Bday Prang

And would you also encourage drunken guests to drive off on their motorbikes too ? Very irresponsible behaviour indeed on your part, if it's even true. Please inform the name of your "resort" so that right minded people can avoid it

but with the return to illegality any form of education will stop, thats if it even started

Surin town center is a lively place plenty of bars in the town center around the Tongtarin hotel which is only 5 min from the bus station Haven't had a night out their since before covid but there is a "tawandaeng" place with live music, always fun and often jam packed with totty many student types in there too. there's a whole strip of bars in the same area some are owned and frequented by westerners, there even used to be a couple of gogo bars too but I'm not sure if they reopened after covid You won't have to look hard to get a drink there's a Thai saying "bai surin gin surah tae mai dai gin surah mai dai bai surin" if you go to surin drink alcohol, if you didn't drink then you haven't really been to surin" there is a bit of a drinking culture in surin which is quite well known in Thailand I don't really know of any actual brothels as such, I'm sure they exist but will be set up to cater for Thais ask a tuk tuk guy if you are looking. They will probably be more expensive than Pattaya though! Plenty of "massage" parlours / karaoke type places but they tend to come and go just look for the usual flashing fairy lights On the way to the border and about 25km from surin center is Prasat, there's a few farang bars there and a few "happy endings to be had in the "meung mai" area, just outside the town center, which gets quite busy on a friday night And a bit of pay for play is available on the cambodian side of the border in O'smach just ask a taxi guy or one of the touts who will be offering to help you with your visa. They all speak pretty good english and will be only to willing to help, probably going to offer you some viagra anyway, they usually do There is also the casinos I never went in the casino but I've seen some nice looking girls going in there Cambodian by the look of them (slightly bigger tits) On the whole you can expect to have fun, and you may well get some more info if you start a new thread,

not sure if you have been and done it yet, I was there last week, 1500bt for cambodian visa and 300 baht to cambodian immigration for a same day return , you need 1 passport photo. You will get 30 days visa exempt. There are guys hanging round who will fill the forms in for you for 100 bt if you can't be bothered to fill them out yourself but to describe them as "agents" is stretching things a bit once you have left Thailand bear to the right hand side for your visa (ist window) and entry stamp with 300bt fee (second window) and then to the left hand side for the exit stamp When returning to Thailand bear left (when facing Thailand) for the way back in ( they still use the old tm6 forms) As another poster said its a really good border post, very laid back on both the Thai and Cambodian sides, I've also used it for years without any problems at all. Parking can be challenging, there is a carpark about 500m from the actual border and motorcycle taxis will take you up to the border, used to park in a carpark right at the checkpoint but they appear to have stopped that now. I get the mrs to drop me off there and phone her to pick me up when i return. Avoid weekends if possible as can be busy with casino visitors, but generally very quiet monday to friday

If all your beliefs are based on what governments tell you then you are somewhat naive. Did you try to combat covid simply by washing your hands as they recommended in the early days? Were you wearing your mask when travelling alone in your car lol Did you take off your bathroom door to make a shelter in the case of a nuclear attack? Like they were suggesting back in the late seventies / early eighties ? Did your wife take thalidomide for morning sickness as they suggested in the early sixties

what a ridiculous statement did you even read what he posted ..... "The way that it works is, if enough people are immunized, a disease effectively disappears. You know, like polio and smallpox." and "If enough people were to get annual boosters, Covid would effectively disappear." clearly if even "only" 1 in 1000 caught covid the disease has not effectively disappeared and even a "covid denier" would understand that in a population of 1 million that would equate to 1000 people infected many of whom may be asymptomatic and each of them would have the potential to infect many others. Looks to me like you are some sort of covid denier

I would not know very much about "covid denier talking points" as I am not a covid denier, how could I be , I have had it several times , despite being vaccinated so stop with the smarmy comments the poster i was replying to was claiming that covid would stop as in "cease to exist" if everybody was vaccinated. It clearly will not. Whether you choose to believe him or me is neither here nor there, and petty grammar policing comments like the one you have made are of no consequence whatsoever

from your 1st link..... Here’s what we know about the current variants circulating globally at the current time. I am looking for more than just the current variants circulating at present this bit is not exactly helpful either,,, " plus many others which have not yet been characterised". many others lol clear as mud from your second link ,,,, Below is a list of—and information about—some of the variants that have been top-of-mind. I'm not interested in "some" I am interested in the total number So despite what you say neither of these effectively useless links links gives a simple answer to my simple question. Th leads me to the conclusion that nobody, including you, has the faintest idea how many variants/ mutations actually exist That, so it would seem is the reason I cannot get a simple answer to a simple question All these so called experts and nobody knows, a very sad state of affairs in my very humble opinion

maybe it will but it will not stop either which was the original claim i was disputing

But they don't give the simple answer I'm looking for

I won't be totting anything up I really cant be bothered, I would have expected a simple answer to be easily found on google, but it is not, I have no idea why this is the case. Even asking how many stars are in the galaxy gets a figure given albeit an estimate I asked chat GPT which as expected was about as much use as an ashtray on a motorbike unless the answer really is 12 ! I'm starting to think that nobody actually knows, which is quite possible considering the number of lies told regarding this subject

I saw that article earlier but it also does not actually state words to the effect of " to date there have been x number of variants" that's kind of what I am looking for must exist somewhere surely? I am too lazy to sit there with a pen and paper totting them all up manually.I guess nobody actually knows a definitive number Also in view of the sentence " Studies have suggested the B.1.1.7 lineage was more likely to land infected people in the hospital and was deadlier than the original virus." I may have to amend the wording of my earlier post about which variants have been more deadlier than those that preceded them, as to be honest words like "studies have suggested" do not really cut it for me

not really clear enough for a thicko like me , I was looking for a simple number, I tried googling it but it does not appear to be quoted in simple terms anywhere

And why were they happy to name the variants after the countries in which they were 1st discovered , until they found a strain in India? Why was the original strain never referred to as the Chinese variant? There was no hesitation with the UK and South African Variants being named as such

Any advance on two? but ok in the interests of accuracy ... As far as I am currently now reliably informed each successive variant of covid has been less deadly than previous variants, apart from two, apparently. is that better? nobody has yet answered my question about how many variants there have been to date must be hundreds by now maybe?

I'll take your word for that and revise my post, too late to use the edit function so...... As far as I am now aware each successive variant of covid has been less deadly than previous variants, apart from one, apparently. How many variants have there been ? I'd like to know my magnitude of error

a booster will not stop infection or transmission, you are in a hole, stop digging

you said that covid could be eradicated by immunisation in the same way as those diseases. It can not.

The heath risks of leprosy, rabies,and bubonic plague have not entirely disappeared either, should we spend our lives living in the shadow of fear of those diseases, constantly being advised, or told, by all and sundry what we should or should not be doing. day in day out.? Really ?

I never suggested that they did not die from covid I contradicted another posters assertion that they died due to being deluded or a car accident, or a snake bite,or rabies, or food poisoning, or a heart attack, or cancer, to name but a few more. Its not only covid that people need to look out for, You appear to disregard all other causes of death

Well from what I have heard, each variation of covid was generally less deadly than the one before, were are you getting your info from ? Your world view generally seems at odds with reality

Another totally inaccurate statement, Any links? you are really on thin ice today I think if you look you will soon find some statistics to back up the commonly held belief that the overwhelming majority of people who died from covid were Old, and infirm, or suffering from comorbidities. I don't remember that being deluded was cited as a contributory comorbidity

Sorry wrong again pal as were your two mates with the like emojis, More misinformation, how are you getting away with this ?

More rubbish! The only correct prophecy is .... "covid will never disappear, regardless of whether I get vaccinated or not"

Now lets see then.... It is apparently an established medical fact that vaccines do not stop people catching covid (Surely no link required for that assertion), furthemore, I have been vaccinated and i subsequently caught covid so I personally agree with that theory The other universally accepted medical fact, is that people who are vaccinated can still transmit covid, (again surely no link required,) this would explain why I was quarantined when I caught covid, ie despite having previously been vaccinated, I was still considered to be as infectious as an unvaccinated person. I personally know of many people who have indeed been vaccinated, later caught covid, and passed the virus on to others ,who were also vaccinated So I to agree with that too. In view of the above, two pretty much indisputable facts in, anybody who has received a normal education would soon realise that the eradication of covid by the use of vaccines is absolutely impossible So when you wrote this....... And this ..... You may have been correct with your description of "basic immunology" but you are completely wide of the mark if you think that applies to covid ! I note that you have failed to provide a link to any studies medical or otherwise to back up your claim yet you berate others for not providing links! Who to believe ? Well its certainly not you is it How are you on the flat earth thing? To be honest your posts should be taken down as "mis information" I can't understand why that has not happened