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So masks do work after all -- a comprehensive scientific review
No, if certain masks are worn correctly and consistently they may be effective in reducing transmission. Even that is a stretch of logic from my analysis of the paper and its sources. I was going to do a critique of the paper and its sources, but it would amount to many pages and nobody would read it, therefore it would be a complete waste of my time. Mask-wearing is akin to wearing an amulet, you either believe in its efficacy or not. There was never any evidence for their efficacy and this paper sets out with the hypothesis that mask-wearing was effective, using some very poor observational studies as part of the meta-analysis. as someone who has been involved in research, Cochrane Reviews are very useful as an overview of the evidence, though such reviews are really as reliable as retrospective population studies, unless the source material is sound. Give me a Cochrane Study with 10 RCTs and I'll take that over 1000 observational studies. Probably the weakest form of evidence is anecdotal evidence, however when you consider mask mandates did nothing to prevent entire populations being infected, and from my own observational studies in a hospital environment, didn't stop medical staff or patients being infected, then you really need to question whether real-world scenarios fit in with cherry-picked studies. as an aside, a major confounder is that many people just did not become infected. I personally know of an Anaesthetist who asked his so-called positive daughter to cough into his face a number of times a day over a period of a week. All hospital workers had to do a daily test before starting work, and he was never positive. Had he worn an N95 24/7, not even removing it to eat, one could conclude that the mask prevented infection, but he didn't, and he wasn't infected as far as testing was concerned. The bottom line here is for any study that claims masks have any efficacy, there has to be a control group within the population that is measured, against the other population. Like I said, it's more of a belief than an actual non-pharmaceutical intervention, and seriously, you have to question the psyche of anyone who habitually wears a mask, post all the scaremongering, because they are scared of getting an infection with a kill rate so low that the numbers are meaningless, especially for young, healthy people. -
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What Books Are You Reading ? (2025)
Kazuo Ishiguro, The remains of the day. ( and all his books ) Claire Keegan , Small things like these. Ken Follet , The armour of light. ( and all his books). William Boyd , A good man in Africa. Delia Owen’s, Where the Crawdads sing. Hanya Yanagihara , A little life. ( one of my favorites ) Anthony Doerr, All the light we cannot see. Min Jin Lee, Pachinko. Amitav Ghosh, all his books. So many, I’m never without a book. -
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Bank of Thailand Boosts Mobile Security with New Transfer Limits
Agreed. But that doesn't solve the problem that we cannot pay a hospital deposit anymore. @chiang mai very few farang have a Thai credit card, for well known reasons. If you use a foreign credit card, you have to pay up to 35% tax on the deposit - even if you later get reimbursed because insurance paid directly to the hospital. A deposit of 100,000 or 200,000 is not unusual, in the tourist south 500,000 is not unusual. ATMs have similar limits nowadays. (Thais don't have this problem, they all have credit cards, and younger relatives who will pay the deposit.) BTW I agree with @mokwit -
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Jeju Air Flight from Bangkok Skids Off Runway at Muan Airport, 28 Dead
A pilots take which is similar to what I have been saying all along Surely I cannot be the only professional aviator wading through this thread thinking that the whole "berm debate" is...superfluous? In what world does landing unconfigured more than halfway down a runway carrying a tremendous amount of energy NOT have a bad outcome? While airport design of course has a role to play in overall safety, ultimately it is OUR job (speaking to other actual pilots, please, not simmers and enthusiasts) to keep the operation within the lines. This wasn't marginally outside those lines. In that light the endless ruminating about The Berm is pointless when I'd wager every actual working pilot is quietly mulling how they never want to perform this "landing", and wanting to know what combination of technical and human factors led to the aircraft being in the aforementioned state. The placement of the obstacle was tragically unfortunate but the allocation of discussion to it is astonishingly misplaced. -
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Why some of us did not get COVID symptoms …even though we were exposed.
Thanks for your testimony, it will help raise awareness, especially as you were initially a pro-vax poster on this forum. So many people have suffered because of this organised crime… -
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Bank of Thailand Boosts Mobile Security with New Transfer Limits
Don't waste your time replying to that person who pretend to know everything, but clearly is not old enough to properly read what is written in the OP. He keeps hammering on the security measures like facial recognition, while the OP clearly says this. The plan introduces a daily transfer cap of 50,000 baht And of course, it all has to do with control. Just look what is happening in Europe and America, where you have little control anymore over your own money, and this is directed by the same crooks
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