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Hundreds of people have been hospitalized and at least several have died specifically because they couldn't access appropriately dosed human formulations of ivermectin without a prescription, leading them to use dangerous veterinary concentrations instead. Some days it's like we're living in a science-fiction/horror movie. But other days it's more like a science-fiction/comedy.

And yet, still can't find Ivermectin for human use in Thailand. This continues to amaze and infuriate.

And nowhere to be found is Ivermectin. Doesn't matter whether you think it works against covid or not, it's a vital medicine for any number of other conditions and it is being blacklisted at the behest of the pharmaceuticals as punishment for not blindly believing their lies.

In Israel it is.

And precisely where would you have us go?

Even today? Even right now? Are you seriously telling me that with everything we know now about covid that they would continue to push this nonsense??? The virus didn't kill you. The vaccine didn't kill you. But do you know what might? Their withholding of vital medicine. I can't have Ivermectin because you're still saving face?

What should I read into the fact that I cannot seem to buy Ivermectin online? Even in the article they all but admit that the vaccines are useless. Please let me have access to basic medicine.

Left unsung is the tremendous purchasing power of western cats and dogs.

I had heard there was a penalty but I had no idea it stacked like that. This is offensive to behold. Truly.

What I want to see is the Guys-who-want-to-drink-while-going-through-immigration line. Pretty much makes whatever form they want moot. Also dovetails nicely with my earlier proposal that all visitors who intend to consume alcohol while in Thailand be made to be tested for their reaction to alcohol while still at the airport. Drunks who get unruly or unsophisticated are put on the plane back home. Good drunks in. Bad drunks out. And that's like 90% of your problem right there.

As I've commented before, this should be for arriving passengers.

As usual, beer is the answer.

Why can't this be in the banking app? Surely the bank can code the simple test of whether or not the account has had the requisite amount of money within it and at all of the right times. So let us use our banking apps to request one of those receipt things and then send it to immigration, or in the alternative, an agent, who we can then pay to do the paperwork and so forth. No need for the trip to the bank. Think of all of the time and aggravation saved. I want this, and that's as good a reason as any to do it.

Fifteen years ago, this wouldn't have been a problem. Fifteen years ago, every interaction I had with my bank here in Thailand was fast, efficient and a sheer delight. I walk into the bank, there is a minimal line if any at all, and I'm on my way in minutes. Today the banks in Thailand look like DMVs. And the stress of these new kinds of regulations only multiplies with the length of the line you're standing and the fear that you'll have to stand in it again tomorrow because you missed the new X, Y or Z requirement.

Worst possible time imaginable to give up weed.