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Just out of curiosity, does Thailand have any affordable options for foreigners who need some elder care, but perhaps not the intense care from a full service facility? Like a retirement community as opposed to a nursing home... My vision would be (perhaps) serving meals in a dining room, shuttles for shopping and health care visits, maid service as an option, etc. Edit: Like some other posters, I've seen elder foreigners who rarely make it out of their doorways, and that seems like a lonely life.

No. I'm suggesting that maybe people who come from different parts of the world think differently, and holding them to his standards smacks of the bwana. If you don't like Asian customs, why live in Asia?

There's a lot of people in Asia who hope that doesn't catch on. Because if it does, they're out of a job and their families will go hungry. It's their rice bowl.

Just before Covid, I had a full body (visual) screening, she froze a bunch of spots and cut out one dime sized carcinoma on my forehead for about 11,000 baht, all in including the biopsy. That was at Samitivej. Probably 2019. (Edit: She gave me the option of getting in a plastic surgeon, but I declined for my ugly mug, and there's virtually no scar anyway) A few months ago, I had a screening and a bunch of spots frozen at Bumrungrad (no cutting and no biopsy) and it was around 5,000 baht. Base price was less than 2,000 baht, but she had to spend a LOT of time on my bald, very sunburnt head. Both cases, made the appointment and got treated the same day. Contrast that to waiting 4 months to even get an dermatologist appointment in the USA and I'd suggest anyone coming to Thailand get that done while you're here.

https://www.lazada.co.th/products/15m-12v-dc-misting-pump-with-power-supply-low-pressure-fog-machine-booster-diaphragm-water-pump-sprayer-for-misting-system-i3713558094.html?spm=a2o4m.searchlist.list.12.42e256459wYUKv I added a 12V fan to mine because I was misting mushroom huts. https://www.lazada.co.th/products/12-10-12v24v-s-i3415410883-s12633501889.html Add a pre-filter for the water if you don't want to change out the nozzles regularly. They plug up with normal tap water, but they're cheap and easy to swap out. https://www.lazada.co.th/products/fast-pure-1-1-4-12-i262739853-s10057407417.html I focused on staying with 12V system because I didn't want to find any dead, electrocuted bodies after a rain or a humid night. All in, less than $100. You can do it for a lot less if you skip the fan and the filter and go with a smaller misting system. They also make very high pressure systems, but those are kind of spendy.

Seeing the absolute throngs of traffic and the amusing video of the Paiute Rangers taking care of business when some whacko protestors created a miles-long logjam on the road to get into Burning Man... I'd like to humbly propose for Thailand... Sweating Man.

Probably more than anyone wanted to know about color codes, though I'm sure the photo in the OP is a stock photo: https://geekymedics.com/blood-bottles-guide/

What's the big deal? They're glass tubes with caps. I used to go down to a packaging store in Chinatown and buy similar (but not exact) vials to make into novelty oil samples for when our home office people would come to visit. They'd come by my office and take back with them a nicely labeled sample of the oil we produced offshore. So popular, I had to make several batches. I suspect the novelty and "bad boy" appeal of these vials is one reason they'd be real popular to hold sweets. But they didn't serve my purpose because I needed something to stand upright on a shelf. If they do investigate, I hope it's just to make sure they're not filched from the medical waste bin of a hospital. (Or, God forbid, and STD clinic)

Broke and hungry people do dumb things.

I'm not going to claim to be an expert, but there's a school of thought that says if you didn't need the immune globulin, you didn't really need the vaccine, either. The vast majority of dog bites don't result in rabies. But once again, I just brought up that "expensive" rabies treatment will include rabies immune globulin. Someone else will have to chime in to educate us in why anyone should or shouldn't pay that extra money. Good info for anyone who may get bitten in the future. I had my rabies treatment around 2010 when I got tagged by a Tibetan Mastiff. Thank God it was a puppy and I was wearing winter clothes. Tibetan mastiffs kill bears. Edit: The cynical side of me tells me that if thieving insurance companies in the USA will approve the $2,000-4,000 cost of the rabies immune globulin, there must be something to it. (It's cheaper in Thailand...)

You probably didn't get the rabies immune globulin, recommended by places that don't worry about cost. The rabies vaccine itself is pretty cheap. I'll let someone else chime in with details and why you would or wouldn't want to pay the extra.

Assuming the SF Standard is correct, this will save me $45 and an hour in the clinic each trip for the ATK test required to get on a flight to China. https://sfstandard.com/2023/08/28/china-ditches-covid-test-requirement-incoming-travelers/

Except that's not what he said. He said that's the narrative that was being spun. So -- yes. I was -- the narrative that was spun to me, quite frankly, just to be -- and I remember this because, obviously, it's -- the narrative that was spun to me was that Shokin was under control and that whoever the next person that was brought in was -- you know, the fact that he was -- this is the total, this is the narrative spun to me, that Shokin being fired was a -- was not good, because he was like under control as relates to Mykola. I have no way to verify that. And that was spun to me from various folks in D.C., not Hunter specifically, but that was what I was led to believe. Whether it's true or not, I cannot speculate.". https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/08/20/greenwald_the_only_rational_conclusion_you_can_reach_is_that_news_outlets_lie_on_purpose.html

On that, we'd agree.

Hence the need for an impeachment INQUIRY. No stalling when Congress hands you a subpoena for documents or testimony.

How do I find the local Labor office? I'm in downtown Bangkok. Searched around on the net but not sure exactly what I'm looking for. Thank you for all your assistance. I'm not sure that's a good idea. If I read your posts correctly, she's not going to be your employee. She's going to be working for a service, with which you contract. The onus is on them to get her legal. They're the ones on the hook if a problem arises. I'd contact them and ask whether she can work before her WP is official. Good chance you'd throw a wrench in the works if you showed up with her and without the agency that's filled out reams of paperwork (yes, that's hyperbole) to get her where she already seems to be in the WP process. Not the same field as a Burmese domestic help, but I worked several months when I first got to Thailand before my WP was approved. Because the gub'ment agency that approves WP's in my field only meets quarterly. Technically, I suspect it was illegal, but widely accepted. It caused no problems.

Fine the beejeezus out of Facebook (or Line, or..., or...) if they fail to clean up the scams. Use the money to compensate victims.

I got nothing. But the stated purpose behind the proposed impeachment inquiry is to get documents and testimony about (among other things) the $5 million bribe alleged on the infamous FD1023. I don't care about what's been declared. Just what's been hidden. I'm pretty sure people don't report bribes on their tax returns. Nor do they report commingled funds from their son's accounts and family shell companies, said son complaining on the laptop that he pays a lot of his Dad's expenses. Biden may be clean as new snow. But I have my doubts. I suspect there was a lot of soiled blue underwear the day he bragged about getting the Uke prosecutor fired, using a billion of American money. That's gonna come back and bite him.

Do you have a link for that? Proof that Biden's income and net worth have been legitimately accounted for? Thought not... why is it that you demand links only from one side?

The first question I'd ask is the height of the balcony railing. Those of us accustomed to nanny state building codes have been sheltered from the risk of going over a low railing. Not hard to imagine someone leaning too much, like we were able to safely do back home.

Seriously? You know who coined the term Fascism? Mussolini. He was the leader of the Fascist Party. Try again.

If you do pull out your int'l credit card at (for example) Bumrungrad, the next question will be "do you want to pay in THB or USD?" Ask me how I know that... I haven't a clue what the best answer is. Fortunately, I just pick up some scripts at Bumrungrad amounting to $400 USD or so. So I don't sweat the fees. But someone may want to chime in with the right answer.

"(which did not occur)" Is that anything like "(The laptop was Russian disinformation)". You're confusing "debunked" with "squelched". Of course there was mail in voter fraud. That's been proven. What we haven't seen litigated is whether it was sufficient to sway the election. Take this "debunking" by Politifact. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/aug/14/gateway-pundit/suspected-voter-registration-irregularities-in-mic/ They have conceded that a lady, working for GBI which was hired by the Dems to get out the vote, dropped off between 8,000-10,000 suspicious ballot applications. Everyone's high-fiving each other, claiming those ballots didn't make it into the system. But what's getting lost in the celebration is that someone attempted to commit massive election fraud, and nothing happened to her, to the company that she worked for, or to the Dems who contracted with her company. Crickets, after almost 3 years. And the fact that the 8,000-10,000 that were rejected weren't all. There were other batches, and other GBI employees. Did they make it through? We don't know.

Someone help me out here. From the linked Irrawaddy article: The court suspended the sentences of all defendants except Punnaphat, who requested bail. TLHR later reported that Punnaphat was granted bail after posting 150,000 baht as security. Does that mean the sentence is suspended and they're free unless they do something wrong, or that they're released to get their affairs in order before they have to show up at the prison?

Republicans set to push mail ballots, voting methods they previously blasted as recipes for fraud What choice did they have? The problem is they're 2 election cycles behind on taking their learning lumps.