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i think 35% is quite good, remember on a motorcycle your quite vulnerable, so a 35% is a huge deal.

Its their views that got them killed proving that i was right and they were wrong. You can't convince anti vaxers anyway so if their view gets them killed I have no pity at all. Especially not because they convince others who in term take risks. The guy who died last was a big anti vaxer influencing countless. So him dying of covid could actually save lives. So sorry I don't feel guilty about people doing stupid things. If i go skinny dipping with great white sharks and I get eaten for instance I would not expect people to feel guilty but learn from my mistakes. So that others don't try the same stupid things that got me killed. Unfortunately that is how some people have to learn things. You can't convince anti vaxers of anything the normal way so its only Darwins way that helps. If i ride without a helmet and get killed because of it please make fun of me and call me stupid because that is what I am and if just one person learns from its enough. Why should people always pity other peoples stupid choices ? Should they not learn from them instead.

Big pharma is no saint and when they break rules and hide side effects because it could hurt their sales that is a different thing. If a pharma company knows about a side effect but does not report on it, hides it even then yes they should be responsible. Not when side effects they know about and tell the truth about occur. Because then they are being honest and people have the information to either vaccinate or not vaccinate or either use or not use a medicine. If doctors are forced to tell people the real risk based on the available data from scientists instead of relying on some doggy reports from antivaxers then yes I am all for it. Doctors must give advice based on research and data available not based on their own opinion. If a doctor tells a sick patient not to take a certain medicine based on his beliefs rather than on the current medical evidence then yes punish him unless he can prove he is right of course. Plenty of quack doctors have killed people based on their beliefs instead of trusting medical data and evidence. Many of those have successfully been taken to courti don't see why its any different with vaccines. Its no different in my job, if I don't follow the accepted rules in my job and a client suffers because of it i can get punished or held liable. I just can't do what I want I need to follow rules too based on what is normal at the time. Just imagine going to a garage that needs to do certain checks and a garage omits those checks because they don't believe they are needed and you get into an accident that is caused by not checking or doing things following the norm they can be taken to court and pressured too. Again how is that any different from doctors going against the knowledge and guidelines at the time.

???? You mean just like almost every other business who limits their exposure to risk ? There is no such thing as a medicine without side effects, as long as the cure is better as the disease its simple. Now had there been as many deaths by the vaccine as covid caused then you had a point. Will you also attack other medicine that save countless of lives and do kill a few as no medicine is ever safe. Should those medicine then not be used even though it saves more people then it harms ? Like my seatbelt example for instance its hard to deny it saves more lives then it kills but do you think that gives those that are killed because they wore a seatbelt a right to sue car manufacturers for placing them in their cars ?

Right, you really lost it if you think that doctors ALL OVER THE WORLD are being forced by the government to accept lies instead of facts. They only make the doctors give advice based on FACTS collected by SCIENTISTS. Instead of having it based on fake stuff and fears that people like you have. I think we should agree to disagree i have found out that anti vaxers like religious nuts can never be convinced. No matter how stupid their reasoning is. I am actually happy that Darwin takes care of some the anti vaxers like the American going to a covid party and dying, and a well known anti vaxer getting covid dying in the hospital. Its probably the only way to shut them see the error of their ways. So sorry I will add you to the list of nutcases that I am unable to have a discussion with based on facts and science as its impossible as your kind believes all scientists are lying and paid off by big pharmay and only the few outliers who are in a huge minority are right.

See previous post about how likely it is that there is a world wide coverup. Hell in Thailand alone they cannot even cover up their corruption under a restrictive government. Things always surface and all of a sudden its plausible a world wide coverup would work. Delusional to say the least.

Doctors are forced to, not to give misinformation. I would say that is a good thing. We had only a few idiot doctors, but the large majority supports vaccination. I wholeheartedly support doctors being removed if they give out misinformation on anything. Fact remains that vaccines were one of the best ways to eradicate certain fatal diseases in my country. But not under the religious nuts we have and as a result kids in the Dutch bible belt died. So much for anti vaxers being right. I do trust the governments because you are suggesting a world wide cover up involving all governments just to line the pockets of big pharma. The idea alone of such a cover up world wide conspiracy are just to stupid to even contemplate. Most governments cannot agree on anything but all of a sudden the whole world is involved in a huge coverup to push a vaccine they know is bad just to line the pockets of big pharma. I mean to believe that is so crazy, just like its crazy to assume that the majority of scientists (large majority) are all paid off to support vaccines they don't believe in and as a result manipulate the news. Because that is what your saying.

Far less so then dying of covid so for ME the choice is easy. I mean seatbelts can kill in certain situations too but in most they save lives i was fortunate enough to find out (unfortunate to have the accident). I would wear a seatbelt even when it was not mandatory. Cold hard numbers don't really lie. Have you ever noticed how the anti vaxers are always talking about unknown side effects years in the future. First it was that people would die by the droves from the vaccine, when that did not happen (yes people died but not many died because of the vaccine compared to covid and what they stated) they started going on about the future. I mean that way they could again put up resistance as there are no facts about it yet. However if in a few years that does not happen then they will say but its even further down the road. I mean they just shift goal posts whenever its too hard to argue against cold hard facts. Now some members who only made an account to spread anti covid non sense suddenly started worrying about kids (even when it was clear they had no kids themselves) just so they could find something that is controversial and where proof is not yet there. Whatever it takes to justify themselves.

Yes Phuket is showing how opening up is not a good idea yet business leaders want it. Not so strange most people who are hit in the pocket or in their fun want the rules to go away so they can make money again. Its even worse in Thailand because the government does not really support the people who are losing money and jobs. So its not really surprising they call for this, even the government wants to open up more while there are still far to few people vaccinated and the virus has still a large presence. Money talks in the end and its hard to sustain not opening. From a health point of view its not smart, but we will see.

Yea it could not possible be to stop illegal parties at night with alcohol. I mean a curfew is a really good way to prevent illegal parties and illegal bars opening at night. I know for a fact that a lot friend of my gf who are a lot younger and party animals have a lot less chance to go to those kind of parties or they have to stay overnight and stuff like that. So it does help contain the spread of covid as we all know alcohol is a social lubricant that really destroys all thought of rules and regulations about social distancing. We also know many spreads started in the Thonglor Pub. So yea it makes perfect sense. But just like most people I don't like the curfew at all. But I can't ridicule it because its just the way things work. In my country the police had a hard time finding and breaking up parties. This makes it a lot easier to enforce.

Ehh.. for instance female on anti conception has a MUCH larger chance on blood clotting problems. So what is serious blood clotting.. yes its serious however how many times does it occur and what risk is higher, that of covid or that of the vaccine. That is the real question. Its just a risk calculation nothing more nothing less.

No what is strange after millions upon millions have been vaccinated and no strange things have happened. Sure there were side effects but all vaccines have side effects. Yes I was hit pretty badly for 1.5 day.. wow the standard respons to a vaccine your body creating antibodies and sometimes that comes with a fever. You know fever a common side effect. I find it all relatively tame compared to the effects of covid and long covid. Especially long covid worries me and is something that happens in 10% of the covid cases. Some months.. the vaccines have been out for over a year. That is not some months. Talk about twisting facts. Antivaxers such a strange crowd.

I really can't make a comment on this but does anyone actually know real costs of something like this. I mean a train carriage obviously does not fit into a shipping container. So its odd size makes it a bit hard to transport. Before i cry corruption and so on id love to hear from some people in the know in the transport sector. If this includes some taxes too then maybe its a fair price. I have no clue but I doubt anyone has an idea about the real price. I did find Crossy his remark useful about the fact that all trains need new wheels for the different gauge. I mean just imagine them being imported and then turning to dust because nobody wants to pay for that.

Sounds like a US / UK row ???? (tosser who uses that besides Brits and your from the US?) Don't let it become WW3 You should only ever apologize if you think its needed. Not if others think its needed. I have cleared up things at times with certain posters as sometimes things are misunderstood. But that is only with people who i think are not total idiots and shown to posses intelligence and the debate just became a bit too heated.

Not really its not legal to smoke yet.. Once that changes Dopey will be happy. At least a less dangerous drug then alcohol will be available then. But I don't see it happening anytime soon, given how anti alcohol the government is why would they ever allow a new drug.

Just for the record all this guys post have been anti vax. Not a single one about an other topic. Looks like one of the anti vax crazies came out of the woodwork just to find topics to prove his views. Posted in the Pattaya topic too so I doubt this person has kids but just loves to moan and look for something to complain. Though in the case when its about kids a lot of things are unclear so I understand it when people have reservations.

It works exactly the same with VAT in the Netherlands if you have 0 you still have to file. Its perfectly logical from a controller point of view. Because if you don't implement this then you never know if someone has forgotten it or has zero. The tax office can not make that distinction just like the OrBor Jor cannot. So stop moaning its a normal practice from a controller point of view. This way they always have all filings.

Not sure ifs legal, but sounds like you are someone who does not pay so he wants extra securities and won't give you too much leeway. Legal or not I get where he is coming from. You could go to court but that would cost you money and time so even if its not legal are you willing to spend the money and time to enforce your rights ? I would say better spend that money in paying the landlord a higher deposit. But that is just me you soured the relation first.

I got a vaccine certificate after my second shot it also had a qr code on it that send me to a digital version of it. I also believe you can use your passport number and the mor por ap.

I thought it was pretty clear I was talking about recent events so the protesters are on a different side. But your right but i thought that was obvious. But its not as if when the Thaksin clones were in power they did not use the courts too. Less effective but still they used Tarit to do their dirty work. Its just that the ones in power always use it against the opposition in any way they can.

Does it bother me not really just amazed at the stupidity of the anti vax mob. Do you bother me not really i learned to accept you can't talk with certain kind of people like religious people / flat earthers / anti vaxers. This is a discussion forum I would be bored if there were no different opinions. However i like to base them on science. The risk vs reward is indeed something that we all see differently however research has shown that wearing a helmet significantly helps you survive an accident and or lasting damage to the body. So its a proven fact it helps. I don't really see much reward besides not having to wear a helmet but at greater speeds a helmet just helps as its quite uncomfortable without one. I think there is a big difference between taking risks in business and work then those with diseases and safety. I can see monetary rewards and understand them. Don't really see the risk of taking a vaccine vs the risk of taking covid. Its almost always far safer to get vaccinated then to get covid. Just simple statistics and science. So I really don't see that one. As for opening up, we seen how bad it can get so i think its a bad idea because people were dying in the streets because hospitals were overflowing. The risks of covid are not too bad with a functioning health system but with one that cant cope they change. Anyway it was your choice to come here and leave your country where you had more freedoms.

If you followed the flooding problems in Germany and Belgium and the Netherlands the Netherlands having the least damage because we made sure water had room to move and we did not build too much at points where it would flood then you can see that there is a big difference between countries how they handle flooding. However complete flooding can never ben prevented as the price would be too high. Usually they set limits like we will accept a flood if more then a certain amount of rain will fall. Because payouts to insurance is then cheaper then the investments needed to make sure it does not happen. I mean to prevent all flooding 1 in 20 year events one in 100 year events ect would mean huge investments far more then what it would cost to flood. But given how regular Pattaya flood the basics are just not there and they are doing it badly. Its also always the same sections of beach that are washed away. Why not turn the spot that always gets washed away into an concrete canal going to the sea (i mean from beach road having a canal on the beach). It might not look pretty but it will prevent having to fill up that area all the time and the other destruction it brings. But I think the mayor likes it this way so he can always award new repair contracts and take a cut.

This looks a lot like something for a computer something for a laptop to connect to a bigger monitor and such. If I am right it should have 0% import charges and 7% vat. Never mind its something for the car.. i looked at it and thought it was a docking station i was wrong re read.

Not sure about that, its more that Thai laws are flexible and made in a way they can be explained in multiple ways so those in power can use them as they like harsh, or soft like in this case. Just look at the difference between how the protesters are treated and the torture policeman. The law is flexible to allow the government to misuse it.

You assume that the same people who do the tracking are those that make apps. I mean the average standard might be low but that does not mean they don't have good people. Probably not much but there is talent everywhere just less in this area for Thailand. But if they still get those talents then its possible. But I think a lot of the reasons why Thai apps are so insecure with data is that the data protection act is not ratified. So companies don't get in trouble when they lose data. So they keep their IT budgets low as the fallout costs less then good protection.