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I refer you to my quotes below.  These quotes are the only wisdom you need in today's world.

6 minutes ago, Reigntax said:

Covid is here for decades. Vaccinations and learning to live with it or lockdowns, restrictions and social and financial destruction.

but when you have the elite making the decisions with little affect on their lives, the poorer the majority become, the more they be used in the future

Colditz-19 will technically be here forever and until the end of the universe.  Mankind in all his (hers/zers/zim....insert your pronoun of choice to suit your self identified gender) wisdom and modern medical science has only ever eradicated one virus (smallpox) and that was only because the virus was not a zoological virus and shared by animals.

Colditz-19 is a zoological and can never be eradicated with current known science.

But otherwise you are correct - Colditz-19 is the current fear du jour being used by the oligarchs to control us.  Climate change wasn't working as well as they'd hoped as  a control mechanism so they used the colditz-19 event as a more tangible, immediate and imminent crisis as their weapon of fear.

Meanwhile they're ramping up efforts on climate fear and the new hatred towards energy and the powerhouse of the world's economy.  The shift away from colditz-19 fear to a heightened climate fear and energy outrage will be almost seamless.

Coldita-19 is the ultimate weapon of Pavlovian "conditioning". The "conditioned" normies that are now so fearful of colditz-19 will be easily convinced to adopt the climate fear mantra.  

Unfortunately the world is run by those that know how gullible and fearful the Pareto's 80% of the population are.  Always have and always will.

30 minutes ago, tonray said:

The buttons work as follows:

 

Yellow: I'm lost

Green: I ran out of water

Red: There's a gang of LadyBoys approaching

Are you discussing the buttons at the park or the buttons on Pattaya pedestrian crossings?

The shacks look OK to me.

I mean, give them a lick of paint and the village could be easily be passed off as  a "Ree-zort".

If these buttons work as well as the pedestrian "crossing" buttons in Pattaya, it should all go swimmingly.

6 minutes ago, soi3eddie said:

The pandemic has been very convenient for mobs in charge of many other countries too. It's not just a Thailand thing. Control, control and control the populaces into submission and into being thankful of small freedoms.

 

As Winston Churchill famously said, "Never let a good crisis go to waste".

Colditz-19 fear mania is a politicians wet-dream come true.

"The Church" was the second oldest form of business ever invented by man.  The cave witchdoctor/sharman would rattle bones or read the signs and be highly regarded by the tribe.  He didn't hunt or gather, but elicited tithe from the tribe.

Add on a few thousand years and nothing has changed.

At least the oldest profession is a little more upfront and honest.

Jeez, that's 1,428 Baht per bottle.

Johnnie Walker by the litre costs less than that and actually works.  And if it doesn't work, you don't care anyway.

As the BIB currently hold the national gambling franchise I can see why he's worried.

He'll get to know that "kicked in the goolies" feeling that former holders of McDonald's and 7/11 franchisees have felt over the last 18 months.

Meanwhile he's got his accountant busily iterating the numbers to see how they can afford to resubmit a better franchise tender assuming TAT forecasts of cash-cow tourists that aren't and won't be coming to Thailand.   Pigs, lipstick, and all that. 

I'm still laughing over the "restaurant-cum-bar".

Quite a different meaning to a "restaurant, come bar".

Another classic Asean Now headline that could be attributed to John Cleese - the headline tells the full story, no need to even read the following text.

If she walks away she will get a bad credit rating and have difficulty borrowing again - this is not necessarily a bad thing!

There will be a buyout clause in the loan contract but because it is probably a rule of 78 interest calculation, you probably won't save much.  In simple terms, the 78 rule means that the majority of the first half of the payments are only interests and the second half of the payments increasingly compose of principal.  Classic HP loan -  it ain't a mortgage.

I'd guess the buyout amount will be about 80% of the original debt.  In other words, the damage is done and from a pure cashflow perspective it's probably touch and go whether you buy the loan out or continue the payments.

Ask the bank what the buyout amount is and make a decision from there.

12 minutes ago, Millcx said:

There won’t be a sniff of tourists until Bars and Entertainment venues are open … do these people think we go on holiday for Temples ???

Governments around the globe are in denial and are confusing it with a large river in northern Africa.

They know they've overreached (because that's what they're good at) and believe the only way to retain control is to maintain control for even  longer.  If they suddenly said "whoops, back to normal guys, looks like we over reacted just a tad", their heads would roll - some politically and some in reality.

Only by drip feeding our freedoms can they eventually finish up in a stronger position than when they started.  The hidden truth that few comprehend is that this last 18 months and the next 24 months will see the biggest movement of wealth in the history of mankind.

4 minutes ago, aussiexpat said:

"Thailand’s main tourist attractions remain half empty"

 

So 90,000 "tourists" have entered this month and tourists attractions are half full? How did they handle the 3.3 Million tourists a month in 2019 if that's the case lol

They forgot to note that 90% of the tourist attractions/businesses are closed.  

3 minutes ago, Classic Ray said:

How can there have been 6.7 million tourists in 2020 when the borders were almost entirely shut during this period?

They all arrived in the 2020 high season of 2 1/2 months before they shut the doors in March 2020.

I'm waiting for the online application process to function properly.  ♾️