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I do like som tam thai though. On a scorcher like today it's nice with sticky rice and a cold beer or 3. Not over the top spicy but spicy. I'm really not sure if this article has got it right. Som tam thai is a central Thailand dish which as explained is different to Issan som tam. I very much doubt true Issan som tam would come 6th. What do you think?

I wonder how the covid alarmistst will react when more people die from heatsroke than covid. Let's face more people have died on the roads today than from covid. Not sure about covid deaths today. Possibly zero.

Fair point I guess. Xi is a dictator.

Don't know but what I do know today is ###########################n hot.

https://nida.nih.gov/publications/research-reports/marijuana/marijuana-addictive Give this a read. It's interesting. As you say it's not addiction in the true definition. Nicotine addiction is. Opioid addiction is.

Indeed. A very good point. Cheers. If this is this case though how will they be able to tell that booze has not been bought which as I remember your not able to do? Just a thought.

Sure. Seems like so far there's been 1 death from this sub-variant of Omicron out of a global population of >8,000,000,000. Probably will be more but for my mind I'm not going to run off and get jabbed again or wear a mask. If you think you should then that's your perogative.

If you call reality an agenda then that's up to you. It's a variant under monitoring not a variant of concdern.

"He told Thailand’s PBS news station that the man who died was “an elderly foreigner” with underlying health conditions. “His death, therefore, may not directly reflect the severity of this subvariant but rather its impact on other risk factors,” he added." https://uk.news.yahoo.com/first-person-dies-covid-variant-152540692.html I'm guessing you didn't read these rather important factors. It is a known fact that comorbidities can influence the severity of the infection as can age both factors pointed out in the article in relation to this person's death. So I guess a "sensible" person would take this into account.

..... and as I have pointed out several times the rural person may have no where to spend the bt10k because it's restricted (somehow) to a 4km radius. Unless the local mom and pop shop or small shop has the capacity (how?) to accept the digital wallet it seems to me that the money is useless. As it stands there is nowhere in the small villages that accepts the blue card and many people have to travel more than 4 km to find somewhere that does. Just another thought bubble policy that no real thought has been given to. Very typical of Thailand.

One BIB sitting on his backside all day. Yep. Should be enough.

Yep. It's Omicron and I have stated many times a mild viral infection for the majority, a majority which will have levels of immunity either from previous exposure, vaccines or both. It is not a variant of concern. So why keep going on about it?

"After next month’s election, senators will still be able to join the newly elected MPs in a joint parliamentary session to vote on the next prime minister." This is the elephant in the room. The elephant outside of the room if you like is the military.

So it seems as though it's good for the economy. Societal problems? Not really especially when compared to yaba that's for sure. Narcotic? No. Addictive? No. Should it be avaible for adults to purchase? Yes. Can the jeannie be put back into the bottle. Doubt it the only thing that will happen is it will be criminalized and go back underground. Prohibition does not and has never worked.

Need 50% + 1 otherwise a coalition needs to be formed. The 250 unelected senators also pose a problem for the choice of PM and of course a coupt can never be ruled out.

Apart from this... and this.... som tam is vegetarian. Now som tam thai if you took the dried krill out wiith no pla ra it would be 100% vegetarian. Dried krill is...

Snake head fish is delicious. Not sure about the liver fluke danger though as its cooked.

TOO LATE.

I might be wrong but that picture in the article looks like som tam thai just called tam thai. More of a milder version with dried krill and peanuts. Article doesn't mention pla ra. If you don't know what pla ra is (every one in Thailand should) it's fermented fish. This is som tam pu pla ra. Pu is the crab. Sayamia Bankokensis which is a rice paddy crab. Pla ra is the fermented fish sauce. Looks like this.... Personally I think it stinks real bad. This is added to the salad raw. You can get cooked versions. Cooked pla ra is safer because raw pla ra can have a little surprises in it which can lead to liver cancer. The surprise is this... Som tam should be so spicy you can hardly eat it. I watch my wife eating it, sweat pouring off her face, facial contortions, in great discomfort but that's how it has to be. I'm sure the article can not be about this.

Hope they make them better here than in China.

I've had colds and I've had covid. Still here mate. No hospital. Just a bit sick for a few days. When it comes to Omicron it's been the same for every one I know whose had it, mild except for one. He was asymptomatic. Please don't misrepresent what I said. I said for the majority of people it's a mild virul infection that shares similar symptoms as the common cold and this is the true. Coronavirus symptoms vs cold The Omicron variant (the most dominant strain in the UK) has symptoms that are very similar to a cold. Symptoms such as a headache, a sore throat, a runny nose, muscle aches, coughing or sneezing can be symptoms of the Omicron variant, or a cold. https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsupport/heart-matters-magazine/news/coronavirus-and-your-health/coronavirus-symptoms-cold-flu-or-coronavirus#:~:text=tell the difference.-,Coronavirus symptoms vs cold,Omicron variant%2C or a cold. As Omicron evolves it does come with different symptoms but none are considered severe or life threatening for the majority as a cold is not life threatening for the majority. You're making a mountain out of a molehill. 23,000 (according to the WHO data you linked) died in the 28 days (13 Mar-9 April) out of a population of around 8 billion. Sure those figures are not accurate with under reporting, figures from China can't be trusted, we don't know the age and comorbidity breakdown but it's a still a relatively small number of deaths. Road deaths globally are 1.3 million according to the WHO. Ourworldindata puts last years deaths globally at 67.1 million. I guess it's all perspective and and individuals situation.

Ok. So globally it has a death rate of around 0.00028%. How many of them with comorbidities? If you think Omicron is dangerous that fine. You keep wearing your mask and washing your hands. For me I view it as no more dangerous than the common cold of which both share similar symptoms.

https://ourworldindata.org/ It's over. There is no pandemic now. Omicron is endemic. Omicron for the majority of the global population is not fatal. Omicron for the majority of the global population is a mild viral infection. Omicron will continue to modify but it will not be any more severe maybe just more infectious.

Yes it did and old people and healthy people and young people but this was Delta. Even then the % of people dying with comorbitities far outweighed the rest. Delta has gone. The pandemic is over. The only threat from Omicron is people at high risk. Not everyone else. So a very, very, very small % of people globally or here in Thailand will die from covid and/or complications associated with comorbidities.This is the reality. Pandemic is over. Full stop. As for accusing me as a muesli muncher you are just so far off the mark with that one. ????

Fairly sure I didn't say that people deserve to die, in fact this is what I posted: "Maybe this has something to do with it. Fat diabetic people hospitaslised / dying with covid." Quoting you: "So in your view, overweight people who die from COVID deserve it,...." A retraction that I suggested these people derserve to die would be nice. Thank you. This is factual. Hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes were the most common comorbidity in patients death due to COVID-19. More than half of the patients had two or more comorbidities. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8677356/