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Excellent article from the BBC's Nick Triggle, possibly the only journalist with a balanced, non-hysterical view of this pandemic.

Got mine last week. Very quick.

So can you explain why all the Harvard, Oxford and Cambridge professors that signed it are less credible than the "experts" wheeled out by your government? Suggest you do some fact checking of your own.

Try looking up the Great Barrington Declaration.

Yeah..........let's just swallow everything government and big business tell us without questioning it. Because they're always so straight with us, right?

Well no, it wasn't. This was back in September before it even made headline news. The automatic fraud detection must have noticed it, as it was refunded very quickly without my even knowing it had happened.

As I said above, my bank (Bangkok Bank) did flag these transactions and refunded them automatically.

In my case the bank's system did pick up the fraudulent transactions (all under 100 baht) and automatically refunded them with 2-3 days. Except for one larger amount (over 2,000 baht) which is under investigation.

Completely agree, but that contradicts your earlier post since Thailand's lower vaccination rate means you'd be much safer in the UK.

You do realise that the number of cases is totally irrelevant in an 80+% vaccinated population. Just keep cowering behind your sofa and the rest of us will get on with our lives.

In which country were you lucky enough to find clean politicians?

"The issues with the current covid-19 situation is that in many cases common sense seems to have been kneecapped in lieu of a people making ridiculous policies and requests without any in-depth critical thinking or true understanding of why, how or the consequences of such policies." Not just Thailand. That applies to just about every country in the western world.

Tell that to the people of Chaiyaphum whse city centre is under several feet of water. I'm sure they'll be comforted by the words of experts.

Those are mailboxes, not safety deposit boxes.

Does anyone know if there is a flight operating out of Phuket to Khon Kaen at the moment? I'll be there next month.

UK embassies long since ceased to be anything other than trade missions. They have repeatedly stated they will not be doing anything to help UK citizens abroad get vaccinated (unlike their Aussie, French counterparts).

Wearing a mask is a personal choice. There's no evidence it actually reduces transmission, other than possibly indoors in confined spaces. Personally I treat anything any government tells me with a healthy dose of scepticism.

Still not got it. He is giving advice to 100% of the people to avoid becoming one of the 1%.

No, he means 99% of people who end up in hospital and die from it are.

Why would it? Covid insurance is issued in Thailand.