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But trying explaining this to our amateur TVF covid sleuths. They can't seem to understand it.

Here's a bit more actual science. https://www.med.hku.hk/en/news/press/20211215-omicron-sars-cov-2-infection?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=press_release

Phuket was closed and shuttered most of this year and you know it. Desolate and empty. Everything shut. More porkie pies from the oracle. Your welcome to Phuket i couldn't wait to get out of it. You have so little time for the forum, you immediately reply to me. Your "predictions" were wrong from day one and you couldn't show your face. You'll be telling me next that there isn't a long monsoon season in Phuket either.

I know, it's clear in all your posts. Thanks for being honest enough to confirm it though.

Contain omicron when every other country in the world could not? It's in China and we know how they will contain it. Mass incarceration and millions tested in days. Thailand hasn't even most likely tested a million people since the pandemic began.

Thanks. Thought so. No qualifications except Dr Google and his conspiracy friends. I'll stick to qualified scientists not TVF make believe ones sitting on their Soi Bukahow bar stools.

So what are your scientific and medical qualifications please? Or are you a qualified TVF forum professor?

You where saying that in January 2021 and then suddenly disappeared from the forum for the rest of this year when Thailand shut up shop and Delta exploded. I wouldn't make yourself a hostage to fortune again if i were you. Thailand hasn't a clue what it's covid situation is.

Please tell us your scientific or medical qualifications.

Won't be pleasant reading for our resident TVF epidemiologists. Looks like the CCP could be in a world of trouble. What a pity.

And can't go on to infect 2 to 3 other people. Seems our TVF epidemiologists can't even understand the difference between a respiratory virus and a car. The said respiratory virus responsible for 5 million (at least) deaths worldwide.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.14.21267755v1.full.pdf Study showing Omicron twice as transmissible as Delta. Also showing the benefit of the UK booster campaign. Not only a short term boost to immunity. No doubt why Thailand has followed the UK by reducing it's booster regime to 3 months. UK over 500,000 boosters yesterday. Is Thailand even 70% fully vaccinated yet?

For the benefit of pandemic slow learners and our resident amateur TVF science deniers.

Yesterday our TVF epidemiologists where telling us that it was the BBC and Boris Johnson telling porkie pies and trying to scare people about the threat of omicron. Better now add the World Health Organisation.to that list. Let's see what diversionary tactics and fake science our TVF epidemiologists employ today.

Would you believe anything a country tells you with this level of testing?

A pity some people can't see beyond petty politics, conspiracy and bitterness. It's as clear as day a booster is required to stop serious illness. Just glad i live in a country that has 40% of the adult population with a booster. Can't wait for the excuse making and bitterness when the UK's booster vaccine daily delivery figures are revealed over the next few weeks. Hitting it out of the park. Looks like Thailand has got bored with vaccinating it's population. Hardly even 100,000 some days. Pathetic. Some posters forget to mention that Thailand has cut its booster interval to 3 months (just like the UK) and is recommending everyone to get a booster also (just like the UK). Are Thai citizens just trying to get to the pub? I forget entertainment venues in Thailand are still shut.

You should get vaccinated. You could get very seriously ill or suffer from long covid if you get covid. You will not avoid omicron. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vaccinations/why-vaccination-is-safe-and-important/ Go and get your 3 jabs.

There have been some issues with data collection in South Africa but it seems omicron will explode like a bomb and then peak quickly. The next question is will it displace Delta or coexist?

https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/omicron-ireland-expert-says-new-22442047 South Africa experience would seem to disagree with you. Did the poor patient die of or with omicron? It will take weeks to see how omicron effects different countries, populations with different demographics and vaccination rates.

https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/omicron-ireland-expert-says-new-22442047 Glass half full? End of the pandemic? Take your pick.

This is why the UK government is focusing on boosters.

5 million people isn't genuinely deadly? Fed up hearing about all the gullible fools who have listened too this anti-vax garbage and wished they had got a vaccine to prevent either serious illness or long covid. Guess the 5 hour hospital queues and the 500,000 bookings yesterday in the UK to get a booster prove that more and more people believe qualified scientists warnings not basement keyboard conspiracies. We aren't going to get a handle on this pandemic until the world is fully vaccinated. However, slowly but surely it will be the deniers that will be ostracised from society whether it's travel, leisure or work. Their last place of solice will be talking to themselves on internet forums. Your losing the battle.

A small percentage of a lot of sick people = restrictions. No doubt that's why the Thai government haven't opened entertainment venues after 9 months of restrictions. You have to be tucked up in bed by 11pm. Let's hope Thailand doesn't overreact if this happens.

Thailand's truly abysmal testing regime. Pathetic.