Gold Star

2 friends of mine in Pattaya got Pfizer Wednesday at Central. Here in Chiang Rai, yesterday, about 100 older Falang including myself got Pfizer at Chiang Rai hospital after the medical staff got their Pfizer. Second appointments on Sept 17. This shipment seemed to come out of the blue, with little notice. I was offered Chinese Sinovac twice before, but declined as I know there are the better vaccines out there imminently, and taking one would prevent me from getting the right ones when they become available. So glad I waited!

Same as the bullet in the luggage scam.

Don't blame him. It is bound to become this way. Blame the organization which provides a 40% commission incentive to police personally on funds and items confiscated in drug busts. How can you expect to maintain an honest police force and justice in these conditions? They still owe him 400 million baht. https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40005301

His wealth could really in fact be legit. 'The department has sold 363 of the 368 cars Thitisan helped seize and has earned 1 billion baht from the sale. Patchara said officers are given 40-per-cent of the proceeds earned from the sale of cars they seized, and in this case, Thitisan is entitled to 400 million baht.' https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40005301

The coconut bar will always be just as popular with or without palm trees. Let the ladies have some shade so their makeup and plastics don’t melt.

Even more China takeover. They cut the water flowing down the Mekong, forcing their way in wherever they want doing whatever they please, without firing a shot.

No, it is in fact raw sewage mixed with surface water runoff. It happens when the ground becomes flooded in a storm, and the water flows down from the surface into the septic tanks through the loose fitted pipes and top covers and then flushes the contents of the sewage waste up and out. I lived in a house on Jomtien Beach built in the same manner as Pattaya Beach, and the entire neighbourhood flooded often. Sewage waste even came up through our main floor house drains, as well as outside from the covers of the oozing septic tanks, and then the smelly mixture flowed down the street to flood the beach road. People would walk through it in sandals and bare feet, oblivious to the bacteria in it. We would have to use a lot of bleach to get rid of the stench from the all the neighbours houses and sewage tanks overflowing uphill from us. The plants loved it, bursting with growth a couple days after. Eventually we couldn't stand it anymore and moved away to a hilltop house.

There must be many others involved, like a ponzi scheme where each of those lower down gets a cut. No way one could amass riches like this by himself without others being complicit or aware of such shakedowns. His future is now the poster boy of Police corruption.

Well, to each his own, but I declined an offer for Sinovac about 4 weeks ago last month as I had an appointment today for AstraZeneca. A bird in the hand is worth 2 in the bush. Today they said sorry, no AstraZeneca, we have only Sinovac. I said no thank you for the second time, and left the hundreds lining up in Mae Chan that were still eager for the Sinovac. I'm thinking that's great, use it all up as fast as possible so we can get on with it and start up with the better vaccines. I figure if I start with a Sinovac 1 and 2, I will have to wait longer to start with a proper AstraZenica 1, or an mRNA 1. I think better vaccines are imminently available, hearing from reports of Pfizer first jabs today in CR and Pattaya, and from more people online. I have Moderna paid for, which may come as early as next month as per a phone call made to another friend that bought Moderna. Meanwhile, I would take a first jab AstraZeneca or Pfizer if offered while waiting for my Moderna to be available. Canada will not allow me back in with Sinovac. 2 friends of mine are very ill presently in Covid ICU despite having both Sinovac jabs. This is an evolving saga with perpetual moving parts. Constant new streaming data, news, availability, incompetence, disorganization, lack of communication, sprinkled with the sporadic appearances in some places of the vaccine you want. At this moment, if there is a light at the end of the tunnel, it appears that our best chances of lower hospitalizations, lifting restrictions resuming our lives and living with Covid is if we will be able to get to the point of booster shots every 6 months once enough of the mRNA vaccines are distributed to the population. Watch Israel and their boosters.

Is Canada doing something for us here now? News?