Re: "Doctors urge Covid jabs for young kids", (BP, Sept 13) and "Govt to procure updated jabs", (BP, Sept 7).
The Department of Disease Control has purchased three million doses of Pfizer's vaccine to inoculate Thai children between 6 months to 5 years old. It is worth noting that the United Kingdom's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization (JCVI) decided in February of this year to halt vaccination of children in this age group and recently decided to ban vaccination for children in the 5-year to 11-year age group in the UK.
The DDC needs to revise parental vaccine disclosures to reflect current data regarding the risks (both short-term and potentially long-term) associated with inoculating children as young as 6 months when compared to the almost non-existent risk of death from Covid among children.
The Thai DDC should take a proactive position when it comes to children's health.
They must remember that there are effective, low-cost early-stage treatments which they have consistently failed to recommend in favour of expensive late-stage Covid protocols (ventilators) that are ineffective by comparison.
Michael Setter
The big 3's opinions
Re: "Liberty for all?" (PostBag, Sept 11).
It's no surprise that PostBag's three biggest purveyors of misinformation are demanding that the Post make no effort to verify that "facts" they post are actually verifiable.
However, Mr Jellison should realise that this is not the same as "censoring opinion".
Opinion is one's personal interpretation of what they read; it does not require what they read to be factual. Everyone is entitled to their opinion.
Facts, however, are verifiable information and attempts to post misinformation masquerading as facts should be verified so that the reader can make an informed assessment of the validity of the writer's opinion.
I wouldn't advocate censorship either. But I would, for example, simply advocate the editor adding "Editor's note: There is no verifiable evidence that Ivermectin is an effective and safe treatment for Covid-19" when someone claims otherwise since this is a proven fact.
Perhaps Mr Jeillson would be happy with such a compromise?
Tarquin Chufflebottom
Blurred rationale
Re: "Tenure nonsense", (PostBag, Sept 9).
While I can understand the above writer's wish to make Prayut Chan-o-cha finally leave office, I don't quite fully understand his "post hoc ergo propter hoc" -- means "after this, therefore because of this" rationale for so doing.
Perhaps, Mr Charles can say something more on the matter and clear up things here.
Paul
Behind the times
Re: "End the vape ban", (PostBag, Sept 10) and "Ban on e-cigarettes to remain", (BP, Aug 30).
As Thailand finally catches up with the rest of the world in enforcing seat belts for back seat passengers, we hope this effort to reduce the risk and harm of people travelling in cars will see the number of deaths and injuries decrease. It's only taken us 40 years to catch up with those countries that led the way on road safety.
E-cigarettes have also been shown to reduce risks for people who currently smoke.
Can we hope the government will move more quickly to protect Thailand's 10 million smokers, or will we have to wait another 40 years for authorities to wake up?
Maris Karanyawat
Representative of Ends Cigarette Smoke Thailand (ECST)
