Thailand's tourism minister: Everything will be fine after Songkran - the hot weather will blow the virus away!

[AlexRich]

A stroke of luck that Thailand’s tourism minister is a world class researcher in epidemics and virology ... a bit of Sun and Bob’s your uncle ... have it!!

[TheFishman1]

Wow that’s good to know how about the PM air quality in Chiang Mai will the hot air blow that away also LMAO TIT

[NRGF]

3 hours ago, richard10365 said:

Actually, there is some historical truth to his assumptions. Google it. However, what happens above the equator may not necessarily happen below the equator.

Thailand is above the equator.

[PremiumLane]

29 minutes ago, burgdawg said:

DLock and Orton...my source was NOT thaivisa, nor The Nation. Much closer to home: I have two falangs that got caught in China during the lockdown at LNY. My friend from Hubei is dead, ash. My other friend related to me the figures I stated in earlier post, page 2, plus stating that the PLA---the Chinese Army has been given directives to torch entire villages. It is gruesome beyond belief.

I have discovered that Public Health Officers are useless. Do any of you read Science Fiction? That is what this bioweapon is...Sci Fi.

 

This is a bioweapon. Its a chimeric virus, not seen in nature. The flu is the delivery system, got it?  This has a R-naught of 6.7 and higher. The real dastardly thing about this Covid19 is that the infected is shedding virus -- all the while being asymptomatic. About Day 11-12, the patient feels better. Then the neurologic bomb that has been growing detonates: serious hacking cough followed by blood filling the lungs. This bioweapon also infects the brain which instruct the diaphragm to cease functioning. Patient suffocates on his own blood and is extremely contagious: all blood products, stool, sweat, etc. There is no known cure at this time.

Do you guys that read and post on thaivisa not pay attention to what is happening in South Korea and Japan? Get busy and do your own homework. All of Asia will soon be in Lockdown, why should China have all the fun? It might be wise to hunker in place, skip heading to any hospital. The grim reality in China is thus: If you are uncertain of having the "coronavirus"---head to any hospital, they will be sure you have it.

Thailand has pretty much decided to follow the China CCP model and lie to its citizens. Cambodia is doing the same.This epidemic is just getting underway. It is projected to peak June-July 2020. If you fly to the UK now, you will be placed within a 24+ day quarantine. The Italian word "quarantine" means 40 days. Who ever developed and released this bioweapon oughta burn in Hell for all the misery and suffering caused. Don't believe me? Zoom in on Google Earth to watch all the bodies being incinerating at Hubei, Wuhan, Chongqing and other Chinese cities. The Chinese are NOT going back to work. The CCP will be going the way of the dodo in a few months. Pray. Put your affairs in orders. I am sorry, I cannot post much as Iam busy prepping myself. I really could care less if you believe me or not. 

Here is a good lead by a pathologist. youtu.be/GuBB3GNGQlk

UK's fine Dr. John Campbell has many fine podcasts out there: youtube.com/watch?v=02TwdiRUJTA

"In recent social media postings, Campbell began challenging and warning against YouTube and Twitter trends making sensational claims or cooking up rumors and conspiracy theories built around the virus. " 

 

Funny how you use this guy's name, who is fighting against the hysteria, for a post that is the dictionary definition of hysteria. Seriously? Google Earth showing burning of bodies? Got a citation for that, or did some nut-job see a shadow and jumped to one hell of a conclusion?

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

3 hours ago, Jingthing said:

A tourism minister is an infectious disease expert?

 

Must be, since official stupidity seems to be quite infectious here...

[Guderian]

Ebola seems to manage to thrive in the tropics, Covid-19 probably just needs to mutate a little....

[rocket3rider]

Thailand continues to amaze me. In many bad ways.

[ParkerN]

Too much to ask for I suppose that this guy gets the virus after Songkran... That would be poetic justice on an industrisl scale.

 

And where's his face-mask?

 

 

 

[trainman34014]

34 minutes ago, burgdawg said:

DLock and Orton...my source was NOT thaivisa, nor The Nation. Much closer to home: I have two falangs that got caught in China during the lockdown at LNY. My friend from Hubei is dead, ash. My other friend related to me the figures I stated in earlier post, page 2, plus stating that the PLA---the Chinese Army has been given directives to torch entire villages. It is gruesome beyond belief.

I have discovered that Public Health Officers are useless. Do any of you read Science Fiction? That is what this bioweapon is...Sci Fi.

 

This is a bioweapon. Its a chimeric virus, not seen in nature. The flu is the delivery system, got it?  This has a R-naught of 6.7 and higher. The real dastardly thing about this Covid19 is that the infected is shedding virus -- all the while being asymptomatic. About Day 11-12, the patient feels better. Then the neurologic bomb that has been growing detonates: serious hacking cough followed by blood filling the lungs. This bioweapon also infects the brain which instruct the diaphragm to cease functioning. Patient suffocates on his own blood and is extremely contagious: all blood products, stool, sweat, etc. There is no known cure at this time.

Do you guys that read and post on thaivisa not pay attention to what is happening in South Korea and Japan? Get busy and do your own homework. All of Asia will soon be in Lockdown, why should China have all the fun? It might be wise to hunker in place, skip heading to any hospital. The grim reality in China is thus: If you are uncertain of having the "coronavirus"---head to any hospital, they will be sure you have it.

Thailand has pretty much decided to follow the China CCP model and lie to its citizens. Cambodia is doing the same.This epidemic is just getting underway. It is projected to peak June-July 2020. If you fly to the UK now, you will be placed within a 24+ day quarantine. The Italian word "quarantine" means 40 days. Who ever developed and released this bioweapon oughta burn in Hell for all the misery and suffering caused. Don't believe me? Zoom in on Google Earth to watch all the bodies being incinerating at Hubei, Wuhan, Chongqing and other Chinese cities. The Chinese are NOT going back to work. The CCP will be going the way of the dodo in a few months. Pray. Put your affairs in orders. I am sorry, I cannot post much as Iam busy prepping myself. I really could care less if you believe me or not. 

Here is a good lead by a pathologist. youtu.be/GuBB3GNGQlk

UK's fine Dr. John Campbell has many fine podcasts out there: youtube.com/watch?v=02TwdiRUJTA

I fear you could be spot on and it's too scary to contemplate !

[jlwilliamsjr18]

Thanks Doc... I'll wait for that <deleted>.

[crazykopite]

That’s why they say “ AMAZING THAILAND “ ???? What a ????

[trainman34014]

1 minute ago, ParkerN said:

Too much to ask for I suppose that this guy gets the virus after Songkran... That would be poetic justice on an industrisl scale.

 

And where's his face-mask?

 

 

 

Why not before; Pests need exterminating soonest !

[natway09]

Obviously my crystal ball is not working as his must be.

And the tooth fairy will be around someime later

[Curmudgeon1]

4 hours ago, Canuck1966 said:

This character is a complete and utter charlatan

He needs to be expunged from society

The people running this country (into the ground) are absolutely the dreggs of humanity

Can't imagine there is a more hopeless set of sub humans governing any country in the whole world

Yes there is. Just google Justin Trudeau and see how quickly a g-7

nation is brought to its knees. 

[Borzandy]

How are incompetent people like him co-opted to run the country

[KKr]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

"The virus can't survive long in hot weather".

again the WHO has it wrong,
they say the virus cannot survive more than a minute or so outside a human body.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

I didn't realize, the idiot Trump has joined Hun Sen in Cambodia in talking about hot weather being able to restrain the virus.  As regards this particular CV, that seems to be largely an unknown at this point.

 

But in this Factcheck.org piece, there's an interesting elaboration of heat and moreso high humidity as being a possible restraining factor on other respiratory viruses and illnesses like the flu....  It's worth reading, especially considering Thailand's typically high humidity levels.

 

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/02/will-the-new-coronavirus-go-away-in-april/

 

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“It’s possible, but it is wishful thinking, by analogy with flu and other winter respiratory viruses,” Columbia University epidemiologist Stephen Morse told us of an April timeframe. “I’d say wait until April, we’ll know then if it’s true.” In the meantime, he recommended continuing to attempt to control the virus, and not being “lulled by hopeful, but quite possibly wrong analogies.”

 

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There is a scientific basis for some of Trump’s comments, as many respiratory viruses ebb in spring and summer, possibly because the warmer, wetter conditions hamper viral spread. But it’s unknown if that applies to the new coronavirus — and it wouldn’t be that the virus “miraculously goes away.”

 

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Several studies have found that absolute humidity in particular may be especially important in driving some of these effects. Absolute humidity, Harvard epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch explained, is essentially the amount of moisture in the air. “This is always low when it’s cold because cold air can’t hold much water or it will start to rain,” he said in an email.

 

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Nancy Messonnier, the director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said in a Feb. 12 telebriefing, “I would caution overinterpreting” the idea that warmer weather would “weaken” the virus. Noting that the agency has had less than six weeks of experience with the outbreak, she said, “I’m happy to hope that it goes down as the weather warms up, but I think it’s premature to assume that. And we’re certainly not using that to sit back and expect it to go away.”

 

[Jimbo2014]

4 hours ago, steven100 said:

it's all under control ..... 

100%!

[sahibji]

summer may not necessarily be the magic wand as little is known about this virus. virus epidemics have been known to last for 18 months -1918 H1N1 flu pandemic also dubbed the "spanish flu" killed 50 million worldwide.

[sahibji]

5 minutes ago, Tops said:

"The virus can't survive long in hot weather".

 

This brainless monkey meant: "The virus can't survive long in the Thai smog".

Must be a misunderstanding or a wrong translation...

too early to stay anything about the potency of this virus.

[dougiemac52]

5 hours ago, steven100 said:

it's all under control ..... 

Who the <deleted> is this bafoon. The hot weather will blow it away. Thailand government really need to get a GRIP

[ChrisKC]

The Tourist Minister is not the Official for making assertions of this kind. He should not be making statements of this nature without evidence. He is giving the impression that potential visitors can book flights to Thailand now, in time for Songkran or just a little later. 

As far as I know this virus is quite new so how does he know it doesn't like the hot weather? In any event, The information about the virus limitations would be more about what temperatures it can or cannot survive under. That is the province of real Medical people.

 

Given alarm bells are ringing thousands of kms from here (Italy and Middle East)  it would seem prudent to say nothing until a recognised Official from WHO can say something we can believe and have confidence in!

[lensta]

Hey where is the governments 1 man fan club to put a positive spin on this one. Over to you steven100

[Isaan sailor]

Two ways to look at this.  Before Wuhan virus, Thailand had millions of Chinese visitors, the Yuan was rising and the USD fell to eight-year lows.  Today, China has locked down millions to control their virus, Thailand has far fewer Chinese tourists, and the USD has managed to climb back a bit.  

Has Wuhan virus consumed China’s spending to the point they can no longer pound the USD?  On the flip side, will the virus subside—and millions of Chinese return, and the USD/Baht revisit 29?

[SuwadeeS]

My father taught me, if I do not have the knowledge, I should keep my mouth shut.

Here it is really opposite.

 

[anfh]

Whilst his comments may seem daft, if you check the research, influenxa virus does not survive in areas of heat and humidity. So the comments are not quite as daft as at first site. Most influenza outbreaks occur in areas of low heat and humidity, and disappear as temperature and humidity rise. The virus is not as sustainable in highr humidity. 

[Foxy52]

If COVID-19 cannot tolerate hot weather, how come Singapore has so many cases?

[newnative]

   Ok, ok.  I know I called first dibs on that yahoo Health Minister for my entry in the dunce of the year contest but I would like to change it to this yahoo.  So many yahoos to choose from in the government!  An embarrassment of riches--with the emphasis on 'embarrassment'.  

[KhunKenAP]

Quick someone tell the WHO to stop worrying about a global pandemic. 

[mickey rat]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

the hot weather will blow the virus away!

Blow away the horrendous air pollution away while you are at it and stop the goddamn burning! ????????????????