TallGuyJohninBKK

So the blue CABB service in Bangkok is non-approved??? https://cabb.business.site/ https://www.facebook.com/cabbofficial/

Another in a long series... Whatever happened to this one... Lt. Viking?

Your BIL got his MS... Some folks get their BS.... In this case, it appears the young lady in question earned her rank by having achieved a BQ degree -- beauty queen!

I know an acquaintance here whose landlord each cycle provides him with two different leases.... one the real one, and the other at a much reduced rental rate that is only used to show an income source to the local tax/revenue authorities. This is Thailand. The landlord and the tenant can do pretty much whatever terms they want upon mutual agreement.

Both Pfizer and Moderna currently have a bivalent COVID vaccine. Both are somewhat available in Thailand, though the available locations can be hard to find, especially outside of Bangkok. Where are you located?

I'm all for QUALIFIED, talented women serving in the Thai police force or elsewhere in law enforcement anywhere. Women are certainly underrepresented in the Thai police force... But PLEASE!!!! From nothing to lieutenant to Lt. Col in less than two years???? That kind of ridiculous advancement tells you everything bad you need to know about the "old boys club" that is the RTP.

Large study shows safety of COVID mRNA vaccines in young children "Messenger RNA vaccines for COVID-19 pose little risk to young children, with no myocarditis (inflammation of heart muscle) or pericarditis (inflammation around the heart) observed in vaccine recipients age 0 to 4. The reassuring findings were published today in Pediatrics. ... "Parents can be assured that this large study found no serious side effects from the mRNA vaccines," said senior author Nicola Klein, MD, PhD, director of the Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center in a press release. "Parents can protect their young children from COVID-19 in the same way they vaccinate their children to protect from other serious childhood diseases." https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/large-study-shows-safety-covid-mrna-vaccines-young-children

European groups green-light COVID-19 vaccine strain change "The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) today issued a joint statement that agrees with a recent World Health Organization (WHO) recommendation that COVID-19 vaccines be switched for the fall to a monovalent (single-strain) vaccine that contains an XBB lineage strain. ... Also, the ECDC and EMA recommended simplified recommendations for immunization campaigns in the fall, including a single dose for people older than 5 years, that revaccinations stick with a 3-month minimum interval, and that people with weakened immune systems may need extra doses based on national recommendations." https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/european-groups-green-light-covid-19-vaccine-strain-change https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/ema-ecdc-statement-updating-covid-19-vaccines-target-new-sars-cov-2-virus-variants

The US has since ceased providing those letters, and announced the change on the Embassy's website.

Excellent info and post, Sheryl.... One question, re the Bangkok Hospital doctors you mention above, are they only going to be willing to provide palliative care for people with cancer, or, they'll do regardless of the underlying illness?

Not a good look for Bangkok, and a daunting reminder to those of us living here. Perpetually snarled traffic and Thai public unwillingness to make way for emergency vehicles doesn't help in terms of excessively long response times. Meanwhile, no mention at all of the city's or country's total lack of a professionally trained and certified public paramedic service. Instead, we have warring tribes of private accident chasers who somewhat help those in distress when they're not too busy attacking and fighting rival groups.

Don't feed the anti-vax trolls... It just encourages more trolling.

Personally, rather than fixating on partisan political minutiae, I'd prefer to look at what the COVID vaccines really accomplished in the U.S., regardless of what anyone predicted back at the time: COVID Vaccines Saved More Than 3 Million U.S. Lives Since 2020 "Dec. 13, 2022 – COVID-19 vaccinations prevented 3.2 million deaths and 18.5 million hospitalizations in the United States from December 2020 through November 2022, according to a new report Tuesday from the Commonwealth Fund and Yale School of Public Health. The report, developed from computer modeling, comes as the U.S. approaches the second anniversary of the administration of the first COVID vaccine in the country to nurse Sandra Lindsay on Dec. 14, 2020. Cost savings from those averted medical expenses add up to $1.15 trillion in savings to the U.S. health system, according to the report by a team led by Meagan C. Fitzpatrick, PhD, with the Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health at University of Maryland in Baltimore." (more) https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19-vaccine/news/20221213/covid-vaccines-saved-more-than-3-million-us-lives The above outcome is what matters. The rest is just predictable anti-vax noise.

Sure, EVERYONE was saying 100%.... everywhere you went back then... Just look at the headlines ????. Who could have thought otherwise??? Source link:

Usually in PayPal, there's no DL info associated with any of the payment method profiles a person keeps in their PayPay wallet -- just the usual stuff about card or account number, card expiration date, CVV code, etc.

All the major health entities agree that COVID vaccinations for children are safe and effective, with any side effects rare and typically mild to moderate and short-term. COVID certainly is not safe...when it comes to children, even if the risks overall are low at the population level.

The Thai MoPH's position here on COVID vaccinations for infants is a recommendation to parents -- not any kind of government mandate. Parents can decide if they want to follow the Thai MoPH's advice, or follow the advice of some posters here who have no professional expertise in public health or the medical aspects of vaccinations, but still want to play COVID Russian Roulette with the lives of youngsters. Per the U.S. CDC: "Among 397 children hospitalized during the Omicron-predominant period, 87% were unvaccinated, 30% had no underlying medical conditions, and 19% were admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU). The cumulative hospitalization rate during the Omicron-predominant period was 2.1 times as high among unvaccinated children (19.1 per 100,000 population) as among vaccinated¶ children (9.2)." https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7116e1.htm?s_cid=mm7116e1_w

My dog ate my postal scanning device.... ????

Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccines Authorized for Children 6 Months and Older June 15, 2022 "While members of the [U.S.] FDA committee widely felt that parents should be able to vaccinate their young children against COVID-19, some argued it’s important to keep the disease’s relatively modest effects on kids in perspective. In response, Dr. Arthur Reingold, head of epidemiology at the University of California, Berkeley’s School of Public Health, noted that kids are routinely vaccinated against diseases that carry low risks of hospitalization and death—and COVID-19 should be no different." https://time.com/6187674/covid-19-vaccines-kids-under-five-fda/ AND "Regulators also emphasized that even though young children are generally at low risk for serious illness from the virus, vaccinating the group would save lives. “We have to be careful that we don’t become numb to the number of pediatric deaths because of the overwhelming number of older deaths here,” Dr. Peter Marks, the F.D.A.’s top vaccine regulator, said. “The intervention we’re talking about here is one that is something that we have accepted in the past to try to prevent deaths from influenza,” he added. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/16/us/politics/covid-vaccines-fda-children.html

//Deleted post edited out// It's MoPH's choice to post most of their info intended for general public consumption on Facebook. So it's not Facebook's content there, but the Thai MoPH's. The data and numbers are the same, via either source, since they're coming direct from and being posted by Thai MoPH. https://ddc.moph.go.th/covid19-dashboard/

The OP report here and the MoPH say they do have a clear basis in reality, contrary to your unsubstantiated claims. Specifically from the OP: "Dr, Tares Krassanairawiwong, director-general of the Disease Control Department, said that, from January 1st to May 20th,the COVID-19 infection rate among under children less than a year old was 1,581 for every 100,000 of the population, followed by 647 for 100,000 of the population among people aged over 70." He appears to be saying in the above comment that infants under age 1 have the highest per capita COVID infection rate of any age group in Thailand. That's a pretty significant "basis."

So what to make of the current COVID resurgence in Thailand? Let's put it in some context, and look at Thailand's recent weekly levels of new COVID hospitalizations and new COVID deaths. Here's where Thailand was at the beginning of this year amid the high travel holidays season: 997 weekly COVID hospitalizations and 58 deaths. And here's where Thailand was at the beginning of April: 167 weekly COVID hospitalizations and 3 weekly deaths. And here's where Thailand is now, as of the latest report for last week: 3,085 new weekly COVID hospitalizations and 68 new COVID deaths. https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/photos --New weekly COVID deaths are at their highest level of the year. --New COVID hospitalizations are at their highest level of the year. --Current new COVID hospitalizations are three times the level at the beginning of the year, and 18 times the level at the beginning of April. All of that is a problem.

You make it sound like the WHO opposed childhood COVID vaccinations. They did not. And in fact, Thailand is exactly following the guidance that the WHO laid out in the source document you linked above. Specifically: “Countries should consider their specific context in deciding whether to continue vaccinating low risk groups, like healthy children and adolescents, while not compromising the routine vaccines that are so crucial for the health and well-being of this age group.” Emphasis on the WHO's use of the term "their specific context" in terms of how countries should go about setting their individual vaccine policies. Yes, Thailand is considering its specific context, acting based on the finding, as reported in the OP here, that infants under age 1 in Thailand have the highest per capita COVID infection rate of any age group, and about twice that of the next highest group. And further from the WHO: "The low priority group includes healthy children and adolescents aged 6 months to 17 years. Primary and booster doses are safe and effective in children and adolescents. However, considering the low burden of disease, SAGE urges countries considering vaccination of this age group to base their decisions on contextual factors, such as the disease burden, cost effectiveness, and other health or programmatic priorities and opportunity costs." Yes, the WHO confirmed, contrary to many false claims by various anti-vax posters here, that COVID vaccines "are safe and effective in children and adolescents."

From the MoPH website, this is the latest breakdown for the past week (May 28 thru June 3) of the Thai provinces with the most new COVID hospitalizations. As usual, Bangkok and Chonburi lead the list just in terms of raw numbers of new COVID hospitalizations. Via Google Translate: https://ddc.moph.go.th/covid19-dashboard/?dashboard=province

No, it was a few isolated instances of a few politicians or government officials slightly overstating the details of the very good benefits that the COVID vaccines were expected to accomplish. Which, in my view, is a whole lot more acceptable than others in the political realm who publicly promoted unproven and dangerous medications that led to people poisoning themselves thinking that they were taking COVID cures/treatments. Save your outrage for where it's truly deserved.