Docno

Why predict a maximum? That's too easy. Just take any believable number and multiply by 2, and it's unlikely you'll ever be wrong. "We predicted 50K max, and the numbers did not exceed our prediction... see how smart we are?"

If you want to be bold, predict a MINIMUM. 

2 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:

Fortunately the young are the future not the dinosaurs

Sorry, grammatical error... should be: "unfortunately, the young will become the future dinosaurs"

2 hours ago, kiwikeith said:

Most of my sons school have had Ba2, and I have had it and my wife, my son and I were unvaccinated we breezed through with hardly a snivel , my Thai wife and my friends Thai wife both double Pfizer vaccinated spent a week in bed with omicron while all us unvaxxed got hardly a sign in fact I only knew by doing a RAT test which cleared after ten days, but  I never got sick at all and I am 69. Most of the people we know have it and get over it easy.

The problems are with the elderly , obese and diabetic, the average age of death un the UK is 82.5. I am surpised BA2has not displaced BA1 in LOS as it is doing so everywhere else in the world ,and it is very mild if you healthy.

 

What people are doing now just about everywhere is not reporting it or using tracer apps, so they say the official count could be over a million infections in NZ not a few hundred thousand. Its all over and if you have had it you  will develop natural immunity. That has been pointed out in many studies available online.

Agreed. I'm vaxxed, but I caught it (probably Omicron) back in February. Was like a mild flu (i.e., I've had worse flus)... only some sniffles, scratchy throat, and some shifts in my taste (nothing bad). Took 10 days to test negative again, but for most of that time I felt perfectly fine. I'm 60. My 75 year old friend (also vaxxed) just got over it too. Symptoms even milder than mine. He tested positive Monday last week and tested negative 4 days later. He could have been walking around asymptomatic. I think there are many, many people walking around with the 'bug' without knowing it. We're all going to get it at least once ... can turn the fear down a few notches.

Central Narcotics Bureau of Singapore | News (cnb.gov.sg)
 

Well, I guess I'll be seeing more stories like these... and possibly 5 strokes of the cane

You mean Prayuth has never 'transferred' anyone out of power? 

2 hours ago, Pique Dard said:

"Secretary-General of the National Anti-Corruption Commission"

 

i want to believe what i read

Trying reading "1984" and this will make more sense... 

On 2/3/2022 at 3:05 PM, JimmyJ said:

Go Vegan!

CDC: Onion Recall Due To Salmonella Outbreak That’s Left 652 Ill (forbes.com)

3 hours ago, meltingpot2015 said:

who's seen 'falling down' the movie?

Exactly what I was thinking... 

12 hours ago, Los Luver said:

I, personally, don't think Taliban took over the control of the country against USA will. I believe, as USA knows well that Taliban still soke the power, they just allowed them that for some secret deals. Don't forget that Afganistan is close to Russia. Afganistan might become "an ally" against Russia, as before, or China...... I don't know, but certainly their takeover coudn't happen without USA's knowledge, will......

So to the actual subject, For Indonesian groups, there's no way that USA, or Australia for that matter would allow them to take over........

Think you've been watching too many movies. The simplest answer is usually the right one... not the one about powerful cabals operating in the shadows. The US had already largely pulled out of Iraq (remember how Trump betrayed the Kurds during his term). Now it was Afghanistan's turn. These were unpopular places for the US military to be because, unlike in Germany and S Korea, there was active opposition to their presence. It was just a (dumb) political decision that will have long term negative ramifications, it's true, for Russia and China. But also the US. Nobody but the Taliban win in this... 

4 hours ago, ChipButty said:

Brain dead do they honestly think tourist will put up with that <deleted> being herded around like POW's 

You have seen what Chinese tours look like, right? 

3 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Thailand’s Total COVID Case Count Now Exceeds That of China?

 

Statistics Used by the Government Say Yes, Reality Says Likely No

 

Famous American author Mark Twain once made the now well-known observation – “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.”

 

That’s probably an aphorism worth remembering today with the news, depending which source is used, that Thailand’s official tally of total COVID cases, now at 93,794, has either surpassed or soon will surpass the comparable official cumulative COVID case total from China.

......

 

Also consider the fact that Singapore, with a resident population of less than 6 million, has had 60,000 cases. It's a small, easily controlled island, technologically and bureaucratically advanced, with a fairly authoritarian government and a compliant population. Yet they still had about 2/3 the number of cases as China claims. That raises a lot of doubt about China's numbers also. On a positive note, Singapore has only had 31 deaths -- largely due to their excellent health care system and the fact that most of the 60K cases were among young, healthy foreign workers.  

6 hours ago, Soikhaonoiken said:

I wouldn't have thought many Farang are still stranded in Thailand, would have thought most Countries in the world operated a repatriation for there citizens, or allowed flights to enter over the last 12 months.. 

Supposedly, there are quite a number of Aussies stranded overseas, though I could not guess how many of them are in Thailand: 

Australian government hit with UN complaint over leaving stranded Aussies overseas (news.com.au)

Great - another use for fish sauce!

I'm not convinced that these sorts of surveys are meaningful. For example, GDP per capita: it would seem to me that it would be also important to consider how that wealth is distributed (gini coefficient), in the hands of a very wealthy few or more evenly spread. We also know that there is a point at which more wealth does not equal more happiness... the curve flattens out. I doubt that's been considered. And what about things like crime rate and personal safety. That seems to be missing. People Singapore, for example, have less political freedom than Americans (and Singapore is much further down on the list), but they don't have to worry about gun crime and a woman can walk the streets alone past midnight without fearing for her safety. So one really has to ask oneself, the people of which country truly have freedom...  

2 hours ago, Sticky Rice Balls said:

The 2nd gal looks like something is growing out of her bikini bottoms....tattoos...graffiti on a perfectly good body  (SMH)  ????

Probably to cover the c-scar from her pregnancy at age 17

In today's news: increased speed limit + consumer cannabis 

What could go wrong?

Seven years after the crime was committed. Must have been either done in the shadows or else it was very complex. Either way, it clearly required a lengthy investigation before it could be brought to trial and the verdict rendered. /sarcasm-off