Danderman123

Unless you die an agonizing death…

The question is: endemic at what level? For example, infections in the UK are down to 70,000 per day. We tend to think in terms of a wave, where 70,000 will drop to 40,000 and eventually down to the hundreds. But what if it lingers at 70,000 for weeks? Same with Thailand. If I have a 50-50 risk of catching Covid any time I go into a bar, endemic or not, Thailand will be dead for tourism. If "endemic" means small pockets that erupt from time to time, that's okay. The tourists won't care about that.

Your vaccinations and previous infection will help against Omicron, but you are not bulletproof.

Nope. I have had 2 boosters already, and millions of others are boosted. You should get vaccinated.

Infection by an earlier version of Covid won't help you much against Omicron.

The Covid virus has been tested. It has killed almost 6 million people. You don't want to catch Covid, so unless you are vaccinated, you should lock yourself down.

Because the crisis isn’t over.

You couldn’t miss a chance to troll with anti-vaxx mindlessness. Remind me how many millions would have died without the vaccine…..

I am in Brazil now. No sign of any worry about Omicron.

What’s your point? vaccines save lives. Hospitals are filling up with unvaccinated people. Don’t be one of them - get vaccinated.

Are ATK tests still required to go to a bar?

What does that mean?

Hmmm… 2 days in a row… Saturday and Sunday. It’s called “the weekend”. A lot of states don’t report on the weekend. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ Here are the US numbers for Sunday. But, I think Omicron has peaked in most states in the US, in most countries in Europe, and in Australia.

Nope. You really don't understand how medical examiners determine cause of death, do you? Nor the Medicare DRG system for determine hospital compensation. It must be nice to not care about facts, just what feels like a fact. BTW, it's Grand Junction, Colorado. The medical examiner complained because he determined cause of death as gunshot, but the state has 2 sets of mortality numbers, and counted the gunshot death as Covid because of a prior test.

If Thailand didn't have tens of millions of unvaccinateds, that wouldn't be a problem.

Omicron has an incubation period of about 3 days.

So, the field hospitals are at 10% of capacity. Not exactly busy.

The test after 5 or 6 days in Thailand makes no sense, since if the results are positive, it’s going to be from a community infection within Thailand.

My arm was sore before the shot, so it’s hard to say that I had a sore arm after the shot. But no severe effects from the Moderna jab.

I don’t think any of the 5 million dead would make that argument.

Adequate testing serves to warn the authorities about an imminent surge of hospitalizations.

The problem is in Thailand where there remain millions of unvaccinateds who want the vaccine, but have no access.

You are posting about Saturday numbers in the US, and basing your premise on those numbers. Classic rookie mistake. Overall, hospitalizations in the US are at record numbers. If Thailand follows suit, there will be significant restrictions. If Thailand can avoid mass hospitalization, then this wave will be just a bump in the road.

The difference is that flu vaccines are not very effective.

Really, this again? Vaccinated people have a much smaller chance of infection than anti-vaxxers, who are dying like flies now.