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18 minutes ago, TSF said:by mid 2021 we should see the great majority of people around the world vaccinated and significant reductions in global covid cases.
Everything I've read that's serious (as opposed to governments' 'cheer-up' propaganda) suggests that this is wildly optimistic. It will be 2022 before anything like a 'majority' of the high-risk people in a majority of countries have been 'done', let alone all the others.
Effects of the vaccines - short-, medium- & long-term - are simply unknown at this stage. Depends on which vaccine you use and the principles on which it is constructed. Effects could vary widely.
Debate is ongoing - on the basis of theory rather than empirical experience - about whether those vaccinated will be infectious ("shedding") or not. Early view is that 'infectious after vaccination' is possible but unlikely so only a small threat. But experience may prove this wrong.
In sum, if people think that vaccination in the next 12 months will solve all of life's problems, think again.
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Looks more like a church than anything one would want to live in. Inappropriate spirits for Prayut, I would guess.
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Oh dear. We were planning a trip to Loei in January. Perhaps we'd better stay home!
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16 minutes ago, soalbundy said:
Why impractical? they have all the elements of a normal suit of clothes you would wear in an office, jacket, trousers, waist coat etc. No you wouldn't wear it on a building site or on a production line but you wouldn't wear a modern suit there either. The style is elegant, yes and classy because we aren't used to seeing it, certainly a little dramatic perhaps but above all not boring.
As for the girls (or indeed the boys), the clothes would be hard to get out of in a hurry (particularly when hard), and harder still to get back into. ????
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Firing squad at dawn for clients and owners/exploiters. Public whipping for the workers.
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Well, the girls always love gays ("Why are all the best men gay?") - because they're non-threatening.
As to the clothes, they would look OK if everyone - or at least every upper crusty male - was wearing them. But, as that suggests, they are entirely impractical in the modern world where egalitarianism and work competence are actually required of most people most of the time. These clothes are (and were 200 years ago) the clothes and the symbols of rich & leisured people.
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I wonder what will happen when, one day, 20 million Chinese tourists simply refuse to leave when their visas run out. And - horror of horrors! - they refuse to do their 90-day report!
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Yes, hypocrisy writ large. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
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We do need to remember, when we comment on the dreams of the TAT bureaucrats that, when we Westerners use the word 'tourists' we mostly mean 'Western tourists', but when the bureaucrats use the word 'tourists' they mostly mean 'Chinese tourists'.
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1 hour ago, webfact said:the study called ‘Best and Worst Places to Ride Out Covid', conducted by news site Bloomberg.
Clearly highly reliable.
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You need to be healthy before you run for health ...
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23 hours ago, VIPinLanna said:
In the US the Pfizer vaccine is now being shipped in large quantities according to news reports.
This would be astonishing if true. As of 2 or 3 weeks ago when the 2 US companies' initial results came out, both - but particularly Pfizer's - required something like -70C temperatures at all times till a few hours before use, and NO US hospital or clinic had the facilities to sustain that.
Still, anything can happen in Trump's US.
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Gosh, it's so exciting! The suspense!
Do you think they'll turn it into a movie? or better still, a reality show, with Donald Trump playing the part of Boris. Golly, he wouldn't even need to act!
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2 hours ago, Kerryd said:
Prisoner Transfer agreements between countries are common and these kinds of transfers happen all the time. Most of the time you never hear about them because they are not noteworthy.
Which is all very interesting but irrelevant in the present instance.
Contrary to what the honourable gentleman from the Thai Justice Ministry suggested, this is NOT a two-way prisoner deal or swap or normal transfer agreement. Any half-decent 'Western' newspaper has carried the complicated 3-way details over the last 2 or 3 days, as far as they can be known. The Australian has had quite a lot, not surprisingly, also Le Monde and NY Times.
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And if you believe that, there is no help for you.
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These people don't even pretend. And don't feel the need to.
One day it will end in violent revolution, and all because the 5% who take 95% of everything didn't want to give up even the slightest littlest crumb. Disgusting.
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Will be the same basically in every country: Vaccination not compulsory in most countries, but here's the list of things you can't do until you have been vaccinated ... and international travel will head the list, followed by domestic travel by plane.
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Sanity begins to return to at least parts of Usofa. I expect it will return to the rest of the Western World and even beyond at high speed, with sighs of relief all round.
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WHO seems to operate increasingly as a branch office of the Chinese government.
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If it's any help (noting that the first item above was based on an SMH article): I noticed a few days ago, checking the M1 range on the Thai Apple website, that - at approximate current xrates - the prices advertised are somewhat cheaper than the same products advertised on the Australian Apple site.
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4 minutes ago, DUNROAMIN said:It appears to me the Thailand government doesn't want cheap charlie anymore only the mega rich. They seem to want to set a benchmarks for future tourists beyond the average income earner.
And, if true, that's probably a Good Thing: Fewer numbers, less environmental damage, but better profits per capita.
In short, and this is now a worldwide issue, international tourism may NEVER be the same again and governments worthy of the name should by now be planning the restructuring of their economies and the reeducating/reskilling of their workforces. But, in Thailand's case, we may have a VERY long wait ...
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We live on the SW outskirts of Prasat. I'm used to keeping an eye open for small snakes as I wander across the lawn (having had a couple of near misses).
I guess at least a decent-sized croc should be easier to see ... Better warn the roosters.
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What a ghastly process it all is. All Usofans should be ashamed that they have an antique jerry-built electoral system that encourages dishonest and malevolent people to fiddle the figures and outcomes.
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Trump's problem is that he doesn't understand the difference between a Reality Show and reality.
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South Korea reports record 950 cases in COVID-19 'emergency'
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Outbreaks like this will continue to occur everywhere in the world until the vaccination process reaches the necessary level of immunity (at least 50% of people? for how long?).
Meanwhile: "Thailand's tourist industry asks for opening of borders & skies".