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And you'd care about that because....?

Exactly! For healthy people who've been vaccinated, Covid is no longer a major threat, which, for all its faults, the UK has done correctly. I went and got my 4th shot yesterday (Autumn booster) and it was being given alongside influenza shots. THAT shows that Covid, though a serious illness for some people, can and should be treated just like 'flu.

It really is simple. The law does NOT require the wearing of masks, neither does it prohibit it. Therefore the classic answer is "up to you". From that point of view, some people here in UK still wear them, but very very few.

Fair comment - I was looking at it from a British perspective. And my answer to your question is..... I have no idea - sorry ????????

I think you'll find that modern working practices no longer comply with that "tradition". People who are self-employed, on contract etc make up a larger percentage of the workforce than they used to - they (we) take time off when it suits them (us). So really no time of the year is "holiday season" any more - for me my travel IS decided by what time of year suits my desires, which in turn is controlled by prices, weather etc.

Yes i had measles as a child. Once again I'm in partial agreement with you except that: 1 Measles eventually shows itself in the patient, allowing contacts to be traced whereas Covid can be completely asymptomatic, meaning that the infarcted person can spread it for several days completely unknowingly. 2 In general, (note that generalisation) Measles is less likely to be fatal than some variations of Covid.

My reply to @Eleftheros above sort of serves as a response to this too.

Not disagreeing with you, BUT it might also be the first time in history that such an infection has been so easily spread by people who are infected and asymptomatic at the same time

No s*** Sherlock! Do you think there's just a faint possibility that you missed the point of that video? ???? No disrespect...just wondering.....????

Are they? Serious question, because i was chatting to a friend in Pattaya last week who told me nobody's bothering any more. (I haven't been to Thailand since March 2020) So are we talking BKK, or the provinces or where? AFAIK, there is no legal requirement to wear a mask any more...correct?

True but I suggest that, assuming she has paper tickets, she gets a printout and just puts it together with her tickets as well Very easy to do on the NHS app. I shall do that next trip.

Except when the silly ****** said "I do" ????

@ubonjoe Is this ME option ONLY based on marriage, or can single people over a certain age apply? If the latter I'd be very interested - I'm in UK, by the way.

UK Banks will generally only take currency if you have an account with them. Even if it's current notes, by the way. (Money Laundering regulations) So a returning Brit would probably be able to help but a visiting tourist probably wouldn't.

Or you could approach his colleague Mr Sterling Swapper ????

Thanks for that post answering my question above - and yes you're right - UK Govt for one LOVES its forms - every department, Tax, Motoring etc etc has an array of 'em.

Same here - used it for years ????

Am I correct in asking "Is the TM30 the form that the landlord or hotel sends to Immigration when one checks in?" From memory I think it is but......

That's what I'm looking at!

I see, but your use of the word "allegedly" is key here. Don't totally disagree with you, but I still say that many people might have had symptoms of Covid but we'll never actually know how many of them actually had Covid. In my post above, I include myself in that if you care to re-read it. From what I recall it would have been quite difficult to get a test anyway at that point, plus, one must remember the way the Thai Govt treated those who did test positive. I don't recall when they started virtually imprisoning those with Covid but I for one wouldn't have put myself in THAT position so wouldn't have gone to a doctor unless I was really sick. In that case I might have had Covid but would never have been counted / impacted the hospital. I believe that might apply to many people. So, therefore, the statistics are, IMO, at best, unreliable - and that's if you believe that the numbers published were even accurate. Some may have been but I honestly believe that there was a lot of estimating and projecting going on. That's not a conspiracy, just that so many information gatherers and compliers were likely to have been out of their depths in the "unprecedented" situation, even those offering their best efforts. Far too many "believes" "mights" and "likelys" to rely on said statistics unfortunately. As I said earlier, we'll never know and it's now moot anyway, except for discussions such as this one or to learn lessons for the next pandemic if and when.

So for a while, ignorance was bliss! You say "Many had it, but nobody went to the hospital, or died" but perhaps that should be "Many had symptoms of it, but nobody went to the hospital, or died." I say that because, as you pointed out, at that time there was no or at least insufficient testing to ascertain from what those people were suffering. I think it's also fair to say (without negating the severity of some cases) "then we saw, a lot of minor cases." Trouble is, this is where the psychology kicks in. A person has symptoms of bad flu (for example), then hears about Covid and, as I said above, the assumption commences. (Guilty as charged!) The thing that got my attention was the News broadcasts showing hospitals in Italy overrun with Covid cases and the staff powerless to cure people except to shove them on ventilators. That, IMO, is what drove the other European and UK governments to panic and start locking down, also IMO, Thailand basically followed suit given the sometimes confusing advice from WHO. Don't forget that the word bandied about was "unprecedented" and basically everyone realised they they had to do something about whatever this was, but very few knew exactly what that something should be.

Turn the knob on your side.mp3 Peter Sellars and Spike Milligan from The Goon Show sometime in the 1950s

Specialist subject on Mastermind......The Bleedin' Obvious ????

I think it's people with what were later announced as symptoms of Covid making the (dangerous?) assumption that they did actually have it. I was in Thailand March 2020 and had the symptoms for a few days so what with all the publicity, assumed it was Covid as i couldn't recall being in contact with anyone who had 'flu Was it? I'll never know and it's moot now anyway!

Points taken but.... Flight check-in - just print it out and present the paper with the QR code if you prefer - I do that anyway after I've booked my ticket online. Having done that, as as my ticket is usually tucked into my passport, I just hand the whole lot over and let them sort it out (they usually ask for the PP anyway) McDonalds...….well the politest thing I can say is "just go up to the counter and order, if they won't take it eat somewhere nourishing instead and think yourself lucky ????" See....choice again ????