NoshowJones

That's true, but there are lots of posters who cannot afford insurance. Assuming you live here, and you pay insurance and never have to claim, then you get older and your premiums increase or are stopped altogether. That sort of behaviour only makes expats want to self insure. There are three groups I would not trust, and not just in Thailand, that is, the medical profession, banks and insurance companies.

I am referring to tourists who come in the short term, not people who live here. I agree completely with everything you have said.

"fund his retirement"?? His offshore accounts could probably fund a dozen retirements.

"Maintain the compulsory travel insurance and have done with it." That would be okay if it only applied to tourists and only tourists, not people with re entry permits etc.

Are you calling a bunch of unelected tinpot soldiers a government. They are nothing more than a tribute act trying to be the real thing.

Why should the unelected soldiers bother about tourism? There income stream and offshore accounts will be doing very well anyway.

A song for you.

A guy with a bulging stomach who is always jogging???? Something not right about that.

Read my posts again from the beginning.

Who are "they"? Anyway, bring it on.

A definite member of the "not right in the head" brigade.

Which is what?

I do cycling every day and am around 76 Ks. My wife weighs about the same as you, but she is 5ft 9ins tall with a figure to match. At 64 Kg you must be really small. Why does your shirt have to be collared? I don't even own a shirt with collars.

Wearing shorts are unsightly on adult men, but I certainly would not condemn it.

If you are a bodybuilding, overmuscled, steroid filled monkeyman, you are going to be as unsightly as a guy with a huge belly and big titties.

I agree with you scuba, but if a guy is exercising in a park not among a crowd and covering up when finished should be OK. A guy exercising in a park is not likely to be overweight with a big belly and big titties, therefor not so unsightly. ????

I do not see anything wrong with being shirtless doing exercises in a park as long as you cover up when finished. But I say it again, being shirtless in public is one big no no.

" He is no longer wobbling around " No! sleeping around more like. ????

"Furthermore, I like the peace and quiet of a village in Scotland." That's OK if you don't mind the wind and rain battering your door and windows most of the time.

Jump on a dinghy in France then sale to England, then hitchhike up to Scotland. Easy peasy. ????

Don't go to Scotland unless you can afford very extortionate heating bills, and that doesn't mean only in winter, it means about 90% of the whole year. Days without heavy winds are also few and far between.

How many of these 6,500,000 were obese through their smoking, drinking, no exercise etc, etc lifestyle?

Yes, I mentioned it in Thailand because it was about Thailand. But you are right, the same thing happens all over the world. The pandemic has made a lot of people rich, probably in all the countries. But I'm not sure if some countries were as bad as Thailand with their unelected soldier government and their policy of whipping people of to hospital at their great expense just because they were sitting in a seat which happened to be near an infected person

Let's wait and see how much they charge for one of these sprays. Probably a case of the medical profession wanting to keep up their income stream as the pandemic is dying out a bit.

Dentists will probably have the same attitude as the medical profession in Thailand. Money, money, money. Their behaviour through the pandemic proved that, according to all the reports I have read.