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To accomplish this the media will need to stop publishing The Daily Scare Score like: COVID-19: Thailand reports 20,059 recoveries and 17,165 coronavirus cases. Those daily headline will need to disappear. And by the way - how can you one day say 20,000 cases a day (or 15,000 or 10,000 or 5,000) is the cause for lockdown - and the next day - ignore those 20,000 (or 15,000 or 10,000 or 5,000) cases a day that were used as lockdown justification and then say: "All is well! No problem anymore. Alle Alle In Come Free." Then people like me look at this and say, "You can't have it both ways and maintain public trust." Which is why we question the veracity of this entire dog and pony show as it progresses along in a rather predictable pattern. Restrictions have to be relaxed so that they can be imposed again with a new narrative like "Covid-2021 will kill us all!!!" I don't get whip-sawed back and forth with this rhetoric. I'm sorry others do. It's incredibly effective. I expect them to pull out Vaccine Passports restrictions that will allow less then 20% of the country who are double-jabbed - the New Thailand - the freedom of movement to enter public spaces (restaurants, movies, etc). Why? This administration doesn't think things through. They'll allow "freedoms" to the minority of double-jabbed and impose restrictions on the majority when the majority haven't had access to vaccinations. What will result from that particular cluster-youknowwhat. I bet they do just that. What good is unlimited power over the plebs if you can't use it? Anutin and friends won't be able to restrain themselves from pulling that dictate out too quickly. Well, imho.

The party is not over. They are just queuing up a different song for the same dance.

You can't continually stoke the fear of the public by rolling out your health ministers and academics to hype "variants", and "cases", and "future pandemics" and return to any semblance of "normal." It ain't gonna happen. One is the antithesis of the other. "New Thailand" equals "New Normal." "New Thailand" will be some abstract abortion that continues to bleed the middle and lower classes while transferring the nation's wealth to the richest and at the same time keeping a knee on the neck of the populace - pretty much forever. "New Thailand" will be a sick abstraction of what Thailand used to be which will not bode well for most average Thai citizens - well, unless you are a fan of dystopian novels, then you'll love 'new normal' and the soul-crushing repression that comes with it. Welcome to the rings Dante's paradise!

Btw, the topic of my post was - where can I buy Kratom in Chiang Mai now that it is legal. If anyone wishes to debate the legalization or moral implication of Kratom use, or your likes or dislikes - please start your own thread in General Topic. This topic is about buying Kratom in Chiang Mai. That's it. Please stay on topic. Thanks!

I'm looking for where to buy leaves and trees. Nothing else.

Put mussels and oysters on the Thai Endangered Species list.

Didn't press charges. Which is why it will happen again and again. There is no downside. Had that been farang on Thai? The outrage!

Not really.

Well then it's not for you. That's Ok. Honestly, if cannabis was made legal there would be those posting Reefer Madness videos and stating how marijuana madness leads to moral decay. Yeah, whatever. Been there, done that, no it doesn't, I don't do it here because of it's legal status. But Kratom - now legal. So.......... I just want to know where to buy the leaves and trees. It is legal.

Of course WebMD is going to present the Reefer Madness view of Kratom. I fully understand what it is and what it does. But now that it is perfectly legal - I'd like to know where to buy leaves and trees.

I understand what it is. And it grows here. Although it was illegal tree could be found even in Pattaya until recently. It's around. Gotta wait for Big Pharma? Nope. Looking for the leaves when the become available. Which they will.

So as of today, Kratom is legal to grow and buy. So let me be the first to ask the question: Where can you buy Kratom in Chiang Mai? I'm thinking Wororot Market would be one obvious place. And I'm sure as time goes on sellers will appear in Chaing Mai as this actually may be a product that helps locals make money given the crash of small businesses due to Covid. I'd also like to grow trees so it would also be nice to know where to buy Kratom saplings. I've got about 1/3 rai of unused land to produce a small cash crop for sale. Anyway - perfectly legal now - so if anyone knows where you can purchase Kratom, retail or trees, please chime in with a location. A Google Maps link would be even better.

This is Thailand!

Expats or Myanmar factory workers? I'm thinking the latter would make up the majority of that assertion.

Optimistically. Realistically? Never. Don't tell TAT.

Which is why I want someone to walk me though it. Thanks much for the talking points. A big problem is the language barrier. I was dealing with Thais who's English skills are about a good as my Thai skills, although my GF was there too. I felt between us all we could communicate. Twang (fret-buzz). "Oh, that's normal!" So maybe we can't communicate because to communicate could mean a loss of face.. I'm thinking they didn't want to talk with the farang because it's too difficult. Epiphone Les Paul.

Keep telling yourself that TAT. I've friends in the US who expressed an interest in coming to Thailand in early 2022. I explained what is involve to come though the Phuket Sandbox. I also laid out the reality of the small businesses - bars closed, entertainment closed, small business shuttered. After explaining that they just went silent. Shock I imagine. These are guys who have been here before and wanted to return to Old Normal. Well - don't kill the messenger. I doubt those folks will be planning a trip. New Normal ain't gonna be a lot of peoples cup of tea.

I bought an electric guitar online. Initially it sounded Ok (but what do I know as I'm a beginner and learning?). One of the thing I noticed though early on is that my fretted stings were significantly #sharp up and down the fretboard, even at the 12th fret. I've used multiple tuners and now have a headstock tuner as well and they all show the same. ##Fretted## notes are sharp. Open strings are spot on.. I can hear it by ear now too. I talked to a guy who I'm taking lessons from online (American overseas) and he (and others) have said it's an intonation issue and have someone who knows what they are doing check the guitar adjustment. So I just did that. Went to a guitar shop in Chiang Mai, and asked them to restring the guitar and make sure everything was set up correctly. I specifically mentioned "intonation." Picked it up today. The first thing I noticed is that I now have fret-buzz on the fretted E 6 string. I checked the fretted strings and I'm still #sharp on the fretted notes. I played it if front of the guy, the fret-buzz is obvious and he says, "Normal." Full-Stop! Ok. Let me have my guitar. Smile. Pay. Leave. So I'd like a find someone in Chiang Mai who can setup and perform maintenance on a electric guitar, preferably someone who can speak English and is willing to teach me the setup (as I'm a beginner who would like to learn) so I can do it myself. "Tamada" and "pokatee" for some Thais is perhaps different than for their farang customers. Fret buzz is not normal. Fretted strings that sound sharp have intonation issues and is not normal. I'd like to play (and learn) on a guitar that is correctly setup and maintained. I'm looking for recommendations for someone who can correctly set up the electric guitar - it's a bonus if that person can teach me to do it myself. Thanks.

First? Define "Foreigner?" Do you mean foreigners as in Burmese immigrants working for a Thai company? Ok. So you currently have about 50% of that population vaccinated. Why? The obvious - Thai corporations must not shut down or lose money. But! According to my Thai wife Burmese are getting shots first because if they don't get shots, "They will go out and make Thai people sick." So now we also know the propaganda fed to the average Thai via Thai MSM - "Don't complain about Myanmar factory and constitutions workers getting their shots first.....it protects Thais." Well of course, as well as Thai corporate revenue streams and profit margins. So great! "Foreigners country-wide are not being discriminated against when it comes to vaccinations" and then show an nice graphic showing the total number of "foreigners" who have had a shot. Impressive!!! Now dear farangs, especially out here in bum-struck Thailand. I'm not talking Muang Chiang Mai but really out in the provinces. Are 50% of the EU, UK, US, AU, NZ, RU, and elsewhere vaccinated right now? Waddayathink? Are vaccines even available. How about Chiang Rai where foreigners of European descent are routinely told, "Not for you farang. Thai first, you last." Bob's your uncle though if you are a foreigner working in a Lamphun factory. So there are foreigners and ฿฿฿Foreigners฿฿฿. You would think the former is whom the country would cater to. No no no. Expat of European decent are foreigners (little f). We inject upwards of 1M THB into the economy each year. Screw foreigners. ฿฿฿Foreigners฿฿฿ are <deleted>-poor Burmese who bring in revenues for Thai corporations and who the Thai public think are "Dirty people from Myanmar who will give you Covid-19 so they need vaccinations NOW." Well there you have it. Anutin is right! ฿฿฿Foreigners฿฿฿ are being given vaccinations. The rest of us? Well, Thailand will tell us just what our own countries tell us - "<deleted> off."

"A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude." -Aldous Huxley, A Brave New World

One check point about 20 km south of Lamphun on HW 11. Manned but seldom operational. One check point at the HW 11/HW121 interchange. Again, manned but seldom operational. If you have CM or Lamphun plates (if you are a resident) you won't be stopped. No idea south of Lamphun.

So while you're waiting, break out the snuff.

Do the math. 1 billion divided by 8.5 million. About 118 THB each.

There are Covid checkpoints up here in the north but more often than not there are just a handful of RTP sitting at a table watching the traffic drive by. Typical RTP checkpoint. Occasionally they check, most of the time they don't.

Just being Captain Obvious, but if this guy is on a retirement visa that his wife just blew up, then why not just reapply for an extension based on marriage? Then there are no restrictions on the bank funds other than seasoning 400,000 THB.