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2 hours ago, sidneybear said:

Places like Australia do just that. A friend of mine with a very fair complexion often gets refused service there, because he goes red after a few beers, and the bar staff think he's drunk. Venues face enormous fines and suspension of their liquor licence for serving people who are intoxicated. 

 

It's a shame. Thailand never used to be a nanny state.

I used to joke that an Australian bar crawl was - go to first bar and have a couple of drinks, go to second bar and be refused entry because intoxicated.

I like 'em fresh. ????

If anyone else is affected, KTB no longer accepts purchases from Amazon Prime. Big problem for me as I buy a lot of kindle books. Reason given is fraud.

At the risk ofpointing out the bleedin' obvious, tourists come and they go. The same amount could be raised by increasing the departure tax instead. Too simple? 

I like to stay positive. We will have natural herd immunity before everyone gets vaccinated. Get sick, get better, don't get sick again. 

1 hour ago, mtls2005 said:

Thanks.

 

Although I'm struggling to understand the relevance for Thailand? 

 

Secrecy? Indemnification? Price? Late to the party you take what you can get.

 

Pertaining to the 20 mm order? $12/ea, $240 mm, ~ 8 b baht.

 

 

 

 

My point was I can the Thai government being reluctant to agree to those conditions. Albania was sufficiently hacked off to leak it in defiance of the confidentiality clauses.

1 hour ago, mtls2005 said:

 

Would love to, but you need to provide a bit more detail. At least give us a couple of google search terms.

 

I'm not seeing anything. Yes, a contract was said to have been signed on 20 July. https://www.thaipbsworld.com/contract-signed-for-thailands-20-million-doses-of-pfizer-vaccine-delivery-in-q4-this-year/

The contract was with Albania. Google "pfizer contract albania" look for the article by Opindia.com.

If anyone is following the news, details of the Phizer contract have leaked out and the terms are outrageous. I'm not surprised the Thai government is reluctant to sign up. 

I thnk commenters here should give the government a bit more credit. It isn't about brown envelopes after all.

11 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

I truly believe some of these people have mental problems.

They have to be in a group or party situation or else they think they have no life or are missing something.

Hey, just stay home and drink a beer and watch TV for a few weeks it won't kill you.

Once people are in lockdown they stay there untill the risk has passed. We're talking months, not weeks.

Actually I expect the government to find some excuse to lift the lockdown before then whether the figures improve or not. It's that or give people money.

1 hour ago, zhounan said:

Why is it that last year we had 0 deaths and less than 10 positive cases, but this year we have both?
 

Because for reasons unknown Thailand and its neighbors had a high natural resistance to the original strain. The government got over confident thinking they could ride it out and then delta happened.

I had the same problem when my wires were mistakenly removed from the outside meter and then put back wrong.  You need to find someone to swap the wires at the meter for you. Five minute job if you have a ladder and know what you're doing. Incidentally, the PEA is only responsible for getting the supply to the meter, after that it's your problem. If there are several meters on the pole and you are not sure which one is yours, there should be a serial number on the meter and the bill.

1 hour ago, charmonman said:

I think you are right. This study concludes that initial lockdowns are effective but subsequent lockdowns have only a small effect on transmission. Also, the benefits of any lockdown decrease significantly after about 20 days.

https://voxeu.org/article/declining-effectiveness-lockdowns 

Once you have locked people down they have to stay locked down untill the virus abates. That could be months. The people in the deep red zones are under house arrest untill then?

So the boffins think three months of lockdown will bring the virus under control?

I have an alternative suggestion. Covid is a seasonal virus and will decline at the end of the wet season. When is the end of the wet season? Three months? Oh, jolly clever boffins, jolly clever indeed.

Has any one been to Pattaya from outside since they introduced the 14 day self isolate? How does it work? Do they trust you to do it or is it enforced?

Fortunately I live alone out in the sticks ...

It is not a question of understanding, it's a question of belief. Where is the evidence that you can contract covid in the open air? There have been numerous rallies and protests arround the world and these have not lead to outbreaks. Lockdowns work. Randomly closing places is NOT a lockdown.

52 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

If you are saying that lockdowns don’t work, you would be wrong.

 

if you are saying that half-assed attempts like this don’t actually stop the virus, that’s a different story.

 

They need to stop all unnecessary traffic from Bangkok.

Depends what you mean by lockdown. Wuhan style, shut absolutely everyone in their home and poke sandwiches through the letterbox works. Anything else just slows the virus down a bit. Worth doing if you have an effective vaccine but otherwise it's just delaying the inevitable.

Come on guys, be positive. Thailand now has the opportunity to be the first country to acquire natural herd immunity to Covid. Win!

If you get sick, walk it off.

4 minutes ago, giddyup said:

So what good is the wearing of masks and the various restrictions actually doing?

Very little. But the government has to be seen to do something, and that is something, so we'll do that.

3 hours ago, BritManToo said:

M6 isn't school until age 12.

Of course it isn't and I didn't say it was. It's the twelfth year of school, not twelfth year of age.

Anyway, as you yourself say, they're asking for college these days, so many bar girls are not qualified to work 7/11 even if they wanted to, which of course they don't.