Coming soon: The Covid nasal spray
Good morning boys and girls. And all others. Weekend, Day 1 - on Saturday, Jun 18.
For now, there seems no way to halt the SARS Cov-2 novel coronavirus.
Unless...
Thailand to start producing anti-Covid nasal spray by September.
The antibody nasal spray is being developed by the Thai Government Pharmaceutical Organization (GPO).
GPO's nasal spray was first introduced for trials in February in cooperation with the Chulalongkorn University, Silpakorn University, Health Systems Research Institute and High Bioscience Ltd.
The spray is currently in its last clinical trial phase conducted by the National Cancer Institute.
https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40016745
CORONAVIRUS VACCINE INOCULATION
Deaths by Covid Vaccine hold steady near zero
It will take somewhere between years and decades to pinpoint every case but one thing is very clear: The weirdly exact number of 2,270 deaths-by-vaccination seen over and Over and OVER on the internet is classic malinformation.
There have been six 'suspicious' post-vaccine deaths. Two were the result of VITT, two were due to a severe allergic reaction, one suffered myopericarditis and another suffered Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis.
The Public Health Ministry yesterday released figures refuting claims that more than 2,000 deaths have been attributable to Covid-19 vaccination over the past two years.
It unveiled a report on all vaccines administered and associated unintentional deaths at the weekly Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) meeting.
This showed that by June 12, 138 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines had been administered.
The report further indicated 86 cases of adverse effects of which 45 were attributed to Sinovac, 23 to AstraZeneca, 14 to Pfizer and four to Sinopharm.
Original Number 1 top-selling McDonald's Thailand will close on Canada Day Eve - for about, oh, two years. Or so.
The Amarin Plaza mall where it is located has already started renovations.
It was the first McDonald's restaurant in Thailand, opened in 1985. Now they are all owned and operated by MacThai Ltd.
https://www.facebook.com/AmarinPlazaOfficial/posts/3798197803587107/
Covid closes Central Chiang Mai and its mall - 'temporarily'
The department store and the entire Kad Suan Kaew mall
Due to the outbreak of Covid, which is not ending.
And
Thailand's government has no policy to ease or to help these conditions.
Therefore,
The company has to temporarily suspend operations of the shopping center in order to prevent an emergency business shutdown and further affect customers.
https://www.matichon.co.th/social/news_3406251
CORONAVIRUS WORLD
Follow the science
Don Tony Fauci changes up again. His new version: There is 'not nearly enough data' to show whether 5-yerar-olds should get booster shots of Covid vaccine.
Yes, well... Toddlers hardly ever get Rona, let alone transmit the Vid.
But at least the latest tiff with U.S. Senator Rand Paul is a hoot. Fauci testified via the Chinese sexting softwar Zoom, because he has Covid.
https://bityl.co/ClTx
WWFD*
Within hours, the failed U.S. US Food and Drug Administration granted emergency authorisation to administer Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccine inoculations to all children, never mind statistics or science.
The agency authorised Moderna's two-dose vaccine for children aged six months to five years, and three doses of Pfizer's shots for those between six months and four years old.
"Many parents, caregivers and clinicians have been waiting for a vaccine for younger children and this action will help protect those down to six months of age," Food and Drug Administration chief Robert Califf said in a statement.
"We expect that the vaccines for younger children will provide protection from the most severe outcomes of COVID-19, such as hospitalisation and death."
Before that can happen, the useless C.D.C. has to give permission.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/us-covid-19-approve-pfizer-moderna-children-under-five-2754091
*What Would Fauci Do?
TRIVIA for the next pub night.
The U.S. has 4% of the world's population but recorded 16% of Covid-19 deaths.
THAILAND INFLATION FUEL
The dream: Curbing pump prices
The Thai junta's showpiece 'prime minister' Prayut took a page straight out of the Biden playbook on Friday, by going straight to every Thai oil refinery.
Prayut assigned his economic team and 'energy ministry' to convince them to bring down prices of gasoline and diesel for consumers.
Second, the government asks for cooperation among oil refineries in contributing to the Oil Fuel Fund, wherein firms use part of windfall profits gained following approval of their requests to raise the GRM [gross refining margin (GRM) in response to the effects of the Russia-Ukraine war.
Now do Thailand. Same-same, not different.
Oil analyst warns U.S. recession is 'foregone conclusion' as Americans see 'egregious spikes' in energy, food costs.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/oil-analyst-warns-recession-foregone-conclusion-americans-see-egregious-spikes-costs
THAILAND CORONAVIRUS ECONOMY
Thai insurance companies were already a little flaky. And then they started selling Covid insurance policies by the millions. But now...
Thai insurers sink into bankruptcy due to COVID claims
Huge payouts and scams weigh on entire non-life insurance sector.
At least four Thai insurance companies have gone bankrupt after suffering losses from selling low-cost Covid-19 policies, raising fears of a domino effect that could weigh on the country's non-life insurance sector.
PHOTO: Bangkokians line up for vaccinations at Siriraj Hospital, but at least four insurance companies are lined up at the Bankruptcy Court.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/Thai-insurers-sink-into-bankruptcy-due-to-COVID-claims
LAOS SHORTAGE INFLATION
Laos hit by fuel shortages and growing default risk
Moody's has downgrades the communist country's sovereign debt rating to 'junk'.
Laos is struggling with acute fuel shortages, rising food prices and growing debt
Moody's Investor Service on Wednesday downgraded the landlocked, communist-ruled country's sovereign debt rating one notch further into non-investment grade, aka "junk".
Laos was already having trouble paying its bills before the recent surge in global food and energy prices precipitated by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
PHOTO: People line up to get fuel at a gas station in Vientiane.
https://www.ft.com/content/1f53abbd-2e49-4fe2-809c-f6dde97632fe
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Laos has borrowed heavily in recent years to fund hydropower projects and a Chinese-built railway bisecting the country that opened in December.
As the Mysterious Gypsy Woman predicted many, many years ago:
The Vietnamese grow the rice
The Cambodians watch it grow
The Lao listen to it grow.
An idea so crazy it might just work. Oh, wait...
Sell a blunt, go directly to jail
Anyone selling - or even offering to sell - one marijuana cigarette to people under 20 years old or to pregnant women will win one year in prison and/or a fine of 20,000 baht - U.S.$567 at today's exchange rate.
So exactly like the 55 years before cannabis was partly legalised.
THAILAND ASEAN MYANMAR
Weekly Bangkok Post foreign affairs analyst and Chulalongkorn University Professor Thailand's bankrupt Myanmar policy Thitinan Pongsudhirak writes today on...
Thailand's bankrupt Myanmar policy
For one thing, for example
The main reason Myanmar commands its own show is because so much is going wrong with the country. Myanmar is a four-layered conundrum. It is a thorn in the side of the international community.
But Thailand has appointed Pornpimol (Pauline) Kanchanalak as "special envoy". There is no need for a special envoy if no messaging is being done to broker a compromise and chart a forward movement.
CHINA AGGRESSION ASEAN
Relations between China and the United States are "at a critical crossroads," said senior communist Yang Jiechi, who heads the office of the CCP's Central Foreign Affairs Commission and is China's top diplomat.
THAILAND TOURISM TRAVEL
This is the latest news on the totally malleable regulations on tourism and travel. It's missing an explantion of why the country needs to keep these exceptionally bothersome, rage-inducing edicts for another 12 days.
Thailand Pass, Covid insurance to end July 1
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2328513/
Easier entry
Thailand Pass registration and compulsory Covid-19 insurance will be lifted for all people arriving in Thailand from July 1, a senior government spokesman says.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2328513/thailand-pass-covid-insurance-to-end-july-1
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Mask requirement being dropped outdoors, low-risk areas
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2328563/
As usual, that's part of the story. Here's the rest.
You may NOT remove your Covid mask in public. Except sometimes, in some places.
The eyewateringly wealthy public health minister Anutin Charnvirakul dismissed speculation that the CCSA will lift the face mask mandate. "The mandate is a social measure and the ministry of public health does not intend to do away with it. Yet
https://www.thaipbsworld.com/no-lifting-of-thailands-face-masks-in-public-mandate-some-places-may-be-exempted/
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Firms cheer easing of tourism rules
End of Thailand Pass system and mask requirement in public elicits smiles
Marisa Sukosol Nunbhakdi, former up-and-coming second baseman and slugger of the Transpo Bears and now president of the Thai Hotels Association (THA), said the two keys for tourism growth if Thailand Pass is junked, are air connectivity and visa policy.
The Tourism and Sports Ministry might hope for 10 million foreign tourists this year, but 8 million is the maximum as there is a lot of work to do in adding direct flights to Thailand, said Mrs Marisa.
PHOTO: The lights are on, vendors are set up on the sidewalks and the only thing missing for the Sukhumvit area is a crowd of tourists.
THAILAND PRICE CONTROLS DICTATORSHIP
The keepers of a (usually dying) totalitarians usually do this, to try to convince their desperate subjects that they are looking after them.
Price limits
The alleged so-called Thailand 'government' said Friday it intends to retain its price control on 51 goods and services indefinitely.
Meanwhile, the junta will introduce new, stringent measures on the movement of maize (corn) in three additional provinces to stabilise domestic prices
https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/2327978/
CANNABIS MARIJUANA
ZOMG Now cannabis is attacking The Children£©
Boy, 14, treated, recovers after using cannabis
Maharat Nakhon Ratchasima Hospital in Korat said on Friday that the boy was treated on Thursday for symptoms of depression and fever.
He had THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) in the boy's urine. Fortunately his symptoms were not severe.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2328503/
GLOBAL WARMING
Caught on film... er, video: 100 seconds of mostly peaceful Italian motorists helping crazed global warming victims.
GLOBAL WARMING
AOC smiles
More than 2,000 Cattle Die from Heat, Humidity in Kansas
[Note: "Kansas" is a state in the U.S.A.]
"You can't say, 'Oh I checked them three days ago,'" said Brenda Masek, president of Nebraska Cattlemen. "When it gets hot, you've got to be out every day and making sure that their water is maintained."
https://dailycaller.com/2022/06/16/meat-industry-takes-hit-10000-cattle-die-heat-and-humidity/
'Don't Scare The Horses'
Who in the heck can she possibly influence? Raw lard eaters?
OVER/UNDER
Gitcher money down!
Starting today. The number of times, between now and New Year's Eve, that my wife will hear me say, "You know what Prayut did today?"
Well, that's the official story. In fact, highly informed sources inform me that this is the technique that Prayut will use to evict/select his next government ministers.
What is WHO really serious about? Science and Health, right? RIGHT?
China-owned WHO Will Rename Monkeypox as Scientists Claim 'Monkeypox' is 'Discriminatory' and 'Stigmatizing.'
https://tinyurl.com/y9dt7cez
BELIEVE IT OR ELSE
The China-owned World Health Organizatio (WHO?) insists there has to be a new name for Monkeypox, because "monkeypox" is discriminatory and shows stigmatising, and WHO? has announced "We are working with experts to come up with a new name".
Hands up, everyone who already knew there are world-class experts on naming diseases.
Also, stop pointing out that monkeypox originated in Africa, because that not only discriminates against Africans, it is rays-siss.
PHOTO: There are no documented cases of patients who enjoyed infection by the monkeypox virus.
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-61804132
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Found in the email NOT URGENT basket...
Can we still order black coffee? Are brownies being taken off the shelf? Is White Castle changing its name? If not, why not? I'm sure Cracker Barrel is screwed. Can we still play Chinese Checkers? Is that season still called Indian summer? no more Italian sausages?
How far do you want to go
Despite a worldwide campaign to explain how widespread is monkeypox, the number of cases of monkeypox in Thailand is a perfectly round digit.
Well, at least Thailand doesn't have it. Yet.
Monkeypox/Poxvirus is a viral disease that occurs mostly in central and western Africa.
And the U.S. state of Massachusetts.
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-61501679
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2022/05/18/massachusetts-first-us-case-monkeypox-2022/9829670002/
MONKEYPOX WARNINGS
The fantastically useless disinformation spreader known as the C.D.C. (U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) has raised their so-called 'alert lever' on monkeypox.
https://www.mic.com/life/cdc-monkeypox-level-2-travel
MONKEYPOX THAILAND
The number of active monkeypox cases in Thailand remained static at a perfectly round digit.
TECHNOLOGY
Europe's General Court squished a billion-dollar antitrust fine levied by the EU against Qualcomm. (Reuters)
I've never met a person who is a huge fan of Qualcomm, but it works, so what else do you need? So, good.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/eu-court-rejects-1-bln-eu-antitrust-fine-against-qualcomm-2022-06-15/
So how did that idea of dropping a cop with your axe work out for ya?
Guy jumps out of his car and attacks an officer with a hatchet. Fortunately the cop was aware of his surroundings, he draws fast and puts the guy down. Didn't even drop the license and registration he has in his hand.
SPORTS U.S.A.
HOCKEY - The Stanley Cup final resumes on Sunday morning: Tampa Bay (0-1) at Avalanche (1-0).
SOCCER : The 2026 World Cup will be held in the United States. And Canada (Toronto, Vancouver). And Mexico. (Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey). Eleven (11) U.S.A. cities and stadiums have been chosen, but not Washington.
World Cup 2022 begins in Qatar on November 21.
PHOTO: The world's most expansive stadium, SoFi in California (below) and the biggest, Azteca, in Mexico.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/61835686
MORE WEEKEND READING
Michael Austin, a pretty prolific writer, has a new book out, 'Asia's New Geopolitics'.
It sounds interesting and there's an informed, and not lengthy review by A. E. Clark, at
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/an-eye-on-asia/
