2 hours ago, Jimjim1 said:

Please try to read the reply properly, my spelling was correct, so what happened to yours?

 

Just for you to help clear up your ignorance OA ZENICA = Oxford Astra ZENICA and PHIZER are both very effective vaccinations especially when the first two are OAZ and the third given as a booster is PHIZER, therein providing up to 95% protection against serious illness and death.

The science says O A Z has been the most used across the world with immense success and the PHIZER booster has cemented that success.

I believe that around 2020 one of the first people to receive the O A Z vaccine was the General himself, I will stand corrected in this but I feel sure that this fact was reported in TV and the BKK post with pictures.

 

PFIZER......... if you want to clear up any ignorance!

On 2/8/2022 at 10:50 AM, RPCVguy said:

Covid-19 is a viral infection that has a higher risk for death than the flu, and a far higher risk of death than a cold. Death happening or not is a big issue, but not the only issue. The infectiousness runs the risk of overwhelming the hospitals and health care systems - which then block access needed by people suffering all the other major maladies of traffic accidents, heart attacks, and the full assortment of diseases the hospitals normally treat.
Lastly, some 30% of those who survive the infection still have symptoms for months longer. The worst cases have permanent damage such as scaring of lung or heart tissue. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/in-depth/coronavirus-long-term-effects/art-20490351  The virus may also have some of the ongoing nastiness of Herpes, HIV and Chickenpox (which comes back as shingles.)
For these many reasons, Covid-19 needs to be taken seriously with precautions to avoid its spread. Precautions include wearing masks, social distancing, avoiding crowds, and getting vaccinated/ boosted.

The Guardian published an interactive graphic recently that shows how some anti-vaxers abuse statistics.
See The simple numbers every government should use to fight anti-vaccine misinformation | Australia news | The Guardian
I like it because they also updated what the survival rates were in NSW for vaccinated vs unvaccinated by age group.

If looking through another site is too much, I spotted this composite image of the data presented by The Guardian.

Thailand has done well in getting much of its population vaccinated, especially after the rough start through mid-2021. Vaccinations, mask wearing and some aspects of rural people getting sunlight and fresh air have helped reduce the incidence of serious illness in Thailand vs many other nations.
For all of the above good results, pandemic weariness is here. The desire to stop wearing masks and to socialize risks again spreading the disease exponentially to the millions in Thailand who are not yet fully vaccinated, still making calls for a reopening of the nation a risky option.
February began the vaccination of children ages 5-11. It will take at least 2 months, likely 3 months to give two jabs to this age group, reducing much of the opportunity for spread that way, even as older citizens complete their series of vaccinations. The transition to reopening the society has begun, but it needs be a cautious and staged transition.

Since some indicated they were confused by the prior post - here it is in simpler terms:
The vaccines are doing what they were designed to do - they reduce hospitalizations and deaths. They DO NOT do as well at reducing infection. Only masks and care in social distancing does that. Omicron is less dangerous than Delta but is more infectious, so hospitalizations in the USA hit new peaks despite the milder likelihood per case. During the Omicron wave, the metric to watch and respond to is community/ provincial hospitalizations, not cases.
In the USA it is the CDC that tracks and reports (monthly.) From their reporting at
• https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#covidnet-hospitalizations-vaccination
In December (during Omicron), compared to fully vaccinated persons in each group shown below, the monthly rates of COVID-19-associated hospitalizations were:
16X Higher in Unvaccinated Adults Ages 18 Years and Older
8x Higher in Unvaccinated Adolescents Ages 12-17 Years
12x Higher in Unvaccinated Adults Ages 18-49 years
18x Higher in Unvaccinated Adults Ages 50-64 years
18x Higher in Unvaccinated Adults Ages 65 Years and Older
This resembles the data from the UK as reported in the Guardian. Those people with known comorbidity complications will fare better if vaccinated than if not. If their community is midst an outbreak, they  are well justified to still wear a mask even if mask requirements are dropped.

On 2/9/2022 at 8:29 PM, Seppius said:

 

Boris Johnson has declared that all coronavirus rules including self-isolation set to go from end of the month 

 

Denmark also, world is slowly getting back to normal, hopefully Thailand soon

All those places are on the downward slopes of the numbers....(falling new infections, falling hospitalizations and deaths)... Thailand appears to be starting a climb upwards and that is likely to hold them back.... at least let the bars open without having to have the awful buffets.....it would make little difference!

On 2/8/2022 at 6:52 AM, Chosenfew said:

Time to get rid of the masks, by the way, if masks work, why don’t they?

Well said.????