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On 7/15/2022 at 12:39 PM, John Drake said:
It may make a difference when the 300 is divided up into various destinations, especially on a mass scale. But for two Americans coming here, they will see "tourism fee" and that it costs both together about $16 and disregard it. What do I hope to come from this? The dismissing of those high profile stories about a tourist in the hospital with multiple hip, leg, and arm fractures and complaints about Thai hospitals paying for it. Now, it's "covered" according to their own rules. If the patient doesn't "pay," it's the system's fault, not the foreigner's. Heck I wouldn't mind if they made the idea applicable to year long extensions. Tack on another 3600 baht in "insurance" to the 1900 baht for extensions and leave us to fund the balance of our medical care as we see fit.
Yes and what about the people like myself who already pay thousands of dollars a year for full international health care for myself and family? I also wnter and exit Thailand monthly so 1800 baht a year for me for a useless "insurance" i wouldnt use anyway. Im not dirty on the 300 baht but i am dirty on it tjos blanket approach where people who may already have insurance are getting rorted for zero reason. Absoulutely no reason why it should apply to every traveller. If the logistics of finding out if people are insured or not is too difficult there should be no levy at all
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On 7/11/2022 at 6:38 PM, Bangkok Barry said:
I have a colleague in the UK who makes annual business trips to Australia. His wife forbids him from stopping over in Bangkok. Ask people in the street what the first things are that come to mind when Thailand is mentioned, and I'm sure that most would say ladyboys and prostitutes.
Not necessarily in that order. Lol
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How is vaping more accessible to "the youth" than some rolling papers or a bamboo bong? Maybe an orchy bottle if you want to get fancy (orchy reference for the more mature Australian audience) ????????????????. Note this is not a traditional orchy but from the much later "gatorade" era of Hubbly bubbly smoke machine production.
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Nice statement . All they forgot was any semblence of detail. How they plan to achieve this. The when and the how. But these are unimportant as it was in the gazette so it's sure to happen. ????????????
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Another great thread Britman. I remember years ago when I was way more invested in my horticulture lol there used to be some excellent cloning gels around that for me at least had a very high success rate.
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4 hours ago, sawadee1947 said:Yeah, Thai Airways should start charter flights from all over the world.
Hordes of farangs expected ????
With that sort of foresight you could get a job with TAT ????????????
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If you can't beat them earn off them. Or something like that.
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Kratom? Practically EVERYWHERE... kava a little bit harder
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If you are going to "play up" your much better off in Udon or Khon Kaen imo. Not much happening in Nong Khai mate.
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8 minutes ago, LukKrueng said:
So true. Also alcohol free society, sugar free society, out-of-marriage-sex free society, salt free society. Did I leave something out?
Face uncovered in public? Neck to ankle covering?
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Can we compare vaping deaths to say nicotine use?
And whilst on this subject can we compare cannabis vaping to nicotine vaping.
Could we also comment on cannabis vaping suddenly grown in "popularity" when vapes are still illegal and cannabis has only become "legal" in the past few weeks...and why does cannabis oil have a much higher level of thc than a cannabis joint whilst a contradictory "news thread" on this same forum says vaping cannabis is easier to moderate due to the different "burning " temperatures of different vapes?
Yadda yadda yadda total bs boring reefer madness contradictory rubbish
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18 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:"680 000 [480 000−1.0 million] people died of HIV-related illnesses worldwide in 2020."
https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/indicators/indicator-details/GHO/number-of-deaths-due-to-hiv-aids
Covid worldwide killed more than 1.88 million in 2020 and another 3.56 million in 2021.
Never let facts get in the way of a good off topic diversion/deflection.
Yeah a million people every year for decades thats what I said glad you agree with me. Why aren't we talking about that? 40 million is that what you consider a "deflection"
Boring me now, enjoy your life. Still don't agree with you. I could talk about especially in the US how covid was pretty much wiping out all the old, morbidly obese, multi co-morbidity people that were just a hair away from death anyway but what would be the point? Here's one for you I don't give a tinkers how many die from covid. How's that?
I fear nothing especially death on a long enough time line we all going there and if covid is how I go, so be it. Millions dying every year mate accept it.
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7 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:HIV is nowhere in the top 10 causes of death in the U.S. for 2021 as shown in the CDC chart above. So presumably its current number is even lower than those various causes listed as the top 10.
Lol back to the US again. So stop quoting global covid deaths.
You like global figures so I'm giving them to you. Or you want to change the debate now it doesn't suit your narrative?
Actually once covid hits 40 odd million deaths get back to me and we can compare apples and apples.
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7 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:In most first world countries such as the U.S. that I'm familiar with, COVID deaths have far outnumbered flu deaths... not even a close comparison. The typical annual flu deaths number for the U.S. is in the tens of thousands, not the hundreds of thousands as with COVID.
"COVID-19, listed as the underlying cause in 415,399 deaths during 2021, ranked as the third leading underlying cause of death after heart disease (693,021 deaths) and cancer (604,553 deaths) (Figure 2).
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Influenza and pneumonia, which was the ninth leading cause of death in 2020 (53,544 deaths), dropped out of the 10 leading causes in 2021 (41,835 deaths).
Cherry picking data? You want to use global figures for covid and US statistics for flu? Lol. More importantly I just don't agree with you. Get over it. As I said HIV killed over 40 million still killing a million a year for decades why aren't you talking about that every day?
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14 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:
According to Our World in Data, the world has had about 6.36 million "official" COVID deaths, which are widely considered a considerable undercount to reality, since the start of the pandemic, broken out as follows:
2020 from late January on had about 1.88 million COVID deaths
COVID vaccines first became available to some areas in late 2020
2021 had about 3.56 million COVID deaths
2022 thru July 13 has had about 920,000 COVID deaths
In contrast, some recent research projected that the rollout of COVID vaccines worldwide just during 2021 only saved an estimated 14 - 20 million lives who otherwise would have died from COVID:
COVID-19 vaccines saved nearly 20 million lives in a year, study says
Nearly 20 million lives were saved by COVID-19 vaccines during their first year, but even more deaths could have been prevented if international targets for the shots had been reached, researchers reported Thursday.
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The researchers used data from 185 countries to estimate that vaccines prevented 4.2 million COVID-19 deaths in India, 1.9 million in the United States, 1 million in Brazil, 631,000 in France and 507,000 in the United Kingdom.
...The main finding — 19.8 million COVID-19 deaths were prevented — is based on estimates of how many more deaths than usual occurred during the time period. Using only reported COVID-19 deaths, the same model yielded 14.4 million deaths averted by vaccines.
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-19-vaccine-saved-nearly-20-million-lives-in-a-year-study-says/
Yep agrees with what I said the post I quoted seemed to be alluding to millions still dying from covid. I think vaccines saved plenty and those who are vulnerable or at risk may need to keep jabbing. Me ? I'll let my bodies immune system have a crack. This is Thailand so up to me, right? I'm sick of people beating me over the head with what they perceive I should or should not do. Covid has truly magnified this. The animosity and venom directed towards people, particularly on this forum simply because they don't agree with a persons point of view is often nauseating. It could be many, many years before we have a definitive response as to how "deadly" this particular disease is. HIV killed 40 million still kills well over a million a year, every year for decades I ain't reading about that shizz in the news every day . Why?
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48 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:The 2nd gen COVID vaccines due hopefully toward the end of the year are supposed to have a longer duration of protection, in addition to being more effective against the current/newer COVID variants.
You eat and drink pretty much every day, right, because that's what your body needs. You don't "draw the line" at eating after 3 meals. Well, right now, to be best protected against COVID, your body needs a booster shot every 4 months or so.... until the 2nd generation vaccines arrive.
Horses for courses mate. Never had a flu vaccine that also kills millions did the right thing had my 2 then had to have my booster due to my profession.
Im not a covid denier nor anti vaccine but I am pro choice in regards to what I put in my body and having a vaccine every 4 months seems ridiculous to me. I might be wrong you may think me an idiot but it should be my choice.
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15 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:It's still out there and making people sick and killing some... regardless of some posters here who want to stick their heads in the sand and ignore reality:
WHO Chief Warns of Rising Infections, Deaths From New Covid Wave
The World Health Organization urged governments and health care systems to take steps to curb Covid-19 transmission as a fresh wave of infections moves across Europe and the US.
Sub-variants of the omicron strain are lifting case numbers and leading to further fatalities, Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a briefing in Geneva on Tuesday. Tedros, as the head of the WHO is known, recommended the revival of protocols like mask-wearing to stop the spread.
“New waves of the virus demonstrate that Covid-19 is nowhere near over,” Tedros said, adding that he is “concerned about a rising trend of deaths.”
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Don't think anyone is sticking their heads in the sand if you want to continue getting a booster every few months go right ahead. I am of the opinion if I need one every few months it can't be to effective. I've had 3 that's where I draw the line.
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39 minutes ago, MrJ2U said:
6,382,620 deaths so far.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
You can use this site if you have anymore confusion over the seriousness of the pandemic.
Since the vaccination roll out? Read, comprehend, reply
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2 hours ago, MrJ2U said:
That and the virus is killing millions of people and disrupting economies everywhere.
Want to quote some evidence of the "millions" it's killing since the vaccination roll out? Quite happy to wait.......
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8 hours ago, ezzra said:Not looming, already here, but many prefer to ignore it, in Australia there are hundreds dying every week with 4,500 hospitalised so much so that hospitals are cancelling elective surgeries while many still, refusing to get vaccinated and most don't wear masks at all...
Turn it up mate. Many refusing to get vaccinated? In Australia? Your kidding one of the highest vaccination rates in the world .
95%of 16 and overs.
https://www.health.gov.au/initiatives-and-programs/covid-19-vaccines/numbers-statistics
60% of Aussies in high risk groups have had 4 doses.
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Unlike the rest of the world who all plan for their retirement ????
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"Coming back to burn" "Under fire" what's with all the terrible pun headlines today? Lol.
Personally I hope the genie is so far out of the bottle they never get it back in.
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10 hours ago, JeffersLos said:
That's a lot of time and effort required to make a cup of tea. ????
Better off just smashing a couple bongs whilst the kettle is boiling I reckon ???? and if worried about getting too high just smoke the teeth and lips ..(leaf and tips) ????
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Venues Reminded to Implement Proper Zoning for Cannabis Products
in Thailand News
Posted · Edited by starky
Limit sales to people over 20. Not limited sales to people over 20. However sales will be limited to those over 20 years of age.
Capiche?