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  1. Posted

    3 hours ago, Boomerang said:

    I imagine for discrete punters, the thought of presenting to wife with monkey pox blisters would be a scary thought. 

    Its not an STD. Some people have gotten it from other types of contact. Standing very close to someone in the BTS with touching is enough.

    For the wife, I’d worry about genital herpes long before monkeypox.

  2. Posted

    3 hours ago, crillwill said:

    I have to admit fellas, I'm a little worried about this. I'm no hypochondriac, I never feared covid at all the last 3 years, I just don't get how this isn't ripping through the p4p scene in Thailand.  Specifically the gay p4p scene. I kinda have this gut feeling that it will explode and when it explodes you don't want to be there.  I'm pretty bummed about it, I'm finally gearing up for a trip after 3 years and at the very least it's going to make me super cautious, no more trawling the lower suhkumvit area drunk as a skunk and blowing 3 ladyboys in a 2 hour window. That's where the fun was.

    Again.

    In Thailand people got vaccinated for smallpox to a much later date than in the west. Plenty of people in the scene have the vaccine scar on their arm.

    Those vaccines are lifetime effective and cross protect against monkeypox. This is the current hypothesis of why some countries have almost no spread.

    I can tell you with absolute certainty that this disease is not strongly underreported. Those blisters are huge, very painful and very visible. 
     

    If you simply don’t have sex with anyone with blisters, your chance to get monkeypox go from absolutely neglible to theoretically possible in Thailand.

    If you are still worried, get vaccinated. Several countries in the west have started vaccinating At risk groups. In France we get a lot of foreigners coming here for vaccination.

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  4. Posted

    A side note. Many western people wear T shirts with the face of Che Guevara on it. That man was a real monster. I have always found that equally apprehensive.

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  6. Posted

    1 hour ago, mikel said:

    This stopped me in my tracks at a store in Pakse.

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    Thats just… wrong. I get the swastika has more meanings than just nazi propaganda but to exhibit it like this on a flag is just bad taste.

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  7. Posted

    43 minutes ago, mikel said:

    Men having sex with men is the point of this forum. Looks like it'll be buyer beware for the foreseeable future. 

    9400 +Dengue cases this year in Thailand.

    9500 road deaths in 2021

    About 50 cases of Trichinosis a year

    Seems a bit silly to worry about the 4 cases of monkeypox of which 2 were foreign nationals when you accept the risks above.

    Context is everything. Only realistic preventure measure is to avoid contact with people who have blisters. I assume that goes without saying.

     

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  8. Posted

    You can theoretically transmit it in many many ways of contact, I’m sure bedsheets is possible)

    In practice, it’s most often transmitted through intense physical contact (aka sex). Almost all victims are men who have sex with men.

    your chances of conteacting it in Thailand are very low in my opinion.

  9. Posted

    We stopped vaccinating for smallpox in the west 50 years ago because the disease was erradicated.
    Lesser developed countries stopped vaccinating much later than the west.
    In Thailand I have seen quite a few younger people with the typical smallpox vaccine scar.
    This vaccine works a lifetime and should at least strongly protect against monkeypox.

    Ergo.
    1. If you are older and still got this vaccine, you really should not worry at all.
    2. If (I have no info how many younger people Thailand are innoculated) a decent amount of sexworkers/civilians in Thailand got innoculated, chance of getting infected is very very low when mongering.

    As far as I know, Thailand has gotten very few monkeypox cases. Seeing this disease is pretty visible, I don't think there has been a huge underreported outbreak. I read they have 4 cases of which 2 are foreign nationals.

    If you come into contact with someone who has obvious blisters, go to the hospital and get vaccinated. The vaccines tend to still have effect when taken after the moment of (possible) infection.

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  10. Posted

    On 7/29/2022 at 4:37 PM, Chris85 said:

    Also interested in this.

    I heard by the way that some pharmacies will sell you PREP without receipt-is it true?

    Chula Bhesaj pharmacy on Rama 4. They supply prep to Pulse but sell to individuals if you ask for it.

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  12. Posted

    6 hours ago, george1515 said:

    I might be in the minority here but I was never asked or told either at the airport or at my hotel when checking in for my Day 1 Test and Go to upload the Morchana app. 

    Regardless throughout my trip for my own safety and the safety of others I took a few self administered ATK tests. They are readily available at 7/11 and others Family Mart for 50-100 Bhts.

    Luckily for me and for my trip companions none of them came back positive.

    One thing to mention. These tests are quite unreliable when you don’t have overt symptoms. They don’t pick up tiny amounts of virus.

  15. Posted

    1 minute ago, taaseesanuk said:

    If you want to keep that smile going check out the prices of some of the premium Hotels in BKK!

    oh yes 100%.
    For mongering though, I much prefer condo's. I feel more free without staff around me and ID checks :-)

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  17. Posted

    On 5/20/2021 at 9:21 AM, Roadslut said:

    Almost all of the top Anti-aging/TRT doctors now advise against taking Arimidex. If you are looking for a safe alternative to reduce aromatization, try a supplement called DIM

    Arimidex dosing management is very tricky and can lead to serious bone density problems.

    I agree, there are cases of lower bone density. Long term (+2y) has some risks. Dosing however isn’t difficult at all. Arimidex is very effective even at lower doses.

    Are there any other reasons TRT doctors advise against it?

    I’m not super familliar with TRT, did read some papers and talked to local collegues about it.

  18. Posted

    35 minutes ago, taaseesanuk said:

    A good friend of mine is finally able to now have some spare time to spend with his family after a very intense 4 months on the Covid wards, he said that at it's peak it was 50/50

    as to whether they could treat and cope with patients, he said it has aged him and he is mentally and physically drained...I guess the 1.5% pay rise offered by the Government

    will help ease the burden then!!  Disgraceful and disrespectful springs to mind.

    I assume he’s a nurse? I have worked in several countries (I consult and teach as well) and wherever I go, nurses, logistical employees etc are always squeezed like a grapefruit. During covid they work in super hot protective clothing and hard to breathe masks. Sometimes they work double or triple shifts. It’s absolutely shameful they get squeezed like this. They are the backbone of healthcare. 1.5% is very little imho. In my hospital most doctors pitched in to divide our bonus among them.

  19. Posted

    Thanks for that. I'll be humble though, beside volunteering to administer vaccinations and helping out with the research and data, I don't have any real contact with covid patients.
    The nurses having close contact with em are the real heroes of this crisis.

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  20. Posted

    1 hour ago, Vagamundo said:

    These bars, noted above, and perhaps a few others were discussed in yesterday’s Bangkok Post. The article said several foreigners were infected from these venues. 

    A friend of mine in the healthcare industry in NorthAmerica and well versed in how Covid spreads and infects people of all ages explained it this way:

    Without adequate contact testing, younger people have a tendency to discount the initial effects of Covid as simply a cold or an allergy. As the effects get worse, they try sleeping pills and other over the counter drugs to combat the illness. Then, in some cases, they find themselves suddenly and severely ill, and perhaps hospitalized, even potentially resulting in death. Because they ignored the symptoms and did not get tested, their Covid spread to others, some more vulnerable than others. 

    One recent example of how quickly it spreads in the US just happened. A post college graduate from Alabama, 23 year old, and a popular and vivacious fan of Alabama’s basketball team, who won a bid in the NCAA tournament being played in the state of Indiana, traveled there to root on his team. By the time he returned  to Alabama last Tuesday, he was ill enough to need hospitalization and died from Covid just a few days ago. It happened that quick, however, he was more likely feeling poorly for several days beforehand, and according to his father felt he could get through his ‘cold’ in order to see and cheer his beloved team. He never got tested!

    Now, NCAA officials and Indiana health authorities are urging anyone who attended the games this fan attended get tested. Of course, he was also at other venues: hotels, bars, automobiles, airplanes, restaurants etc. where he could have spread Covid. It now appears to be affecting younger people in the US more because older people are quickly getting vaccinated, leaving only younger non-senior ages and sometimes reckless youth as potential hosts. Indeed, the last fatality from Covid in Thailand #95 was listed as a woman in her late 20’s. 


     

     

     

    While younger people do die, they remain outliers even now. Everywhere I read newspapers, they are pushing the fact that young people die and get seriously ill to the point where there is the sentiment that this is common. It still isn't. The median age of people in the ICU is however decreasing. In my hospital the youngest person in the ICU is 47, out of 68 ICU beds that are all occupied.
    Even non vaccinated, I would worry a lot more about traffic than about covid in the LOS.

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  22. Posted

    I would not recommend every guy over the qge of 40 to get T treatments. I'm sorry that's just idiotic.
    If you have low T, I would recommend aromatase blockers to most people. Arimidex for instance. If that does not help, then you can try T treatment.

    If and only if you have low T levels.
    T therapy has side effects.

    That being said, it's a free world and I'm very liberal. Feel free to reject my advice :-D

  23. Posted

    https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.11.20031096v1

    not peer reviewed, very prelimerary.

    several weak points. This is not a causality but a correlative study. Too little subjects, all from two cities in China.

    The sample sizes is my biggest issue, for good data on blood groups you need 50000-100000 data points due to overrepresentation of some blood groups within participants.

    Summary: It’s not fake news but only slightly indicative at best. No reason to assume A+ is more at risk at this point.

  24. Posted

    A+ here too.
    Trump is spreading half fake news here.
    Yes Azithromycin + chloroquine have been effective on small scales with very ill people. Effects have been moderate at best.
    Much better medication will be found in the next few months.

    Would you want to take meds that could potentially make you sicker (both meds have side effects) when tested only on small samples?
    Think of how ill you would need to be for that to sound like a good option.

    Some extra info that I found out yesterday, J&J has a HIV vaccine in fase 3 of testing, primary results are looking good. (sorry if this is general knowledge, I didn't know)

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  25. Posted

    44 minutes ago, The-Sith said:

    Yes. I have stated that there too. Pulse is on the front lines, so they have the stats....perhaps somewhat bias sample bc it catches those savvy enough to get tested thru them.

     

    It's like Russian Roulette w 2 in the chamber. 33% chance.

     

    The testing bias will be strong with this one. I would bet money the actual stats are waaaaaaay less.

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