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Why do people get so worked up about wearing a mask? Are they the same people who don't take off their shoes when entering a house?

These are the people who are meant to be in the front line against te illegal trade in wildlife and the conservation of Thailand's natural resources - what other kinds of bribes are they likely to accept of give?

should read "by phone app."

In UK - They don't need the app log-in they can do it online however they can log-in if they have someone with basic internet skills on hand ALL UK vaccinations are registered for access online.

If you are in the UK, you can get you document online - if they had the jabs then there is a record. You can go on line or by phone app. The hard copy is downloadable online or order-able over email even post, I think- of course this is an inconvenience and in the latter circumstances, they need to do it ASAP as there are postal strikes (an NHS strikes) to take into account.

Actually they just don't release comprehensive figures. ... but if you dig around, you will find figures relating to crash helmets but they don't deal with relative severity of injury. The system for gathering statistics on RTIs was only started in 2019 and it looks like it was compiled by a 12 year old. The Police are only one of the organisations that gather stats and the ones they release now only give the vaguest idea of what is really going on. We can be fairly sure that "vulnerable" road users account for about 80% of deaths and motorcyclists about 75% of deaths. The number of injured is internationally recorded in 2 categories - minor, serious and fatal - as yet Thailand's efforts to do this are vestigial. The last couple of years also has to take into account the effect of Covid and the almost total lack of foreign visitors. There is no reliable source for counting those numbers. This yea we know that tourist arrivals are about a quarter of that in a "normal" year. In some parts of the country they may make up a sizeable amount of the casualties and fatalities.. Some perceptions gathered over the years about the "7 deadly day" - is that in general the death rate is usually slightly LOWER that the national daily average. This is more likely due to the absence of commercial traffic rather than any police campaigns. Another thing is that the number of collisions over this period in about the that same as in the UK - yet deaths there are about one twelfth of the Thai rate. This is probably due to the driving environment in Thailand and the extremely poor emergency services.. Successive Thai governments have failed even to acknowledge the causes of the dreadful state of road safety in the nation and so making any progress at all over the past 3 decades has failed because it hasn't even started

Actually the "why" is secondary. ,Because of the total relaxation of restrictions many people will have booked and not factored the need for proof of vaccine into their travel plans. I agree that people who didn't get vaccinated are usually making a bad decision although some people couldn't get vaccinated for medical reasons. The point is that NOW after a long period the Thai government has reversed this decision at short notice and the effects of this seem a bit draconian. It doesn't just mean those who are unvaxed are affected. We are talking about people who booked their holidays some time ago thinking that they didn't need proof of vaccine. Whereas this includes some who are unvaccinated, it also includes members of groups already booked who can no longer go with there friends. It may also be difficult for some to find prove, depending on the country, it may also mean that people will either have to check insurance and unexpectedly pay for extra cover. It also affects people with "respiratory diseases" of any kind - whether flu or other viruses and may have a cough or similar - they may be refused entry or have to postpone. It also means a lot of people for many reasons will be less happy about coming to Thailand.

my guess is that there will be a sizeable number of unvaccinated people who have already booked holidays, flights hotels etc who either haven't had jabs or will have members of their party without jabs ....or will simply be deterred from coming to Thailand because of this. It sounds like yet another un-researched dictum reacting to rising covid figures without fully assessing the risks and =consequences.

one of the major symptoms of drinking is that it destrroys brain cells by the thousands

"cheers" - QED

Only a drinker can't work that out.

This is a classic drinker's response. Firstly in denial about the effects of the alcohol they drink (v.WHO above) and then cannot conceive of life without an alcohol model of socialising. As said drinkers can't see outside the glass.

Your problem is because of alcohol you can't conceive how normal people socialise, you can only envisage it in groups styled on joint alcohol consumption groups. drinkers labour under the misconception that everybody behaves like they do - because they simply can't see beyond alcohol. In fact on a world scale they are a minority.

very few I would extrapolate the idea to include other bad habits.....but if it makes you feel better in yourself to imagine that.....it really just shows the depth of your addiction.

This just shows how addictive even "social" drinking really is - people can't even imagine how to function as a human without alcohol.

"lady menstruation " - ??????

As ever after all this time you have displayed a basic and profound misunderstanding of the topic.

20 million is HALF the pre-Covid high of 40 million - I would think that unless they are spending100% more, this poses the a serious problem for the Thai economy.

Not just China,It's the same in the UK and elsewhere..... - the Covid and flu admissions are way up on last year to the point that emergency services are almost collapsing.

sent back home? How many asylum seekers came from Rwanda, then? how many have been sent their by UK? - None! Is this typical Brexit thinking?

1000 words and that is all you can come up with? Not even relevant to my post. or the OP - "Why is the UK struggling more than other countries?" - but it does give one a clue. th OP is

The hapless government of Rishi Sunak is still trying to drip=feed Brexit onto the UK whilst at the same time trying to hold together a crumbling economy and standards of living. We know for a start that re-joining certain aspects of the EU were brought up in Cabinet but that is a U-turn that this current government could not survive. We can seen how fragile the post Brexit UK economy has become when Brexit PM Truss had to be quickly removed by her own Tory nabobs after nearly bringing the country to its knees. Most of the info offered here is also available on the UK government website and Reuters and BBC. …and outlined in posts above….. Since the referendum, the UK has had 6 prime ministers – 5 prime ministers in just 6 years - this is the fastest turnover in a century. Resulting from a massive political miscalculation by Cameron the UK plunged itself into economic decline and political chaos. It was clear from the start that the architects of the Brexit vote, in particular Boris Johnson, had no real plan for untangling decades of economic and legal ties with the EU, so the chaos followed. ..and the government has failed time and again to untangle the EU treaty as it needs to be replaced by UK legislation that can limit the damage to so many aspects of the UK – from trade, to politics to the very Union of the UK. It seems Boris was so keen to become PM, he lost sight of the ramifications of his own ambition…. Technically the UK left the EU on midnight, Jan 31 2020….. but it isn’t that simple…… Basically the government is trying to reduce the economic damage caused by the Johnson-Frost deal UK Government announced on the 28 April the further postponement of import controls planned to come into force July 2022. Most of has now been postponed until late 2023…..or later – e.g. The government is in the process of furtive “un-Brexiting” Time and again the Brexit govt. is postponing full Brexit as they know the damage it will cause. Jacob Rees-Mogg, the minister for Brexit opportunities, said it would be wrong to go ahead with this post-Brexit paperwork while supply chains were already facing pressure from rising energy prices and the effects of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. – This is therefore admitting that Brexit is putting an extra “struggle” on the UK. Import and export is the most obvious bottleneck – the government keep postponing the inevitable bureaucratic chaos. E.G. - Pre-notification on IPAFFS (Import of Products, Animals, Food and Feed Systems) of goods imported through ports The govt. has postponed the introduction of prenotification until later in 2023. Northern Ireland - The 25th anniversary of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement in April 2023 is looming. New elections for the Belfast Assembly have been postponed, but cannot be put off indefinitely. The policies of the UK government would in effect put an almost block on the free trade of most items with the EU. UKCA marking - Government (in the shape of Rees-Mogg) has also been questioned on fourth delay to import regulations - Business secretary Grant Shapps has announced delays to the introduction of the UKCA mark, (UK Conformity Assessed)giving business more time to continue using the EU mark – a move justified by the need to avoid extra costs at a time of economic fragility. The result is that manufacturers, producers, importer and exporters have no certainty for the future they just carry at the moment as if we hadn’t left the EU but with extra paperwork. In the future it may well result in the banning of many UK from the EU and other countries that rely on EU standards for their production (e.g. the Thai chicken industry) this means businesses can continue to use the CE marking and reversed epsilon marking on the GB market until 31 December 2024…. Or even later by then! Even private holidaymakers are feeling the effects of Brexit. Borders now see long queues of Brits waiting to clear their passports all over the EU. – Britain still has third country status at European borders. They could sign to a freedom of movement agreement such as Norway or Switzerland. Treaties – the government said that by the end of 2022 they would have replaced over 60% of FTAs. They have not got any=where near this target – it’s about 60%. The thing is these treaties are for the most part reinstating agreements that were voided on leaving the EU – but the Brexit government has not even been able to establish these. They also made much ado about signing treaties with the USA – who quite simply aren’t that interested as they have much bigger fish to fry. Why would anyone bother going through the hassle of a treaty with the UK when they already have a similar treaty with the EU that covers everything they need anyway. It’s just another layer of bureaucracy for something they already have. One big drawback for potential treaty signers is the UKCA situation – how can you sell stuff to a country that won’t tell you their standards? Boris’s promises – look a bit hollow now….. “A comprehensive Canada style free trade deal between the UK and the EU, a deal that will protect jobs across this country.” - Not done “A deal that will allow UK goods and components to be sold without tariffs and without quotas in the EU market.” – resulting in extra layers of bureaucracy that is strangling trade. “A deal which will if anything should allow our companies and our exporters to do even more business with our European friends.” – quite the opposite has happened “And yet which achieves something that the people of this country instinctively knew was doable.” – Boris – and it is patently not “doable”. The main problem facing the UK today is how to reverse the recession caused by Brexit. The main obstacle is the intransient obstinacy of those who supported Brexit. It was brought in not by reason and thought, it was a product of “feeling” and prejudices. So as it wasn’t based on evidence or reason it is almost impossible to argue against those who still support it as evidence and reason is of no consequence. Brexit will be reversed eventually as the slender group of people in the middle of these politics gradually come to the conclusion the Brexit was a massive blunder – the majority of Brexiteer won’t change their attitude, but they probably are too blinkered to notice the gradual return to common sense and the EU.

This whole incident is clearly part of a spat between high ranking officials. The DNP is a political backwater for ministers and has been poorly run for decades. It would seem that the circumstances surrounding this department are a perfect culture for corruption. A symptom of how badly this place is run is the perpetual insistence of dual pricing for entry to NPs - it is quite clear that no-one of rank in the department has any interest in how the dept is run....nor do they have any interest in wildlife and conservation. It would be nice to think that this "scandal" would result in a complete reform of the whole department - but I fear that is wishful thinking.

Population growth rate of the UK in the last 10 years is 5.69% Jut a little more than Thailand’s at 5,55% and less than the USA at 5.74%.

The thing about Brexiteers is they really didn’t have much of a clue – all thy knew is what they were told and they were told they weren’t happy. A bundle of soundbites, clichés and catchphrase were put forward instead of any real policy and this coupled with a vague idea that things were better in the 1950s was enough. May people also thought that nothing very much would change – they thought life would still go on but with blue passports (they didn’t know you could already get those). What is very clear now is that things can’t go on….the economy is shrinking and that has palpable effects of everyone – especially the lower incomes who thought Brexit would help them. The UK economy is one of the biggest in the world but it isn’t invulnerable and Brexit has given it a big, long kick in the fundament. If you are in any doubt about how vulnerable a leading economy can be just look at what happened when Brexiteer Truss took over…. In a stark indictment of UK democracy, she was quickly ousted by the powers that be to prevent the UK from disappearing down a Brexit hole…..the truth is that the Brexit government keeps postponing further breaks with the EU because they know if they carry on it will just hasten the UK’s decline into a banana republic. The gradual realignment with Europe is not just a political thing, it is an inevitable progression that all politicians are aware of …. It’s just a matter of getting rid of the dingle polcy, dogma-driven few that remain in government.