Thailand reports new daily record of COVID-19 cases

[Olmate]

8 minutes ago, Keesters said:

Running away is very irresponsible but expected in the land of me, me, me. 

You must be a bullet proof kinda guy!

[anchadian]

 

A child delivered prematurely in its 28th week, as its mother was infected with the Covid-19 virus, died in Phrae province.

https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40003092

[Keesters]

1 minute ago, Olmate said:

You must be a bullet proof kinda guy!

Not really. But I am a person who considers the needs of others before me. Migration even to the next town has proven time and time again to be the cause of the virus spreading. Better to try and create your own safe environment where you are than flee recklessly to another possibly taking sickness with you. 

[anchadian]

11 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Rexxx, triple X Rex, he is a Belgian Malinois.......home protection dog I trained for him.  Should have trained him to sniff covid, instead he sniffs the ladies he brings home hence the Triple X name.

Appreciated, thought as much.

[FarFlungFalang]

9 minutes ago, yang123 said:

Is that a wind-up? 

Yes and quite an alarming one at that!

[ThailandRyan]

Just now, anchadian said:

 

A child delivered prematurely in its 28th week, as its mother was infected with the Covid-19 virus, died in Phrae province.

https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40003092

Sad and unfortunate, I hope the mother is able to make peace with the facts and does not suffer any mental anguish.  Does not say how old the mother is and I am saddened she will not be able to attend the childs final rites...

[ThailandRyan]

12 minutes ago, yang123 said:

Is that a wind-up? 

No its just Automatic self winding like this government...

[Misty]

34 minutes ago, robblok said:

I workout hard and regularly, in good shape still i fear covid.. there goes the all in your comment. I might survive but might cost me a lot of time to recover. Its not only about death and being in shape is no silver bullet.

Without going into detail, I've worked out and led a healthy lifestyle my entire life. I am not obese, and have really never been overweight. 

 

I don't personally fear dying of covid.  But I wear masks in public places.  I recognize:

 

1) the more covid spreads - even among young, heathy people - the more it morphs

2) each new variants may effect younger and healthier folks to a greater degree

3) until the pandemic is really under control, the kind of travel I enjoy isn't possible

4) perhaps most importantly, people I care about could get very sick and die from it

 

 

[chilli42]

2 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:

Nurse dead from covid having received 2 shots Sinovac

 

The government needs to give some figures on those health workers that are falling victim to covid, seriously ill, or death despite being fully vaccinated, a very sad case here of a healthy nurse dying from covid despite having both doses of the Chinese fluid.

 

"Every death to #COVID19 is tragic. Even more so when it is a healthy 30 year old nurse who worked on a Covid ward. As a medical worker, she had received two doses of Sinovac. Now there is a call for these frontline workers to get a booster shot of a different vaccine"

https://twitter.com/RichardBarrow/status/1414007067761790977

 

I was recently discharged from a hospital in Bangkok.  All of the staff have been vaccinated with Sinovac and all are well aware that it’s completely useless against the Delta variant.  It takes a big pair (so to speak) to go to work day after day knowing how little protection you have.  RIP to this young lady and kudos to the others who have to face this day after day as part of their job.  
 

It really burns me up that the meager supply of the AZ vaccine went to a select privileged group rather than those working on the front line (I know AZ is not perfect but a long way better than Sinovac).

[sapson]

27 minutes ago, lks7689 said:

I blame WHO for saying Thailand was second best in the world for coping with covid

 

It's no wonder they didn't order enough vaccines if they're being told they're already doing a great job

Yes the WHO should have been saying how many are you testing nationwide each day to have such low daily positives?........what would the real answer have been , oh we test about 300 from our 70 million population but we do have temperature guns at 7/11 s. and hand gel so no need to test more.

Edited July 11, 2021 by sapson

[anchadian]

4 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Sad and unfortunate, I hope the mother is able to make peace with the facts and does not suffer any mental anguish.  Does not say how old the mother is and I am saddened she will not be able to attend the childs final rites...

Only a young woman of 28 years
https://www.thaiexaminer.com/thai-news-foreigners/2021/07/11/premature-baby-the-latest-covid-19-victim/

[Marvin Hagler]

40 minutes ago, The Cipher said:

Lol my comment quality on here has started to vary widely. The good stuff was largely unappreciated, so it's devolved into 'for my own amusement', sadly.

 

But re: the comment that I quoted, the guy made the implication that regular gym-goers also tend to be steroid users. Which anyone who exercises regularly would know is false.

 

More anecdotally, I have noticed that relatively more fit people, and relatively higher achieving people, have tended to have more of a laissez-faire attitude towards Covid (suspect that varies widely by profession though), and I've also noticed that ThaiVisa Asean Now members tend to skew older and male with relatively high alcohol consumption and populist outlooks. So just playing my probabilities here.

So Doctors would be low achievers?

 

Gym goers flock to Pattaya from around the world for the very reason that steroids are so readily available there. 
 

I would bet my life that a steroid user would succumb to Covid much more quickly than a non steroid user...they may be big but by and large they are incredibly unhealthy.

[Danderman123]

28 minutes ago, James105 said:

We are a year and a half into this pandemic.  If an infected person can infect another person so easily from breathing in their vicinity of up to a metre or two, why is it that the test to see if you have covid needs to be a swab up the nose almost reaching the brain cavity and then sent to a lab for analysis?   Isn't it about time we should be able to breath or cough onto a stick, plug it into some kind of handheld machine and get an immediate result of the presence of covid?  

 

Just thinking aloud, not expecting an answer.  

They want to make sure you are infected, and not have have some superficial virus. 

[Danderman123]

Just now, Marvin Hagler said:

So Doctors would be low achievers?

 

Gym goers flock to Pattaya from around the world for the very reason that steroids are so readily available there. 
 

I would bet my life that a steroid user would succumb to Covid much more quickly than a non steroid user...they may be big but by and large they are incredibly unhealthy.

Depends on the steroid. 

 

Dexamethesone is used for treatment of Covid, and is a steroid. 

[fleccer]

Cut it off, you no longer frighten anyone. In UK they have reopened everything and the normal is back, NOT the new normal. But in here, media  terrorism still goes on.  You boring

[dinsdale]

27 minutes ago, James105 said:

We are a year and a half into this pandemic.  If an infected person can infect another person so easily from breathing in their vicinity of up to a metre or two, why is it that the test to see if you have covid needs to be a swab up the nose almost reaching the brain cavity and then sent to a lab for analysis?   Isn't it about time we should be able to breath or cough onto a stick, plug it into some kind of handheld machine and get an immediate result of the presence of covid?  

 

Just thinking aloud, not expecting an answer.  

Different types of covid detection units are being researched as we speak. 

This is an example from Singapore:

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/covid-19-breath-test-breathonix-nus-singapore-lung-cancer-14971406

 

[Marvin Hagler]

45 minutes ago, The Cipher said:

Lol my comment quality on here has started to vary widely. The good stuff was largely unappreciated, so it's devolved into 'for my own amusement', sadly.

 

But re: the comment that I quoted, the guy made the implication that regular gym-goers also tend to be steroid users. Which anyone who exercises regularly would know is false.

 

More anecdotally, I have noticed that relatively more fit people, and relatively higher achieving people, have tended to have more of a laissez-faire attitude towards Covid (suspect that varies widely by profession though), and I've also noticed that ThaiVisa Asean Now members tend to skew older and male with relatively high alcohol consumption and populist outlooks. So just playing my probabilities here.

If you look at the outbreak globally by far the worst affected areas would be slums and low income regions. The more affluent the area then the less impacted they seem to be by Covid. Anecdotally would this not suggest that high achievers (your words not mine) actually DO take more precautions? 
 

I have read some silly comments on here but saying that more affluent people are less worried about Covid is completely absurd. So CEOs of major companies aren’t worried about Covid and what it might do to earnings? The list goes on. How utterly silly that comment is.

[Danderman123]

8 minutes ago, fleccer said:

Cut it off, you no longer frighten anyone. In UK they have reopened everything and the normal is back, NOT the new normal. But in here, media  terrorism still goes on.  You boring

There are 32,000+ people in the UK who are newly infected, and who may disagree with you. 

 

Covid to get worse before it gets better, doctors warn

 

But, other than a crazy rant, what is your point? To tell people in Thailand to ignore the virus? 

Edited July 11, 2021 by Danderman123

[wensiensheng]

20 minutes ago, anchadian said:

 

A child delivered prematurely in its 28th week, as its mother was infected with the Covid-19 virus, died in Phrae province.

https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40003092

Heartbreaking.

[Marvin Hagler]

51 minutes ago, placeholder said:

Regular exercise can reduce your risk of developing severe Covid: study

In a new study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, researchers and physicians at Kaiser Permanente Fontana Medical Center in Southern California, the University of California, San Diego, and other institutions found that Covid patients who regularly exercised before becoming sick were the least likely to be hospitalized, admitted to the ICU and die as a result of their illness.

The study looked at data from nearly 50,000 adult patients in California diagnosed with Covid-19 from January 2020 to the end of October 2020.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/14/regular-exercise-can-reduce-your-risk-of-severe-covid-study.html

How does that relate to the Delta variant that did t even exist when this study was completed?

[Olmate]

14 minutes ago, Keesters said:

Not really. But I am a person who considers the needs of others before me. Migration even to the next town has proven time and time again to be the cause of the virus spreading. Better to try and create your own safe environment where you are than flee recklessly to another possibly taking sickness with you. 

Might work for you but not for the majority stuck in the work to survive cycle. Nice to consider others tho!

[sawadee1947]

3 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:

Former red-shirt leader Nattawut Saikua has just posted on Facebook that he has tested positive for #COVID19. “I was vaccinated with 1 dose of AstraZeneca vaccine on 8th June. On 8th July I went to test for COVID-19. I was told a moment ago that I have tested positive.”

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1413867805661798400

 

And your point is....????

[Marvin Hagler]

54 minutes ago, The Cipher said:

Lol my comment quality on here has started to vary widely. The good stuff was largely unappreciated, so it's devolved into 'for my own amusement', sadly.

 

But re: the comment that I quoted, the guy made the implication that regular gym-goers also tend to be steroid users. Which anyone who exercises regularly would know is false.

 

More anecdotally, I have noticed that relatively more fit people, and relatively higher achieving people, have tended to have more of a laissez-faire attitude towards Covid (suspect that varies widely by profession though), and I've also noticed that ThaiVisa Asean Now members tend to skew older and male with relatively high alcohol consumption and populist outlooks. So just playing my probabilities here.

I am a high achiever (although who are you to say who is a high achiever or not), I run 10kms a day and I have Asthma. 
 

I am affluent, a high achiever and I excercise. You tell me, should I be concerned?

 

what if I was all of the above and had a sick family member?

 

What an utterly arrogant and ignorant assumption.

[crazykopite]

funny how they are coming out with figures just under the 10,000 infections per day something tells me that the figures are being manipulated to save face 

[Misty]

1 hour ago, The Cipher said:

Lol my comment quality on here has started to vary widely. The good stuff was largely unappreciated, so it's devolved into 'for my own amusement', sadly.

 

But re: the comment that I quoted, the guy made the implication that regular gym-goers also tend to be steroid users. Which anyone who exercises regularly would know is false.

 

More anecdotally, I have noticed that relatively more fit people, and relatively higher achieving people, have tended to have more of a laissez-faire attitude towards Covid (suspect that varies widely by profession though), and I've also noticed that ThaiVisa Asean Now members tend to skew older and male with relatively high alcohol consumption and populist outlooks. So just playing my probabilities here.

Hmm, those general anecdotal observations don't at all mesh with my own.  Neither of us should draw conclusions from our respective circles, however.

 

 

 

 

[wensiensheng]

1 minute ago, crazykopite said:

funny how they are coming out with figures just under the 10,000 infections per day something tells me that the figures are being manipulated to save face 

I think it’s more a function of how many they are able to test each day. Which IS kind of a manipulation.

[Cake Monster]

2 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

Given favipiravir and sent home to isolate with testing again later or if they become ill arrange for an ambulance to get them to a treatment center.

Or, wait at Home for 5 days to Die because there is a bed shortage.

[fleccer]

19 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

There are 32,000+ people in the UK who are newly infected, and who may disagree with you. 

 

But, other than a crazy rant, what is your point? To tell people in Thailand to ignore the virus? 

infected doesn't mean being sick, as a matter of fact the hospitals are empty

Yes of course , it's time for the Thais to learn to live with the virus, you cannot stop the wind by hands

Edited July 11, 2021 by fleccer

[Cake Monster]

29 minutes ago, chilli42 said:

I was recently discharged from a hospital in Bangkok.  All of the staff have been vaccinated with Sinovac and all are well aware that it’s completely useless against the Delta variant.  It takes a big pair (so to speak) to go to work day after day knowing how little protection you have.  RIP to this young lady and kudos to the others who have to face this day after day as part of their job.  
 

It really burns me up that the meager supply of the AZ vaccine went to a select privileged group rather than those working on the front line (I know AZ is not perfect but a long way better than Sinovac).

It certainly takes very special people to put themselves in harms way Day after Day knowing they have the minimum of protection through Vaccines.

Please let them all be safe.

[Rimmer]

Multiple off topic posts removed, topic not about British Empire, gyms or steroids say on topic please:

 

Thailand reports new daily record of COVID-19 cases