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You have to go to your local tax office and ask for one - after filling in a form they process it and give you a card with your tax identification number on it on the spot. It is an individual number specific to you.
People have varying degrees of success in getting them if they have no employment in Thailand, but a good reason to give is that you need to reclaim tax that was taken from interest on a bank savings account - so you then don't need a salary.
It was easy for me to get one, but I lived in the financial-foreign district of Bangkok and the local tax office was familiar with foreigners and even had a staff member who spoke some English.
The card looks like this, and theTIN is in the number at the top of the card with the format
x-xxxx-xxxxx-xx-x , where x is any number from 0-9.
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3 hours ago, Jingthing said:
UK for a change?
Being sung by Jesus Christ must increase its chances.
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7 hours ago, tomster said:
I would counter with you are not able to apply common sense and reasoning and have exposed your children to unnecessary risk that could affect the quality of the rest of their lives (or even significantly shorten it).
Time will tell but with so much data coming out now about the deaths and side effects in the vaccine "trials" I would be very, very nervous, if I were you.
What you say here is simply untrue. Now 11 billion vaccine doses have been given, and four and a half billion people have been fully vaccinated against Covid, and the number of reports of serious side effects is infinitesimally small compared to these numbers.
There is about as much evidence that suggests vaccination exposes children to risk that could affect the quality of the rest of their lives, or shorten their lives, as there is for aspirin doing the same thing. That is, it does happen, but at an incidence so small that it can be reasonably discounted compared to the public health benefits of reduced transmission.
On the other hand the number of people affected by long Covid symptoms for extended periods of their lives is massive, and is beginning to be recognised as a public health problem in itself.
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On 4/12/2022 at 2:14 PM, Sparktrader said:Essentially, fasting cleanses our body of toxins and forces cells into processes that are not usually stimulated when a steady stream of fuel from food is always present. When we fast, the body does not have its usual access to glucose, forcing the cells to resort to other means and materials to produce energy.
First sentence has no relation to the second.
All your references are just cherry picking possible beneficial effects of fasting and calling them "detox", whatever their nature. Eliminating dead cells, increasing insulin sensitivity, increasing hormone levels , and cells using alternative energy sources than glucose (e.g fatty acids, ketones, ) have no connection whatsoever with the non-existent process of "detox".
Processed foods don't leave a mystical residue in your body that you detoxify by fasting: that's rubbish.
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1 hour ago, Sparktrader said:
Try fasting 20 hrs. Eat 11am to 3pm. Better sleep, detox daily.
Except there is no such thing as detox. Doesn't exist in medical textbooks, no real meaning other than marketing technique for dubious activities that have little or no effect on anything, other than make you feel happy at having done a ritual.
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25 minutes ago, pudd said:
Could it be an unintended consequence of global warming?
Enlighten us about the intended consequences of global warming.
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1 hour ago, redwood1 said:
I don't care about any of this.....Real unrefined brown sugar makes me feel better no studies needed....Try it yourself..
All that's wrong with the world is defined by this post.
"No evidence will be accepted - the truth is determined by my emotions."
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36 minutes ago, redwood1 said:
How about cure diabetes with Mcdonalds and Burger king...
But seriously unrefined brown sugar is way better for people than white sugar,,,
Unrefined brown sugar is not" way better for people than white sugar"- this is another plausible sounding myth.
Both are empty calories- brown sugar contains more calcium, iron and potassium than white sugar, but the quantities of these are so small that this would make essentially no difference at all to anyone's intake of essential nutrients.
For example see https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/brown-sugar-vs-white-sugar#nutritional-differences
"White and brown sugar contain similar calories. Brown sugarTrusted Source contains 380 calories per 100 grams (g), while white sugarTrusted Source contains 385 calories per 100 g.
Brown sugar contains more calcium than white sugar, with 83 milligrams (mg) per 100 g compared to 1 mg per 100 g of white sugar. Equally, other minerals, such as iron, are slightly higher in brown sugar.
However, per teaspoon, the tiny differences in these mineral amounts are not worthy of consideration, as sugar is not a nutrient-dense food. People refer to foods such as these as “empty calories.”"
or even just Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_sugar
"Although brown sugar has been touted as having health benefits ranging from soothing menstrual cramps to serving as an anti-aging skin treatment,[8] there is no nutritional basis to support brown sugar as a healthier alternative to refined sugars despite the negligible amounts of minerals in brown sugar not found in white sugar.[9]"
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3 hours ago, Puccini said:
Has the Thai government ever approved or recommended the use of ivermectin for the treatment of Covid-19? If not, why do we discuss its uselessness here? Is it to bait the conspiration theorists and the spreaders of false information?
No, it is to inform people who may be misled by postings of false information that ivermectin is efficacious in treating Covid of the actual truth that it isn't, and citing the evidence on which this is based.
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3 hours ago, DezLez said:
Are you referring to the Barclay's Pin sentry. If so use the app version, there is no need for the physical reader!!
Also I doubt if any Pin Sentry/reader device will work without being registered to your account, you just cannot borrow someone else's reader.
This is completely wrong. All Barcays pin sentry readers are interchangeable- it is the card you put in combined with the PIN that is recognised. There are many cases where people have used card readers from other banks and they still work!
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44 minutes ago, gargamon said:Find a local pharmacy you trust. Avoid fascino, boots, and the rest of the high-end pharmacies as they will be pushing the most expensive(high profit) brand names.
Ask the local pharmacy which statin that Thais use. This will likely be a generic, and probably cheap.
Educate yourself. Here's a link to a consumer reports article on statins. They are all essentially the same.
Absolutely ridiculous. That is the opposite of what this report actually says! Did you even read it??
It carefully points out the different medical conditions that each variant statin is most suitable for!
This report states clearly and directly that statins are NOT all the same!
Here is a direct quote:
"There are seven statins, but they're not all the same. Some deliver a greater reduction in cholesterol than others. In addition, some statins are backed by stronger evidence that they reduce the risk of a heart attack or death from heart disease or a stroke."
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11 hours ago, Sheryl said:
The drug he is asking about is not a statin. It belongs to a class of lipid lowering drugs called fibrates.
Sorry to be picky, but although ezetimibe of course isn't a statin, it's not a fibrate either: its mechanism of action is different.
It is a cholesterol absorbtion inhibitor that works by targeting a protein called NPC1L1, which is responsible for active transport of cholesterol into enterocytes from the gut. This in turn reduces cholesterol entering the liver which upregulates LDL receptors and so removes harmful LDL cholesterol from the blood.
It and its related derivatives can be used in combination with fibrates.
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This applies to UK non-residents as well as residents. It is entirely independent of ISAs which are always tax free. (UK non-residents cannot open, or add money to, ISAs, though they can continue to hold tax-free any in existence before becoming non-resident).
If you are in the basic rate tax bracket you have an allowance of £1000 interest on savings, tax free.
Your earnings personal allowance (rent, salary, pensions etc) is £12,570. If this is your only income then you are allowed £5000 interest from any UK based savings (banks, building societies, government bonds etc) on top of this. For each £1 you earn over £12,570 your £5000 interest allowance goes down by £1, so if you have £17,570 income you get £0 interest allowance.
So you can earn £12,570 income, £1000 interest and £5000 interest on top of this tax -free.
Link here:
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30 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:
I realised that western society is ( probably ) doomed when I first heard that the idea of multi genders was being taken seriously.
The Roman Empire took hundreds of years to decay to the extent that the opposition could take Rome without so much as a battle. Bear in mind that things happen soooooo much faster in these times.
I guess you think immortal souls have knobs or wendies. Brilliant. You combine a fatuous woo woo spirituality with a "Daily Mail" conservatism. I suppose it makes sense to you.
[for the record: I neither believe in immortal souls, or that gender is determined by bodies rather than minds.]
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2 hours ago, ArcticFox said:Submitted without comment. The article can be found on Bloomberg via Internet search.
EU Warns Repeat Boosters Could Weaken Immune System
"European Union regulators warned that frequent Covid-19 booster shots could adversely affect the immune system and may not be feasible.This headline and the phrase below it are misleading and were never said. This is simply bad reporting from a reporter Irina Angel who clearly didn't completely understand what was being explained .https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-11/repeat-booster-shots-risk-overloading-immune-system-ema-says
There was no implication of "harm" or "weakening" to the overall immune system by repeated boosters-
what Dr Cavalieri actually said was :
1. repeated boosters at too short at an interval may cause the immune response -to that booster- to be less than we would like, because of overloading the immune system with that single vaccine. This simply means that if you keep injecting the same antigen too frequently the response to that antigen won't be as great. He would prefer one or two boosters once a year if the epidemiological conditions require it. There is no implication at all that the immune system is weakened or suffers harm overall - this is added by the reporter.
2. The "tiring out" by repeated boosters refers to the population getting fed up of too many injections , not suffering tiring physical effects!
I know, because the entire EMA press conference that this scanty inaccurate article is derived from is available on YouTube, and I have listened to all of it. If you are curious to see how misrepresentation occurs you can view it too:
https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/events/ema-regular-press-briefing-covid-19-11
The relevant bit occurs around 29:12.
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7 hours ago, rbkk said:
Thank-you for clearing that up. It is very confusing though that Moderna on their paperwork use milliliters and Singapore and Thailand (+ others) use micrograms on their websites. Why can't they use the same units of measurement for vaccine doses?
Because millilitres is an instruction about the physical quantity that you inject into people, and micrograms is the actual dose of vaccine. You can't use millilitres as a measurement of dose: dose means amount of vaccine not amount of liquid.
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6 hours ago, rbkk said:
Now I'm more confused!
Using a conversion chart I get.......
0.5ml = 500 micrograms (5 x U.S. primary dose, or another way, 10 x Thai/Singapore booster dose)
50 micrograms = 0.05ml (20% of the recommended booster dosage, 0.25ml)
Can that be correct?
No it can't. The 0.5ml of liquid is not all vaccine -the vaccine is obviously dissolved in water!
It's 0.5ml of WATER that weighs 500 micrograms.
The dose of vaccine you are getting is the amount of vaccine contained in that 0.5ml of water, and is of course dependent on the concentration of the vaccine solution. If 0.25ml of Moderna vaccine contains 50 micrograms of vaccine, then the concentration of the vaccine solution is 200 micrograms active vaccine per ml.
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19 hours ago, Oblomov said:
We only need look at how the corona virus that causes common colds is so wiry and difficult to remedy
This is a complete misunderstanding. Colds are caused by many different types of virus - there are literally about 200 - only about 20% of which belong the the type coronavirus. This is the major reason why "colds" evade a simple remedy - you can't develop a vaccine against hundreds of different pathogens simultaneously.
https://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/cold-guide/common_cold_causes
19 hours ago, Oblomov said:Life is a risk and numerous things we do knowingly imperil us and to me it's extraordinary that this one risk, which in reality isn't a huge risk to most, is given such extraordinary focus when health statistics globally elucidate on the fact that health services have been put under pressure for decades with alarming levels of obesity related illnesses of very serious consequence, as well as smoking related, alcohol related...
This also seems to entirely miss the point. Covid is a contagious disease- you catch it from standing near other people who have it, and in turn they pass it to others, so the numbers affected continually increase as a result of the disease itself. This is why you can take simple actions (distancing, masking, vaccination) to diminish the harm Covid causes, which are generally effective.
Obesity is not contagious, and most (admittedly not all) of the harm done by alcohol and tobacco is also not transmissible. Obesity doesn't directly cause more obesity. Covid directly causes more Covid.
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5 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:
Correct, there are income requirements, and as ever they are never straight forward.
But even class 3 are a bargain with a payback time of just over 3 years.
That's true, but it's worth emphasising that you are only eligible to pay voluntary class 2 NICs if you are working abroad, which would notably exclude all retirees.
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7 hours ago, Yewbzee said:
Nope that's not correct for all types of income. For example dividends from UK resident companies and also Capital Gains are totally exempt if you are non resident for tax in the UK.
This isn't the full story however. You must stay out of the UK for at least 5 years or the capital gains tax on any disposals becomes chargeable again if you return within that time. Capital gains from UK property sales is liable to tax on non-residents.
It is true that dividend income from UK companies can be tax free, but if this option is taken you give up your personal allowance against other income.
So you have to determine which is more advantageous, to get the personal allowance against all income or to get dividend income tax-free. HMRC will work out which incurs less tax for you if you submit a self assessment.
"With the exception of income from property in the UK and investment income connected to a trade in the UK through a permanent establishment, the tax charge for non-residents on investment income arising in the UK is restricted to the amount of tax, if any, deducted at source. If the tax charge is limited in this way, personal allowances will not be given against other income. This restriction does not apply in the overseas part of a split year."
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7 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:
I don't know enough about it to say if that is true or not, but if a virus killed everyone it would not survive, which IMO is against nature. Therefore, to survive, it would need to not kill everyone it infected.
So you have never heard of any organisms not surviving in nature? Interesting point of view. It's called extinction and it has happened to 98% of all the species that have ever existed on earth.
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-is-mass-extinction-and-are-we-facing-a-sixth-one.html
In fact if a virus is mostly transmitted before it kills its victims, like the Covid-19 virus, there is no selection pressure to stop it being fatal. Evolution can't see the future, its point is to maximise replication, and if that meant killing everybody (it never does because of acquired immunity), that's what would happen.
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23 minutes ago, Rulie said:
Most viruses when they mutate get less dangerous and life threatening. Its natures way.
It isn't. This is simply an urban myth. Some do, most don't. Here are a few that haven't. Smallpox, Dengue fever, Yellow Fever, Zika, Ebola, Rabies, HIV.
It's estimated smallpox has infected humans for around 10,000 years. Before vaccination it still killed 1 in 3 people who got it.
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1 hour ago, placeholder said:
Your basic point that there is innate resistance to HIV in some people is correct.
But it's 10% of Europeans. Particularly those in northern Scandinavia and Russia.. There are lots of Caucasians found elsewhere including the Middle East, Central Asia, and India. More than there are in Europe and elsewhere..
Also, according to the scientists who investigated this, it seems that the European plagues were not bubonic plague but hemorrhagic fever. Which makes sense since hemorrhagic fever is a viral disease whereas the bubonic plague is bacterial on origin.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/03/050325234239.htm
Good point, but it's not 10% of Europeans who are resistant to HIV, because this is the frequency of mutations in one of the two CCR5 genes each person has (heterozygous).
Protection against HIV is only significantly observed when both CCR5 genes in an individual have this mutation (homozygous).
The frequency of this condition in these European populations is about 1%.
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2 hours ago, Thunglom said:
extremely unlike - take the aids virus - the numbers of "immune" remain unproven but you could count them on one hand.
I agree that the number of "naturally immune" people is likely to be so small it would have no significant effect on the progress of the disease.
As far as I know (I'm not an immunologist) there are are only a handful of possibilities for natural immunity. One of these is pre- exposure to a different pathogen that has sufficient similarity to SARS-CoV-2 for the antibodies generated by the first pathogen to cross-react with SARS-Cov-2.
Another is some kind of mutation in a person that prevents the virus from infection, replication or some other essential function.
There is an example of this in natural immunity to AIDS, which does exist and has been proven. AIDS infects cells by binding to a cell surface receptor called CD4, but usually requires a co-receptor, CCR5, for successful entry to cells. Some people have a mutation in CCR5 which changes its shape enough so that the AIDS virus cannot bind to it any more, and they remain immune.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8898752/
Theoretically mutations could exist in the human population in the ACE2 receptor, which is the protein SARS-Cov-2 binds to in order to infect cells, and this theoretically could be protective. (However these people potentially could be less healthy as a result of the mutation itself.)
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Nope, not even close to correct: in each of these carbs is the major component.
One medium unpeeled, raw cucumber has the following:
A cup of chopped celery contains:
Half a cup of fresh bamboo slices contains approximately: