Chongalulu

A harsh but fair assessment of your understanding…

And the vast majority of people killed in road accidents are wearing seatbelts. Are you now going to stop wearing yours…? ????

Actually,you’ll get no sound out of a broken record - something we might all be grateful for you emulating ,although the "empty vessel " cliché is probably more apposite in your case ?

Ah,the old schoolboy error of using anecdotal evidence in preference to properly controlled studies. I had a non seatbelt wearing uncle who crashed into a lake and claimed not wearing a belt enabled him to climb out of the car to avoid drowning. Should we now henceforth eschew seatbelts? My grandma smoked heavily all her life and lived to 100 . Should I take up smoking?

No time travel necessary. Plenty of Comparative studies of vaccinated vs unvaccinated adjusted for age,health and other relevant factors have shown clear benefits for the vaccinated . You would be able to understand that had a time machine been able to return you to schooldays where you could have paid more attention this time…

Using the same logic … "All non smokers die". ????

Well,we are in a Buddhist society…

Don’t worry, there are no reported signs of any 'gray' (sic) matter in your head…

So not in hospital,or the morgue (like my unvaccinated acquaintance),with Covid. Which was rather the point of the vaccines. Or had that basic understanding escaped you ?

The numbers for the first 6 months,given such a low base,are no indication nor reassurance for the future as desperately interpreted by officials here. Forthcoming developments,many volatile and unpredictable ,are what will determine the future of the tourist industry. Airline woes,totally outside Thailand’s influence, are a significant one of those . What can be said, is Thai officials have shown little vision (beyond wishful thinking) or competence to positively influence the revival of the tourist industry . Unthinking and even downright stupid ,unworkable pronouncements ,as evidenced by the hotel dual pricing suggestion, is a strong indication of this incompetence and arrogance. Thailand has many inherent positives ,including the infrastructure, to take advantage of any general tourism revival, but this is more than negated by the poor economic understanding and incompetence of those responsible for guiding and inspiring what is historically a vital industry for this country.

Reread your own comment (if it doesn’t bore you to death) then look up "hypocrisy ". I would suggest you find your own friend to explain that if you have to invent assumptions to support an argument then you don’t have one … except that I expect you’re severely lacking in that particular department. You appear to fall into the delusion that if your argument is refuted then it can only be because someone can’t understand it. Perhaps you can quote examples here of all those that you imagine understand and agree with your point of view? Though I suspect you are something of a Walter Mitty character. P.S. You might want to take a closer look at your own punctuation shortcomings to avoid being embarrassingly hoist with your own petard.

I notice you try to compensate for lack of knowledge with waffling and rambling irrelevance and as a final indication of a lack of argument have to fall back on typos to bolster it.

Commerce and economics is my background so suggest you’re education is the one lacking. Quoting special measures in particular circumstances doesn’t suddenly make USA ,a renowned free market economy either socialist or government controlled. Oh,and your assumption is wrong too ! ????

We’ll you could always try socialism and government mandated pricing - if only you could find a single successful example of that working ! ???? For all it’s faults capitalism and democracy has always proved superior,as has the equation of supply and demand. remember ,oil companies lost billions during the pandemic and again with the write down of its investments in Russia (Rosneft etc). It’s a volatile business and days of plenty are only the swing to the roundabout.

This goes beyond shortcomings in economic literacy and commercial understanding- and it is both of those- but strays into area of fundamental lack of intelligence. Given that similarly stupid announcements from government officials are commonplace it would be interesting to see the results of IQ tests should they be applied to a raft of senior officials behind these unthinking announcements. We know Thailand ranks very low in the PISA EDUCATIONAL TABLES which may explain some ,but this represents a serious deficiency in the most basic skills of critical thinking. Does Thailand in general have an issue with this or is cronyism so pervasive that a large percentage of the dimmer members of its society make it to these kinds of positions?

Kindest thing I can say about that is just a rambling waffle devoid of any salient argument. The fact is that both of only two major supermarket chains,the dominant major convenience store operation (7 -11) AND the only real national wholesaler/cum retailer- Makro are all under sole ownership. By any definition that is about as close to a monopoly as you can get and would certainly not be allowed by say a body like the MMC (U.K. ). I suggest educating yourself further on the definition of monopolies as defined by western institutions.

Yes,I think the comparison was between Emirates and Qatar. My daughter recently returned to U.K. from 2 weeks holiday with Qatar whose price was £200 cheaper than Emirates

As someone recently pointed out ,other than to northern Scandinavia countries like Finland and Norway airlines routes to Europe from BKK do not cross Russia/Ukraine anyway,so that can’t be the reason. The fundamental reason behind increased fares now is good old supply and demand.

Indeed this is an unhealthy monopoly,especially in grocery, which would simply not be allowed in developed Western economies. It is the fundamental reason behind (coordinated)unnecessarily high prices and inflation here. Allowing Tesco lotus to be included in their portfolio was unconscionable. Imagine a discounter like Lidl /ALDI being let loose on the market.

"We’re so happy we can hardly count" ????

If there’s no rusty one available do we have to wait for oxidation to take place first ?

I always allow others to get off the line first to field the 'incoming'….

Pretty well,given my infection amounted to a mild inconvenience for a week. Certainly better than for an unvaccinated acquaintance who’s no longer around to tell you of his experience… ????

That’s where you’re going wrong - you're supposed to put them on the OUTSIDE of your head! ????

" Useless… damaging "? …oh,I thought you were talking about the education generally having studied Thailand’s rankings in PISA EDUCATIONAL TABLES…