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5 hours ago, wavodavo said:

I agree 100 percent.How many people are walking around with the virus and not having any symptoms ??Also how many poor villagers who cant afford the test and just get the virus and die in the house and the family put it down to the flue therefore not counted in the tally ???

There was a lady on the radio the other day saying that her father had died but she daren't tell anyone out of fear of ostracisation: there's a real stigma attached. They couldn't even get local temples to burn the body.

1 hour ago, sapson said:

Indeed you are correct! not until the fat lady sings who although on stage is still clearing her throat.

Hope she's wearing a face mask..

48 minutes ago, RJRS1301 said:

It is disgusting behaviour under any circumstances, but common in too many countries.

I am old enough to recall signs on foothpaths, walls and on public transport stating "Expectoring is Forbidden" .

 

Expectorating was made illegal in Singapore & Hong Kong and probably Malaya, Burma etc, from the 19th century by the British authorities due to rampant tuberculosis. 

On 4/4/2020 at 5:18 PM, Sir Swagman said:

Another question would be what was the trawler doing before the impact? With pair trawling (illegal but rife in Thailand) they have little manoeuvre ability. If was what was going on - and we will never know - then I would commend running down all trawlers that do this destructive and short sighted practice.

Just been outlawed in the UK. Not remotely illegal here or anywhere else in SE Asia and I see it every day. Not that 'illegal' means much to local fishermen and I certainly wouldn't bank on them having a clue what the international rules of collision avoidance are either. Just like on the roads here, if people think they can make money or avoid losing face out of a collision.. 

35 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

You may be saying this in jest but I fear you may very well be right.

Happened on Tuesday, On the east coast too.

3 hours ago, stevenl said:

Without papers they will not be allowed to leave. This is checked regularly.

No-one ever checked mine in the last 10 years.

15 minutes ago, stevenl said:

More people have died than have recovered.

 

Absolutely incorrect. 

 

See my post, you have addressed one point only, but with incorrect information.

 

Regarding your ad hominem remark, I like it without Chinese.

Absolutely correct actually. 213 people have died so far and 187 recovered. https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

How is not knowing where you get your very odd and utterly innacurate opinion from 'ad hominem?'

32 minutes ago, stevenl said:

I don't think it is an extreme situation. We have a virus, mainly in China, not very contagious, it doesn't seem very dangerous and the number of deaths so far is far, far less than any common flu.

 

Imo common sense says to take normal precautions, but I see no reason for the overdone reactions we see in many places, mainly because of social media pressure.

The number of confirmed cases is increasing by several thousand per day and more people have died that have recovered, so it is an extreme situation, indeed a global emergency according to WHO. Hardly a 'social media meme.' The virus is extremely dangerous and we need to take stringent precautions. No idea where you're getting your opinion from. Ah.. you work in tourism?

29 minutes ago, Assurancetourix said:

Above I wrote that the fishing boat is at fault but I had not seen the video; in fact the fishing boat comes from the right and therefore has priority;

Correct, but unfortunately just like the roads here the rules are secondary: the long-tails, speedboats and fishing boats (albeit to a lesser extent as they do tend to have a bit more of a clue), will utterly refuse to take any sort of avoiding manoeuvre at all due to the 'face' culture, preferring to collide and die rather than pass round the back of you (or even brake, in the case of a car or motorbike). This is the main cause of the high death toll here, I believe.

On 4/14/2019 at 10:43 PM, Odysseus123 said:

Damn right!

 

You must be a very odd fish in Thailand.????

I read all 3 of the series, superb material. I passed them on to several people. Should be required reading for all. And yes, how anyone with a decent modern education can believe in any god totally escapes me, although I personally know several evangelical billionaires - just goes to show how narrow minded one has to be to be hyper-successful, in my opinion.  We have scientific principles that few understand such as the multiverse theory, string theory (please no-one come out with the 'but it's only a theory' old chestnut - theories are proven science) and quantum physics. String theory is so-called because the theoretical smallest particle possible is called a 'string' but no-one will ever be able to see one because they are too small to possibly magnify enough, so we have no idea what they are. Similarly quantum physics relies on there being at least 13 dimensions (last time I looked) but scientists have no idea what the other 9 may be or do, but they are all around us (and our phones and computers would not work if quantum theory is incorrect - they were designed to its principles) and other worlds may easily co-exist with ours in the same space. We don't even really understand what gravity is. We thus have very limited idea of the nature of the universe we live in. When we do we may be in a better position to determine whether there is a supreme being or not, but it really is extremely unlikely. If there is, the last thing it would surely want its 'disciples' or creations to do would be to waste their given short lifetimes worshipping their creator, or being terrified of it to the extent of piously living by the rules of any imagined religion (quod. Harari).That would be literally counter-productive, surely?