News Forum - Phuket has surging Covid-19, but 95% of infections are mild

[Thaiger]

Phuket is experiencing a surge in new Covid-19 infections, with daily figures skyrocketing to some of the highest levels since the pandemic began. But, the Deputy Director of Vachira Phuket Hospital says that there is a silver lining, because about 95% of new cases are experiencing either mild symptoms or no symptoms at all. The Deputy Director said yesterday that infections from the Omicron variant continue to quickly mount on the island province, but, as studies had promisingly suggested, the sharp rise in Omicron infections has not correlated to a parallel rise in severe illness and death from Covid-19. Local […]

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[Rain]

Imagine that. 

What if this was the percentile norm of the last couple years?

[Graham]

Well shock horror, imagine that, so there's no need to fill hospitals with all you folks that have a sniffle after all ? Why didn't we think of this before, oh yeah we wanted to scam everyone. 555

[Lyp14 [ctxa]]

1 hour ago, Graham said:

Well shock horror, imagine that, so there's no need to fill hospitals with all you folks that have a sniffle after all ? Why didn't we think of this before, oh yeah we wanted to scam everyone. 555

I'm sure that's exactly what happened. 

Two high profile officials in their office. 

Quote

 

Official 1: It's been too boring recently over here, right? 

Official 2: Oh yeah, I'm not even motivated anymore! 

Official 1: Why don't we scam everyone since we have nothing better to do? 

Official 2: Hold my beer!

 

Come on, where'd you leave your common sense?

[AlexPTY]

First great news from Phuket in ages 

[AMc]

Desperate message, drawn in the beach sand by Phuket residents, spotted by Thai Air Force medic-helicopter.

The medic-helicopter was responding to the Covid surge being experienced on the island, and had as cargo "vaccines" in sufficient quantity to "vaccinate" the entire island province.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Paco]

"95% of new cases are experiencing either mild symptoms or no symptoms at all."

Does not matter mild or not can transmit it anyway however phuket can just keep the doors open and keep on doing no matter how high it gets and other places that still not have their doors open can sit and wait and go to the shit... deeply brainless.. if it was pattaya they closed it down

 

The word mild symptoms and no symptoms  are just again excuses to justify it so they can stay open and people shut up... but in fact is bullocks

[Johnnyb2]

So it's no big deal after all..... Unless of course you are a foreigner. Then it's dangerous as hell and you must pay. You dirty, smelly, infectious foreigner!

[ace035]

Thai government have been overreacting & panicking all the time. What do you expect? Besides corruption and ruining everyone lives by destroying its economy/tourism.

[Vince]

6 hours ago, Thaiger said:

Phuket is experiencing a surge in new Covid-19 infections, with daily figures skyrocketing to some of the highest levels since the pandemic began. But, the Deputy Director of Vachira Phuket Hospital says that there is a silver lining, because about 95% of new cases are experiencing either mild symptoms or no symptoms at all. The Deputy Director said yesterday that infections from the Omicron variant continue to quickly mount on the island province, but, as studies had promisingly suggested, the sharp rise in Omicron infections has not correlated to a parallel rise in severe illness and death from Covid-19. Local […]

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It's good to read positive stories about the COVID these days. 

With COVID losing its sting we should be moving back to "the new normal" soon. 

 

[Robosibbo]

Maybe Thailand will start to wake up and realise it's now a cold and stop this ridiculous testing and isolating basically well people.... when has the world ever done anything like test test test people with no symptoms of a disease. It's complete madness and sheep behaviour

[CharlesW]

Robosibbo is totally correct ... how long will this madness continue?

[AMc]

Here's a novel idea to verify whether a person is sick, or not.

Look for symptoms!

FACT CHECK; Correct!       prior to Covid-19^TM there existed no viral respiratory pathogens which were transmissible by a person displaying no symptoms (i.e. by a person determined to be "asymptomatic")     

Edited January 14, 2022 by AMc

[Rain]

2 hours ago, Robosibbo said:

Maybe Thailand will start to wake up and realise it's now a cold and stop this ridiculous testing and isolating basically well people.... when has the world ever done anything like test test test people with no symptoms of a disease. It's complete madness and sheep behaviour

The world ain't waking up any time soon. 

[AMc]

5 hours ago, Vince said:

It's good to read positive stories about the COVID these days. 

With COVID losing its sting we should be moving back to "the new normal" soon. 

Always remember, 97% of Covid positives are false positives

 

[Vince]

Just now, AMc said:

Always remember, 97% of Covid positives are false positives

Hmm not sure what that means, but ok? 

[Thomazz59]

People are waking up.. Governments and big buisnesses are the same 'old sham and dance".. 

[Rain]

2 minutes ago, Thomazz59 said:

People are waking up.. Governments and big buisnesses are the same 'old sham and dance".. 

From this vantage point, doesn't appear that folks are waking up at all. 

[AMc]

15 minutes ago, Rain said:

From this vantage point, doesn't appear that folks are waking up at all. 

Some of us are, and that's a start, I pray.

Seems odd that the more "woke" someone is, the less "awake" they are.

[AMc]

22 minutes ago, Vince said:

Hmm not sure what that means, but ok? 

"“if someone is tested by PCR as positive when a threshold of 35 cycles or higher is used (as is the rule in most laboratories in Europe and the US), the probability that said person is infected is less than 3%, and the probability that said result is a false positive is 97%.”

https://www.msn.com/en-ph/news/opinion/historic-portuguese-ruling-on-pcr-test-germans-holding-an-inquiry/ar-BB1e3jde

[Vince]

4 minutes ago, AMc said:

"“if someone is tested by PCR as positive when a threshold of 35 cycles or higher is used (as is the rule in most laboratories in Europe and the US), the probability that said person is infected is less than 3%, and the probability that said result is a false positive is 97%.”

https://www.msn.com/en-ph/news/opinion/historic-portuguese-ruling-on-pcr-test-germans-holding-an-inquiry/ar-BB1e3jde

At first glance your link appears to be to a comment section. 

Here's a similar link to a journal on the same topic:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7934325/

Sure, there's false positives.  My article doest quite agree with yours but let's split the difference and call it 48.97%

Now what? 

[AMc]

19 minutes ago, Vince said:

At first glance your link appears to be to a comment section. 

Here's a similar link to a journal on the same topic:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7934325/

Sure, there's false positives.  My article doest quite agree with yours but let's split the difference and call it 48.97%

Now what? 

Comment section or not, the court had ruled, with no appeal initiated.

Also, the CDC has withdrawn its request (end of Dec. 2021) for its emergency use authorization for the use of PCR tests as a diagnostic tool for detection of Covid.

Now what? How about gov'ts relinquish the choke hold they have on travel/commerce/culture/liberty, and people tear themselves away from censored youtube, television, twitter et al, give themselves (and those around them) a good shake and wake up

BTW, splitting the difference between 66.6% and 97% would be

81.8% FALSE POSITIVES. This is absolutely un-effffing-acceptable, IMVHO.

from your link;

"...for the screening scenario, ...2/3 of the positive results are false positives."

1 hour ago, AMc said:

Here's a novel idea to verify whether a person is sick, or not.

Look for symptoms!

FACT CHECK; Correct!       prior to Covid-19^TM there existed no viral respiratory pathogens which were transmissible by a person displaying no symptoms (i.e. by a person determined to be "asymptomatic")     

and "follow the science".

Edited January 15, 2022 by AMc

[ExpatPattaya]

1 hour ago, AMc said:

Always remember, 97% of Covid positives are false positives

So when they test positive, and a couple days later have a 102 degree temperature and are on a respirator in a hospital, they dont have Covid-19, they all got Pneumonia?    What a load of crap

[Ynwaps]

Cases have always been mild for the 98% of people

[Johnnyb2]

5 hours ago, Rain said:

From this vantage point, doesn't appear that folks are waking up at all. 

After being in several countries over the last months and returning to Thailand it's clear to me that people here are still subdued and scared. Many countries are waking up though and it's a lot better than it was.

The cure is simple. Keep focusing on people who are actually being hospitalized or dying from the Batman Wu flue. Forget all about how many get infected. That number means nothing.