4 hours ago, Somtamnication said:

Good video and in good, UK-educated English.

Well, a British sounding accent with rhotic r's and 'while' instead of 'whilst'.

I'm curious about previous repatriation flights from South Korea. I understood there was a flight on May 4. What were the dates of the previous two flights?

2 hours ago, dinsdale said:

ICU's are full in the BKK hospitals speciallising in covid and they have run out of respirators.

Do you have a link for this?

A small study of chloroquine, which is closely related to the hydroxychloroquine drug President Trump has enthusiastically promoted, was halted in Brazil after coronavirus patients taking a higher dose developed irregular heart rates that increased their risk of a potentially fatal arrhythmia.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/world/coronavirus-news.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage#link-3a4329a6

4 minutes ago, Eibot said:

5000 older people dying over a period of 3 months is not a lot. Viral phenomena has also slowly increased over the months. Again, nothing to worry about because the spread is linear. 

 

No conspiracy, just common sense. 

Link?

9 minutes ago, Eibot said:

The real deaths in Thailand could well be around 5k at this very moment. However, as long as it doesn't pressure the system, there is no added value to communicate this to the public. 

CoViD-19 deaths are a major worldwide news story, and just as much so in Thailand with wide discussion on social media. And yet you posit a death toll more than 100 times higher than reported, and say it is being kept quiet through some total 100% airtight conspiracy. Do you have any evidence such as credible news reports and videos of hospitals such as the ones from say Italy and the U.S. reflecting your vastly greater numbers? Any reports of much greater need for ventilators or other hospital equipment?

Assuming hot weather is a mitigating factor on infection itself, you might also be able to add the degree of infection, i.e. viral load.

The idea is that high enough temperatures maybe cause a coronavirus's lipid bilayer viral coat to phase change from a hard rubbery state into a disordered one ('melt') and become less infectious. Higher temperatures still would then completely compromise its virulence.

As such, even those infected would have ingested a smaller number of active virus particles and would experience a more mild illness. 

1 hour ago, snoop1130 said:

If everyone stays at home, however, the infection rate will not exceed 20% and, by April 15th, there will be about 24,269 infections “which is our target now,” he said.

Hmmm. If I start with today's (Mar 24) number of 827 infections and increase it daily by 20%, on Apr 15 I get 827*(1.2)^22 = 45,655.

Edit: 439.61*(1.2)^22 = 24,269. So how's he calculating this?

1 hour ago, Timwin said:

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3074131/coronavirus-highly-sensitive-high-temperatures-dont-bank-summer

 

It is sensitive to temperature. Otherwise Thailand with 10 million Chinese tourists per year, compared to 2 million in Italy, would have been much worse two weeks before Italy! The epidemic is much slower spreading in Thailand and that is very good news. 

I just read the scmp article you linked and did not see anywhere what you previously posted about the virus surviving on surfaces for limited hours above some temperature. What is your source/link for this? Thanks. 

1 hour ago, Timwin said:

the coronaviruses in general are highly temperature sensitive. The best temperature zone for spreading is 6-12 Celsius and it is a steep looking curve. With 30 C the virus dies quite quickly in most surfaces, couple of hours instead of days.

What is your source/link for this?

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6 hours ago, White Christmas13 said:

So why is it people get a flu in summer in Australia when it is stinking hot?

Possibly partly by infected visitors from cold weather countries (Northern Hemisphere) where it is currently flu season.

5 hours ago, WaveHunter said:

Dr. Ghebreyesus is doing a horrible job of running the World Health Organization IMO. 

 

 

Here's another one:

Seems serious. They put on special hats.

8 hours ago, FlorC said:

I have to pay 50 B to pay around 1000 B to another bank , or the same bank but in other province ? Ridiculous !

Every month I pay my condo rent by using my SCB app to transfer to the condo owner's Bangkok Bank account, and there are no fees. Zero. I haven't paid a transfer fee in two years (and then it was only 20 baht), not since all banks got rid of them, following the lead of SCB and Kasikorn. PromptPay seemed to have precipitated it, though. What are you doing to cause yourself to be charged all these fees?

On 1/29/2020 at 7:17 PM, Sheryl said:

1. Where in Thailand is she?

 

2. Is she using hormonal contraception? (Pill, injection or implant)? Or dies she have an IUD?

 

3. What tests where done exactly?  I find when Thais say the doctor said it's nothing they were usually told more than that,  but did not understand it or focused only on the "no medecine" part.  It is possible it has already been diagnosed.

1. She's in Bangkok (as per subject line).

2. No hormornal contraception.

3. Don't know the specifics of her previous doctor visit.

Last I heard, she's going to try Phyathai 3 Hospital. I'll reply if I learn any more.

A relative of my girlfriend has supposedly been having her period nonstop for four months, but the doctors she's seen have told her nothing's wrong (don't know if she's at least taking iron supplements). Any suggestions/recommendations for where to go or who to see for the best chance of getting a competent diagnosis. Thanks.

Edit: the relative is in her mid twenties

56 minutes ago, Matzzon said:

How do you get a Thai ID at Big C???? I thought that was something done at the Anphur or in bigger cities The People Registration Office.

Imperial World Lat Prao (aka Big C since they take up most of the ground floor) has an Immigration center for Lao, Cambodian, and Myanmaran workers on the fifth floor. I know about it because I used to go there for 90 day reporting until they discontinued the service because it had become too crowded with their primary LCM customers. Anyway, it's possible this Big C also accommodates a secondary government service location. 

First the top twenty, then a LARGE gap, and then the Thai universities remaining about where they've been:

1    Harvard University
2    Stanford University
3    University of Cambridge
4    Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
5    University of California, Berkeley
6    Princeton University
7    University of Oxford
8    Columbia University
9    California Institute of Technology
10    University of Chicago
11    University of California, Los Angeles
12    Cornell University
12    Yale University
14    University of Washington
15    University of California, San Diego
16    University of Pennsylvania
17    University College London
18    Johns Hopkins University
19    Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
20    Washington University in St. Louis

...

501-600    Chulalongkorn University
501-600    Mahidol University
701-800    Prince of Songkla University
801-900    Chiang Mai University

http://www.shanghairanking.com/ARWU2018.html

14 hours ago, asiaexpat said:

Income is the biggest difference it would seem. But why is it that a Brit that has been in Thailand so long is not able to pronounce Pattaya correctly? 555555

The only one 'correctly' pronouncing it (i.e. closest to the way the Thais do) is the guy at 2:15 

Original table.

Global-Wealth-Shares-2017.xlsx

This is from the Credit Suisse Global Wealth Databook 2017 (p. 156, first and last columns) and is the percent of a country's wealth owned by the top one percent of the population.

Country        Wealth Shares (Top 1%)
Thailand    56.2
Russia        56.0
China        47.0
Indonesia    45.4
India        45.1
Brazil        43.5
Sweden        41.9
South Africa    41.2
Chile        39.8
Poland        39.2
United States    38.3
Israel        36.0
Singapore    34.0
Denmark        33.2
Ireland        33.1
Germany        32.3
Finland        31.3
Austria        31.1
Czech Republic    30.6
Norway        30.6
Taiwan        29.6
Switzerland    28.9
Mexico        28.4
Portugal    28.2
Colombia    27.4
Korea        26.8
Romania        26.7
Canada        26.1
Greece        26.1
Spain        25.1
United Kingdom    24.3
New Zealand    23.8
Australia    22.9
Netherlands    22.3
France        21.6
Italy        21.5
Belgium        17.5
Japan        14.6
Hungary        10.6