Brigand
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China is the last place that needs a bailout to assist the expansion of their evil empire and Iran needs to earn it by stopping being a religious nutjob theocracy and come in from the cold. Why should the US help fund these two out-of-control hate filled bad actors? Better to fund places that actually need it. China and Iran have some cheek when they do Sweet fa to bring about anything positive at all.
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“The move to disburse gift money from the Bt2.7 billion budget to civil servants who have been working to fight Covid-19 was proposed by the Office of the Civil Service Commission,” she said.
Unreal. Civil servants are one of the main reasons you don't have any money because they leach so much out of the taxpayer with all sorts of excessive perks/pay rises/creative accounting etc. and get away with it just so as to keep them in line. Really is a slap-in-the-face to your average Thai that they just said to everyone about the government not having any money so you can forget the handouts after a month. How tone deaf can you be to announce this the next day?
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Many people in positions of privilege/power don't seem to realise just how much damage has, and is, being done. It's not going to keep, as many ordinary Thais are already at their wits end pawning everyday items for small bits of cash, people lined up outside gold shops etc. Give it two more weeks and people will be going properly nuts, even rioting. Most locals live day-to-day or month-to-month and as the work dries up and people get laid-off then it's going to go south big time. People are already throwing fits out of desperation.
Problem is, that so many locals are so in debt with cars/houses and luxury items (even small ones like phones that they pay monthly) that they can't really afford and the slightest hiccup and they have to default as so few have room to maneuver. On top of this the shambles that the government handout has been and how slow they are doing it is just crazy ... and by the time they get the next batch of people ready for payment then the first lot will have run out of money and want more. Maybe they should use some of that mountain of foreign reserves they are sitting on.
Dark days are ahead for many Thais as it will take a very long time to get things back to even half of what it was as so much here is dependent on tourism/hospitality and manufacturing. There will be no choice other than to let people get on with it soon, virus or no virus ... obviously social distancing, hand gel sanitizer and face masks are here to stay but they can't keep up the other Nazi stuff for that long. People have gotten too used to their lives and deal with shocks very badly plus hunger will make a criminal of anyone.
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Neither Trump nor Biden are particularly good candidates and I'm sure Wall Street and Silicon Valley were thinking anyone but Sanders. Biden was a good Vice President (like Pence) and that entails saying little whilst standing in the background and clapping at the right moment but, at 78, and Trump is knocking-on too, they are both getting a bit old and crusty. Biden barely even knows where he is or what he's doing and Trump isn't exactly swelling with emotional intelligence. Surely between both parties they can do better than this.
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Never mind, I have been undone by a sneaky edit.
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“On April 3, she had high temperature and had herself admitted in hospital, where she later tested positive for Covid-19.”
OK, trying to imagine what this bus driver looked like.
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Yet more surveillance being slipped in under the cuddly guise of a mobile app for "security" reasons. People sit there using Google search on Chrome, Android, gmail, smart speakers in your front room they ask questions of and on and on ... go to Wiki and have a look at Google products, the list is endless. I stopped a while back using any of Google's products apart from Youtube (without signing in). I don't have a smart phone (although they can still ping it from a tower, I guess) just an old fashioned talk and text one and I use protonmail and duckduckgo for internet browsing in Firefox. Old saying, "If you can appease a man's conscience, then you can take away his freedom." That's what is slowly happening everywhere. It's very hard not to be online in some capacity but you can certainly lower your electronic/digital footprint.
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Shouldn't Reuters be actively investigating the German government response? Not seen and reports of that.
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Never underestimate the Thai love affair with excessive paperwork and pointless persnickety bureaucracy.
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The chain is also running a promotional campaign urging customers to buy Thai agricultural products ...
Yes, increase your agriculture pesticide intake. Fark that!
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Looks like Korat/Nakhon Ratchasima has fallen too for a ban from 11th to the 18th. Can stock up tomorrow though.
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Get rid of Ted-dross and read the riot act to WHO. China does have a nefarious way of making people/organizations "comply".
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Well, also when this is over, then you Thais need to very carefully look in the mirror as it will not be business as usual straight away. You will actually have to attract tourists again due to the basic reluctance to holiday so far away plus the nasty reaction to, and way you have dealt with, the nasty foreigners recently. You have to choose between a xenophobic hostile tourist environment that treated those who were stuck here, through no fault of their own, badly plus a nationalist anti-foreigner sentiment kick-started by a cabinet minister ... or a more welcoming Thailand which is what it used to be and made your country what it is/was. Your choice Thailand but tourists aren't stupid now (apart from the Chinese sheeple).
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It is up to the prosecution in all crimes to come up with the evidence to make it happen. It doesn't matter what you personally think ... it's about evidence and testimony on it's own is not enough, as that by it's very nature implies some degree of doubt. It's not about if you think someone is guilty, it's about what you can prove or sway a panel of judges or a jury into a decision. Many have been convicted on shaky stuff that didn't deserve to be and many that are guilty have walked. You need to be very careful of dishing out judgement as even the wisest people cannot see all ends.
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25 minutes ago, Baerboxer said:
In this case he was the Devil's right hand man!
You and Samran may be correct on this one (even if the panel of judges doesn't think so) but I was just trying to point out that testimony isn't enough on it's own and if it is, then that has serious future implications for many an average Joe when it comes to a trial for something historic that won't attract media attention and just be dealt with and that's that. It is easy to be part of a lynch mob but it is hard to see that something has reasonable doubt (even if this one is not one of the best examples). All it takes now is for you to be accused of some minor indiscretion and you are the next target of the anti-sexual deviant head-on-a-stake brigade ... can happen to anyone now. I just hope that it doesn't just become the norm. What are your views on Salmond being acquitted and it's now forgotten/bushed under the carpet because of lack of evidence and the accusers are "devastated" etc.?
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@thecolonel - Might be better to just ride it out here. Seems the equator is a good place to hunker down as the virus obviously doesn't like heat/humidity, otherwise it should be a disaster here by now. There won't be 24/7 curfews (as many think) as that's not going to fly and even if they extend the curfew then there will be windows to get things done.
I would let Europe or the US go through it all before going back as there are many risks from wasting money on flights to being more exposed to the virus etc. and probably better off here on many fronts. As for visas then it looks like they will auto-extend till end of June or something, so should be OK.
I would say stay put for now and just hang out as far too many possible negative variables to happen with trying to go back. Stay in a warmer climate for now, wear a face mask and just chill for the next 3 weeks and see where it goes.
Just my two bahts worth but all depends on your situation.
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2 minutes ago, samran said:
If you think this has anything to do with the #metoo movement, then you are misled.
It has set an example or bar of the expectations of many in society.
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These types of trials are very difficult. Historical trials such as these are almost impossible to defend against and the "hang em high" brigade is strong now, especially with the female #metoo movement being so en vogue and baying for blood at every turn. If you so even as much as be slightly accused of something if you are a white male, then you are the Devil's right hand man. Problem is, is that people need to be convicted on evidence and not just merely on testimony ... and if all you have is testimony then yes, there is doubt possible as J'accuse isn't good enough on it's own in my opinion. If not then we are heading back to the vindictive witch hunt trials of "She's a witch, I saw her with a black cat" sort of nonsense from the dark ages. Why aren't the same types that are whining about this case also not moaning about Alex Salmond? He was acquitted too through lack of evidence so why is this cardinal any different?
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I suspect this virus has been doing the rounds since November or so and many will have caught it and just had mild symptoms and passed it off as the flu. It must have been around for sometime before they identified it and got through China's misinformation.
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Considering the lamentable and slow response of the authorities here then the fatality rate should be much worse with people dropping dead in the streets and hospitals over-run. This hasn't happened for some reason and it is not by design. There must be some truth in the heat/humidity theory and the fact that most people here are wearing masks plus social distancing etc. Otherwise it should be a disaster considering the local authorities basically ignored all sensible advice and let Chinese tourists in for way longer than they should have. Yes, testing is half-arsed here but the affects should be much more visible here and they wouldn't be able to just sweep it under the carpet either. Somehow, they have dodged the bullet ... more luck than anything else as the locals should be dropping like flies by now but it hasn't happened.
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I'd say South Korea/Singapore got it right ... as in aggressive mass testing very quick with affirmative action where needed. Both these countries seem to have dodged the bullet through this fairly well. However, I think many hundreds of thousands could well have had it already and just had no symptoms or mild ones and barely even noticed it. I reckon the virus was doing the rounds long before everyone entered panic mode in January ... perhaps since early November even.
Also, here in Thailand, the virus has spread but nothing like some other places. Yes, testing has been lamentable but considering the hopeless reaction the authorities here managed until like a week ago, there should be people falling in the streets on a massive scale and the numbers should be sky-high in hospitals (but hasn't happened). This leads me to believe there is some truth in the heat/humidity theory that the virus thrives less well is such places. Doesn't mean you can't get it but it must be harder otherwise it should be a total fc$k-up here ... way more than it is or they could hide.
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I'm not surprised by this as the Muslims simply see all things that happen as just "God's will" including those who get killed or infected etc. Leave them to it, however misguided many think they are. Maybe wholesale infection and death might bring them to their senses as not much else seems to work.
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Grab are obviously being sensible at this sensitive time when their business has boomed on the food front ... but "netziens" have a hissy fit over 3 baht is ludicrous.
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They were all taken into custody for flouting the Emergency Degree regulations, possessing a Class 2 narcotic (cocaine) and possessing a Class 5 narcotic (marijuana).
Probably should have done them for possessing hookers too ... can confiscate them as well.
Video: I was only kidding! Thai man pays 1,000 baht fine for "spitting" incident
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Liar ... just another oxygen thief that got caught out being a total Richard and showing his true colours.