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The 14 drinks for men as healthy advice is for middle aged, or older men; for younger beings it's not a health advice, but a limit not to spoil both yone's body and life, according to health studies and the qualified experts.

For the healthy parts it's not only red wine that is recommended, some studies found beer equally healthy, and other concluded that the alcohol is the major healthy part, even several sorts of red wine includes the healthy resveratrol.

Like everything else in life, it seems to be a question of balance...

Of course you can enjoy the benefits of maturing, and being told that one or two glass of wine (or beer) with the dinner is healthy - personally I'm religious enough to believe in it - but I also don't think that it's directly unhealthy for younger beings. However, partying every week end and getting stoned with hangover next day is a different matter, I can easily get the impression that it might be quite unhealthy.

A difficult part about enjoying a glass of something that includes alcohol is, as it often is to almost everything in life, not to get addicted...????

In my modest opinion; with timely care he should have been able to return to China in due time before everything closed, and do an entry-isolation, just like many citizens from numerous countries did it.

It's amazing how Danes cannot take responsibility themselves, it's often somebody else's fault.

“We thought that if we became infected with covid-19, we would be able to isolate ourselves in the hotel room. There was no mention of any hospital stay. We got the impression from TUI that it was safe to come..."

Today with Internet and Google – and not to forget many great online forums like ASEAN NOW, where you can ask questions, including a number of Danish language Facebook-groups about travelling to Thailand – it's really easy to find information. The family in question could easily know the risk they took by travelling to Thailand during a pandemic.

I know that several fellow Danes have same opinion that me, we think the often Social Democrat Danish government, cares too much about it's citizens, and take too much independent responsibility away from them.

It's always bad to get a holiday spoiled. However, I'm sorry to say that I have no sympathy with this family, and even think they should not use the media to complain, it's purely their own fault that they didn't check upon rules before travelling.

If a NGO wants transparency of Thailand, they shall shall of course be transparent themselves. I think many countries are like my home country, and demand open books of financial sources over a certain minimum, which is relative quite low; and I think that is fair, even very fair.

When I read this in the article...

Thailand is still tolerant of the presence of NGOs, especially foreign NGOs of all creeds, but it will not tolerate those who advocate for the ongoing campaign for reform of the royal institutional, which it considers an internal matter.

–I think about how my very democratic and open minded Danish home country – with a wide toleration for freedom of speech – would react, if a foreign NGO is advocating against our royal institution. I'm pretty certain that the Danes – both population and government – wouldn't be happy, In general Danes don't like foreigners to tell them, how they shall handle internal matters. Why shall Thailand – and other nations – be different?

Haad Rin Queen sails from Bang Rak (Big Buddha Pier) to Haad Rin daily, at the moment operated by speed boat...

A timetable showing all rutes - apart from Haad Rin Queen, all rutes land at Thongsala - however Seatran Discovery might not sail at the moment, and Lomprayah departs from Bang Rak (almost nest to Haad Rin Queen's pier)...

1 hour ago, ubonjoe said:

That depends upon when the OA visa was issued. Those issued prior to October 1st only need the 40/400k baht insurance and the covid insurance.

That's why I said "the new rule"...????

2 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

I would not refer to that as expert advice. 

So someone for example with a valid non O-A who will be stamped in for 12 months will buy a 12 month insurance cover. Nup

O-A visa holders anyway need a 12-month health insurance to enter, and the new rule is a health cover equivalent to $100,000 - not only $50,000 - including Covid-19-cover.

Haven't been dining out of home since Omicron - there are too delicious gourmet food in the house - so I've not even considered the risk. I probably would act as normal under the present situation, but how I'll act next year, only the gods know at this time, so I havn't cast any vote...????

Have you contacted the bank to where you forwarded the deposit..?

22 hours ago, RandolphGB said:

How long should the policy be for ex-pats returning to Thailand  who are resident here?

 

It's pretty clear for tourists - the length of their holiday. But no guidance on policy length for those returning to Thailand long-term.

In principle - based on expert replies in ASEAN NOW-forums - your insurance shall cover your stay, i.e. until the end of your extension of stay, as that will be the date in your entry-stamp. However, I know some expats have entered on Phuket with a 30-day insurance and were let in without any comments...????

On 12/30/2021 at 12:43 AM, Crossy said:

Sooo, where does one get an ATK, what's the process?

 

Easy eh? 

The salvie test is the most easy one, but convenience is also little more expensive, something like 20 baht. You'll have a reply in about 10 minutes for both test methods, saliva or swab.

Where I live you can get ATK everywhere, like 7-Eleven, Family Mart, Mini BigC and Mr. DIY. Pharmacies might however be a first choice and might also be little cheaper - they are where I live - prices range from just over 100 baht up to around horrible 150 baht for a saliva ATK test; however I live on an island, so it's likely little cheaper prices on the mainland. We. my whole household, were forced to a an ATK weekly due to school demand, only kids from negative homes were allowed to enter the school...????

22 hours ago, Chris.B said:

Is it safe to have the boosters 3 months after the 2nd vaccine?

For most people it seems to be, but for a qualified reply you need to consult a pro experts, for example a doctor, and reveal you health story.

I got a Pfizer booster the 25th, three month after my second AZ-jab - both earlier jabs were AZ - and I'm still here. However, I had no side effects at all from the previous AZ-jabs, while I got tired and like worn out the day after the Pfizer booster, and my shoulder hurt this time. I luckily survived what appeared to be just like the beginning of a serious "man flu", so perhaps it's not as safe as waiting for longer time, but I will any time prefer something that appears like a horrible "man flu" for one day, rather than being critical ill from Covid-19...????????

9 hours ago, webfact said:

BANGKOK, Dec 29 (TNA) – A renowned virologist predicts Omicron will be the dominant variant of COVID-19 worldwide in a few months and Thailand may face its 5 th  wave of the disease after the New Year holiday.

5th wave? And I thought that we are still in the 3rd wave that started in April, I haven't seen any news about the 3rd wave ended, and a new 4th wave has began...????

49 minutes ago, The Hammer2021 said:

We have paid income tax before we come here. Our families  have been paying income tax for generations. Depending on our circumstances  we still pay income tax when living abroad. I pay income tax. People expect  so little from their governments so they get  nothing. Regarding Denmark: in the 70s it was famous for the support it gave its citizens when in distress abroad. Whatever the current protocols are I still  regard it as shamefull that a badly injured young woman is given no assistance  from our overpaid  and underworked diplomatic service. I have met these people often in Iran, Kuwait, Libya,Spain  and Burma and they are consistently  out of touch with the needs of people and consistently  drawn from the same selfish, elite, upper class Eton and Harrow political  elite. Common  decency and mercy  should be applied to this poor girl and other cases but I guess that is too much to expect from the highly paid, tax free  all expenses paid diplomatic  set.

Diplomats - no matter what elite class or not they may originate from - are just employed officials that shall work correctly in accordance with the rules made by the politicians that a democratic majority of a nation's people have elected to represent them.

In my home country a majority of the population have no interest in the minority that voluntary decides to move abroad, temporary or permanently; only those working for the community - diplomats and expatriates working in the country's companies foreign branches, or onboard ships and airplanes - are cared for.

In most countries it's the present tax payers that pays. It's not like my home country's government has put some of my tax-money aside to cover me "just in case", even I may have paid more in taxes than I got back. Tax works like an insurance, even you have no claims you get nothing back apart from perhaps a little bonus on next premium, and when you stop paying the fess - i.e. contributing to the community via taxes - you insurance is void.

The taxes we expats for example still pays of retirement pension, are old debt. Government pensions are often taxed in the country that pays the pension, which is fair enough, it's not our money, it's a pure benefit paid by the other tax payers at home. In my home country you can compare government retirement pension as support to poor people that didn't saved enough money up themselves, in fact that is exactly what theoretically is it. For our private pensions coming from a home country we often got a tax deduction when saving up, so that's just old tax debt we pay back now, when cashing the pension.

If we don't like that way, we have the excellent free choice to stay home...????

29th December

Samui +12 new cases 

(Bophut 6, Maenam 5, Ang Thong 1)
Phangan +3 new cases

Koh Tao, no data

Source: Kohmui.com

43 minutes ago, The Hammer2021 said:

Some help of some sort should be offered. It's a disgrace to the highly paid diplomatic  corp that UK citizens, tax payers whose taxes pay their salaries that they  do nothing whilst sick, distressed people have to beg publicly on the world stage.

When living and working abroad, you pay income tax abroad - the common 180-days rule for tax residency - we Danes for example, are the heaviest taxed population in the whole World, and we get next to nothing in return if we move out; and if staying home we don't get much either...

On 12/28/2021 at 5:28 AM, RafPinto said:

She is 40 and works as a branch manager for a local bank.

He thinks that she might earn 70-80k a month.

70k to 80k baht per month sound very correct...

Full artivle here...

19 hours ago, JackGats said:

"A three-dose course of the Pfizer or Moderna mRNA vaccines is said to be 10 times more effective than a three-dose course of AstraZeneca."

 

"Is said to be", exactly. Says the media (and everybody else):

 

Chinese and Russian vaccines = worthless

European vaccine (Astra Zeneca) = average

US vaccines (Pfizer & Moderna) = very good

 

The Pfizer vaccine is so good that Israel will soon have administered 4 of it already.

Apart from Pfizer's vaccine is European, developed by German BioNTech...????
Pfizer by the way, was established by two German migrants.

28th December

Samui +11 new cases 
Phangan, +1 new case

Koh Tao, no new cases

Source: Kosamuilife.com