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[Allover]

My feeling is most likely when the paper work is completed the private sector will get their hands on limited supplies and we will be paying silly prices to get vaccinated.

No doubt farang will pay plenty for the vaccine in Thailand. That's if the South African variant doesn't kill us all.

[Franciscass]

You effectively have it right. The virus is named "SARS-CoV-2" and when it is in your body it can cause the disease named COVID-19. The vaccine won't keep the virus out of your system, but it will go a long way towards preventing or lessening the disease. The different vaccines use different technologies so some might stop the spread of SARS-CoV-2 while others don't. I've seen no scientific test data that answers that question one way or the other. You may just be an asymptomatic spreader of SARS-CoV-2.

It's great that you got your Pfizer shots. That and the Moderna seem to be exceptional.

Agree, as of now Pfixer and Moderna appear to be more efficacious than Astra Zenaca but that may be just down to A / Z been more widely used and thereby having more data available particularly against the South African variant. The real game changer may be the single shot J and J which is expected to come on stream later this month month.

Living here and waiting for a vaccine is frustrating. Seems they have their own authorization process to complete but if a vaccine has been approved by the US UK and EU surely that should be good enough. My feeling is most likely when the paper work is completed the private sector will get their hands on limited supplies and we will be paying silly prices to get vaccinated.

[HorseTrader]

Interesting. I didn't think the vaccine lowered your chances of getting Covid. And I don't think we know yet about the vaccine's ability to stop us from being contagious. I am under the belief the vaccine only prevents you from getting seriously ill. I sure hope this vaccine stuff works. I got my second Pfizer shot yesterday.

You effectively have it right. The virus is named "SARS-CoV-2" and when it is in your body it can cause the disease named COVID-19. The vaccine won't keep the virus out of your system, but it will go a long way towards preventing or lessening the disease. The different vaccines use different technologies so some might stop the spread of SARS-CoV-2 while others don't. I've seen no scientific test data that answers that question one way or the other. You may just be an asymptomatic spreader of SARS-CoV-2.

It's great that you got your Pfizer shots. That and the Moderna seem to be exceptional.

[Franciscass]

Yes, but because it lowers your chances of getting Covid, it also lowers the chance that you spread it around. When you become infected you will have milder symptoms, or none at all, and this means you will be less contagious to others. So in the end the vaccines can certainly stop Covid.

The metric of how contagious vaccinated people can be will be just one of the variables on when Thailand will reopen without crippling quarantine. Will they say ok you're vaccinated come on in, just bring your cert. Umm I doubt it.

Not obviously for the vaccinated person but testing negative may be considered more relevant than being vaccinated when it comes to whether you could be a spreader. That changes when vaccinations in the local population.

Reach a level where herd immunity kicks in which sadly looking at the roll out here will not happen anytime soon.

Notwithstanding reports of LK Metro roaring back Thailand is in serious need of a more reasoned policy on how to allow visitors back in. Vaccinations will help but shorter quarantine periods and a smarter use of testing on arrival would be more helpful.

[Member #4698]

Interesting. I didn't think the vaccine lowered your chances of getting Covid. And I don't think we know yet about the vaccine's ability to stop us from being contagious. I am under the belief the vaccine only prevents you from getting seriously ill. I sure hope this vaccine stuff works. I got my second Pfizer shot yesterday.

I am getting my 2nd Moderna shot this week. I read all the legal mumbo-jumbo that the lawyers cooked up to protect the pharmaceutical companies and hospitals from legal liabilities when I received my 1st round, but I am still under the impression that the Pfizer & Moderna Vaccines lower the chances of catching Corona by roughly 95%.

I am getting my 2nd Moderna shot this week and I am flying to Brazil in roughly 45 days. I realize I am taking a risk. But I don't care if I am wrong about the efficacy of the vaccine or my luck just runs out. I am not going to lose another year to this virus.

[Banana Boi]

It's been reported that AstraZeneca is ineffective against the SA variant. SA has stopped vaccine rollout. There are now 3 reported variants that I am aware of. UK, SA, and Brazil.

[Allover]

Yes, but because it lowers your chances of getting Covid, it also lowers the chance that you spread it around. When you become infected you will have milder symptoms, or none at all, and this means you will be less contagious to others. So in the end the vaccines can certainly stop Covid.

Interesting. I didn't think the vaccine lowered your chances of getting Covid. And I don't think we know yet about the vaccine's ability to stop us from being contagious. I am under the belief the vaccine only prevents you from getting seriously ill. I sure hope this vaccine stuff works. I got my second Pfizer shot yesterday.

[Mogwai]

The vaccine DOES NOT stop COVID. It just lowers your chances of getting COVID.

Yes, but because it lowers your chances of getting Covid, it also lowers the chance that you spread it around. When you become infected you will have milder symptoms, or none at all, and this means you will be less contagious to others. So in the end the vaccines can certainly stop Covid.

[Turgid]

Got a dose of the clap last year. Went to BHP for analysis. Positive for gono. Was given a jab of some antibiotic (I don't remember which) + azithromycin oral. It worked. But it also must've meant 1 antibiotic on its own was not sufficient.

Symptoms were nearly unnoticeable after 3 days of treatment.

You are unlucky, many posters have unprotected sex and report that they have never got an STD. I am scared of contracting that antibiotic resistant gonorrhea so I'll always wear my dick mask.

[Sharka]

Got a dose of the clap last year. Went to BHP for analysis. Positive for gono. Was given a jab of some antibiotic (I don't remember which) + azithromycin oral. It worked. But it also must've meant 1 antibiotic on its own was not sufficient.

Symptoms were nearly unnoticeable after 3 days of treatment.

Correct, due to more resistant strains of Gono, one drug won't cut it anymore.

Use to be just azithromycin alone many yrs ago was enough. Then resistance set in.

Then oral Cefixime was introduce and it was enough alone to do the job. That lasted about 3 yrs and now its not effective.

Today its an injection of Ceftriaxone and a 2nd oral antibiotic is needed.

Just to add, cases of Gono already documented that's resistant to ALL known antibiotics, meaning totally incurable. And these cases are rising worldwide.

[XXL]

Got a dose of the clap last year. Went to BHP for analysis. Positive for gono. Was given a jab of some antibiotic (I don't remember which) + azithromycin oral. It worked. But it also must've meant 1 antibiotic on its own was not sufficient.

Symptoms were nearly unnoticeable after 3 days of treatment.

[Member #4733]

He is following up with the hospital for next steps.

Anybody else care to admit getting it and how they finally got rid of it?

I did have Gonorrhea a while back, in Europe. I went to the doctor and got an antibiotic. I waited for a week. It did not work. Got back to the doctor and got another one. That worked. Doctor told me that I should have come back earlier as the antibiotic should give relief in days. So that might be a tip to anybody: just ask your doctor about how soon the medicine should work. The doctor informed me that even if the second antibiotic would not have worked too there are still some other options, I. E. Antibiotics. Some of these are only administered in the hospital. My only problem was that I had serious pain for one week more and it took about 2 months to feel normal again. By the way, I got it after a DT. Won't be doing that again.

This is something completely different then virus infections. Just google "virus versus bacteria infections" and choose a medical article in stead of a newspaper.

[Downandup]

Conflicting claims going on. But some say it can still move around amongst the unjabbed, so it needs everybody jabbed to get herd immunity, and then there's the mutations which are about. Some say the vaccines won't work on mutants. We don't know for sure yet.

Never mind there's reports on TV of super gonorrhea in Pattaya to replace it.

Quote from TV.

A friend of mine has Super Gonorrhea (not me promise and is having a hell of a time trying to kill it, so far repeated doses of the recommended antibiotics aren't working.

This thread is just a reminder that it is out there, not reported much but definitely in Pattaya. He is following up with the hospital for next steps.

Anybody else care to admit getting it and how they finally got rid of it?

WTF? There are only a few STD's that have a vaccine and Gonorrhea is not one of them.

[Berrys66]

Conflicting claims going on. But some say it can still move around amongst the unjabbed, so it needs everybody jabbed to get herd immunity, and then there's the mutations which are about. Some say the vaccines won't work on mutants. We don't know for sure yet.

Never mind there's reports on TV of super gonorrhea in Pattaya to replace it.

Quote from TV.

A friend of mine has Super Gonorrhea (not me promise and is having a hell of a time trying to kill it, so far repeated doses of the recommended antibiotics aren't working.

This thread is just a reminder that it is out there, not reported much but definitely in Pattaya. He is following up with the hospital for next steps.

Anybody else care to admit getting it and how they finally got rid of it?

[Franciscass]

You are not vaccinated, you are not wearing a mask, some other idiot also not wearing a mask but has been vaccinated is close enough their airborne droplets are inhaled by you, the data shows with the current vaccines you can become infected. The degree of transmissibility is being studied but for now the simple take away is continue following health guidelines and wait for the vaccine. If I may I would suggest that if one wants to keep up to date with what's going on with vaccines and the virus UK tabloids are probably not where you need to go.