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20 hours ago, Joinaman said:

control what, exactly ?

Infections, ?

doing nothing seems to be working very well so far, 16 months and so few deaths

why spend billions on semi useless vaccines to save so few lives ?

better to spend billions on preventing road deaths and liver fluke cancers, that effects almost every family in Thailand, rather than what appears to be nothing worse than the flu to the Thai population 

Are you serious?  That is the same attitude that allowed Covid to spread all over the USA during the Trump administration!

16 hours ago, edwardandtubs said:

It's important to be non-judgemental and just distribute the available vaccine in a way that minimises transmission of the virus. It seems to me that vaccinating high-risk workers like prostitutes is an extremely good idea.

The government has recently announced that they have not been able to find any prostitutes in Thailand.  So, who will they vaccinate?

9 hours ago, webfact said:

PHUKET: Patong Beach remains devoid of visitors as COVID infections rise across the island and the spread of infections elsewhere in the country has sparked mass cancellations of planned trips to Phuket.

But next week there will still be a new tourism plan to open Phuket for business!

11 hours ago, webfact said:

Thai media Daily News reported that Bangkokians were "fleeing Covid" in the capital heading out to the provinces. 

This headline is incorrect!  The correct headline is Bangkokians are "spreading Covid" to the provinces!

Perhaps the government can take a few of the baht budgeted for submarines and get the lead out on vaccinations.  The rest of the world seems to be vaccinating like crazy but not Thailand.  Vaccination is the only way to control the pandemic!

11 hours ago, webfact said:

If just one million people from that group move to Thailand, each spending 100,000 baht per month or 1.2million baht per year, that would generate 1.2 trillion baht per year for the economy.

 

And if there are 1 million gullible retirees in the world I will be very surprised!

On 3/20/2021 at 4:52 PM, Pilotman said:

leave it mate, I don't need a lecture from you.  

No lecture, just word for the wise!????

5 hours ago, Pilotman said:

I have made my own here too, but I find it almost impossible to get white grape juice. The wine I do make, when I can be bothered, using red grapes, is as good as the 300 to 400 Baht bottles. 

Please be aware that fermenting your own wine is illegal in Thailand.  I know that a million Thais do it but as a farang you need to be careful.

12 hours ago, webfact said:

The governor said the business value of cannabis and hemp could reach tens of billions of baht, which can compensate for a decline in tobacco income stemming from the tobacco tax structure.

The government finally admits that they have squeezed the tobacco cash cow too much!

13 hours ago, webfact said:

tourist arrivals to the city have plummeted almost 99% from one year ago

Finally, the truth!

This port seems like a good spot for the new submarines from China!

On 3/11/2021 at 9:14 AM, webfact said:

 

PPTV made it clear that the money had not come from staff salaries to reimburse the restaurant - it came from their tips fund.

So, the tips fund is not considered part of the wait-persons salary? Jeez, anything so the owner is not penalized equally!

On 3/11/2021 at 8:46 AM, webfact said:

“Please sign the petition so wealthy expats in Thailand don’t lose even more money”.

This sentence appeared out of the blue in this article.  To my knowledge it is not the expats who would benefit from early vaccination but everyone!  This jab at expats seems to be undeserved and is certainly racist in nature!  We expats suffer with everyone else during the pandemic!

Having the recommended two doses would therefore cost 4,000 baht or a little under 100 UK pounds or about $US 133.

I guess that they will just double the price of the J&J vaccine since it is only a single dose.

I am always amazed that conscript armies are used for coups!  It would seem to make sense that conscripts would not fire on the innocent!  I guess the USA learned that is not true during Kent State.

On 2/20/2021 at 4:24 PM, Sujo said:

True, my gf is a malay muslim and we have lived together for 5 years.

The countries that are mentioned are aberrations.  Militant conservative muslims are slowly but surely moving to have Sharia laws enforced.  Just a quick look at the Taliban should demonstrate the issue.  Turkey was once a beacon of muslim tolerance, but no more!

On 2/20/2021 at 7:25 PM, pacovl46 said:

Facebook does pay taxes. I’m not sure about the rest of the world, but they do pay taxes in Australia! 

What content taxes do they pay?

For those concerned about the lack of news there has always been https://forum.thaivisa.com/

I think HIV testing would be more profitable in these venues!

2 hours ago, tifino said:

I was on about; that if FBk is going to blanket-BlackOut all else that is important (including all those vicitimised Pages regarding OZ Charities/Hospitals/Personal Tributes etc etc) - then they can bluddywell block ALL the Leftist propaganda pages too!!  

(if it good enough for the goose it is good for the gander)  

What do leftist news reports have to do with Australia's attempt to tax the golden gooses (ie. Google and Facebook) for allowing their users to post local news sources.  I think that if Oz decided to tax porn sites and leftist or rightist posts they would ban those too.  The bottom line is that taxing internet companies is counter-productive.