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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. 

2 hours ago, cclub75 said:

The Covid party is over. Too expensive for a country like Thailand.

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!

Put mussels and oysters on the Thai Endangered Species list.

23 minutes ago, canthai55 said:

555 - just asked Mr Google . Of course the USA has this to say !!!

"Kratom is banned by some states in the U.S. due to safety concerns."

https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-1513/kratom

Guess there you gotta wait and buy from Big Pharma !!!

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.

20 hours ago, Scrotobike said:

So many old and sick still waiting and this person gets 4 vaccines to go on holiday?

This is Thailand!

9 hours ago, webfact said:

He said that over 300,000 expats had received jabs at the vaccination centres located at MedPark, the vaccination centre at the Bang Sue Grand Station, as well as at Vimut and Bangrak hospitals.

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

12 hours ago, webfact said:

Speaking at Thursday morning’s webinar “Gearing up Thailand Economic Recovery in 2022 and Beyond” organised by the Thai Exhibition Association (TEA) and sub-headed A Brighter Outlook for Thailand’s Exhibition Industry, Mr. Montri Mahaplerkpong Secretary General of the Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) suggested it may take 8-10 years for tourism to recover. 

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

9 minutes ago, tonray said:

First up: What kind of guitar is it ? What type of bridge ?

 

Intonation typically refers to getting the proper note (neither sharp or flat) when you fret at the 12 fret because the scale repeats at the 12th. So the unfretted strings will be (standard tuning) EADGBE so at the 12th fret you should allso be getting EADGBE.

 

The three things to consider: #1) The nut...first place to start...slots must not be too deep or shallow for gauge of string

                                               #2) The bridge...once the nut is properly adjusted then the bridge should be raised or lowered and individual saddles adjusted for desired action

                                               #3) After the above then you must check for bow in the neck which can be adjusted via turning the truss rod (nut) clockwise or counter clockwise depending on degree of bow or underbow desired.

 

 After all 3 above complete....check action for dersired height of strings above the frets. Some like like it very low some higher...personal preference dictates here.

 

I'm not expecting you to be able to accomplish all this of course...but when you take it to someone...these are the things they should be addressing.

 

 

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.

10 hours ago, webfact said:

The Tourism Authority of Thailand's newest director of Asia and the south Pacific told Bangkok Business News that tourists are clearly desperate to come to Thailand.

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.

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.

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produces the vaccine from tobacco leaves.

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

8 hours ago, Thailand said:

8.5 million @ 10,000 baht each, quite a bonus?

6 hours ago, Gottfrid said:

What 10 000 baht? The normal retail price is between 20-25 usd. I guess they will pay much smaller for them, and where is the bonus?

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.