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Home » Reader question » Reader question: Do you dare to take a Thai vaccine against Covid-19?
Dear readers,
I read in Bangkok Post that Thailand is already far along with making a vaccine for covid-19. Also in other countries of course. I myself am 76 years old and am in the risk group, overweight, diabetes and high blood pressure. Also read that a vaccine is not without danger and that it only becomes clear after many years whether a vaccine is safe, given the side effects. Now it is made very quickly and steps may be skipped. It would not be good if the cure is more dangerous than the disease.
Now my question, are there people in the risk group who would take this Thai vaccine immediately when it is ready? Or better wait until something comes from Europe or the US? Or no vaccination at all and just gambling?
Regards,
Eagle
If you are 76 years old, overweight, have high blood pressure and diabetes, it is not wrong to worry about that instead of a vaccine against covid-19. By the time you qualify for such a vaccine you will be 4 years further, and you may already have died from those related risk factors mentioned. Let me put it this way: start giving more quality to your last phase of life instead of trying to prolong it. I also started to gain weight and therefore high blood pressure. The cardiologist in Korat told me to choose: continue with even more overweight, more ailments, consequently medication and still the risk of premature death, or: ensure a normal weight appropriate to height and age, a healthy lifestyle, minimal medication and less to assure.
I opted for the latter and after 24 months back at 80 kg, complete reduction of medication, no nicotine and very moderate alcohol, delicious healthy meals, lots of exercise and quiet sports, and above all: a satisfied wife. If you know what you want, corona is less likely to kill you.
Thailandblog recently posted an article about how Dr. Erwin Kompanje thinks about corona. Take that to heart: https://www.thailandblog.nl/achtergrond/coronabeleid-is-inhumaan-zegt-klinisch-ethicus-dr-erwin-kompanje-video/
Would.have.no.problem with it.
Did several tests in 1998, including injection against prostate cancer in Assen and various medicines in Zuidlaren.
First you go to Groningen, there you will be tested for your blood and whether you are healthy, if you are approved you go to the relevant institution, every day before you take the medicine or injection, the blood is taken, after the medicine you are regularly given blood and asked how you felt.
Some get a placebo, some get the real one, nobody knows what they get, not even the staff who administer it
After everything is ready, you go back to Groningen for inspection and they take blood from you again, you will continue to be treated until your blood has the same value again.
There were even doctors who participated in this.
Have confidence in the medical world, these tests are first done to see what the side effects are, so only in healthy people
They really don't take any chances, as soon as they notice that someone is affected, they end the test
Testing for vaccines or drugs is purely for the side effects.
That's why they only want to do it with healthy.younger people and only up to a certain age.
Have experience with it.
Hans van Mourik
If the test on 5000 people will be successful. Would I use this vaccine.
Not for dead death. Thai say the strangest things when it comes to medication and believe it too. no way!!!
There are currently more than 17000 scientific articles with many suggestions for possible vaccines, only many studies are incorrect and certainly not in Thailand, because they have a small population that is infected and that is not representative.
In short, be careful and there is hardly anything in Thailand, so stay there in the open air.
I am 82 years old and my quality of life is important to me. I'm certainly not in the front row to have a newly invented vaccine tested on my body. I would prefer to be mildly infected with the Corona virus in order to create antibodies in my body.
By the way I am not afraid of death, birth and death are inextricably linked.
When my body gets worn out, old and flawed I happily step out to go back to source.
Honestly, I am very curious and consider it my last adventure trip.
A vaccine against corona viruses, the target of the medical world.
Finding, testing, producing vaccines is not new on earth and everyone knows that it takes time,
Thailand could also theoretically develop a vaccine. This must of course also be made known worldwide and tested for its safety and soundness.
So wait and see and certainly don't believe in unilateral announcements from certain regimes, believe in Science and follow the announcements worldwide
Only then decide to get vaccinated - if you are seriously infected / ill and can become a test subject / guinea pig, then it is of course worth considering. Better a chance than no chance, of course.
Personally, I think, I believe, that one or more vaccines will be available by the end of 2021.
Viral drugs that help fight the disease may come much earlier – may already be there but have yet to be proven.
After corona, of course, there will be another "beast" - nature is full of things that live and nature, which also includes a mammal.
I don't think Thailand has the knowledge and equipment to develop a vaccine.
But Thailand likes to be the “hub” for anything and everything.
In practice you hear nothing about it after a while and then a new hub comes along.
Thailand is not a third world country in the medical field. Many come from all over the world for the good treatments and care.
Just to answer your question: "Do you dare to take a Thai vaccine against Covid-19?"
Is my answer short and concise: “NO”
How long have people been looking for a vaccine against the common cold, or a medicine? How long have people been looking for a vaccine against HIV, or a medicine? How long have people been looking for a medicine against flu, and the vaccine must be adjusted every year, so only valid for 1 season. So I have no illusions whether there will be a vaccine soon (555). Lots of promises of course, a matter of reassuring the “population” and driving up the prices of some stocks.
Better take care of your condition, and respect social distancing, all the rest is nonsense.
I would wait a little longer, it is impossible that one would come out now, they speak in Belgium in the middle of 2021, so let's think about it
They found a vaccine and tested positive on mice and now comes the second phase, testing on chimpanzees. Thailand is not about an ice cream day. You can't really get anything through official channels for the time being. Rather the illegal substances from India, on the black market. But stay off that.
I always think it's great that people always find a good working vaccine that works on monkeys mice rats and other animals very quickly but that those vaccines never seem to work in humans...
I think that the pharmaceutical industry is a real billion-dollar business that one cannot trust for a hair.
Fred, I've thought that before. OK, I don't know much about it all, but still...
Indeed always seems to work great until one gets to the application on humans.
I sometimes think that people are afraid that it might work too well for people.
After all, people who no longer get sick are of no use.
"I think that the pharmaceutical industry is a real billion-dollar business that one cannot trust for a hair."
I don't think we should doubt that. The fear is also good that one should or can produce it cheaply.
At first they will whine everywhere for government support or other gifts through all kinds of pleas with the population, but if a remedy has been found with the money received, the same people will be charged the main price to obtain that medicine.
Thailand and Thai at least they have something in common with both food and medicine it is not only culture but also an obsession. I once read somewhere that Thailand's drug use per capita is the highest in the world. Almost all medicines can be obtained from pharmacies without a doctor's prescription. When I see what kinds of medicines my wife has (brought from Thailand) I didn't even know it existed. If it comes to a medicine against COVID19 from Thailand (if it even exists) I certainly wouldn't take it. Suggestion as well as superstition is widespread in Thailand.