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TOT fine in south Surin.

Thai Baroque rules as always: Inability to make or do anything simple, clear, direct, precise.

Vagueness & complexity for ever!

All of which begs the question: How could any military chief of staff or CinC (however designated) find the time to do BOTH jobs.

If they were even half serious ...

Everyone should be preparing their dollars to start buying when the moment comes ... In these circumstances the usual pattern is that most people (the Little People, like me) join the herd, first selling at the wrong time, then buying at the wrong time. And they wonder why they never become rich.

Meantime the already filthy buy & sell in countermovements and become even filthier ...

4 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

story in the paper we can't quote saying Thailand is expecting 36.9 million foreign tourists to visit this year if Covid-19 outbreak stops by next month. I paraphrased so not a quote.

 

completely delusional. 

 

 

Faith, Hope ... oh and Love too.

The Chinese are busily rewriting history before it's even been written!

Who says authoritarian governments aren't efficient?

Here in Prasat south Surin wearing face masks has already gone out of fashion. The most I ever saw in one day was about 6 or 7. Now one or none.

A week ago we went to the local BKKBank branch to pay our annual house insurance. Our 2 girls that we deal with both masked. 2 days ago we went back to pick up the finished papers. Not a mask in sight.

Similar experience at the local pharmacy in the Lotus building ...

Fashions come and go when you're young and live in a culture where appearances are what count.

27 minutes ago, Tropicalevo said:

But they shot some of them the last time that happened.

Which, in countries where people (eg students) have the guts to fight for their rights, would mean even more people out on the streets.

The logic would suggest that all Thai currency should be withdrawn from circulation so it too can pass through the washing machine ...

Scapegoat-seeking. Common to all politicians when in a hole. The Chinese are now trying to blame The West for CV.

Anutin: Yes Yes You're so right!

55 minutes ago, Krataiboy said:

And look at what the West has ended up with. . . 

 

Trump, Johnson, Macron, Trudeau, Merkel. . . 

 

Need I go on?

So the difficulties of democratic systems in our modern huge and hugely complex societies are a reason to put up with authoritarian & military rule?

Experience elsewhere (eg Latin America, Sudan, Algeria ... ) suggests that you need first big civilian demos, then parts of the military change sides, then the future is open ... and anything, good or bad, can happen.

What the civilians achieve is to destroy the old as currently established. The old may rebound but - as in Algeria currently - it may be only a temporary shadow of itself, provided the civilians keep up their efforts.

2 hours ago, varun said:

Proof needs be established "beyond a reasonable doubt" -

there was no hard evidence, no DNA and no smoking gun.

 

All there was is the testimony of the alleged victims.

As in the case of Cardinal Pell, currently on appeal before the High Court of Australia.

Yes, but have they been tested?

7 minutes ago, scorecard said:

True but is it really that simple?

 

Are there others silent players who are powerful and are controlling the whole thing?

3 months of large nationwide demos and appealing to junior military to join up (not hard to do with the appallingly-treated conscripts) could sweep away the whole disgusting feudal system ...

21 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

Australian media is usually reliable, unless it is owned by Murdoch.

SMH? Oh rilly?

57 minutes ago, Snackbar said:

Get the popcorn & wait for heads to start rolling. 

 

What is it about Thai thinking that drives them to complicate the mundane?

Thai Baroque. Haven't you noticed the architecture?

Definition of 'decadence": Complexity without cause.

Can't help noticing in all of this certain resemblances between Italy & Thailand: aging populations (Italy the oldest in Europe), governments slow to act & not displaying world-shattering levels of competence, anarchically-inclined popular culture ...

Here in Surin, as of yesterday, beds were being installed in the new (unoccupied) provincial administration HQ outside the city ... Wonder whether the locals will demonstrate there.

Well, the 'government' is certainly doing its best to share the love around ... Just saw an announcement on video that showed people in the new, as-yet-unoccupied provincial administration building outside Surin city ("Town Hall" according to my b/f) setting up beds & other facilities for the ex-Sth Korea "illegal workers" to be quarantined there.

So the disease arrives in Surin. The bureaucrats who had probably all measured up their new office in what is quite a spectacular & very large building (just about the biggest in the whole of Surin, I shouldn't wonder) will be feeling less than excited at the prospect of moving in in a few weeks or months ...

19 minutes ago, cooked said:

A small study indicated that ASIANS that smoke or that have smoked in the past are more vulnerable to the effects of the virus.

Astonishing!

And now the whole of Italy is under lockdown (just announced) and Thailand can't manage a few villages ...

Which assumes of course that quarantine achieves anything much. Well, delay is useful as the health systems gear up slowly.

52 minutes ago, fred110 said:

Zero. The media is trying to panic people.

That's not true. MOST of the people who die from CV are elderly and have other earlier problems of heart, lungs or whatever (eg diabetes). But SOME are younger and healthy before they catch CV & die (eg the Chinese doctor whistleblower who died was in his early 30s & apparently healthy [well, at least until the nice Chinese security people got their hands on him]).

As with most things in life, your genes have quite a lot to do with the outcomes.