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30 minutes ago, Don Mega said:

So what does the covid virus do that makes the land no longer able to produce a crop under the same pre-covid conditions ?

People too sick to work?

3 hours ago, zydeco said:

One of the few groups of people in Thailand with guaranteed continuing income is: farangs on retirement extensions. One of the very few ongoing income streams for this country. Interesting, eh?

My GF is in a village of about 10,000 people, average wage 2 - 3 K baht per month. She is one of the few there with an assured income.

A bit ironic what is undoubtedly a great song originated on Broadway with the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Carousel"

14 minutes ago, tgw said:

I don't see the purpose - just assume the car has 150.000Km

I prefer to assume any vehicle here sold by a Thai secondhand dealer has at least 250,000 km. That's why I don't buy them.

I can remember going shopping for a new car, with Honda as one of the prime candidates. Staff at the dealership acted as if they were doing me a huge favor when I wanted a test drive. Finished up buying a Nissan Pulsar.

Mazda 2 IMO is better because they have stuck with a six-speed auto which has a manual selector. I don't trust CVT's.

On 3/18/2020 at 12:32 PM, tgw said:

 

 

 

I think you will get the best value for your money buying cars such as a 2010 Honda CRV. These are quite cheap.

With an odometer reading everyone can rely on, yes?

On 3/19/2020 at 1:46 PM, giddyup said:

Nauru.

Nauru? Isn't that where they scraped all the bird s##t off for fertilizer, then got delusions of grandeur with an airline and hotels? That still has illegal immigrants to Oz in detention? Interesting choice.

2 hours ago, Thailand said:

I only play the courses where I can take a caddy and help someone to have an income in these troubled times. Also helps as I can't see beyond the ladies tee.

 

Play early in the morning,cooler, and have no intention of stopping unless forced to but the couple of courses that I play on now have so few people it would not constitute even a small crowd.

Pick up drinks and snacks from 711 on the way to the courses.

You've reminded me of the Scottish caddie joke. A tourist turns up to play at Muirfield. He is offered a caddie so old the tourist doubts his ability to see anything. The caddiemaster assures him the caddie has eyes like an eagle.

On the third hole, the tourist slices his drive into the rough. He wheels on the caddie and says "Did you see that?" The caddie responds " I know exactly where it is". They walk up the rough, and the tourist says " OK, where's my ball?" The caddie responds " I forget".

Legend has it Muirfield had a sign at the entrance " Dogs and women not allowed". In that order.

3 hours ago, bluesofa said:

They'd better tell this restaurant to close then, surely?

 

Deck chairs on the Titanic?

AFAIK no restaurants shut in Chiang Rai, except the ones with no customers. The Night Bazaar is closed.

IMO most world leaders and even the WHO were completely blindsided by the speed at which COVID-19 propagated. and some tried to downplay how serious it is. The best hope now is an effective vaccine, without it the virus could be around for a year or two. The genie is out of the bottle.

5 hours ago, colinneil said:

Thats a good question, it is said his wife is not too happy, now she has no curtains in the bedroom.????????

Doesn't really matter, he probably couldn't get it up there anyway.

I'm hoping the requirement for insurance is temporary. If it is permanently in place, when I leave Thailand in August ( assuming normal flights are restored by then ), it will be for the last time.

I will also leave behind my Thai family, who will be devastated. Nothing I or they can do. Collateral damage.

I am playing golf regularly. I play alone. I walk the course. I take a caddie, because they need the income and I was a caddie myself once. AFAIK the golf club has no restrictions in place. If the caddie was coughing and sneezing, I would ask for someone else.

My GF tells me many people in Chiang Rai have no income.

19 hours ago, CharlieH said:

"There is no health insurance anywhere in the world that would specifically cover COVID-19 infections;"

 

Not strictly true, I was offered just that today by Kasikorn Bank, and Bangkok Bank have also been offering Virus insurance.

Would that insurance be available to people over 70?

25 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

i lived in a condo for the first time in Pattaya for just one month. it was a very nice place. never again.

 

good luck everybody.

What was it about condo living you did not like? I love it.

1 hour ago, Tayaout said:

I would do mass testing then incinerate any positive cases. This would fix the issue quickly. 

You are reminding me of a chemical that was tested on mice by a company that wanted to bring it to market. The spin doctors stated baby mice were visually impaired. What they actually meant was the mice were born without eyes.

9 hours ago, AussieBob18 said:

Agree about GOT - what idiots decided to end it like that - ridiculous ending 

Surely they could do a rewrite for something better.

Just now, Logosone said:

 

Not when they give you back the money that was yours in the first place.

 

Governments giving people money now is not a 'handout', it is a return of the tax money the state took from those people.

 

I don't know about you, but I've paid millions in tax. Some years I was working until end of June, all of six months just for the government. Only the remaining months did I get to keep.

 

So the governments now try to make themselves look as the generous saviours? Wrong, they took the money are just giving a small share back.

 

I forget who it was said the art of taxation is like plucking a goose for the maximum amount of feathers, accompanied by the minimum of hissing.

20 minutes ago, rak sa_ngop said:

 

 

Perhaps somebody could comment on the waste water and toilet discharge systems commonly found in Thai condos.  is there any reason that the virus could travel up/down from an 'infected' condo as happened in Hong Hong during the SARS outbreak?

 

And is there any infection risk in using the condo swimming pool?

Provide you isolate in your room, there should be no problem. No reason to think the virus can migrate upwards to head level from a drain, unless the water supply itself is contaminated.

The risk with swimming pools is the other people in it. Chlorination kills viruses. I try to swim when there is no-one else around.

11 minutes ago, Nyezhov said:

There working on the dole right now. There is even going to be a Giro day for me. Plus the quiet streets means that hubcaps are more readily available.

Just think, if Trump plays his cards right he could get his Wall finished.

You're getting a Giro? How did a obscenely wealthy bloated plutocrat like you manage that?