn't see the word "donate" anywhere in the article. The verb used is "provide".