Chomper Higgot

The UK’s private health sector is a parasite on the back of the NHS. It doesn’t train doctors, they come from the NHS. It doesn’t train nurses, they come from the NHS. It doesn’t train health professionals, they come from the NHS. It makes profits from the easily performed, short treatment low treatment cost procedures and passes difficult high cost treatments back to the NHS. When your private hospital care goes wrong, you’ll be sent back to the NHS. The NHS is effectively underwriting the Private Healthcare Sector.

You’ll be straight back to the NHS when the need arises.

Repealing libel laws might help. Suggesting oil pouring into the ocean from the outflow of an oil refinery is coming from the oil refinery risks criminal prosecution with attendant serious prison time and fines.

Yes a time of extreme wealth amongst a tiny fraction and extreme poverty amongst the masses. Many parallels to Thailand 2021.

Stating the obvious

No I haven’t only parked at home, silly idea.

Neither did people in the UK before pensions were introduced.

Perhaps a starting point would be to determine what current wages are. Around us the going rate for gardeners, building labour is Bht500/day, for skilled building workers, brick layers, carpenters, electricians etc it’s Bht700~900 a day. I suspect anyone with options is already earning over Bht500/day, but of course people in provincial villages shackled to debt might not be able to get a decent pay, especially if working for their lender.

So let’s set what is acceptable by the poverty in failed states.

Does publicizing these videos serve any purpose beyond feeding voyeurism and stoking fear? I’ve lived in Thailand almost 25 years now, had a car the whole time, ever once have I come across people getting violent over parking spaces. The only times I’ve ever had anyone approach me regarding parking, they’ve been polite and respectful, just like the vast majority of people are polite and respectful.

Perhaps a better question would be, where would you rather have sat out the COVID Pandemic, Thailand or elsewhere (please name the place)?

We need to put these claims of destroying the economy/industry into perspective. I was working in Thailand during the 97~98 financial crisis and currency crash. Nobody who witnessed that can reasonably claim COVID, lockdowns, isolation has come anywhere near destruction wrought by that financial crisis. I’ve also been in Thailand throughout the COVID Pandemic. Putting aside one month of lockdown and the minor inconvenience of face masks I’ve not come across any restrictions that I personally did choose to impose on myself. Thailand has had a relatively easy ride through COVID. The Government could have done many things better but I feel very fortunate to have been able to sit it out here, rather than elsewhere.

Over estimated and over simplistic. Pre-COVID Tourism represented around 18% of Thailand’s GDP, which in 2020 dropped to just under 7%. Not all tourism sectors have been equally impacted, where I live hotels and restaurants were fully booked through the winter high season, these were of course Thai domestic tourists but an indication of how large a part they play in the whole of the Thai tourism industry. Also of note, upmarket resorts and hotels were also fully booked, Thai tourists also fill the high spend sub-sector of tourism. I also have doubts over income reported from many businesses in ‘foreign facing’ tourism businesses, particularly bars, many of which are in my opinion not surviving on the basis of real income, though doubtless reporting profits.

I’m in Thailand, looking around I find myself asking, where’s this lockdown you are bleating on about?

Join a gym

What’s the ‘we’ in your ‘we have too many….’?

Did you think about that before posting?

In the age of social media and internet search engines it has become a deal more complicated than that. Algorithms monitor what information people respond to, ‘like’, ‘share’ or even how long they spend with an item ‘on screen’. The algorithms then feed more of the same. This is not simply a single social media platform issue, online searches are examined and used to feed articles and advertisements to the users social media. The (confirmation bias) is being fed by algorithms. As we frequently observe here in this forum, misinformation from obscure sources winds up being posted by numerous members, that isn’t caused by these individuals independently stumbling on the same obscure sources, their confirmation bias is being fed.

It’s a major public holiday - offices closed and all that good stuff.

Classic non sequitur. That a pharmaceutical company/companies negotiate a liability shield is not evidence that their product is not safe. There are a number of reasons why they might obtain/be granted a liability shield, these have been explained to you. No right minded CEO would voluntarily take on a liability if there were means to avoid it. By avoiding a liability the companies do not have to allocate funds to cover the liability and can therefore return higher profits to their shareholders, to whom they answer. Where is your evidence of the vaccines not being safe?

Perhaps only in comparison to the other places you frequent.

I don’t expect you would have seen the evidence of discussion on these matter on this forum, you’ve only been a member here since the past 30 minutes.

I’ve never claimed vaccines are 100% safe and effective. Another one of your imaginings?! I can think of a number of reasons why blanket immunity was given, in order of what I believe to be most likely: 1. The pharmaceutical companies had a very strong bargaining position (government desperate for them to deliver vaccines), so they used their bargaining power to get blanket immunity. And/Or 2. People within the government who have long sought to deregulate the Pharmaceutical industry lobbied for blanket immunity. Meanwhile the vaccines are safe and effective.

No, my argument has not changed. But you are catching on, technology has changed.

The FDA approved the vaccines, and they are both safe and effective, that’s the relevant bit.