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Australian Liberal (ie 'conservative', perhaps even - Heaven forbid - 'rightwing'!) senator Amanda Vanstone said a few years ago, when gay marriage was beginning to be seriously discussed in Australia: "All conservatives should be in favour of gay marriage. Marriage is an institution that strengthens society. A married couple can look after themselves independently of the State much more easily than two individuals separately. All conservatives should be in favour of this."
David Cameron, Conservative UK PM, said the same thing in almost identical words a few months later.
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For those who can't cope with anything but the whole marriage bit (ie the first option above), the obvious answer is: Perfection is the enemy of progress.
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Woman of Steel, I should say. Nothing soft and cuddly there.
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Thailand teeters on the edge of modernity.
I shall have to propose to my Thai b/f who is already my Oz certified partner. As we can see in the current plaguetime, being actually married here & recognized by the bureaucracy has certain advantages (much as in Oz where they're mostly financial).
As long as we don't have to go thru the Khmer village wedding ceremony again ...
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21 minutes ago, PEE TEE said:
Must be ways of checking into it
No doubt, but does anyone in the Thai government or bureaucracy give a damn?
At least giving it some publicity is a good start.
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Yes, at this stage the Australian state of Victoria is doing a whole lot worse than Thailand ... through government incompetence (both political & bureaucratic).
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Never let an opportunity go by without losing it.
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Incompetent Victorian government and public service, ruled over by a smug Premier overly confident of his own capacities.
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Fascinating. Well worth watching right thru.
Many things here to learn & to relearn.
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Perhaps you might want to consult a doctor.
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Working on the principle of the Death of the Author (the one who says 'I' in the text is not dead), I started last night on 'Shadow of the Wind' which has spent 16 years waiting discreetly on my shelves for me to read it (first in Canberra, now in Prasat).
I got to page 6, with only 515 to go. I expect to lift my reading rate very soon.
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6 minutes ago, bkk6060 said:And your comments support the fact that the Thailand numbers are near correct.
Unless, some tin foilers believe all these countries conspired together to lie and cheat.
Um, yes, such splendid examples of open, transparent, non-corrupt modern democracies - Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Malaysia ...
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Here in Prasat masks are gradually disappearing, though I still use mine for my occasional forays to PTT for brunch. or the bank for my atm duties.
Overall, though it does seem that Thailand has been lightly dealt with by the plague, I would feel happier if I thought the Thai stats were even remotely accurate. Would be interesting to see some accurate stats on 'excess deaths ' (ie compared to the previous year) for the Dec-June period, noting also that the Italian excrement studies are now saying the plague was there last December ...
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What is actually the most interesting sentence in the Australian reports is the one that says that the counter-measures taken by the Oz government are not only defensive.
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1 hour ago, 5633572526 said:
If you couldn’t afford to go before you will not be able to go in the future
It's not the money that's stopping me.
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Still, if it actually happened, it would be nice for those of us who haven't been to Pattaya for several years or to Phuket ever or the islands ever to be able to make a pleasant journey and stay in cleanliness, quiet & comfort.
One can always hope.
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My experience with a niece (now 17) is that you need to make any financial assistance very explicitly dependent on her hard work & progress in her studies.
In practice that's hard to do, depending on how good your Thai is or her English or her mother's. I found myself in the situation that I was unable to find out what our niece was actually studying or how she was doing. My b/f is without formal education so unable to ask, and she never offered. My offers of assistance with English were met with silence ... Until recently when she failed the exams for the princess scholarship she held and ran off to live with her 18-year-old boyfriend, thereby quitting the reasonably OK school she was at & allowing me to wash my hands of further responsibility.
Lesson for me: 'Helping' anyone in Thailand from a poor & illiterate background is much harder than you think. Avoiding a pregnancy is the best we can hope for now.
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36 minutes ago, uhuh said:
Not many Asians would trust a British person about anything related to covid.
But, in NZ, anything British - and particularly English - is sacred.
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As the attachment makes clear, the rating is 70% based on fatalities per capita (not on infections).
As I understand it, Thailand had many deaths from 'pneumonia' in the period Dec-April, before they had even begun to go thru the motions (so to speak) testing for coronaV. The way the Western stats-collecting people check on this - including for China - is to check the total deaths from (in this case) pneumonia for a given period against the same period last year. Which of course assumes only one major variable - CV - but it does provide an estimate of the size of the unreported CV deaths.
The list does also rather knock a few self-appointed 'best in the world' countries off their perch. Notably NZ, which claims to have eliminated CV completely. Which it may well have done, but it's not so good on fatalities per capita.
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If people leave to travel in countries where the pandemic is still dangerous (eg India, US ... ), then - if Australian - they will want to return to Oz ...
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Most of the Asia/Pacific countries have signed up to the pact, except of course the US (which was gonna under Obama then not under Trump then changed its mind only to find that Japan & Oz had organized everyone to go ahead without the Not-Indispensible Country).
The problem for Thailand is: What will Big Fren' in Beijing do to us if we do sign up.
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Chooks round the yard = No ticks.
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55 minutes ago, phantomfiddler said:What do they get taught at school here !
Obedience, submission, respect for their 'betters'. And don't ask questions.
[Every question has the potential to embarrass those in authority.]
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I always wonder if these guys actually believe what they say, as they stand up to make a solemn announcement in front of the cameras. They are after all (I think) intelligent enough & well-educated enough to know the truth.
If it was me, I'm sure I would - in the circumstances - dissolve into helpless giggles.
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How likely is a forced vaccine in Thailand?
in COVID-19 Coronavirus
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I'm sure there's somewhere in Usofa that will welcome you.