Fex Bluse

51 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

 

 

You know there is better places to shop than beach road and crappy beer bar complexes ?

Yes

1 minute ago, Ralf001 said:

 

And the mamasans will be touting them as far fresh demanding 5000b barfine and 4000b Short Time.

I am hopeful we'll get some fresh blood into the industry. Prior to the pandemic, there were far too many Aunties barely shy of qualifying as elderly, smelling of garlic and chili burps.

We shall hope to see some youngish (19 to 25s) in the industry as the economy has been so depressed. Should be a good time for a couple years.

3 hours ago, NanLaew said:

Where?

I understand most have been using this "down" time (pun intended) to care for all those sick buffalo and brother's mother's sister's uncle's who are sick in the province.

They will find all the foreign variants but guarantee will not find any of the Thai variant. Guaranteed 

This will solved SUPER fast owing to the very bad timing as the Thais desperately need tourists, any tourists, to come.

Expect a world-class investigation result in a handful of days.

This is shocking 

1 hour ago, JackGats said:

What now worries me is that some countries are not faring well in spite of high vaccination rates. Those countries are the Seychelles, the UAEs, Uruguay, Chile. Some say this is because those countries relied mostly on Chinese vaccines, but is it?

It's a combination of factors, I think.

Chinese vaccines are less effective. Some of this effectiveness is simply because of the type of traditional technology they are using.

Another factor will be that people are fairly stupid and don't seem to understand science at all. Being vaccinated is not a free ticket to not wear masks and practice social distancing and the enhanced measures, not for now. A vaccinated person is still very capable of becoming infected with old and new strains and can pass the virus onto others.

Until this virus is eradicated entirely (like Polio), we will be at risk. 

Thanks, China

4 hours ago, phills2k1 said:

Yup. In a literal sense, it matters.  In a practical sense, it means absolutely nothing because even if the world got to the bottom of it with 100% certainty (which likely impossible now for reasons listed above), China will just do what every demagogue does, be it trump, putin, bolsonero, and call it fake news.  And even some by some stroke of microscopic luck there's a smoking gun that China can't ignore, nothing will happen. They won't be punished, there won't be restitution.  Hell they wouldn't even admit fault. 

 

This is all just posturing by every other major country in the world to 1) damage China and 2) find a scapegoat for their horrific handling of the virus and 3) placate the xenophobic right wingers of their populous that are looking blood while also trying to score points by painting the liberals as being too "woke" to care about this (when as mentioned above, nothing would actually come from it)

Wow. It's incredible that China has "wumao" posting to Thai forums. But, there are 20 million wumao, so I suppose it's easy to devote a couple to this forum. 

How much do they pay? 

4 hours ago, The Hammer2021 said:

It doesn't hurt any Thais I know. Does it hurt your  friends?

Yes

1 hour ago, JonnyF said:

The change from GM to Great Wall is a none too subtle symbol of Thailand moving away from it's longstanding relationship with the US and into the claws of China. Coinciding nicely with another move - away from Democracy into another word starting with D that is verboten.

 

As others have noted, using AI will reduce the need for Thai labour. But hey, it's not like China or the Junta care about the serfs is it? Profits for the elites is order of the day under the current regime.

Agree, and anyway the ruling elite in Thailand (as throughout most of SEA) are ethnic Chinese anyway. The Chinese in SEA have always treated SEA countries as playgrounds for their elites. Cheap, brown women to marry and docile populations to exploit.

SEA is to the Chinese what Africa was to the Europeans and what Central and South America has been to the US.

Same same, but different.

40 minutes ago, anchadian said:

Southeast Asia saw the highest number of Covid-19-related deaths in over three weeks, as well as a rise in new cases on Thursday, according to collated data.

 

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/international/40001649

And, of course, there is a single country is the list whose data would be reliable - Singapore. All the others are various levels of useless. The rest of SEA does not have the capacity to produce reasonably accurate statistics. And, neither are they motivated to be transparent.

These people are not idiots, perse, but they do not really care what comes out of their mouths. A common national characteristic. 

8 hours ago, sirineou said:

You mean there are non mainstream, new sources , more credible than the mainstream sources,  who claim that the rise in Asian hate crimes is Fake news?  Please provide some links,.

  of what value is it to "regular people" to call a virus by a name that identified a particular area? 

If you are preparing to travel to London where there is a deadly epidemic emerging, do you think it would be easier to catch the fact in the news if it was called

Virus-19 or

London Virus-19 ?