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  1. Total stupidity. Every doctor in the world strongly advises wearing a good high factor sunscreen when sun bathing especially so in tropical areas where the UV radiation is much stronger. Not wearing sunscreen is by far the biggest cause of skin cancer and that is a hard FACT that we should all be aware of!!! What are they thinking here, i find this incredibly crass??? Not only that but they simply state national parks, well once again that seems very odd and ill thought out as many such parks are nowhere near the ocean as many have pointed out. So all in all a pointless, crazy and dangerous prohibition. Sorry but I cannt agree with this and I am sure very few folk can. I am keen on conservation and many years ago I was a PADI open water leisure diver and learned all about not touching coral when diving and how to protect the fragile and important corals. Probably the biggest killer of coral is the huge industrial toxins that get dumped into the oceans from our rivers and other outlets where industiral complexes so often pay little attention to ensuring they do not pollute the enmvironment as their only concern is greedy OTT profits. A big problem with current deeply flawed uncontrolled Capitalism !! I must add that I have no selfish hidden agendas here as I personally never sunbathe myself these days and have not done so for over 20 years. Gettign a sun tan does not interest me one little bit, but that does not mean I think everybody else should follow my example at all as many folk enjoy sunbathing and getting a suntan. Tolerance and a live and let live approach to life is a good general attitude we should all try to adopt in this world and such a pity so many governments do not follow such sound principles whilst concentrating on controlling big greedy corporate Capitalism far more to protect our World and its people.
  2. I am 75 and have three of the listed underlying medical conditions. However I have no medical certificate to hand for either my diabetes or CKD and will need to trail out with difficulty to the hospital to see a doctor and get a certificate and thus also esposing myself unnecessarily to possible infection. Surely I should just be able to give my local state hospital where I am registered and the info should be available on the data base easily ????? So now I have to wait to register until I next have to go to the hiospital and be able to get a relevant medical certificate. This fortunately is soon now being later this week but others most vunerable with these relevant conditions will also be having similar problems dangerously delaying them longer from an urgently needed vaccine now with this Delta variant going rampant here. Finally I VERY MUCH DO NOT WANT ANY mRNA vaccine so I hope I can preferably get traditionally produced deactivated actual virus cell based Sinovac or Sinopharm vaccine for a natural produced immunity, or at a push I would accept the viral vector based AZ or better still if available Sputnik V. Either way I hope they properly aspirate when they inject else if it accidentally gets into a vein or blood vessel and is directly entering into the bloodstream any of these vaccines can and are known to then cause blot clots, so always ask and ensure they aspirate when youget your vaccine jab. Fortunately usually Thai medical staff are well trained here so I am sure they will know this easy to do procedure as it is an important fact about aspirating being highly recommended when injecting any such vaccines.
  3. But there are plentiful suppl;ies of SInovac andSinopharm so why are these not more fullyavailable as I am fidning it still next to impossible to get one of those vaccines and yet I am over 75, and with diabetes 2 and CKD, in the most vulnerable groups. Trouble is I understand that Sputnik V is not even authorised here yet and we are not even on the pending delivery list of any outstanding orders of Sputnik V and that is IMHO unforgivable. If we had ordered sufficient vaccines from overseas montghs ago then the shortage of supplies would have been the problem not the fault of the Thai Government in placing insufficient orders. Certainly I believe that no orders have been placed for the well recognised and highly rated Sputnik V. Why ????
  4. Read what the chart says it refers to Deaths from Covid in the UK. The vaccines mean that Covid cases become generally no worse than a common cold or mild flu as teh considerable data clearly indicates and thus no need for lockdown to protect against that of course. It is primarily the unvaccinated who are getting serious Covid 19 illness and death now and in the UK that is now rapidly becoming only those who ill advisedly choose not to accept the free vaccines (wish that could be the case here in Thailand too !!). If people choose not to be vaccinated it si on their shoulders and we should not have any lockdowns to protect the sensible from the misguided fools. Heck even the bloody experimental and iMHO dangertous mRNA vaccines actually do show they work for now at protecting against the serious effects of Covid 19 but what the long term effects of this vaccine will have with its DNA interfering technology is unknown and without the fat cat big pharma profit motives and corrupt lobbyng it would surely not have been authorised and distributed yet except for controlled clinical human trials. I actually truly hope this mRNA technology will, after several years of carefully analysing its possible long term effects, prove to be a miraacle technology for the real benefit of the human race and not a quite possible ticking time bomb. Of course then it must be forced to be issued everywhere as a generic safe wonder drug available and affordable for all. But for now I certainly do not want to risk being a human guinea pig thanks and would not accept an mRNA vaccine if they paid me a lot of money. I will sensibly stick to viral vector vaccines (AZ, Sputnik V) or preferably traditional much much safer tried and tested deactivated virus cell type vaccines like Sinovac and Sinopharm.
  5. The solution is simple really it is to get the bloody vaccines rolled out quickly and effectively. This is a problem that can and shouild have beenavoided IMHO as we should have imported available inexp[ensive vaccines way back in February and March so the problem falls squarely at teh feet of the government for failing in this important task. Surely if it is lack of money then why not raise a Covod tax form those who are rivh enought to afford it and there are many of those in Thailand, some of whom have IMHO immorally made lots of money out of this pandemic, or they couild hjave diverted funds from other less importnat and less urgent projects I still do not see Sputnik V vaccine even authorised here yet ???? I believe there is plentiful supply of this excellent viral vector vaccine from Russia. Indeed Sputnik V came out near the top in peer review testing many months ago and is not what is a bloody dangerous experimental mRNA type vaccine. Surely this cannot be political to appease the anti Russian criminal mafia gang in Washington else they would not have brought in the Chineses good safe deactivated virus cell vaccines, which are by the way highly effective against hospitalisations and death. Certainly there is no time for childish political games anywhere in the world right now whilst this pandemic is still taking a hold over ourlives with its Delta variant now rife and spreading in Thailand and many other corners of the World. And they wonder why so few of us trust politicians today !!
  6. Sounds unlikely as China do not sell the Sinovac at a profit but I understand just at cost of production plus distribution. Moderna and Pzizer I believe are some 3 or 4 times more expensive. I must say even If they offered me money to have an mRNA vaccine I would still refuse it as I have learned enough not to be a guinea pig for such an unnecessary experimental potentially long term dangerous DNA interfering vaccine distributed for big pharma profits which they surely put well before before people care. Even if I had to pay over the odds for my Sinovac or Sinopharm vaccine, (though I do resent any requirement to bolster the bank accounts of the fat cat CEOs and shareholders of the private hospital and clinics), I would gladly prefer and accept either of those and in fact I am now keen to have such a vaccine ASAP. However last week they refused me at Ban Chang state Hospital in Rayong as I was a farang, although I produced my Thai driving licence and my passport with a fully legal family visa valid until next year, all because I did not have a pink Thai ID card which most retired expats legally living here in Thailand do not have and come on now they should not need, unless someone can explain logically why it should be needed !!! Bloody ridiculous considering I tick four boxes as to Covid vulnererability status i.e. over 70, have Diabetes II, CKD and am overweight too. I really do not want to selfishly jump any valid vaccine queue but in my circumstances I would feel somewhat safer if I was vaccinated right now, what with the current worrying spread of the Delta variant here in Thailand, and despite that I feel it is not too much of a problem in Rayong province as yet. I certainly do not want my enjoyable life foreshortened by Covid 19 when it should not be a problem with safe vaccines which are and hsould be earily available here, so is that unreasonable ??
  7. Yes and this is almost entirely the governments fault for not getting CV19 vaccines rolled out far far more quickly and indeed they could have joined Covax to ensure we had more available supplies and by now most of us vaccinated. No time for worrying about losing face now as people's lives and livlihoods are at stake. There have been available supplies of Sinovac, Sinopharm and Sputnie V around for a long time and which are all good vaccines that are very very effecive against death and serious illness hospitalisations. So no need to import what I consider dangerous experimenal mRNA vaccines from US big greedy pharma with their priority to make high profits before care for the well being of you and I. What is so so important now is to urgently ensure that ALL the most vulnerable groups of people who are living here, or indeed currently even just trapped here, and whether Thai or Farangs, are fully CV19 vaccinated right now. Once they are after two shot fully protected with the risk of death and serious illness much much lower or approaching zero, and as is mostly the case anyway in non vulnerable younger and fitter folk, then lockdown is no longer so necessary and simple sensible travel restrictions and masks will suffice until all the people have had or had the opportunity to have had one of the good safe CV19 vaccines (NO not mRNA!). Completely rational and logical to me wihtout needing to be a medical professional expert.
  8. I would not touch ANY mRNA vaccine if they paid me let alone pay them !!! Give me safe traditionally made and effective enough Sinovac or Sinopharm thanks and for free or very low cost price. Would accept the excellent well tested Sputnik V or even AZ at a push but mcuh much happier with Sinovac/Sinopharm which I trust. I read up on this stuff and trust China far more than big corporate pharma from the USA with its Washington mafia style criminally run regime, or sadly these days even my home country the UK too as US partners in crime IMHO..
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