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1 minute ago, mommysboy said:Difficult to believe the heavy smoking hasn't damaged your lungs! Can you run a couple of Kms?
Still, made it this far and still going.
Firstly, who in their right minds wants to run a couple of kilometres? I don't exercise beyond a couple of rounds of golf a week and private nocturnal exercise.
Don't want to sound flippant, but I'm blessed with good genes. I come from a long line of long living relatives on both sides, and my three much older sisters are still playing golf well into their eighties. The youngest at 81 got her 4th hole in one before Christmas.
And when asked about the age difference between myself and my youngish wife, I simply reply "well if she dies, she dies".
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Some people, any excuse to throw a sickie.
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12 minutes ago, rott said:
I think you are wrong here, he described your post as b/s. He was commenting on the quality of your statement, not on the quality of you as an individual.
You would have been reasonably correct until circa 2015.
In today's brave new world, criticizing someone's opinion is the same as criticizing them personally, and only one step below genocide - although I believe the Intersectionalists are working on rearranging the batting order.
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10 minutes ago, steven100 said:heavy smoker and drinker and infected with the Covid19 virus ....... should you go to the hospital and get a full medical check up and PCR tested.
I could give you a long answer revolving around personal sovereignty, personal responsibility, common sense, and real world observations, but as today I have to find a tax loophole that needs
buryingresolving, I haven't got the time.The short answers therefore: Well, as my hair wasn't on fire and my many employment related personality tests reveal that I score extremely low for paranoia, I weighed up all the available factors and (gulp) decided to take my life in my hands.
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53 minutes ago, Cake Monster said:
And that, is the whole issue with the Omicron Variant.
The numbers getting sick are huge, and of those, only a small percentage will probably need Hospital Care.
However, that mall percentage will probably be enough people to overwhelm the Health Care Services in many Countries.
Of the 600 people you say with a serious problem in Thailand, in 2 Days time that number could well be 1200, and in 4 Days 2400 such is the speed at which Omicron transmits.
There are some studies that suggest the infection rates have been 3/1 for the original, 6/1 for Delta, and 8-10/1 for Omiwan.
Doing simple math: 10/100/1000/10000/100,000/1000,000/10,000,000/100,000,000/1,000,000,000/10,000,000,000 it would appear the entire populations of Earth, Mars, and Uranus were potentially infected within about ten days. Possibly even the entire known universe!
Disclaimer: I'm apparently a blue collar anti vaxxer (with Pfizer in my T-Cells) so you should bare this in mind when fact checking me.
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4 minutes ago, KhunLA said:"....take immediate action and fine tourists"
There's a sale booster if I ever read one .... ????
Business planning is not their strongest suit.
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Yeah sorry Kuhn Tourist, you can't get on the boat unless you're wearing a mask. What? Nuh, you don't need a life jacket. Life jackets are useless against Covid.
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11 minutes ago, itsari said:
You may of been more pleased had you not been vaccinated .
Valuable to read of peoples experience.
Actually, I strongly suspect I contracted the original strain back in February 2020 but there was no testing as the propaganda had only just begun. Similar overall effects although I did suffer some loss of taste - even vegemite was tasteless.
It could have been a Cold or mild influenza, but as I'd been frequenting gogo bars packed to the gunnels with Wuhanians in the previous month, I suspect it was the Big C (as opposed to the little c - cancer).
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Every civilization's demise begins with cognitive overload.
You heard it here first.
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If only the government could find a way to recycle these oft-revised meaningless plans there would never be a shortage of toilet paper.
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And I bet nobody is following the money.
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1 minute ago, Bkk Brian said:
What they did not make clear is that a rapid test identifies a covid infection but cannot distinguish which variant it is. To discover the variant a PCR test can identify the Omicron variant via a drop out S gene, although a full sequence confirms it.
Because a Thai with English as a second language does not fully comprehend the fine distinction between the meaning of the words "detect" and "distinguish".
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3 minutes ago, bdenner said:
I'm thinking I would do the same thing! Can I just ask your general age bracket?
Just entering late puberty at 61. Heavy smoker and drinker, perfect blood pressure and cholesterol, take no medication for anything whatsoever and never have done.
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Umm.....so if the official word is that all current kits can't detect OmiwanKinobee, why are all the numptees running around testing everyone when a negative result could be Omiwan positive?
And by implication, if one tests positive on a test does that mean that one must have Alpha or Delta?
This is as bad as a pre-pubescent girl shopping for tampons and her first eye liner - spoilt for choice, too many brands, too many colors, too little or too much absorbency., and what's the piece of string for Mum?
Oh the dilemma of it all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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7 minutes ago, steven100 said:you got Covid and you didn't tell anyone ?
I've informed The International Association of Nosophobics. They were very sympathetic.
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4 hours ago, Ralf001 said:Friend was over for beers yesterday afternoon and he said massage shops were being closed again from Today.
Anyone heard about this ?
That would seem to be the next step. Followed by closure of restaurants except to takeaways.
Government officials like to "reset" things back to their last known position of maximum power and authority, a bit like system restore on Windows
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Fully expected this to happen. You can kiss away any entertainment to be sanctioned for opening until June, and that may be wishful thinking. Thailand is now on a full-throttle downward dive into oblivion.
I got covid on New Years Eve after getting the Pfizer jabs last year. Don't know what flavor because I self tested, not wanting to end up in a Gulag (or even a Stalag) by being officially tested by the local Commissars.
Anyway, I've done the right thing and stayed home like a good little Comrade and done my best to prevent myself from initiating the destruction of mankind.
Now day 5 or 6, a runny nose, the odd sneeze, healthy appetite, and restful unbroken sleep. If I had to rate it against my worst case of influenza in about 1995 that laid me up for a fortnight and I lost 15kg in weight, the covid I'm experiencing doesn't even rate as a mild Cold. I'm actually disappointed.
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The OP is better off buying a bridge.
Bridges invariably have a greater ROI than property and have a better depreciation rate for tax deductibility purposes.
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Planting a feather will not grow a chicken.
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14 minutes ago, robblok said:
n 2019, the share of those employed in the government sector varied among the Member States, with the highest proportions observed in Sweden (29 % of total employment), Denmark (28 %), Finland (24 %), Croatia and Estonia (both 23 %) and the lowest in Germany (11 %), the Netherlands and Luxembourg (both 12 %), Italy (13 %) and Portugal (14 %).
Do pull some more numbers out of your ass, like most blue collar guys do talk without real numbers. And look at the standard of living on Sweden and Denmark and Finland. Seems high goverment employment does not do the harm your talking about.
A bureaucrat in your former existence by any chance?
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3 minutes ago, robblok said:
It would take some time to notice but you would. Rules and regulation taxes and stuff are needed. Its why civilization progressed, the uninformed always make remarks like yours. Usually people who are technical. Point is we all need each other while i certainly agree that some bureaucrats do useless work that is mainly in countries like this with high levels of corruption.
People seem to forget (again cant blame the technical guys they dont know any better) that people controlling stock of stuff are also bureaucrats and without it you can forget buying stuff at all international trade would stop. Just too much too mention atually.
Mankind has not yet invented a successful practice, process, or procedure that a government official cannot quickly ruin through incessant and unnecessary regulation and taxation.
Government ideology is now on a par with the worst of any religious orthodoxy. The Spanish Inquisition comes to mind.
But (in the west) when circa 35% of the working population are employed directly by government and another 35% are beholden to government for welfare and foodstamps, us remaining half dozen net taxpayers get a bit peeved.
There's a reason why governments are kept well away from the production of beer.
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The lunacy around the world will continue indefinitely.
Normally it takes the world's bureaucrats two years to progressively screw something up, a year of treading water defending their indefensible stupidity hoping we'll all forget the details, and then a further two years of unwinding their stupidity while they have wet dreams about the next crisis they can create.
In the meantime a perfect storm of disasters is on the horizon and any two of them eventuating may change their goals as they will be more lucrative.
Taiwan/China, Russia/Ukraine, Israel/Iran, imminent global crash of financial markets that will make the Great Depression look like a walk in the park, the Queen of England meeting her maker and the potential English Revolution in the following years, and the left wing media realising they need to change sides as leftism suddenly loses it's de rigueur status.
So to answer the OP's question, cloudy with a chance of meatballs.
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13 minutes ago, hotchilli said:The final nail has just been driven in.
I'm not really that worried. Chonburi will run out of test kits by
ThursdayWednesday.Because of course, they did research into the availability and logistical supply of the kits, projected the potential usage and alerted the logistics supply chain of their forecasts to ensure a continual and uninterrupted supply.
It should all go swimmingly.
I don't think "failing to plan is planning to fail" ever crosses their mind.
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Phuket hotels desperate as "insured" foreign tourists with Covid denied coverage, refuse to go to hospital - "Hospitel" shortage admitted
in Phuket News
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Somebody should explain Chaos Theory and The Butterfly Effect to the Thai government, and that both theories are warnings, not instruction manuals.
Chaos theory is an interdisciplinary scientific theory and branch of mathematics focused on underlying patterns and deterministic laws highly sensitive to initial conditions in dynamical systems that were thought to have completely random states of disorder and irregularities. Chaos theory states that within the apparent randomness of chaotic complex systems, there are underlying patterns, interconnectedness, constant feedback loops, repetition, self-similarity, fractals, and self-organization.
The butterfly effect, an underlying principle of chaos, describes how a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state (meaning that there is sensitive dependence on initial conditions). A metaphor for this behavior is that a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil can cause a tornado in Texas.
Thailand can certainly be described as a deterministic nonlinear system - I think?