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Worked as a chef for many years and one problem with some pots and pans that has tubular handles , is that as time passes the welding's are broken and it will let in water after cleaning them and the handle get even hotter since the water starts to boil in the handle. Especially if you cook on gas, where the excess heat goes out and up to the handle. Normally that's not an issue in a restaurant kitchen since we know stuff are hot ???? My favorite pans are good old fashioned iron pans due to their excellent heat distribution capabilities and if you handle them well and treat them correctly, they last forever. They works tons better than all sorts of popular non stick super high tech space age engineered pans, and preparing your food on iron pans actually adds iron to your food. So if you need iron in your dietary , an iron pan can supplement your daily intake.. Some of my favorite pans are from a French manufacturer De buyer, but the price is off course more expensive.

It's 246,459 per million which makes is approx 16,5 million tests in total. That's still a very low number for such a huge population if you compare them to the country that test most in the world. Denmark test roughly 80 x more than Thailand. Some truths can be found in between the lines if you look at Active cases/critical, serious cases. Denmark has 521.237 cases but only 33 serious cases! Thailand has 83.936 cases but a staggering 588 serious cases which tells me their active cases are way way higher than the daily numbers report. I think we're looking at several hundred thousands positive cases per day in Thailand and not 8000 as they publish. But not all bad for Thailand. When we look at deaths pr million Thailand ranks 91th in the world Denmark is 116th so Thailand did better on deaths, which is a good thing.

I will never travel to a country that requires test on arrival. A colleague friends went to thailand this week. Negative on arrival but 1 positive on day 4. Bye bye vacation and the worst part is that when you do test positive on day 4, you might have caught covid in Thailand and not prior to flight. So until Thailand scraps test on arrival (and face masks outdoors) i'm finding other places to spend my money.

If Thailand are so afraid, the should look towards Denmark, UK, Ireland, Holland that lift most restrictions if not all. Other euro countries are easing restrictions too even if omicron cases are not decreasing. Here in Denmark we had 500.000 positive cases in the last 14 days amongst 2.5-3 million PCR tests. 40 people are in ICU and it's estimated that 30-40% of all those in hospital with registered omicron is admitted for something else than omicron. Denmark removes all restrictions in 4 days.

Hopefully the authorities are not arguing which branch are responsible, just like on Samui 7 or so years ago, that seem to delay the whole process. It was nasty to walk on Chaweng and Lamai. Oil stains all over the feet, which were quite hard to wash off.

Yeah and their boosters are not that impressive. Neither is Japans, but i assume that's because they had less infections so boosters started later? https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-vaccine-booster-doses-per-capita?country=DNK~GBR~USA~IRL~NLD~JPN

Denmark, Holland, Ireland and UK are dropping most if not all restrictions and if we look at the admissions in ICU it makes perfect sense. USA on the other hand looks like a country where lifting restrictions wouldn't be a good idea and finally it seems like Japan are having a curve that increases. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-icu-patients-per-million?time=2021-12-14..latest&country=DNK~GBR~IRL~NLD~USA~JPN

Just saying it's not unusual to use young and healthy individuals in phase 1 and 2.

Maybe they are doing a phase 1 and 2 first, and then in phase 3 letting in some elderly? https://www.healthline.com/health-news/older-adults-are-more-at-risk-for-covid-19-so-why-dont-vaccine-trials-include-them#The-state-of-COVID-19-vaccine-trials

Here in Denmark we made masks mandatory in all public transport, while shopping, inside government buildings etc etc November 29 2021. Didn't seem like Omicron cared much for that. The Danish government just announced that they are dropping all restrictions from next week, even if we still haven't starting seeing a decrease. They actually expect it to keep rising in February as well, before it start to decrease. We had almost 500,000 positive cases the last 14 days. (5,8 mill pop in DK) We have 40 people in ICU today. Omicron changed the game plan and now it's time to live with this virus as a normal disease.

One can claim you extract the flowers from the plant and that the drying is a process. I wouldn't bet my money on legal cannabis as we know it just yet. Not that i care, since i don't smoke cannabis, but i know some others that wouldn't mind if it was legal to smoke it. Can't see why people shouldn't be allowed to smoke their weed, but it would be nice if they didn't make it legal to smoke in public places. Can't stand the smell.

No charade. Just a new variant that cause less problems so we can treat it like an ordinary virus, that is not a critical threat to society. No reason to say it's like the truth had been hidden or such. It's a virus that caused a lot of problems and needed to be dealt with. Now we're just lucky to have to the omicron variant that cause less problems.

As for the BA.2 mutation i wouldn't be too worried It's dominant in Denmark and we lift all restrictions next week if all goes well. Even if we still have 40k positive per day.

It's not that messy. I can still see the floor tiles ????

Yeah that's the biggest issue we have too. Lack of people on the jobs since many are in isolation. Many of them have no symptoms but have to stay home since they are positive. Isolating rules are also being changed in many countries. Shorter isolation periods are on the drawing board.

I'm not talking about deliberately trying to get infected. I also warned about that in other threads weeks ago. I'm talking about it is time to move on now when we finally have a variant that cause less problems. We have a chance of getting delta out of the way. Get the vaccination and you are almost 100% sure not to die from omicron unless you are old or have other underlying conditions. You might take a look at what many euro countries are doing at the moment. They are lifting some restrictions in the middle of the omicron outbreak and not the other way around.

Countries that try to keep omicron away will just prolong the pandemic. Might as well just get it over with and let omicron gain control worldwide, so Delta can become history. WHO also today told about the BA.2 mutation spreading. Not much to worry about as far as i can tell. It's dominant in Denmark now and are not causing any more problems than BA.1 so far. Reinfections could be the worst issue. i think we have seen enough data to realize that omicron is so much "better" to have in circulation compared to delta, so i don't understand why countries still try to prevent the spread.

Omicron also turned the tide. Here in Denmark we still have more than 40,000 positive cases a day (46590 today) which is quite a lot in 5,8 mill country. However the prime minister has planned a press meeting for tomorrow and the press expect that she will lift most if not all restrictions from next week. So seems like Omicron did what we all hoped it would do. Mass infections, but nothing to serious and hospitals are not crashing, so we can return to normal, even if we are not even close to seeing the numbers decreasing. If we lift all restrictions i assume we will still see some high numbers for about 3-4 weeks before it start to drastically drop. We'll see. Denmark started to release data from the hospitals last month, so we weekly can se how many are admitted because of covid and how many are admitted with something else, but tested positive on/after arrival. Some regions has almost 50/50 admitted, so the ones that are being admitted and needs treatment only because of Omicron, are actually a lot lower than the released numbers showed before. Not saying that is perfect, because it's still a bad thing for those in ICU, but it's good news for the overall population. So seems like we're in for a spring/summer/fall with 0 restrictions what so ever, unless something goes terribly wrong or a new stupid mutation emerges. If no other variants emerge, we should be able to go through next winter with 0 restrictions, since Pfizer will have released their Omicron vaccine, so things are not looking to bad atm. Personally i expect more variants, i just hope they can't beat Omicron. Cheers for that. Hopefully this will be the last year with massive restrictions worldwide. We need to get back to living our normal lives. We all deserve that after having struggled with this for 2 years.

When i look at the videos from Bangla road Patong this weekend, it's seems like it's onny 50% or so that walk around with a mask. I'm amazed to see how busy it actually is ????

China is a bit hard to compare when it comes to success in COVID control vs economics. Their released numbers of positive COVID cases are a huge joke, so we have no idea how well they managed the pandemic.

That's quite amazing since i know how good karaage don and gyoza taste. Could eat that all day long, but it would not make me lose weight ????

Could you compare economics as well? I know we are better off than before covid 19 here in Denmark even if we had way higher deaths per million than Asia. Our national debts to GDP has not been as low since 2009. We are having lower unemployment rates compared to 2019. 2.8% now and 3.7% in 2019. We had the biggest economical growth in 27 years which is now threatened by the lack of workforce. I know Sweden and Norway did good economically and USA actually did quite good too. How did Asia do financially? Did their lower rates of deaths come with a financial consequence for the hundred of millions of people?

When it is a holiday here in DK we get fully paid for that day of work. If we work on a holiday we get double or triple payment depending which company we work for. Same in Thailand or is it a day off with no income?

Cannabis sandbox? I think every island in Thailand already has their own cannabis sandbox. When i first visited Thailand i was surprised to see how easy it was get cannabis. They didn't even try and hide it while smoking in bars at the beaches and such. If you could find a bar with a reggae flag you could be sure you could find it there. Don't smoke myself and didn't care of people smoked, even if i hate the smell. I just thought it was weird, since i thought Thailand had some very strict rules. Personally as a non smoker i think it's ok to lift the ban on cannabis worldwide. Might as well have the governments worldwide tax it and make some money from it. It's just stupid as it is now that cannabis are "tolerated" in so many countries, but the revenue end in the hands of criminals. The war on cannabis has been lost for decades by now and no reason to spend so much money on fighting a lost war. Just make sure it's strictly forbidden to drive while under the influence of cannabis.

Also important to note they haven't looged any deaths to Omicron so far.