Is covid a hoax

[Tomtomtom69]

13 hours ago, Jim Blue said:

Ha ha what has guts or living a normal life have to do with it.

I ALWAYS visit Bangkok New Year time and I remember wondering why so many wore masks .This was December 2019 . However this was only the Suk "vit line ...not others.

Jesus you sure you didn't get long covid or something similar or is it just old age?

 

 

You must have a bad memory or are getting your dates mixed up. In December 2019 hardly anyone wore a mask in Bangkok or anywhere else in Thailand. There was a brief period in October 2019 when the Thai government, knowing what was about to come, encouraged masks to be worn on public transit against pollution (which doesn't make sense; if anything, they might have had a point if masks were encouraged outside during periods of high air pollution). I think for a period of about 2 weeks, perhaps 20% of Thai commuters followed the government's advice but then dropped their masks by December.

 

It was only when Covid started making the news at the very beginning of January in 2020 that masks started to be worn very extensively, so much so that by as early as January 12, some schools had almost 100% mask wearing, yet this was still 2.5 months before the lockdown and mask mandates came into force. 

[madone]

13 hours ago, still kicking said:

I had eight shots in the past few years, plus the ones I had when I was a kid, no reaction at all.

indeed, you seem a shining beacon of health and higher cognitive function

[madone]

1 minute ago, Tomtomtom69 said:

You must have a bad memory or are getting your dates mixed up. In December 2019 hardly anyone wore a mask in Bangkok or anywhere else in Thailand.

Not sure where you were in 2019, but masks were common in public and in offices long before 2019, especially during cold or flu season. I saw people in masks daily, 

[Tomtomtom69]

12 hours ago, MaskLover2025 said:

Only in East Asian countries - go to Europe, and nobody wears a mask, nor have they for 3 years now. My Gran is 90 and even she thinks wearing a mask is a sad way to live life, just shows how weak and pathetic many of the younger Thais and other East Asians are for continuing to wear muzzles at all times in mid-2025. 

 

Very, very few masks are worn in Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia. Out of these 3 countries, mask wearing is highest in Cambodia, but even there, you'll barely see 3% of people wearing them in Phnom Penh, and 1% in Siem Reap, 0.5% in the countryside.

 

It's a far, far cry from Thailand. 

 

During the main part of Covid, you didn't even see Laotians and Burmese masking up much. I remember seeing photos of Laotians picking up their relatives and friends waiting inside Vientiane airport in late 2020 and barely a single one of them was masked. This would have been unthinkable in Thailand.

 

According to a photo taken in late 2020 at a hospital in Shwe Koko, Myanmar, no masks worn inside that hospital either. Again, unthinkable just a few km across the border in Mae Ramad, Thailand. Even well into 2023, many Thai hospitals mandated masks (or mandated them again), such as one of the main hospitals in Mae Sot, near the Burmese border.

 

While Malaysia was strict; they didn't actually mandate masks until August 2020 (though before this date, many private businesses did) and once the mask mandate was lifted, almost no one wore one anymore outdoors and in small shops, unlike in Thailand at the time.

 

The contrast between Thailand and it's neighbors is huge. 

[Tomtomtom69]

2 minutes ago, madone said:

Not sure where you were in 2019, but masks were common in public and in offices long before 2019, especially during cold or flu season. I saw people in masks daily, 

 

No, they weren't common. I saw masks occasionally, but only like 1-2% of the Thai population wore masks before 2020, with a brief blip being October 2019, due to being heavily promoted by the government but that was on Bangkok public transportation only. 

[madone]

14 minutes ago, Tomtomtom69 said:

 

No, they weren't common. I saw masks occasionally, but only like 1-2% of the Thai population wore masks before 2020, with a brief blip being October 2019, due to being heavily promoted by the government but that was on Bangkok public transportation only. 

People who were sick or thought they were coming down with something wore masks in public and in the office, It was common. 

Not everyone, of course, but it was hardly a new thing.

 

[MaskLover2025]

4 hours ago, Tomtomtom69 said:

 

Very, very few masks are worn in Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia. Out of these 3 countries, mask wearing is highest in Cambodia, but even there, you'll barely see 3% of people wearing them in Phnom Penh, and 1% in Siem Reap, 0.5% in the countryside.

 

It's a far, far cry from Thailand. 

 

During the main part of Covid, you didn't even see Laotians and Burmese masking up much. I remember seeing photos of Laotians picking up their relatives and friends waiting inside Vientiane airport in late 2020 and barely a single one of them was masked. This would have been unthinkable in Thailand.

 

According to a photo taken in late 2020 at a hospital in Shwe Koko, Myanmar, no masks worn inside that hospital either. Again, unthinkable just a few km across the border in Mae Ramad, Thailand. Even well into 2023, many Thai hospitals mandated masks (or mandated them again), such as one of the main hospitals in Mae Sot, near the Burmese border.

 

While Malaysia was strict; they didn't actually mandate masks until August 2020 (though before this date, many private businesses did) and once the mask mandate was lifted, almost no one wore one anymore outdoors and in small shops, unlike in Thailand at the time.

 

The contrast between Thailand and it's neighbors is huge. 

Yes, you're right - Laos is much more pleasant than Thailand these days. To me, this country is the true Land of Smiles. When I say East Asia, I was referring more to Japan, Vietnam and Hong Kong. Japan is the only country more deranged than Thailand when it comes to mask wearing.

[impulse]

19 hours ago, newbee2022 said:

Common side effects with every vaccine.

So what?

 

But in the past, we were allowed to discuss vaccine side effects without getting deleted and/or canceled and/or even fired (as happened to some doctors).

 

[impulse]

1 hour ago, MaskLover2025 said:

Yes, you're right - Laos is much more pleasant than Thailand these days. To me, this country is the true Land of Smiles. When I say East Asia, I was referring more to Japan, Vietnam and Hong Kong. Japan is the only country more deranged than Thailand when it comes to mask wearing.

 

Flying out of Swampy on Sunday and seeing the air quality, I don't blame anyone for wearing a mask in LOS.  Covid or no.  The PM2.5's are causing all kinds of health issues.  I keep a mask with me in LOS and put it on when the air gets really bad, like on the train to Kanchanaburi during some agriculture seasons. 

 

And up here in China, it's been cottonwood season, so I occasionally wear one to get my 10,000 daily steps.

 

[MaskLover2025]

2 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

Flying out of Swampy on Sunday and seeing the air quality, I don't blame anyone for wearing a mask in LOS.  Covid or no.  The PM2.5's are causing all kinds of health issues.  I keep a mask with me in LOS and put it on when the air gets really bad, like on the train to Kanchanaburi during some agriculture seasons. 

 

And up here in China, it's been cottonwood season, so I occasionally wear one to get my 10,000 daily steps.

 

Poppycock - has nothing to do with pm25, Thais are still terrified of covid. If people want to believe it is to do with PM25 fine, doesn't make it true though.

[Airalee]

1 hour ago, impulse said:

 

But in the past, we were allowed to discuss vaccine side effects without getting deleted and/or canceled and/or even fired (as happened to some doctors).

 

This doctor didn’t get deleted/cancelled/fired for not taking the clot shot….

 

 

Dr. Sara Brenner, the FDA’s principal deputy commissioner, said during an event in Washington that she did not receive any of the COVID-19 vaccines.

Brenner said that she was pregnant during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“It was unknown at the time what the biodistribution patterns of those products were, and in my case, in particular, what the excretion would be in breast milk,” Brenner said. “That was my primary concern, and that exposure I was very concerned about.”

When asked whether the information that has emerged since then validates her choice, Brenner, who said she was not speaking on behalf of the FDA, said she thinks it does.

 

https://www.ntd.com/top-fda-official-says-she-never-received-a-covid-19-vaccine_1067794.html

 

 

[unblocktheplanet]

Yada, yada, yada. Meanwhile, I'm trying to find my FIFTH Covid vax.

[johng]

48 minutes ago, Airalee said:

This doctor didn’t get deleted/cancelled/fired for not taking the clot shot….

She "played a blinder" as they say  and good on her as she was correct about the effect on breast milk  even though the  so called  "eggsperts"  were dismissing the idea as impossible..

[Magictoad]

In the UK.people over 70 regularly go for shots twice a year because they work and prevent Covid-19 from killing people, by their thousands and millions around the world. If people don't want to believe in Covid-19 and the danger it presents to society and individuals that's entirely up to them.  But the fact that authorities over-reacted the first time by shutting schools etc is no reason at all not underestimate the very real dangers of Covid; this time.

[newbee2022]

4 hours ago, impulse said:

 

But in the past, we were allowed to discuss vaccine side effects without getting deleted and/or canceled and/or even fired (as happened to some doctors).

 

getting deleted and/or canceled and/or even fired (as happened to some doctors)

 

When and where did it happen😳

[impulse]

7 hours ago, newbee2022 said:

getting deleted and/or canceled and/or even fired (as happened to some doctors)

 

When and where did it happen😳

 

Thousands of health care workers, including doctors, were fired for refusing the jabs.  Many more doctors were fired after they took the jabs then questioned the safety and efficacy.

 

You need to get out of your echo chamber.

 

[newbee2022]

Just now, impulse said:

 

Thousands of health care workers, including doctors, were fired for refusing the jabs.  Many more doctors were fired after they took the jabs then questioned the safety and efficacy.

 

You need to get out of your echo chamber.

 

....and you need stop listening to conspiracy theories.

[Red Phoenix]

9 hours ago, Magictoad said:

no reason at all not underestimate the very real dangers of Covid; this time.

In a strange way I actually partly agree with that statement.  But it's only for the Covid-19 jabbed/boosted that this 'new Covid variant' is a very real danger. 

By taking the mRNA jabs they have screwed up their immune system, and - apart from the longer term harms those shots are provoking - the multiple jabbed have now little protection against any infection they encounter. 

[newbee2022]

5 minutes ago, Red Phoenix said:

In a strange way I actually partly agree with that statement.  But it's only for the Covid-19 jabbed/boosted that this 'new Covid variant' is a very real danger. 

By taking the mRNA jabs they have screwed up their immune system, and - apart from the longer term harms those shots are provoking - the multiple jabbed have now little protection against any infection they encounter. 

[fredwiggy]

27 minutes ago, Red Phoenix said:

In a strange way I actually partly agree with that statement.  But it's only for the Covid-19 jabbed/boosted that this 'new Covid variant' is a very real danger. 

By taking the mRNA jabs they have screwed up their immune system, and - apart from the longer term harms those shots are provoking - the multiple jabbed have now little protection against any infection they encounter. 

Where have they screwed up their immune systems? Where is the evidence for that? I still haven't seen evidence of long term damage from the vaccines, although of course it might happen. The usual vaccine side effect happens very soon after the shot, and they have been mild. How have the multiple jabbed lost protection from new infections?

[fredwiggy]

12 hours ago, MaskLover2025 said:

Poppycock - has nothing to do with pm25, Thais are still terrified of covid. If people want to believe it is to do with PM25 fine, doesn't make it true though.

I haven't asked any besides my girlfriend, who isn't, who are afraid of Covid now, but from what I see daily, most seem not to care. I see some still wearing masks, but while walking and driving scooters, and a few in stores, but what I do still see, besides locals eating in a large group sharing food , is this..............

[impulse]

29 minutes ago, newbee2022 said:

 

Strangely, none of them look like conservatives.  In either of the photos.

[newbee2022]

6 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

Strangely, none of them look like conservatives.  In either of the photos.

It's you in the middle, isn't it?

[fredwiggy]

19 hours ago, Airalee said:

No.  It isn’t.  Maybe for people like you with some sort of lung disease.  But the norm?

 

You used to be a decent guy.   Now you’re just a propaganda pushing liar.

Whether it's the norm or not, wearing masks in Thailand, especially during the burning times, is a smart idea. People get lung disease from the smoke, and any protection while outdoors is self protection. The same for any nation where air pollution is a problem, like this study shows............https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_air_pollution.

[Hummin]

On 5/19/2025 at 9:56 PM, MaskLover2025 said:

It's not a hoax, but the reaction to the virus in East Asian countries is disproportionate to the severity of the situation. There is nothing about the current situation that warrants swathes of people walking around in shopping malls like mindless robots with their beloved muzzles on. You never see anybody in Europe or South America wearing muzzles these days, not even older people. Just proves that East Asians are weak, cowardly, docile, and sheepish. Sorry not sorry.

Trolling account 

 

Asians used masks long time before covid because of flu and pollution. Especially in cities

[fredwiggy]

On 5/19/2025 at 10:25 PM, MaskLover2025 said:

Masks are for cowards and the mentally ill. I was fine with masks for a couple of years, but anyone who wears one now is a complete coward. Simple as that. 

Why are you concerned with others wearing masks? If they want to protect themselves from any number of airborne diseases, or smoke from all the burning, let them. Yes, most masks don't stop Covid as well as they think but it does prevent some particles from being inhaled. 

 

How can you call a person a coward or mentally ill for wearing a mask? Are they somehow brave for not wearing one?

 

And like a few here that think they can change their usernames to come back and troll incognito, you might change yours as it doesn't match your outlook. Unless of course, seeing you only have a few replies, maybe you already did.

[simon43]

20 hours ago, Airalee said:

No.  It isn’t.  Maybe for people like you with some sort of lung disease.  But the norm?

 

You used to be a decent guy.   Now you’re just a propaganda pushing liar.

Lol, this guy is a 100% troll.  Don't waste any time with him.  Bye troll....

[Hummin]

And researchers have linked vaccines to lower risks for common hearth problems

 

 

After experiences diseases since the beginning,  people still do not understand the evolution of science. 

 

Sad and stupid

[simon43]

What I don't understand is - why are some people so worked up about others who wear a mask.  Is it OCD or something? 

 

Would you get equally angry if you see people wearing yellow shirts on Monday?  Are you going to call them 'sheep'?

 

Live and let live.  Those who rage at others are the first to die from heart attacks brought on by high blood pressure 🙂

[amexpat]

On 5/19/2025 at 10:25 PM, MaskLover2025 said:

Masks are for cowards and the mentally ill. I was fine with masks for a couple of years, but anyone who wears one now is a complete coward. Simple as that. 

Simple as you?