Wiggy

Just a jumped up sea scout. 

Honda have just told me that the pink paint on the wheel nut was to indicate that the tyres had been filled with nitrogen. I didn’t ask for this, so I guess it’s something they just do. I had all four tyres replaced the following day so it didn’t last long! 

1 hour ago, petedk said:

 

I agree with you that these people are suffering and I really feel for them, but some of the Thais (and I guess other nationalities) have the mentality that they want easy money.

Some of these people could at least TRY something else and not wait endlessly for the foreigners to return.

 

Near where I work about a year ago, I noticed a young girl started sell freshly pressed orange juice. She obviously didn't have much money as this was done on a sheet on the ground and she only had a few oranges. Anyway, as time progressed I noticed that she bought a table and then a glass cabinet and so on. I sometimes buy from her and she started trying to speak English with me. She told me that she lost her job due to Covid, (She didn't say what the job was and I didn't ask).

 

Now she has someone to help her and has a second stall not so far from the first.

 

I know not everyone can do that, but some could at least try.

She has ‘som’ hope. 
 

I’ll get my coat.  

Don’t have beans for breakfast. 

1 hour ago, RichardColeman said:

I dare say you never go out then ? 

 

maybe 25,000/69,000,000 dead on Thai roads.

maybe 3(unproven)/40,000,000 dead in UK from vaccine.

 

You're about 5,000 times more likely to die on a Thai road than AZ covid vaccine ! Does that means staying in forever until their is a vaccine for road safety ? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Have you ever thought it’s not about the number of people dying but the infrastructure not being able to cope with thousands upon thousands of people needing hospital treatment at the same time? Healthcare systems can’t cope logistically nor financially with this scenario, hence the need to stop the disease running rampant. 

She looks like a nutter. 

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Thailand will go ahead with its COVID-19 vaccination program using the AstraZeneca vaccine

Well, they don’t really have much choice with all their eggs in one basket. 

2 hours ago, Excel said:

Shut the whole country down with obviously some exceptions such as Government Ministers with their mia nois, mia nois in their own gifted car willing to give freebies to the police, those that drive cars valued more than 15 million baht, those that give bribes to anybody in government and of course anybody else who can say whilst drunk in their car "do you know who I am".  That should cover most.

It’s so sad to read, but oh so true. 

IMHO I don’t think the government are taking this latest wave very seriously at all, and I wonder if it’s because they and their cronies have probably been vaccinated. 

I don’t know, but my wife seems to transfer funds to manipulate my economy. 

15 minutes ago, Guderian said:

 

That would be the Health Minister, Anutin, who will go down in history as the worst failure in the position in the history of Thailand. The guy must have some serious family interests in the tourism business, as for the last year he's been behaving much more like the Tourism Minister than the Health Minister.

Maybe that's because his family own Siam Cement Group (SCG) who have been awarded the contract to build the new terminals at the airport. Coincidence, of course.

2 minutes ago, animatic said:

PS you miss where it said 1/3 of The PMs Cabinet is isolating?

I did see that, but choose not to believe a single word of it. Isolating = hiding.

Because they didn't join COVAX, and they are doing it for profit and not as a matter of public health.

1 minute ago, mike1967 said:

I have been saying for months and months that travel to Thailand is now out of Thailand's hands. They may think they are calling the shots but they're not. Unfortunately, it's now inevitable that travel to Thailand will be banned from vaccinated countries or at least hotel quarantine at ones own expense back in their home countries. 

Yes, I agree. I saw a survey the other day where 85% of people said they wouldn't travel to an unvaccinated country, even if they were vaccinated themselves. Thailand is messing this up big time.