GalaxyMan

They have to protect the only sector of the population that pays any taxes, though how excusing 90% of the taxes is going to help the government is beyond me. I'd imagine that most of the people helped by this don't even need the help. ????

I went to the International Hospital on Samui the other day for a skin issue. Saw a dermatologist and was prescribed several medications, which she warned me were expensive because they were imported. All in all, a 5-day supply of these medications was almost 10,000 baht at the hospital's pharmacy. Expensive indeed. ????

There's a local pharmacy in Maenam whose owner is an MD. Very nice lady, has always seemed very smart whenever I've interacted with her. Speaks very good English. A friend took photos of my prescriptions and showed them to her. She knew immediately what my problem was from the prescriptions. If I had gotten the drugs from her, same drugs, it would have cost around 500 baht.

That's just too much of a difference. Is there somewhere that I can report this? Is this kind of a ripoff in drug pricing still allowed? I thought that they 'dealt' with that recently.

It doesn't specifically say anything about annual O visa renewals (based upon retirement or marriage), just all temporary visas. Does this mean that I do not have to do my annual renewal in June (due date), that I can wait until the end of July? Any clarity would be appreciated.

All people, regardless of their sex, or anything else, deserve to be treated with respect and fairness, equally, in any and all circumstances. ????

And now, as reported deaths attributed to the COVID-19 virus pass 100,000 in the US, the guy responsible for more than half of those deaths goes golfing. ???? Talk about obtuse and totally unempathetic. ????

7 hours ago, GalaxyMan said:

Well, anyone who thinks that Sweden is being smart, isn't. ???? Easy enough to compare to the neighbors, who used their heads instead of sticking them where the sun don't shine like the Swedes, among others. ????

 

As of today:

 

Sweden: 32,809 cases; 3,925 deaths; 389 Deaths Per Million (Top 10)
Finland: 6,537; 306; 55
Norway: 8,332; 235; 43

 

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Not that it matters, over 24,000 new cases in the US today, and the total dead is now at 96,007, but Trump says he doing the greatest job any president has ever done, just ask him. ????

1 minute ago, Chomper Higgot said:

‘Patronizing hypocritical left’ you say?!

LMAO. Go get 'em, Chomper! The incels have had their day, thinks I. ????

1 hour ago, steelepulse said:

2018 flu season, excess deaths 160,000

2020 excess deaths, 145,000

But flu season hasn't even started in North America or Europe yet. And South America is now exploding with the virus thanks to the stupider-than-Trump Bolsonaro. And Africa is ramping up. This thing is just getting rolling. So far it's only affected places that have a high international travel component, now it's spreading to the poorer areas that have no way or chance to deal with this except to watch people die. Brilliant. ????

The whole point is that a HUGE percentage of these deaths were probably preventable had first, the Chinese been more forthcoming, and second, if governments the world over hadn't put their collective heads in the sand because of the political cost of reality. ????

5 minutes ago, Logosone said:

People who just take figures off worldometre and can not interpret them correctly aren't very smart.

 

3925 deaths in a population of 10 million, obviously higher than Norway, is 0.039 percent of the population.

 

A perfect confirmation that Sweden's model is indeed, as the WHO has said, the model for the future.

 

Economically preferable and the cost is small.

How interesting that you didn't include Finland, with a population half that of Sweden. Numbers don't lie. ???? Finland and Norway both have just over 5 million, half of Sweden. You need to check out how to interpret things fairly instead of trying to make reality conform to the way you'd like things to be. ????

Impolitic at best, but sadly true. It reeks of the Stockholm Syndrome for any minority to vote for Trump.

According to a study by researchers at Columbia University, an analysis estimated that 54,000 fewer people would have died by the beginning of May had social distancing restrictions been imposed on March 1 — two weeks before most Americans stopped leaving their homes. The delays resulted in 83% more deaths. The study also found that about 36,000 deaths could have been prevented if the restrictions were put in place only one week earlier.

This is all on Trump, who was making a political decision, not one based upon what is best for the health of the United States and its residents. Now he can add callous killer to his disreputable resume. ????

On 5/20/2020 at 7:12 AM, GalaxyMan said:

"Scientists from the Korean Centers for Disease Control and Prevention studied 285 Covid-19 survivors who had tested positive for the coronavirus after their illness had apparently resolved, as indicated by a previous negative test result. The so-called re-positive patients weren’t found to have spread any lingering infection, and virus samples collected from them couldn’t be grown in culture, indicating the patients were shedding non-infectious or dead virus particles."

Here's a fascinating explanation of how this virus actually works and the difficulties it presents.

https://theconversation.com/blocking-the-deadly-cytokine-storm-is-a-vital-weapon-for-treating-covid-19-137690

1 hour ago, Artisi said:

Not the point, she is there to teach English, not garble....

I wasn't commenting on her. She absolutely sukked. It was a travesty. I couldn't understand a lot of what she was saying.

Just now, fredwiggy said:

Agreed, and one reason I want to send my daughter to live in the US eventually. One of the prerequisites for teaching here was NOT speaking Thai to the students, that they only hear English, so they concentrate on only that. I only speak a little Thai, and my wife speaks pretty good English, and has learned a lot from me in 5 years. Our daughter is 3 1/2 and speaks both.

I've learned two languages that were taught using only that language, due to the fact that there were students from a dozen different countries in the class. The first two weeks you think that there's no way you're ever going to get it. Then, suddenly, like a light switch being thrown, it all starts to make sense. Great way of learning, providing you have adequately trained teachers.

20 hours ago, EricTh said:

Many people fail to understand that Thai people are learning English as a second language and NOT first language.

 

It's perfectly normal not to speak perfect English as long as people can understand them.

 

I've known many foreigners who still can't speak perfect Thai after many years of studying Thai.

Amen! The whole idea is to be able to communicate, anything beyond that is just icing on the cake. I wonder how many of the people complaining can speak a language other than English? I also wonder how good their English is, or isn't, as the case may be? Stones, glass houses, and all that stuff... ????

21 minutes ago, Bender Rodriguez said:

the human body has about 200+ virus-es & trillions of bacteria, keeping you alive, feeding you (making energy out of food)

Yes, we are a sybiotic multi-organism.

1 hour ago, rabas said:

It would be interesting to ask Boris Johnson what he thought about world leaders taking corona virus prophylaxis. I bet Putin is.

That's pretty funny, Boris Johnson and thinking in the same sentence. ????

You know, to Donny's credit, assuming he actually is taking hydroxychloroquine, it improves obesity-associated insulin resistance and hepatic steatosis by regulating lipid metabolism.

Obesity, having too much body fat, is defined as having a body mass index (BMI) of greater than 30. Morbid obesity, which is also termed “clinically severe obesity,” is typically defined as being more than 100 pounds overweight or having a BMI of 40 or higher. A BMI between 18-25 is considered normal.

11 minutes ago, kingdong said:

Cause hiv dosen,t cause aids, aids= a***h*** injected death sentance,so just use your back passage as a one way street and you,'ll be ok.

Wow, the epitome of parading one's ignorance. ????