George Aylesham

On 6/25/2021 at 9:14 PM, Heng said:

Not worried.   That said, since we're only issued one life... how troublesome is it to only live in say 20 year old (or less) buildings?   Super easy if you're a renter, and not too troublesome if you're an owner (you just need to add to your condo portfolio periodically and only live in your new units).

 

Thanks JT, now I have to go add "construction completed" dates to my chanote folders.       

My thirty year old, 23 storey condo in Chiang Mai is always checked out whenever there are any significan earthquakes in the region. Reassuring.

3 hours ago, Thomas J said:

Maybe my imagination but I always thought the taste of beer from a glass bottle was better than a can. 

I agree and have always found bottled beer tastes better - but in the interest of the environment, why oh why isn't there a deposit on beer bottles?

12 hours ago, fishtank said:

So that Thais can cut them down and replace them with cement.

Thais hate trees.

46 minutes ago, Retiredandhappyhere said:

When I lived in the Nakhon Sawan province, the village members were gathered together each year to plant trees (presumably provided by the Amphur office) about ten metres apart all alongside the village roads.   Then later the locals would "cut" their grass in the usual way by setting fire to it and destroying most of the trees in the process.

 

Guess what happened the following year?  A bit like repairing a newly built highway, it is an ongoing lucrative process. 

12 hours ago, fishtank said:

So that Thais can cut them down and replace them with cement.

Thais hate trees.

Do they really? I keep on seeing buildings with holes cut in the roof so that existing trees can continue to flourish.

1 minute ago, clivebaxter said:

Nice house

No, beautiful houses - and the art collection inside is one of Bangkok's very special places.

15 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

If I recall right, the Sinovac was pretty much below almost all the others in one of the Thai public opinion polls the other day...

 

That means absolutely nothing about that particular vaccine's effectiveness. But it does confirm that Thais spend a lot of time watching YouTube videos.

 

Although the other (I was going to say Communist one), the Russian Sputnik V appears to be giving very good results and is way up on the success table with Moderna and Pfizer.

5 hours ago, Blumpie said:

Tourism is tourism.  Tourism is having a safe country to go to for a care free holiday.

It's pretty hard to market a tourist area when the health care system is in tremendous stress and fear from collapsing because of a pandemic.  

People will not travel anywhere like this, full stop.

Quite correct - but tourism is also a sign of having adequate disposable incomes and many potential tourists have lost their jobs.

18 hours ago, poskat said:

the likely government response will be to put more roadblocks in the way of importing and providing any vaccines other than the beloved sinovac and the regal vaccine

 

the profits and brown envelopes must flow....

Evidence for this statement please.

17 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Public hospitals?

Private hospitals?

Both?

All hospitals?

Have the hospitals been informed?

Note the requirement if using  passport that the hospital have your medical records.

What if they don't?

I registered yesterday at the Chiang Mai BigC. The only document the super helpful staff wanted was to see my pink Thai ID card for foreigners. As I am already registered as a patient at the Chiang Mai Rajavej hospital it would be there that my first jab would be given on 5 July. The whole process at BigC was quick and painless!

14 hours ago, Phuketshrew said:

So are they ramping up the import of Sinovac because they know that the locally produced AZ vaccine will not be available as promised?

Has the WHO okayed the Sinovac yet?

19 hours ago, pedro01 said:

 

My bad - total nonsense then as you say.

To round the figure up to 60: I'm very happy happy here but fed up with wheezing through the burning season, especially as I can't get out because of COVID.

18 hours ago, AlfHuy said:

Still complaining about the missus then?

Good to see decent frontier controls -" good fences make good neighbours".

3 hours ago, my friend I said:

There is this already. And others.

 

https://www.stimson.org/project/mekong-dam-monitor/

A good, if minor, move which should provide reliable information to those Mekong River countries trying to limit the damage from the Chinese and Lao dams which are causing so much harm to the delta rice grwing ares.

8 hours ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

Other than for travel, why would foreigners and expats care if they're vaccinated? If the overarching goal is stopping virus spread in Thailand, let them get on with the Thais as quickly as possible and if the theory of "herd immunity" is correct, once 70% or so of the population is vaccinated, the virus will peeter out. Just look at the US/UK, about 60% are fully vaccinated and life is starting to return to normal. 

In the UK this is the stance of the Prime Minister - but the stance of the health establishment is far more nuanced and they are very worried about the indian mutation and infections have doubled in a single week.

2 hours ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

I remember the good old days when this weekly topic was all about things that had happened in the past week interspersed with a reasonable amount of British humour and tales of scrabble and teaching at International schools.

 

Lately it seems to be a platform for one man’s opinions , those opinions can be aired on any of the numerous vaccine threads clogging up this forum. No need to turn what was a good Sunday read with a cuppa into a thread to raise the blood pressure, even more , of the TVF populate.

 

In these troublesome times we need your humour Rooster not your stance on current affairs . !!

Surely its a journalist's job to inform as objectively as possible and to the best of his/her ability?

7 hours ago, tonray said:

Just what we need for the image of foreigners in Thailand...oh brother. hit him with 6000 baht fine...if he transgresses again....throw him out

No, 20,000 Thb now and throw him out. He shames all the farangs living here who respect Thailand.

3 hours ago, Rampant Rabbit said:

But you are in a  known area for foreigners, away from prying eyes  out in the rural  countryside many Thais  by me wear no masks.

Here in Chiang Mai most people, foreign or Thai, seems puctilious about wearing masks.

3 hours ago, Surelynot said:

For tourists I take it they mean foreigners.......but regardless......everyone knows the rules.......like them or not......fine all those blatantly flouting the law.

Fully agree. But its not just a question of rules but even more, of showing solidarity with the Thais in the fight aginst this horrendous pandemic which affects all of us regardless of nationality.

This is a really good proposal and will slow down the wealthy multinational GM producers from pirating traditional rice species and other products. The European Union and its member states have been doing this successfully for several years now.  Think of "Appellation controlee"

47 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

As they say:  "nature always finds a way" !!

In the midst of a death creating pandemic I find it comforting that people are doing a life creating act!