tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post7661385948110989028..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: What About Laos?Assistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-75196269044155744422020-08-21T08:11:08.814-04:002020-08-21T08:11:08.814-04:00Christopher B: {less than 3% of the people who di...<b>Christopher B</b>: <i> {less than 3% of the people who die of COVID in the US are under the age of 44} so it's not hard to believe any even younger median age population has an even lower death rate.</i><br /><br />That could explain the lower death rate, but not the lower case rate. Out of 35000 tests, only 22 have tested positive.Zachrielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16081260898264733380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-15390991686506403652020-08-21T06:08:13.255-04:002020-08-21T06:08:13.255-04:00I want to correct a point I made in the comment ab...I want to correct a point I made in the comment above. I was using information from this article<br /><br />https://wirepoints.org/ignorance-about-covid-19-risk-is-nothing-short-of-stunning-research-report-says-huge-age-variance-wirepoints/<br /><br />and what I should have said is less than 3% of the people who die of COVID in the US (by whatever definition of death of COVID is used) are under the age of 44.Christopher Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00396671757183163171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-82358346063467433862020-08-21T01:20:54.876-04:002020-08-21T01:20:54.876-04:00I have not noticed that SE Asian peoples are parti...I have not noticed that SE Asian peoples are particularly 'docile'! Not a word I would have thought to use for them, at all.<br /><br />I recall on a trip to Thailand watching boys playing in the river that flows through Bangkok. Other people washing in the river. Urban third world people are simply resistant to bugs! I'd guess they are resistant to corona viruses as well. Tom Bridgelandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13098048586042365606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-16763019123659947062020-08-20T19:50:23.618-04:002020-08-20T19:50:23.618-04:00The median age in Laos is 23 vs over 38 in the US....The median age in Laos is 23 vs over 38 in the US. COVID is very survivable for younger people. If I recall correctly that USN aircraft carrier had only one death for several hundred infections and that was a man over 40. The death rate for COVID for people 44 and younger in the US is under 3 percent so it's not hard to believe any even younger median age population has an even lower death rate. Masks and all that other BS likely has nothing to do with it.Christopher Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00396671757183163171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-82746686379015880342020-08-20T19:14:57.385-04:002020-08-20T19:14:57.385-04:00This makes a lot of sense - not sure how it could ...This makes a lot of sense - not sure how it could be tested, though. I remember reading that in the 40s-50s-60s, doctors were surprised that older people seemed to have less problem with the flu than younger people. It was hypothesized that they had developed a sort of herd immunity from the Spanish flu, years earlier.<br /><br />If one wanted to be paranoid, one could speculate that a malicious government might realize that their population had a high level of immunity to a certain type of virus, and that releasing it into the rest of the world could have devestating consequences. Just sayin'.Uncle Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08666166923236919131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-37203132387524011672020-08-20T17:14:15.877-04:002020-08-20T17:14:15.877-04:00Zach's link isn't necessarily a bad one, t...Zach's link isn't necessarily a bad one, though I don't know why <i>Counterpunch</i> is taking reports from the Laotian gov't at face value. When things are going well, governments are always willing to say "It's because of all the wonderful stuff we are doing." The other SE Asian countries are also doing well. I had a comment on this identical post over at Chicago Boyz from a person currently living in Vietnam who had been living in China for 13 years before that. He describes a good deal of masking, distancing, and shutdown, which I admit I did not expect. Is it populations which accept this level of intervention because of that docility that is even present from birth, in some observations? Could be. Yet how can they <i>all</i> have such successful governments in this area, as they succeed at so little else?<br /><br />If I were to bet, I would still say it's immunity, though I might bet fewer dollars at this point.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-80452099697801897562020-08-20T13:57:48.373-04:002020-08-20T13:57:48.373-04:00RE: "Laos has had 22 cases of C19, 3 currentl...RE: "Laos has had 22 cases of C19, 3 currently active, 0 deaths. Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Nepal, Myanmar, are not quite so low, but very low."AVI<br /><br />Answer is likely HCQ is avaliable without a prescription. Malaria is endemic. When one gets a fever, malase one takes a course of HCQ,<br /><br />Watch some of the talks from last week's DDP meeting on YouTube there are a number on the WuFlu.<br />https://www.youtube.com/user/DDPmeetings/videos<br />https://www[DOT]youtube[DOT]com/user/DDPmeetings/videos<br /><br />Dan KurtDan Kurthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08252444956956894276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-43529390609516057462020-08-20T12:30:23.068-04:002020-08-20T12:30:23.068-04:00We who live in rural areas don't have many con...We who live in rural areas don't have many contacts with others, or groups of others.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-38317521667370810092020-08-19T18:35:42.821-04:002020-08-19T18:35:42.821-04:00According to this report, transparency and a rapid...According to this report, transparency and a rapid, coordinated response, extensive use of masks and social distancing, a lock-down along with contact tracing were the primary means by which Laos contained the virus.<br /><br />https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/07/16/laos-has-tackled-covid-19-but-it-is-drowning-in-debt-to-international-finance/<br /><br />Zachrielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16081260898264733380noreply@blogger.com