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With independent monitoring and assessment one would hope. I doubt this will be the case though. However, this should only play a small as it is open to being skewed. Rigorous independent scientific, social and economic studies should be the main focus. Regulation not criminalisation should be the direction this goes but it's not likely as Thaksin is surely behind this.

Yaba. Transliteration is medicine crazy. Thai version of meth mainly coming in from Laos and Myanmar. I agree about the pic though. Took me less than 10 seconds to get this pic and it's what the article is about.

Caught with two and it won't be ID the BIB won't, it'll be money. Same with dope.

What exactly would one dose of this be then????????

Ok. Well don't call me an anti-vaxxer then.

I suggest you look up asymptomatic covid infection. It seems my above explanation wasn't clear enough but in the most simplest of terms you can be infected and not know that you're infected. It would be close to 100% infection rate in Thailand. Maybe you haven't had it but the point is without a blood test you can't be certain. I have no idea how many times I've had it. Two for sure but very possibly more. Sniffle here, bit of a sore throat there, a cough, a splitting headache, a few aches and pains etc. Don't take much notice as it's all pretty mild. Covid? Maybe, maybe not.

Ah! How do you know you haven't had Covid? You do realize I hope that some people who get infected have zero symptoms or symptoms that are so mild it goes unnoticed. It's called an asymptomatic infection. Unless you've had a blood test for anti-bodies you cannot know for certain that you haven't had a past infection.

I've said many times I'm not an anti-vaxxer and it's only the demonising narrative against those who didn't want to take an experimental mRNA vaccine that all these people were (and quite obviously still are) labelled anti-vaxers. Believe and follow the narrative otherwise you are a conspiracy theorist and an anti-vaxxer. The proverb goes "There are none so blind as those who will not see." The truth is now starting to come out.

COVID misinformation? You mean like Fauchi.

Your comment is more apt in relation to the article than my comment. Covid19 Omicron is endemic as is the common cold and the flu.

Interestingly the actual science behind mask wearing and social distancing has never been independently verified. If it has it hasn't made it's way to the public. By independent I do not mean the CDC, the WHO, Government bureaucrats, the legacy media or any organisation beholden to big pharma. Boosters are being advised for the immunocompromised and those with other severe comorbidities. I'm not sure if your common sense is a) common or b) sensible but it is your choice.

So for around 70,000,000 people here in Thailand dying from (not with) covid19 of the Omicron variety should not be of any great concern.

Sadly the outcome has been predetermined in these Junta courts. Hope I'm wrong but I'll be amazed if I am but whatever happens it will only strengthen the progressive movement in Thailand.

Also worth bearing in mind comorbidities and incidental cases. This has been an endemic non-severe virus for a very long time now but sadly the narrative still gets pushed and believed.

Interesting that BP ran an article last week citing a virologist from Chulalongkorn University who said that boosters are no longer necessary for healthy people because the symptoms are generally mild. I've been saying for a very long time now. It's Omicron and Omicron is doing what Omicron does. It evolves. It evolves so it can infect people that have gained some natural immunity. This is called immune escape. People will gain natural immunity with this variant and then this variant will evolve immune escape. So it goes on. It cannot be stopped and it could never be stopped. Zero Covid 19 was a complete smokescreen and never attainable.

The CC and the EC along with the Constitution are all part of the Junta's apparatus. These are in place to guarantee the protection of the Monarchy, the generals and the elite. It's not about undermining democracy it's about denying it.

My fear is the next election is under threat because the military and it's boss knows what the result will be.

Nothing striking at all about this when the majority of the Thai voting population didn't vote for this government or the puppet "running" it.

And here in lies the problem. The only democracy in this country is "a democracy" that fully supports the Monarchy (including Section 112), the Generals and the elites. Any challenge to this will be quelled by the junta's legal apparatus.

Yep and now the creation of a senate by selection not by a general election. Couldn't be a general election because they know the senate would be held by progressives.

Well this shows the veracity of these announcements. 30% want 0 tabs and 70% want a maximum of one so 100% of Thai citizens say 1 tab or less. This is rubbish. As for streamlining the judicial system it will need to be streamlined to keep up with the huge increase of prisoners. This is simply a continuance of Thaksin's 'war on drugs'. Will the extrajudicial killings come later on down the track?

Floods during the wet season? Never.

Doubt it but the hardcore alcoholics would be well on their way. No balance in your comment just like there is no balance in the weed narrative.

I missed this bit which sort of answers my question about the rich but having said this I have on more than one occasion seen someone getting out of a Merc going into a store that accepts the blue card and using it. The rich (esp. the Chinese) will find a way to buy these tickets.