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22 hours ago, schlog said:

Nope wasn't. Be quick it's tasty.

We weren't quick enough.  Mrs SP went to Tops and was informed that no more were left.  

20 minutes ago, stevenl said:

Sad, your twisted argumentation.

How is posting confirmed stats "twisted"?

14 hours ago, schlog said:

No red wine bargain but a very good belgium beer bargain. Normal price is 179 baht. Today only 79 baht. Tops in old Central.

Was this marked as a one day only sale?  I wouldn't mind picking up a few of these if they are still around at this price.

There's a total of almost 1100 pages and due to a lawsuit, they finally relented and so far have turned over 300 pages.  The initial findings 

"Despite only receiving a portion of the data, what ICAN has already received provides important information for the public to know in evaluating Moderna’s vaccine. For example, the documents ICAN received reveal that approximately 70% of participants reported unsolicited adverse events, many of which are extremely concerning."

https://www.icandecide.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/2020.10.29-Part-1-Production-322-pages-Request-54464_highlighted.pdf

In this paper the various events are broken down by age, dosage and adverse events and more.  

23 hours ago, stevenl said:

Good Loy Krathong this year.

 

Was at nai harm lake, quite busy, met many friends and we all had a good time. Temperature check at entrance, received a sticker for that. All Thai wearing masks, most foreigners as well but of course some think they don't have to follow the rules.

Yes, it was a nice turnout, although I must have been there at a different time than you as I saw maybe 15% of the people wearing masks over their mouth and nose.  There might have been 25% total wearing masks, but a lot of below the chin wearing.

16 minutes ago, placeholder said:

He said nothing of the sort about 5 years. You made that up.

 

An opinion? Not obvious at all. You made a declarative statement that Fauci is obviously getting kickbacks.You stated that he is morally corrupt. Or do you believe that kickbacks don't signify corruption?

https://www.axios.com/moderna-nih-coronavirus-vaccine-ownership-agreements-22051c42-2dee-4b19-938d-099afd71f6a0.html

Someone over at the NIH stands to benefit.

"The big picture: The NIH mostly funds outside research, but it also often invents basic scientific technologies that are later licensed out and incorporated into drugs that are sold at massive profits. The agency rarely claims ownership stakes or pursues patent rights, but that appears to be different with this coronavirus vaccine."

https://www.citizen.org/article/the-nih-vaccine/

Patent Applications

We found two patent application disclosures by federal scientists that appear relevant to a COVID-19 vaccine candidate. 

“2019-nCoV Vaccine.”[9]

U.S. Application no. 62/972,886

“Prefusion Coronavirus Spike Proteins and Their Use.”[13]

U.S. Application No. 16/344,774

2 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

 

 

Questionable source.

That article is clearly anti mask propaganda. 

 

 

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-federalist/

• Overall, we rate The Federalist a borderline Questionable and far-Right Biased based on story selection and editorial positions that always favor the right. We also rate them Mixed for factual reporting due to the promotion of pseudoscience and three failed fact checks.

the only thing questionable are the fact checkers and who is funding them.  These guys aren't independent fact checkers.  

Now, back to those graphs, do you think they were just made up, or was the data pulled from the various public health websites?

I'm halfway through Tehran.  So far so good.  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10577736/

I see Suburra S03 is out now also.

Not too much in the trough these days in Phuket.  He's probably happy to go to greener pastures.

13 minutes ago, elgenon said:

How are the beaches that are easily accessible from Phuket Town?

Looking at windguru and also visiting west coast beaches, the sand is coming back and the arrival of the NE monsoon is coming quickly.  

"Easily accessible" from Phuket Town depends on your mode of transportation, but there are no nice beaches easily accessible unless you have time to ride the public transport, or if you have a vehicle/motorbike.

So it sounds like discounts will be given compared to what they are handing out now here.

2 hours ago, polpott said:

My daughter works on a Covid ward in the UK as a senior nursing sister. Her ward is again reaching capacity with the sick and dying. Primarily because of people with your attitude. Her words for people like you, "Ignorant, selfish scum".

Did she do a Q and A with everyone in the ward to come to your conclusion that everyone was ignorant and a selfish scum, or is this your typical name calling and embellishment?  I bet everyone in that ward was also wearing a mask and following social distancing and still caught the virus.  

With a 99.95% survivial rate on those under 70, this should be an option for those that fall into the high risk category, or those that want to get a vaccine for their peace of mind or whatever. It should not play into traveling or anything else.  Whether that happens is a different story.

From what I have read, the only bar these vaccines need to pass is to make mild symptoms milder to be considered a success.  That's hardly a success, but it sure is a good money maker.

https://www.who.int/bulletin/online_first/BLT.20.265892.pdf

For people < 70 years old, the infection fatality rate of COVId-19 across 40 locations with available data ranged from 0.00% to 0.31% (median 0.05%); the corrected values were similar.

5 minutes ago, Bluedan said:

no one forced them but surely the responsibility in part lies with government who have allowed food companies to form monopolies hide their unhealthy processed food behind non existent or unreadable labels and brainwash children with non stop advertising. This is the real pandemic. Kills millions every year quite apart from making them susceptible to COVID. If governments care so much about saving lives how about act on this and ban advertising of unhealthy killer foods. That might save a few hospital beds and a lot more lives than lockdowns ever will.

You're right, but politicians depend on big donations from the likes of big pharma, junk food and other entities that promote a non healthy lifestyle.  It's not in any politicians best interest to go after their best campaign donors.  

I tried my luck clicking on the blue dot for a thread from the "view new content" page and I was taken to page 1, not a later page in the thread where I had last read the latest post.  I am not quite sure why the cookies in this updated version can't correctly identify the last read post.  On the upside, page views must be up.

5 hours ago, fruitman said:

Very scary that i'm not allowed to post the death rate of this virus which was also published by the WHO.....the latest news is that the normal flue has disappeared for this year.

Here's the WHO approved paper.

https://www.who.int/bulletin/online_first/BLT.20.265892.pdf

"For people < 70 years old, the infection fatality rate of COVId-19 across 40 locations with available data ranged from 0.00% to 0.31% (median 0.05%); the corrected values were similar."

19 minutes ago, Throatwobbler said:

Excess death rates went down in every country about 3 weeks after lockdowns were introduced. That is pretty strong evidence that they worked.

 

So I ask you again do you have any explanation apart from lockdowns for why the excessive death rate went down

Lockdown has worked real well for Peru, the Philippines and many other countries hasn't it?  Months and months of lockdowns, yet cases kept rolling in.  

Why doesn't the upgraded software not take you to the last post read page, and instead to the first post of every thread? 

This makes total sense to vaccinate everyone when the figures for people under 70 indicate a .05 ifr.  Why not vaccinate all the people that will simply fight off the virus and carry on with life?

https://www.who.int/bulletin/online_first/BLT.20.265892.pdf

Profits before people!

9 minutes ago, Russell17au said:

My 60 day extension only cost me 1900B and that took me to November 25 and now I have been informed that it is good until end December

It would be good to see if this is in writing somewhere.  Where did you get the information?  Thanks

I saw a number of buses pass by the beach on Tuesday with a police escort.  It looked like they had the people social distanced on the buses.  I was thinking it was the Chinese, but it must have been this lot.  It sure did look like a tour and not an "invitation".