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So nothing to do with June 2021 being Delta and Omicron (Dec 2021) variants being non fatal for the overwhelming majority. Well there you go. Follow the narrative get your boosters and all will be fine.

Yes, Stop! I agree but it's not a cold just like the flu is not a cold. Common cold/flu/SarsCov2 are different viruses but all now have very similar symptoms.

This sentence needs to be extended. "Since the start of the year, Thailand has seen a total of 31,205 COVID-19 hospital admissions, resulting in 172 deaths, predominantly among those over the age of 69 [and those with severe comorbidities]. As for 172 deaths so far this year, being that there have been 186 days passed as of July 4, this means a daily death rate of less than 1 in ≈ 70,000,000.

For a story about how terrifying the prison ordeal was there are actually very few lines about said terrifying prison ordeal.

Let's not forget midnight to 11:00 a.m.

A 3 year old doesn't drop out of school they are taken out and are also not a youth. Poverty is the major cause. More hot air with zero detail about how to do this and IMHO impossible to implement without financial support to the families. Sadly Thailand follows the US model of very limited social security.

A complete sham from the beginning which was obviously open to corruption. The Senate should be a national vote by the people (has it's own problems TIT) not a selection where the voting public has no say in who represents them in the Senate and those selected, not elected pay off other selectees for their seat in the Senate.

All sold at schools and outside/next to schools.

Sure helps with my asthma.

Total and absolute BS. LOS was the land that the magnificent Buddha sticks came from some 5 decades ago. Of course you wouldn't know this as your knowledge of dope or lack thereof is well demonstrated in your post.

Interesting. This is a diversion surely. I see this as dope being recriminalised as no longer the issue and focus now on medical use only which of course was the BJP initial approach. The focus should be recriminalisation vs regulation the latter being the only sane way to go and the former being the Thaksin way to go.

The whole thing is a farce and anybody who can't see this must be very stupid indeed.

They can get rid of the party but this will not change this number. If anything it will increase it. The Thai people want change.

So you can commit a crime and still be a Senator. ?????????????????????

This is more than likely correct but in this US style of litigation it doesn't matter it seems here in Thailand. There seems there is no parliamentary privilege here. If someone wants to charge deformation that's what they'll do and it will go to court. A court that if you not connected to the military elite you're chances of dismissal are very slim indeed if the person claiming deformation is from that very military elite sector. It was raised in parliament. This should never be allowed to happen.

Agree but in a democracy what is said in parliament is immune from defamation prosecution under parliamentary privilege. This should never happen. Any abuse of parliamentary privilege is sorted out in parliament but this isn't abuse. It's simply pointing out corruption under what I would think to be parliamentary privilege.

This is why parliamentary privilege exists. Said outside of parliament one is open to defamation but this wasn't. Just another example of why democracy in Thailand is nothing but a facade.

14 Senators selected from Buriram. Tell me that doesn't stink. How anyone could say this with a straight face is obviously deluded (maybe it can be said that elections are free and fair, it's what happens after via the EC and CC) and I'm not sure what a recount will achieve. Maybe a check of bank accounts for recent large deposits might be more beneficial. Said before and will say it again. This was not an election it was a selection open to fraud and corruption and in no way is representative of the views and opinions of the people of Thailand. A complete and total sham.

Following a global trend. Maybe not in Chiang Mai though. p.s. anxiously awaiting reply.

The tip of the iceberg. Catch 10% miss 90%. Recriminalise dope as a narcotic and the next big burn will have a lot more yaa baa in the mix.

This selection was always open to fraud and corruption. A complete idiotic idea. Individuals selecting individuals rather than the voting population electing individuals to represent them in the Senate.

There's nothing bright about having to plan 1000's of individualised lesson plans a month. It's simply impossible. No negative outlook here just common sense and an understanding of how teaching and learning works. As I said it's a good idea but only when practicable. Classes of 40+ it's most definitely not practical.

Ah! Keep the advisors at arms length so they take the fall. The corruption of these advisors would be the tip of the iceberg. Look up the ladder to see the real corruption.

I guess all the religious people are firmly grounded in reality then. An almighty, omnipotent entity that created everything and that nobody has ever seen and there is no evidence of is reality. I'll take the alcohol and the odd puff over that any time.

Not for long. The EC will accuse her of something and she will have to step down pending a ruling from the CC which will ban her from the Senate and from running again for 10 years.