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Thailand Vigilant Amidst 'Disease X' Outbreak in Africa

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18 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Close the airports...

And kill the Thai/world economy!

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  • If nobody pushed back last time, we'd all be whipping out our updated vaccine passports for every flight we get on and every restaurant we intend to eat at.  And still wearing masks and social distanc

  • supersomchai
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    Fooled again ??? DId you not notice all the people dying from covid ? I  have seen people die of covid ,family and at work in hospitals. These doctors and nurses worked heroic

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32 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

Some horny villager been having sex with a primate again ? 

 

You don't approve of sex with primates?

7 minutes ago, NoDisplayName said:

 

You don't approve of sex with primates?

If you mean just the human species then I approve, but not with the other primates!!

15 minutes ago, scottiejohn said:

And kill the Thai/world economy!

 

The world economy, before the Wright Brothers, was quite good.

I am only asking for a quality of life we once enjoyed before the advent of air travel.

This does not mean that we cannot have cruise ships and ocean liners, replacing air travel, of course.

 

2 hours ago, supersomchai said:

Fooled again ???

DId you not notice all the people dying

from covid ?

I  have seen people die of covid ,family

and at work in hospitals.

These doctors and nurses worked heroically without decent PPE.

masks and vaccines save lives.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You must know a lot of fat, unhealthy people.

“As of December 4, the Panzi health zone in Kwango Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has recorded 394 cases and 30 deaths (Case Fatality Rate: 7 per cent) from a so far undiagnosed illness,” it said in a statement.
as published in the telegraph.

10 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Why not close all airports forever and ground all aircraft?

Do we really need all that disease and CO2?

 

Ocean travel is much more environmentally damaging than air travel.

Ocean liners generally twice as polluting for a given distance.

 

So yeah, just imagine 100 million tourists arriving by boat........

I can’t wait to see the cute nurses doing their choreographed TikTok dances when the next pandemic comes around.

 

Overworked?  LOL.  Nonsense.

 

I dated a Covid ward nurse during covid.  All she did was chat with me all day long and send selfies.

16 minutes ago, NoDisplayName said:

 

Ocean travel is much more environmentally damaging than air travel.

Ocean liners generally twice as polluting for a given distance.

 

So yeah, just imagine 100 million tourists arriving by boat........

And of course you have links which prove your post?

What is the passenger per mile comparison between an aircraft with 200/300 passengers and a cruise liner with 5,000 passengers over the same distance etc?

I don't know the answer, just asking!

44 minutes ago, scottiejohn said:

And of course you have links which prove your post?

What is the passenger per mile comparison between an aircraft with 200/300 passengers and a cruise liner with 5,000 passengers over the same distance etc?

I don't know the answer, just asking!

 

https://travelwiththegreens.com/do-cruise-ships-pollute-more-than-planes.html

https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/ask-mr-green/which-better-for-environment-flying-or-sailing

https://www.ncesc.com/do-planes-or-cruise-ships-pollute-more/

https://www.treehugger.com/what-is-greener-boat-vs-plane-emissions-5185547

mpox mixed with ebola mixed with covid?

 

just read faulcy will get a free out of jail card...  

2 hours ago, NoDisplayName said:

 

Ocean travel is much more environmentally damaging than air travel.

Ocean liners generally twice as polluting for a given distance.

 

So yeah, just imagine 100 million tourists arriving by boat........

 

I think you need to provide supporting evidence for you statement.

 

As you can see, even this AI is confused:

 

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4 hours ago, Airalee said:

You must know a lot of fat, unhealthy people.

it's sad you dont realize healthy people died.  I lost two very good friends. Both were in good shape, not that old, the one went to the gym 3 times a week, neither were over weight.  One was 64 and the other was 56, both had wives, children, and grand kids.

  

14 minutes ago, ericthai said:

it's sad you dont realize healthy people died.  I lost two very good friends. Both were in good shape, not that old, the one went to the gym 3 times a week, neither were over weight.  One was 64 and the other was 56, both had wives, children, and grand kids.

  

Nice appeal to emotion.   Link please.  Anybody can claim anything.

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4 minutes ago, Airalee said:

Nice appeal to emotion.   Link please.  Anybody can claim anything.

 you're an a@#

 

I lost very good friends!, one was like a brother to me.

I could prove it, but I'm not going to post a link to their obituaries. 

3 hours ago, ericthai said:

 you're an a@#

 

I lost very good friends!, one was like a brother to me.

I could prove it, but I'm not going to post a link to their obituaries. 

I may be an a@#….but I’m an honest a@#

 

I keep hearing from people who tell me about their healthy acquaintances who died of Covid.  But when pressed to show me the proof of their health status they become defensive.  
 

I suspect they were healthy just like this kid…

 

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/19/health/teen-death-coronavirus-wellness-partner/index.html
 

 

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....an outbreak of Ebola in Pattaya would spread like wildfire, ..what is X ?? 

16 hours ago, supersomchai said:

 

masks and vaccines save lives.

 

 

 

or did another jerkwad discover a huge stash of useless face diapers they want to unload and convert it to cash

 

 

 

 

22 hours ago, Airalee said:

You must know a lot of fat, unhealthy people.

 

So fat and unhealthy people deserve to die.....or are their lives just worth much less than some tool who spends their life in a gym.....oh....and old people......ef'um.....they've had a good stint????????

1 hour ago, Will B Good said:

 

So fat and unhealthy people deserve to die.....or are their lives just worth much less than some tool who spends their life in a gym.....oh....and old people......ef'um.....they've had a good stint????????

Appeal to emotion.   Not interested

20 hours ago, Airalee said:

I may be an a@#….but I’m an honest a@#

 

I keep hearing from people who tell me about their healthy acquaintances who died of Covid.  But when pressed to show me the proof of their health status they become defensive.  
 

I suspect they were healthy just like this kid…

 

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/19/health/teen-death-coronavirus-wellness-partner/index.html
 

 

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you're very arrogant thinking that you know everything and everyone else is lying!!

 

1 minute ago, ericthai said:

you're very arrogant thinking that you know everything and everyone else is lying!!

 

Ad hominem.  Next!

 

Are you fat and unhealthy too?

1 hour ago, Airalee said:

Ad hominem.  Next!

 

Are you fat and unhealthy too?

 

LOL...

a little,,,,5'6" 171lbs, but you wont believe me anyway. 

 

1 hour ago, ericthai said:

 

LOL...

a little,,,,5'6" 171lbs, but you wont believe me anyway. 

 

Cut out the carbs.  It was a game changer for me.  Went from 6’3” 225 to 195 on keto and then to 180 on Carnivore.  Blood pressure went from 130/90 to 110/70. All bloodwork perfect.  Limitless energy.  No more aches and pains.

 

We Americans have been killing ourselves slowly due to our love affair with food.

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On 12/7/2024 at 12:17 AM, hotchilli said:

You're right, M-Pox got no scares from the public, so not going to sell much medication.

Lets try with Disease X... big Pharma looking for the next payday

 

There is no medication to treat the disease. There are medications to manage some of the symptoms.

There were indeed significant "scares" and as much as you ridicule public health, the fact that we did not have an epidemic in Europe and North America was because of their collective quick action. You are obviously unaware of the quick access to vaccines for high risk groups, the travel monitoring and the education effort that was undertaken.

There were major outbreaks last summer in Canada, USA and the EU. The  response was to provide free vaccines to the high risk exposure groups and to educate. It worked. 

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The ridicule of public health efforts to protect the population is really offensive. All that the Thai MoH is doing is  exercising common sense. They are trying to screen for people who are coming from the region where there is a serious deadly disease. What exactly is wrong about that? I am thankful that this is being done. Maybe some arrogant condescending foreigners are not. I also know that they will be the first to run to the hospital when they are infected and expect to be treated right away.

On 12/6/2024 at 11:35 PM, BritManToo said:

Why not close all airports forever and ground all aircraft?

Do we really need all that disease and CO2?

 

Good questions, as we are not allowed to work with tourism. I would be fine without tourists in Thailand.

Latest info still suggesting that this may be nothing more than flu, malaria, measles (or even a combination of different diseases) in mostly younger children, with the fatality rate exacerbated by the malnutrition that most of the severe cases were suffering from.

Another report suggesting this is probably a known, but as yet undiagnosed disease (or combination of diseases).

 

What is the illness spreading in Congo?

 

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Health officials say the disease is most likely to be an already-known illness rather than a brand new one. 

 

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Health experts believe the causes of the outbreak are unknown because of limited testing capabilities in the region. 

 

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