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SURFACE mail to Oz? (as opposed to AIR mail?).

I don't suppose there's been much of that for decades. And parcels would usually go by air courier not surface mail.

(My household goods, including large library, came by ship over several weeks from Canberra/Sydney in 2017, if that's any help.)

Slolly slolly! All things will become clear in due course.

By the 5th attempt, probably. This is my hypothesis, to be tested, at some future stage.

Makes interesting browsing, particularly for Sweden enthusiasts.

Just having a Bangkok Bank atm here in Surin that actually has cash in it for withdrawal would be a great step forward for mankind. 50% of the time, having tried & failed, I have to go to another bank's atm to withdraw cash.

54 minutes ago, samran said:

Thankfully a lot less tin foil hat wearers in Australia than elsewhere. 

Just passed the 5 million mark (according to tomorrow's 'Australian' just out).

Over 4 million Aussies out of a population of 25 million have installed the relevant app so far, as urged by the Oz government. With more to follow.

So far the Oz world has not come to an end, the heavens have not fallen and there is no plague of locusts.

Just laughable.

All the worst of Thai culture on display: (1) Vague rules vaguely & inconsistently enforced (2) Thais as individuals their own worst enemy - failure to register or to change registration or address/occupation last year or 10 years ago and so not within the scope of the exercise, but still complain bitterly.

Rules don't apply to ME but I should still benefit from them!!

In a well-run society an example could always be made of one, to encourage the others.

I've never had a flu shot and I'm not some conspiracy loony.

I first inquired after one with my then Canberra doctor about 15 years ago and he said: Nah, you don't need one. Besides, it's always a vaccine for last year's flu, not this year's.

And I've never had 'the flu' in all my 70 years, despite spending my childhood in cold & wet NZ with miserable winters in a cold damp house (as they all were in those days). I got sore throats and 'colds' but never to my recollection the flu.

From tomorrow's 'Australian' (it being the 250th anniversary of Cook arriving at Botany Bay).

Taking a new vaccine for something as complex & difficult as this is like downloading Apple's latest big upgrade the day after it arrives. No thanks. Wait several months.

But it does also depend on other risk factors (such as underlying health & lifestyle). I'm almost 71 but healthy & reasonably fit, don't drink or smoke, eat healthy. So for me the risk is in taking the vaccine when it's not quite OK, rather than not taking it.

Venus, which used to be called 'Lucifer' - light-bearer. But in the C16th-17th our ignorant forebears thought that Venus falling rapidly in the night sky was a symbol of Satan being booted out of Heaven so 'Lucifer' became an alternative name for Satan ...

(Sorry about that. Couldn't resist.)

52 minutes ago, jaiyen said:

Most people have said they will not download it, I wont

Did you actually read (and understand) the article above?

Just imagine all of Thailand's beautiful clean, lovely, well-maintained beaches and islands with 2 or 3 times the number of tourists each year. Wow! can't wait.

The question posed is really really important. All the current assumptions & institutional rules & behavioral regulations would be in chaos if reactivation or reinfection becomes the norm.

That would be an exceedingly grim outlook, at least until a vaccine comes along - which may be some time in the next 6 months or maybe 2 years or maybe a decade away. Noone knows.