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They like "Prime Minister" Anutin over at Siam BioScience

This design does not look at all safe, even for a tuk-tuk. The spans look far too big for the materials being used. Are they not adding extra braces to support it?

If this guy ever gets bored of being an expert, he would make a great horror movie star. "Chula Phi Khao"

2 hours ago, ukrules said:

Yes, I suspect it's a combination of humidity and temperature.

 

For example, do you know just how humid it is in Wuhan?

 

Wuhan :

 

Bangkok :

 

Not much difference, eh. Of course the temperature is very different.

 

Perhaps 'absolute humidity' plays a part.

 

So I think we're looking at humidity plus temperature.

 

Humidity plays a big part because the main transmission vector of the virus is by aerosols, not by droplets, not by touching things. Unfortunately health organizations are scared of this because they think people will also be more scared of what is essentially an airborne virus

15 minutes ago, greeneking said:

I would genuinely like to know what benefits you see. Many flights of 5000 baht or less and a flight time of 110 minutes are on offer already.

I would enjoy the journey, but after the fun trip my next trips for business or holidays would be by air. Transporting goods does not need to be done by high speed trains. Many Chinese tourists have very short holidays and want to be somewhere in the quickest way i.e. fly.

Mostly personal, love long train journeys, love Laos and South West China so all good for me and others like me. 
 

3 minutes ago, 3NUMBAS said:

tedros has claimed that herd immunity wont happen and a yank has had a dose of covid twice so look s  like antibodies dont last long

You cannot base that idea on a single case who tested positive twice just a month apart, meaning he likely never got rid of it. Covid19 is nothing special anti-bodies will last as long as they do for normal coronaviruses, so about a year

Laos broke ground in 2013 on their portion of the railway, have bored 75 tunnels and are on target to start to open in 2021. Thailand is miles behind, and will hold up the project for years to come. The railway is supposed to go to Singapore, so the Bangkok-Padang Besar stretch has to be built as well.

I don't think many of us will be alive to see it let alone use it

On the face of it this is very good news for Thailand, but like all things in Thailand, probably not what it seems. So just where is this vaccine supposed to be made?

There is the GPO factory in Saraburi which was planned in 2007 supposed to open in 2013, but delayed until 2017 and is capable of producing 2 million doses of vaccine per year. 

So if that is the govt plan, then it is going to take quite a while to vaccinate even half the population.

Wonder who will be first in line?

On 10/10/2020 at 10:15 AM, John Drake said:

Timely. I became quite ill on Wednesday evening, with headache, fever, and nausea. No sore throat. I don't know what the problem actually was. With fever mounting continuously, by yesterday afternoon I remembered I had bought a bottle of Fah ta lai Jone capsules right before the lockdown. Took four of them after dinner and in less than 90 minutes the fever seemed to break. Took three more at bedtime last night. Woke up and no fever. Coincidence. Could be. Might be just having worked through the illness, whatever it was. Don't care. Next time, I'll take at the first sign of fever.

I think that its where it does help, reducing fever symptoms quite quickly 

32 minutes ago, DavisH said:

Were you tested for covid? 

Yes. Positive test result

On 10/10/2020 at 5:12 AM, Bandersnatch said:

https://EcoHouseThailand.com is my blog.

The best DIY house blog there is. Thanks

49 minutes ago, ukrules said:

That's what I think too, everyone's getting it hilariously wrong on this one, apart from you.

Surely they would have said only owners of properties worth more than 3 million will be allowed back if that was the case

1 hour ago, 3NUMBAS said:

oldies and care workers are first in line... those under 50 rate lowly for any jabs at first

 

those over 80

those over 75

those over 65

 

dunno about those left

Absolutely right. The dream that any vaccine will be available to general public is just that, a dream.

Took it, it helped a lot. Covid over in 5-6 days

This is simply not true, absolutely will not happen the way it is being reported. Thailand may get some vaccine for those treating covid, about 100-200 doses I imagine, but if it does not all go to health professionals but instead is used by others, Oxford and the UK will close the door very quickly

1 hour ago, Acharn said:

In Thailand you need to plant on both the North and South sides. If you haven't noticed, on 21 April every year the sun's path passes through the zenith, and after that is to the North of the zenith until 16 August. Lot's of shade trees are a help. I like to have one or more trees on the East to block early morning sun, but an alternative is to have your bedroom on the West side of the house. High ceilings seem to help. I think, but am not sure, that the old practice of extremely steeply pitched roofs help.

I hadn't realised that! Although Phrae is approx May 10th to August 1st, I will have to adapt my plans somewhat. Thanks

The language is changing. People now instead of foreigners. 

22 minutes ago, charmonman said:

I don't suppose they'll offer refunds to all they people they've just screwed over. This is incompetence and stupidity beyond belief. Not to mention borderline fraud.

I should be happy that the Thai Long Stay Company never even acknowledged my email. Maybe I didn't sound gullible enough to be conned.

"The government will not offer them any refunds for flights, accommodation, insurance, and other fees they already paid for the Special Tourist Visas, or STV, since the delay is not officially considered as a cancellation of the policy. 

“It’s part of the conditions of the STV that they had to pay first,” Tourism Authority of Thailand governor Yuthasak Supasorn said by phone. “So, there’s no need for those refunds, because their trip is not cancelled, it’s just delayed.” " Khaosod