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What about the other 8 squeezed into the cabin who would normaly be in the back. Just more empty nonsense from the empty headed ones that have these thought bubbles. This will be the 1st real Songkran for many years. Maybe in BKK/greater BKK things will not be as much fun. The provinces who knows but I would imagine more than 4 in the back.

I'm guessing there is a bit of a language thing going on here otherwise the person who wrote this has no idea about the difference between work at home and digital nomad. Quality stuff or maye it's AI. Thai version. Moving on from this is this... Yeh right! "without the fear of a backlash" I'm your superior. How dare you ignore my communications. I have lost face. What are you going to do about it? As for this is now law fairly sure drink driving etc etc etc is unlawful. No more commuting? Thailand enshrines work-from-home culture in law

Horseshoe crabs are delicious (and expensive) but as @SABlokesays the story is about identification/misidentification so a comparasion would've been nice. Perhaps they were worried about getting the pics mixed up LOL. Which is which?

Whatever you think of dope this guy is an idiot just like the rest of them. Nothing based on any evidence just big noting throw away lines. Thailand will never advance as long as corrupt, uneducated cretins run the show. It's a real pity but the rich, corrupt minority run things. Anutin legalised pot as a political ploy. Nothing more. It was not about society. No one has ever died from a dope overdose. The same thing cannot be said about alcohol. Mental illness and dope. Sure this is a problem but the illness already exists. The same can be said for alcohol. Some people can go through life with absolutely no problems from drug taking be it legal or illegal, and some others can't. It's a shame that these idiots reduce any productive conversations on this down to some puerile, uneducated, selfserving endevour.

Pity is that a rational argument will never change the mind of the irrational. Alcohol I like but it's different for different people. Sorry you had a bad time with it. Unfortunately the uneducated of this world who have their 3 cups of coffee a day, maybe a packet of cigs, drink alcohol and are fine with it or are not (drunk driving, domestic violence, fighting etc.) view dope as some demon drug a drug that was demonised by a political decision. Coca Cola use to have cocaine in it. Boy I wish it still did. What a happy world this would be.

Thai people believe in ghosts. A turtle coming into your home is good luck. Lottery numbers seen on trees etc, etc. Not a great reference IMO. One has to wonder who is doing the smoking.

You forgot the brown envelopes of which he has for sure handed out thousands of big fat ones. Guy's a criminal.

Sorry but this is complete and utter nonsense. It's a herb. You dry and smoke the heads. As for self medication George Bernard Shaw wrote "Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life". Nice but one could replace alcohol for weed. There would be less societal damage this way.

I'm very laid back thank you very much. I for one suppport the legalisation of all drugs. The Portugal model is something you should look at. Crime down. Prisons emptying. Employment up. Drug dependence down. But you are right I'm not quite laid back enough. Another toke I think. ps I have read the bible cover to cover and have read an unabridged version of the old testament. I am in no way religious because I think faith is just silly but it is a good read.

Oh dear god good try. I suggest a small toke for you, relax and read your bible. I would go for the old testament. Really good novel. Try and read the unabridged version. I might be wrong but burning babies alive springs to mind. Definitely not something someone who has had a chuff would think of doing. Also not sure what the elderly (???????) potheads have to do with it. The one's I have met have been very laid back nice people. Way to go in my opinion. It's the yaba here that's the problem. Not weed.

I think you should all wake up. Marijuana is a very, very dangerous drug that will lead anyone who smokes it down the road to mental illness and harder drugs. That's all I've got to say except for I believe it's time for a beer and a bong. Ahhhhhh! That's better.

These warning levels are not given or changed lightly. Interesting. Australian Foreign Affairs shows no such warning.

Understand but if KN95 an N95 masks which I believe have been tested for pm2.5 are not fitted properly then there really is no point. It just becomes a fashion accessory. Interestingly there seems to have been no scientific and peer reviewed studies about the efficacy of mask wearing and covid-19. Funny really because the year the Chinese let covid out was the same year or time thereabouts that PM 2.5 was making the news and people were wearing masks for the pollution. Again if not properly fitted they are next to useless.

Corruption top to bottom depends on a compliant society. Compliancy is taught through so-called cultural and religious education.

The disposable surgical masks (which the majority use because they're cheaper) are as effective against pollution as they are against Omicron. That is to say not effective at all.

Well that might be the case where you are but last wk I went to my local branch of Krung Thai forgot to take a mask and they wouldn't let me in.

Can Thailand’s political parties take us out of the middle-income trap? Interesting. Top 5% own how much. 90%+ of Thailand's wealth. What % are in poverty? Reduction of poverty? Well I'm guessing the lockdowns increased poverty substantially. As for political parties it's all about filling their own and their mates pockets. Fairly sure there would be 10's of millions who would love to be in a middle income trap. Headline seems to defy reality.

My missus puts a mask on only to go into shops, the bank etc. Often just forgets to take it off. I remember plenty of times in the 1st year of this completely forgetting to take my mask off. Now I forget to take one with me e.g. if I have to go into the bank as they wont let you in without one.

Sorry. Yes of course your opinion is correct. Having lived here 18 yrs full time, having a family and a house does not give me the right to an opinion on if it's time to "ditch the masks" and why Thais (and farang, so not just Thais) are still wearing masks. I did ask a teacher last wk why they were still wearing masks. Answer was covid. Mask was around his neck. As I have just posted I think it's because no one has said take off the masks. Told to put them on but as of yet not told to take them off. Lots of masks still to be sold, plenty of money to be had but wearing masks has never been compolsory. Interesting sociological/pyschological phenomena.

Then I guess this comment is directed @Rooster. I cant see a problem with saying "it's time to ditch the masks" because it is time to ditch the masks. Faces are part of human interaction and communucation and I, as does @Rooster, want to get back to this. If still wearing a mask is a cultural rather than medical thing just what part of Thai culture is it? I believe Thais are waiting to be told what to do. At the very beginning of the pandemic I masked up. At this stage Thais were only wearing masks for pollution. Then they were told to wear masks and it was almost 100% complience. Thing is no one has told them to stop wearing masks.

"95-100%" of Thais still wearing masks in BKK he says. I'm just outside of BKK and it's the same although I am just starting to see a few (usually younger) more not wearing them. 06:15. "My message at the moment to the Thai people in particular is ......please ditch the masks. The pandemics over...." I can only agree with this comment but the thing is the pandemic has been over for more than a year and yet almost all Thais are still wearing masks. I believe this is not the case in places like Pattaya and Phuket. As I have been saying IMO since Omicron there has been no need to wear a mask. Know a farang who was a bit of a mask wearer who got omicron. Only knew this because a friend tested positive so tested themselves. Positive result. Symptoms nil. Asymptomatic. No longer wears a mask. I think post Songkran the masks will come off.

I believe this is the topic of the OP and this thread is it not? Rooster Reports 7: Hello Thai people: The pandemic's over now, pretty please, ditch the face masks!

No where did I say this. I would guess almost 100% of people in Thailand have been exposed and will continue to be exposed. Masks will not prevent this.

Tell me why Thais are still wearing masks. Tell me why Thais think Omicron is dangerous and can kill them. You say superiority, I say rational and educated. I've been here 18 yrs full time and I'm married. I do have some idea about what I'm saying. I'm sure if some Thai 'expert' was to come out now and say mask wearing wards off ghosts many, many, many thousands if not millions of Thais would believe this.

Nup. Not very obsessed. Not even obsessed. Not sure how you come to that conclusion. I don't wear a mask and hopefully Thais will see the light and stop paying for and wearing them. They serve no purpose. Worn properly, worn improperly or not at all it's all the same. Covid-19 is an airborne virus. Masks will stop spittle and that's about it. The virus will happily escape the mask through breath. I've always had a bit of a giggle when I see people lining up at the local shabu restaurant all wearing masks, all crowded together and then the masks get taken off when they're inside. Pretty pointless really and as more information comes out may have been completely useless from the very beginning.