MikeN

The title tells it all. ....

 If they do, what is the verdict on them ? I am thinking of buying one of their Tesla 3000 bikes, which is at the lower end of the range but has quality components.....Shimano Sora groupset and wheels ????, Vittoria tyres ????, 3T bars ????, not the usual no name Chinese stuff on the clunkers usually ridden around the village. Normally 29,000 baht but currently on special at half price so it seems good value at 14,500. And at 9.5kg about two thirds the weight of my MTB !????

 Some of their bikes go for well over 100k so I am thinking they should be good quality. A local Thai cyclist has one, he says he is happy with it but then he would say that, would n’t he ? Lose too much face to say he bought a dud.

15 hours ago, Thaiwrath said:

Remarkable !

Thai testing can point to the date you got infected ? Could she not have contracted it AFTER leaving quarantine ?

Or is it more towards keeping the "Covid free Thailand " image ?

She “could” have caught it after leaving quarantine, but that would mean she was infected and developed symptoms in 2 days, which would be remarkably quick ! So it is much more likely she caught it before coming to Thailand but was slow to develop a big enough viral dose to test positive. That’s not unknown, which makes the idea of reducing quarantine to 10 days a bit dubious.

@rupert the bear have you never heard of paragraphs and punctuation ? Your rant would be a lot easier to read ! But you would, IMHO, still be wrong. No vaccine in a few weeks, that’s for sure.

3 hours ago, Thaiwrath said:

. There will have been many people she would have been in contact with since leaving after her negative tests, none of which will have ever been tested.  

You could not be bothered reading the last paragraph of the story, it seems ?

 But it is quite possible this is just a case of a long incubation period, unusual but not unknown. There was a case in Australia of somebody who returned from abroad, cleared quarantine and then became  ill and tested  positive weeks later. She lived in a small country town, with no local cases, and no feasible way she became infected locally. Others have tested negative during their quarantine only to be found positive on the last day....which would really suck !

 The 14 days is generally accepted as long enough to find most cases, but not 100% of them. If Thailand does reduce it to 10 days this will surely happen again.

On 10/20/2020 at 7:00 AM, sometimewoodworker said:

No need to use any kind of grinder for AAC unless they have reinforcement steel cast into it  a regular panel saw like this

 

is OK unless  you’ve got a lot of blocks to cut, then a TCT panel saw, that is sold for the job is better. 

The Qcon kitchen counters he was talking about do have steel reinforcement.

7 hours ago, Oldie said:

"The Tourism and Sports Ministry has said some 60 boats carrying 650 foreigners have asked for permission to enter the country. They are expected to generate revenue of up to Bt2.1 billion." 

 

2.1 billion divided by 650 foreigners is 3.230.769 Baht per foreigner. Please correct me if this is wrong. If not the tourists might be billionaires only... The new very very high quality tourists are coming. 

It's not just what the passengers spend, it's total revenue from all sources. So add in food, fuel ( up to 2 million gallons for the bigger ships !), docking fees, etc.

1 hour ago, tgw said:

since ThaiPBS is owned by the government...

exactly, you would think they would have been told to pull the plug ?

I notice that The Sun's live coverage tonight came to an early and sudden stop but ThaiPBS are still live on Youtube.

I wonder if Apirat is still in the temple, or is he on his way back to Bangkok. What did the new military boss say....no coup unless there are problems. I’m sure Apirat would class these “unpatriotic,nation hating” people as a problem and justification for another coup.

Well, if it’s live on YouTube they better be careful how they break it up ! The police are certainly going to need quite a few trucks if they arrest everyone.

1 minute ago, hotchilli said:

Disobeyed orders from the master above.

Probably  stopped the royalists from bashing the protesters heads in. A bit of violence on the streets is good for justifying a coup.

23 hours ago, 4myr said:

) HOS, a house on stilts of 2 x 48m2 living area, above 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom and living room/pantry with small balcony. Downstairs 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom and under the roof without walls a living room with a typical Thai outdoor kitchen.

If I have understood you correctly, this is not really a house on stilts, but just a two storey house ? Which in my opinion is really going to be not much more than a small condo upstairs and somewhere for the in-laws downstairs. Or is the downstairs also raised off the ground, giving you three levels? In which case you are going to have a lot of stairs to climb......or fall down.

8 hours ago, tonray said:

Spend a few months taking the KL Monorail and you'll come crawling back..

Or CityRail in Sydney !

1 hour ago, patman30 said:

"The CDC data shows the vast majority have not died with C19 alone"

i did not state what was the actual cause of these deaths
merely stated these deaths were not soley by covid, as CDC data clearly shows
huge difference in my statement????

In your logic, a diabetic who gets run over by a drunk driver dies from diabetes or traffic accident ?

In your logic, somebody with a heart condition gets fatally shot by a robber ...are they a murder victim or "just" a heart attack ?

No matter if the approx 200,000 dead in the USA, or the million+ globally, had pre-existing conditions or not, they were alive until Coronavirus killed them. COVID 19 was the cause of death, not diabetes, or obesity, or lung problems, nor just because they were 60+ years old.

2 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Highly contagious pandemic = 80% of infected dead IMHO (not .065% dead).

This is a trivial illness that everyone will get, and hardly anyone would normally worry about.

Same as colds, flu, herpes, HPV ............... et al.

Anybody who mixes the contagion rate with the fatality rate should keep their opinions to themselves perhaps ? Especially when they compound their statistical ignorance by mixing the percentages of infected with the percentages of the total population....or was that a deliberate distortion ? Approx 24 million cases have been resolved one way or another, nearly one million dead and the rest are cured. That is far more than 0.065% fatality rate !

1 hour ago, Zikomat said:

Yes , this is what their future will look like without tourists coming back: former taxi drivers will hunt the rats while former bargirls will do the gathering thing in the rice fields. Quite an optimistic picture, I agree.

Or they could try their hand at jobs which were below them pre-COVID, you know those ones only suitable for Burmese, like crew on fishing boats, or on building sites. But I can see that they may be less appealing than ripping off tourists when “the Grand Palace is closed today”, or sitting in a hammock counting the money from jet ski “damages”.

 Of course Thailand will survive without 40 million tourists. If there was going to be an epidemic of suicides it would have happened by now.

53 minutes ago, tomazbodner said:

We knew this from a woman in Japan at the time when that cruise liner docked there with many infected on it... There was a tour guide who got infected second time around then. So that's... 6 months ago? There were a handful more cases cited that were confirmed to be second infections. How can this be news 6 months later?

Because in those earlier reported cases doctors were not 100% certain if they were reinfected or if they had not been completely cured, perhaps the virus had gone below detectable levels at the time but later flared up again. In the recent Hong Kong case the doctors are confident it is a new infection because the tests that declared him cured were more thorough and accurate than in the earlier cases. Possibly that is true for these latest cases too.

17 hours ago, scammed said:

the right to self defense is universal, name me one country in the world

that doesnt give that basic right

Obviously you did not look at the photo .....why was a firearm needed for “self defence” against a camera ? I know that in my country excessive force, ie unnecessary use of a firearm, is not a basic right. But then, I come from a civilized country, not the Wild West.

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 "President Trump will defend the God-given right of every American to protect their homes and families," Mark McCloskey said in his convention remarks

It has been a few years since I last went to church but I cannot remember anything about that in the Bible...maybe they have a different God to what my parents and the Church of England tried to brainwash me with at Sunday School.

 But then, this is Trumpland.

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However, she was concerned that the thought process of many youngsters was not fully developed, meaning they could be easily pushed into following others

Hasn’t that been the objective of the Thai education system ? Don’t think, just follow your “betters” .......maybe it has just backfired on them when other “betters” arrived on the political scene.

21 minutes ago, NoBrainer said:

Just open already. Thailand will need to reach herd immunity like everywhere else. They are just delaying the inevitable.

This flu is very treatable now, the worlds Dr.'s have learned a lot. Open & get it over with.

Anybody that still thinks this is just a flu has not learned anything in the last 6 months. Maybe you should delete the last two letters from your user name ? That would be more apt.

24 minutes ago, bodga said:

 After you, maybe go  look  up thalidomide

And perhaps you should go look up polio ? No doubt you would rather have seen people crippled for life, or even spending the rest of their life in an “iron lung”, rather than be vaccinated. Medical research has come a long way since thalidomide.