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Post by tamada » October 18, 2021, 1:22 pm

Mrs tam reports that the oldest lads school has delayed his vaccination by another week. She was also told by the youngest lads teacher (different school) that they are encouraging parents to get their jabs as well. Since the incredibly talented, stunningly beautiful and unbelievably young Mrs tam doesn't qualify for the 'quality' vaccines, she's going down to Rajabhat this week to get her first Sinopharm shot.


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Post by Doodoo » November 5, 2021, 1:26 pm

MORE HOLIDAYS

"The Thai Cabinet Committee has approved four additional public holidays in 2022, going up from 19 to 23 days in order to have consecutive holidays to boost domestic tourism, deputy government spokesperson Traisulee Traisornkul stated this afternoon, November 4th.

The new holidays in 2022 are the Fridays of July 15th, July 29th, October 14th, and December 30th, resulting in about 4-5 consecutive days off each week."

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Post by tamada » November 5, 2021, 9:26 pm

Doodoo wrote:
November 5, 2021, 1:26 pm
MORE HOLIDAYS

"The Thai Cabinet Committee has approved four additional public holidays in 2022, going up from 19 to 23 days in order to have consecutive holidays to boost domestic tourism, deputy government spokesperson Traisulee Traisornkul stated this afternoon, November 4th.

The new holidays in 2022 are the Fridays of July 15th, July 29th, October 14th, and December 30th, resulting in about 4-5 consecutive days off each week."
Dates noted, thanks Doodoo.

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Post by Doodoo » November 5, 2021, 9:32 pm

There will be many many expats and Thai shop/business owners as they have to pay premium wages when there is a Holiday

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Post by tamada » November 6, 2021, 5:54 am

Doodoo wrote:
November 5, 2021, 9:32 pm
There will be many many expats and Thai shop/business owners as they have to pay premium wages when there is a Holiday
Truly. How long can this pandering to the plebs go on before the business owners, unions and trade associations say enough is enough?

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Post by Khun Paul » November 6, 2021, 6:55 am

Interesting news regarding Genes and Covid :

Evening Standard
Scientists solve why some people die from Covid and not others

The mystery behind why some people die from Covid and not others has been revealed in a new study.

The gene, called LZTFL1, stops lung cells from fighting off coronavirus and can lead to respiratory failure where oxygen cannot reach vital organs.

Some 15% of Britons and Europeans could have the gene while people of South Asian heritage are at greater risk, with more than three in five thought to have it.

Study co-lead Professor James Davies said: “If you have the high risk genotype and you get very unwell with Covid, there’s a 50% chance that that wouldn’t have happened to you had you had the lower risk genotype.”

Experts say the gene could be partly why South Asian people in the UK have been worse affected by Covid.

Just 2% of people with Afro-Caribbean ancestry carried the higher risk gene, which does not completely explain the higher death rates reported for black and minority ethnic communities.

“The genetic factor we have found explains why some people get very seriously ill after coronavirus infection,” said Prof Davies, an associate professor of genomics at Oxford University.

“It shows that the way in which the lung responds to the infection is critical.

“This is important because most treatments have focused on changing the way in which the immune system reacts to the virus.”

Researchers said the higher risk gene probably prevents the cells from lining airways and the lungs from responding properly to the virus.

However, the team found that the gene does not affect the immune cells but instead hits the lungs instead.

It means people with the gene should still respond fully to the Covid vaccine which will counteract the extra risk, they believe.

“Since the genetic signal affects the lung rather than the immune system, it means that the increased risk should be cancelled out by the vaccine,” Prof Davies said.

“Although we cannot change our genetics, our results show that the people with the higher risk gene are likely to particularly benefit from vaccination.”

Previous research found a stretch of DNA which doubled the risk of adults under the age of 65 from Covid, but it was not known how this worked to increase the risk.

Professor Jim Hughes, study co-lead at the University of Oxford, said: “The reason this has proved so difficult to work out is that the previously identified genetic signal affects the ‘dark matter’ of the genome.

“We found that the increased risk is not because of a difference in gene coding for a protein, but because of a difference in the DNA that makes a switch to turn a gene on.”

Scientists spotted the gene using AI and the latest technologies which show the DNA makeup in superb detail.

The team hopes that medicine and other therapies could help prevent the lung lining from transforming to less specialised cells.

It raises the possibility of new treatments customised for those most likely to get severe symptoms.

The findings were published in the journal Nature Genetics.

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Post by maaka » November 13, 2021, 7:09 pm

Bluejets, my 16yrs old boy got his second Pzifer jab at school yesterday..so Pzfier is out there.

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Post by Giggle » November 14, 2021, 12:25 pm

Why would any government give immunizations to healthy schoolkids while denying that same immunization to at-risk, older groups? It's Thai, don't expect logic.
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Post by bluejets » November 14, 2021, 3:26 pm

Yes and so is the virus.
And like the virus it seems , no one knows where to get it.

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Post by parrot » November 15, 2021, 4:29 pm

Just a reminder, more and more locations are requiring proof of vaccination.....either the yellow vaccination book or the phone app. No vaccine, no entry at the Amphur office today

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Post by jai yen yen » November 18, 2021, 12:50 am

It is unreasonable for Thailand to require everyone be vaccinated or face restrictions as they did not provide vaccines at the start and still do not provide free vaccines for everyone. It seems they did not want to spend the money on the poor people and we all know they could have afforded it. I can think of one Thai leader who is rich enough to vaccinate the whole country 10 times over and not even dent his bank account. Just another example of the greed by the few that control everything in Thailand.

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Post by Doodoo » November 18, 2021, 1:19 am

Who doesnt get free Vaccines in Thailand?

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Post by Earnest » November 18, 2021, 1:46 am

I don't know Neill Fronde, is he a pal of yours?

Being pinged by NHS text to go and get my booster - I think I'll drop by on Monday.
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Post by Doodoo » November 18, 2021, 2:01 am

If you dont know Neill Fronde Ernie they Google will help ya

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Post by jai yen yen » November 18, 2021, 3:37 am

Doodoo wrote:
November 18, 2021, 1:19 am
Who doesnt get free Vaccines in Thailand?
My Thai mother in law had to pay for her's, same as others in the village.

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Post by Doodoo » November 18, 2021, 3:41 am

Depends on which vaciine they chose If it was Moderna yes in the early days it was ofered for 3800 Baht
If it was other vaccines they must have seen them coming

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Post by Earnest » November 18, 2021, 3:53 am

Doodoo wrote:
November 18, 2021, 2:01 am
If you dont know Neill Fronde Ernie they Google will help ya
I thought you'd say that, he's not there, I'm guessing he's your mate who's just been booster vaccinated?

Is it Neil or Neill?
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Post by Doodoo » November 18, 2021, 4:22 am

Thats off I just looked him up and PRESTO there he is

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Post by jai yen yen » November 18, 2021, 6:01 am

Doodoo wrote:
November 18, 2021, 3:41 am
Depends on which vaciine they chose If it was Moderna yes in the early days it was ofered for 3800 Baht
If it was other vaccines they must have seen them coming
It was the cheap chinese vaccine, I offered to pay for a good vaccine but she already had the shot.

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Post by tamada » November 18, 2021, 7:38 am

Doodoo wrote:
November 18, 2021, 1:19 am
Who doesnt get free Vaccines in Thailand?
Outside of infants and children, everyone qualifies for free vaccination in Thailand. However, a swathe of the adult population are still proscribed from claiming theirs due to their age.

This perilous gap in Covid prophylaxis is compounded by the MOPH still touting and still buying the deeply unpopular and largely unwanted Chinese vaccines. The vaccine hesitancy situation in Thailand has a couple of facets.
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