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Boris Johnson is considering something similar for the UK. Funny how 'great minds' think alike.

22 minutes ago, Caldera said:

It's quack o'clock, unsurprisingly.

 

At last, a bit of common from a Thai.

 

Half of the medicines in the pharmacy have their roots based on natural ingredients.

 

I've been singing the praises of garlic and ginger and mushrooms for years on TVForum. Now some Thai Doctor has actually read my posts. Good for him. He is enlightened now.

 

Let's hear it for reishi wine and three cheers for the Doc' while we are about it.

 

Notice in the 'west' we have virtually eradicated the word 'chemist' and replaced it with 'pharmacy'. Not by accident that.

10 minutes ago, Sunmaster said:

It's never too late to start the journey. ????

What's for lunch.

He looks so funny.

I don't want to go to hell.

4 hours ago, DrTuner said:

Yes, if you don't close the whole country at the same time, a swarm of locusts will descend from BKK to cities outside, bringing infected with them. Lock it all down.

My wife's daughter and her husband live in BKK. Don't want them anywhere near me. Virus or not. Where are those commandoes? They could stop 'em leaving for the prov's. Come on Cha Cha; do it. You know you want to!!

 

And the submarines?

6 minutes ago, RickG16 said:

Ah it worked out well then... kind of.

 

I always try and sleep on my back but end up turning right. 

Thanks for that Rick.

 

OP; if you are talking 'heartburn' (not sure if you are), turning right to sleep on your left side is preferable to sleeping on your right side. There are a couple of reasons for the problem, but the most important one is the bend valve at the start of the gut. If you are getting heartburn whilst you are laying down sit up straight and burp out the trapped air.

 

Stay away from fried food after about 4 in the afternoon.

1 hour ago, NanLaew said:

The BMTA announced that non-essential shops and malls should close. I haven't read about any nearby provincial authorities making the same call. The government still hasn't made up its mind whether to call a nationwide closure of non-essentials.

 

Not having clue where Crossyville is, maybe go and have a look?

 

If and when the shutdown does hit the DIY shops, one needs to improvise and start scavenging screws from existing installations. For example, there's at least half-a-dozen 'spare' screws in each pair of wood door hinges and maybe a dozen if you remove the door completely.

 

This 'outside the box' DIY tip brought to you by the letters N and L.

Although this post is a little 'tongue-in-cheek' there is some good advice.

 

The doors - and I guess most poster's doors are the same - have four hinges with four screws in each. Just do the following: remove three from the bottom hinge, two from the next up, two from the second down  and one from the top. Do that to four doors and you have 32 screws.

 

This DIY tip is brought to you by 'Owl's common sense approach to Thailand DIY'

51 minutes ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

If that humiliation wasn’t enough i then had to read about my team having a bad day ( ???? ) a few years ago !!, i was only 5 at the time so thankful I don’t remember the “ bad day “.

Leeds were a force to be reckoned with during those times. But when the Irons were on their game they could beat anyone. Shame they were not 'on there game' more often. Same even now.

 

The fixture before the Boleyn game, Leeds had gone to Highbury and come away with an easy 1-3 win.

 

I've heard - perhaps you could verify Andy - that Bremner was very angry in the dressing room, after the game, and threatened a few players for not busting their gut enough.

 

Later I began to appreciate Leeds, when I had a lovely girlfriend who lived near the ground.

 

I must say that The Irons are not my number one team. My team is 'deleted'; too embarrassed to say. Although they were a top flight club in the early 1960s.

16 minutes ago, HighPriority said:

Owl, I thought that the last time you used that font you decided that you needed it to be 1-2 points larger in future...?

if we do not learn from our past we are doomed to repeat our mistakes... ????????

You and Andy are quite right. No more 'comic' fonts. Even though it is my favourite.

The 'Grab' m/c couriers are going to be Thailand's heroes and heroines.

 

These doom-mongers that say there is nothing you can do to protect yourself other than self-isolation are sad.

 

There are the obvious things like washing hands with alcohol and handling money with plastic gloves on and wearing swimming goggles, but there is even more basic stuff. That is the body itself! Think of the body as a fortress. The virus is trying to get across the moat and scale the walls but when it does the inhabitants have to be ready to fight back. And that fighting back means a strong immune system.

 

It's easy to stick 'how to boost your immune system' into google and get hundreds of special herbs, drinks, exercises and goodness knows what else. 

 

Here are my tips:

 

Get in stock as much reishi, maitake and <deleted>ake for six months supply. If you cannot get all three; then reishi is the choice. Use the mushrooms to make tea. Drink half litre of this tea every two hours.

 

Garlic: pop a clothe in your mouth and chew slowly until just a pulp. Then wash down with reishi tea. Repeat every 3 hours.

 

Ginger: do the same as with the garlic.

 

Onions: a slice of onion a day keeps the peelaw away (so the saying goes). Could also keep the virus at bay.

 

Pappaya: great food. Eat AMAP.

 

Apples: as papaya.

 

Exercise: exercise sensibly. Get partner to help with this.

 

Sleep: get some rest. Can't sleep? Pop a couple of clothes of garlic next to your head; soon be sleeping like a baby.

 

Good quality dark chocolate. A nice snack and a great benefit for the coming war.

 

Coconut water: drink plently.

 

Licorice: just chew those sticks away.

 

Sugar: cut it out immediately. Plenty of sugar in the above fruits.

 

Salt: very, very moderate use.

 

Do not eat any food that has been fried.

 

Worry; try not to worry. When (if) the virus breaches your defences you will be well ready to resist it.

 

Lots more stuff to stop that nasty virus in its tracks.

 

Stay safe out there.

 

 

2 minutes ago, Sambotte said:

I"m searching, randomly :

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/18/coronavirus-lives-for-hours-in-air-particles-and-days-on-surfaces-new-us-study-shows.html

No mention of smoke.

 

Can not find much.

 

Anyway non-sense with fire pollution in north, diesel pollution everywhere, and Thaïs still burn trash regularely !

 

But of course, target the smokers... So easy-lazy.

I've not even looked for it on the internet Sambotte. Good you have.

 

Mrs Owl read it on one of her (Thai) media platforms and told me about it. She is in the shower right now; so no link tonight I fear.

 

The way I see it is this: If a virus is carried out into the big wide world - eg by a sneeze - it will fall to the ground quite quickly unless it attaches itself to something that gets more easily carried in the breeze. It (the virus) will die eventually, but might stay alive longer on a smoke particle.

10 minutes ago, Sambotte said:

Scientific reference please ?

The wife is getting to it right now, But post #17 says it all.

 

41 minutes ago, Youlike said:

In Europe they scapegoat the virus for dirty air, air with much pollution (like in the italian mountains, serious!) contributes to the spread of the virus...i read it in the newspaper.

Youlike probably meant a 'medical paper', not any old newspaper.

1 minute ago, Youlike said:

Chiang mai is in or near the top 10 of most polluted cities worldwide, so the virus must be happy to spread there...i bet the air in italy is far far cleaner than in chiang mai.

The COVID-19 virus can 'hitch a ride' on a smoke particle. If there is a little breeze the virus can travel a long way (maybe miles) before it finds a new host. This is why Chiang Mai people are so sick.

 

I'm not so knowledgeable about e-ciggies; so can't comment. Used to smoke myself but gave it up in 1976,

24 minutes ago, Brigand said:

 

To be a little more practical regarding paper money, then iron it briefly at a high temperature and wash hands afterwards as the temperature of the iron will nuke anything.

Absolutely!!! And smear the alcohol gel onto the iron's handle (if you have any that is). Can make a gel with Lao Khao and garlic, if there is none in your parts.

 

Also, leave all doors ajar. So they can be opened with the elbow or knee.

 

Take your lead from the Skripal affair in England. Can't be too careful out there.

 

I've said it before and it's worth repeating. Keep tuned in to TVForum for the truth and common sense.

 

 

10 minutes ago, CGW said:

Why won't the mangoes make it to market, local markets are still open, they can't close them!

If Cha Cha takes decisive measures; anything can happen. The wife has read on her Thai Social Media that gatherings with more than 5 people will be made illegal again; like it was a couple of years back, under the same regime. Anything is possible in LOS. Street sellers will be arrested.

3 hours ago, RJRS1301 said:

cannot get to the bank to get it, and soon no one will be accepting cash as the surface could carry the virus

 

Absolutely bang on the money RJRS1301. The virus can stay on a surface for up to 24 hours, IMO this is one of the most obvious ways to pass the virus on.

 

I'm not sure who is going to advise Cha Cha. The medics know precious little, the TAT team even less and the military have got the commandoes at the ready, but no real plan.

 

My advice it to only handle money (coin and paper) if you have gloves on. Keep any money in a sealed metal box at home. To safeguard others, tip the money into a ceramic dish (that has had a alcohol wipe) and put them into the microwave for a couple of minutes. Care must be taken when the money has just come out as the coins will be quite hot. And also a word of caution, go easy with the alcohol. Just a smear for anything going into the microwave.

26 minutes ago, xylophone said:

Carefully managed it could turn out to be a good move.

This virus has come at the wrong time for the mango industry in Thailand. At the end of this month millions of mangoes would be for sale in the markets. It is devastating for the farmers, the wholesalers and the small stall fruit outlets. Thais will eat packet food for the next two months, and forgo their vitamin C mango top up, thus lessening their resistance to the dreaded virus.

2 hours ago, Kadilo said:

You’re memory’s good Owl, must have been before my time. ????

1986 was a decent season when the club attained a third spot, but for many supporters the biggie was 1999. Winning the Intertoto Cup (beating Metz) and finishing fifth in the EPL. So two golden years. And, I was there when we pummeled Leeds 7-0 at the Boleyn a few years ago.

 

 

4 minutes ago, Kadilo said:

We have a winner!

Obviously referring to the Hammer's golden years.

16 hours ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

This staying at home malarkey isn’t as bad as I thought it would be !!

We can take the time to educate ourselves

 

Today I learnt that one bag of rice has 8953 grains and an apparently identical bag has 8977 grains !!

 

I’m going to double check !

See , that’s tomorrow’s activity already sorted !!

Any posters considering this type of activity should go back 12 months and read the topic 'Shampoo rip off'.

 

Trading standards are a bit relaxed here in LOS. Glad you have found another example of shoddy work. Keep up the good work Andy. Good you are doing a recount too.

Definitely 'doggie style' with her.