JustAnotherHun

3 minutes ago, catturd said:

"The German Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) acknowledges that excess deaths in 2021 are higher than previous years (including 2020) but says it’s not possible to determine exactly why"

https://www.destatis.de/EN/Press/2022/01/PE22_014_126.html;jsessionid=DBEEF3D1FC73ADEAEF72332E3FE0785F.live731

Correct! But....you know...:)

Just now, GrandPapillon said:

do not upgrade to Win11 or you will be sorry ????

...at least not until the usual bugs of a new MS OS are fixed...

2 minutes ago, catturd said:

So, put the real, "non fake" data version here. Lets see what you got.

And oh, its not fake because you don't agree with it or like it.

I agree. And next time I'll mark such a post as "sarkasm" somehow.

1 minute ago, Mutt Daeng said:

I also appear to get much lower speeds with Win 11.

First speed test below is Windows 10, second is Windows 11

 

Did you check with wLan or Lan?

If the choice is only about asian countries I'd still prefer Thailand.

85 percent of the covid victims are 70+ of age.

For younger people without underlying conditions (as adipositas for example) the risk is minimal.

In Germany the medium death age of Covid victims is around two years above the medium life expectancy.

Very bery scaring, indeed.

Yes, I'm sorry. I did not notice this thread was related to Chiang Mai.

1 minute ago, thainet said:

Did Ext last week...12 mths statement required even with my regularly updated bank book.

Why risk it.

It must be very new then. I did my extension in december and it was like always.

The only time I needed a 12-months-statement was when I was abroad at the time I had to show the 800k three months after the application and the bank book was not updated for a period of time.

7 minutes ago, thainet said:

Also in Jomtien IO you need a 12 months Bank statement, plus the updated Bankbook and Bank letter verifying the bankbook balance (some Banks can print the statement locally, but BKKbank require at least a week advance notice as it is generated from head Office).

If you have a regulary updated bank book and the letter from the bank you do not need a 12 months statement.

1 hour ago, flexomike said:

Health insurance for OA visa holders

You're right. Plus the 2 months before/3months after rule of the 800k.

I think, the change on 800k was invented to avoid people bypassing the rules by borrowing some money before application and transfer it back one day later. Which happened in many cases.

Health insurance is a hurdle for the O/A-holder and soon to come for all others too, imo. But I think, a mandatory insurance is a good thing. Most of those who insist they want be "self insured" would not have the funds to pay for an expensive treatment. 

11 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

tl:dr; this site is not a credible source and should be banned from quoting without additional credible substantiation

 

LoL- Right! Though the "not credible source" is supported by Yale University and the British Medical Journal, it should be "banned from quoting". As any other source that does not provide "proof" what you would like to read in your state of permanent hysteria, I guess.

"Follow the science"...harhar

1 minute ago, heybruce said:

It provides some perspective to your claim that the risk of death from Covid is minimal.

 

If there was a vaccine to prevent gullible people from getting their information from social media I would recommend it.

What perspective? I claimed, the risk is minimal for people outside the vulnerable groups. This is proven by all studies.

Did you google already for such a vaccine? 

6 minutes ago, tgw said:

not really. I guess reserves will be enough to cover this year's winter which will soon be over, and then there is almost a year to organize energy.

sure, Europe would need to reactivate a lot of carbon-based energy plants and import a lot of fossil fuels, and the French would build NPPs (nuclear power plants) everywhere.

maritime tanker traffic to EU ports would resume and oil from OPEC will flow again without production cap.

Reorganizing the supply chaines is not a matter of a couple of months. You can't replace gas fired plants by oil. And to build the already announced NPPs in France and elsewhere takes many years.

It would cause huge impacts to the already endangered European energy system if Russia would close the pipelines. 

4 minutes ago, The Hammer2021 said:

You doubt wrong regarding Chinese visitors.  Contrary to self important farang myths the Chinese spend a fortune here.  This economic fact has been patiently explained before on this forum. If you want peace and quiet don't move to Pattaya and moan about it choose a quieter place instead. Roiet is beautiful, quiet and has an Expat community.

If it was a fact you surely could provide some reliable data about those Chinese, that come to Pattaya with their tour busses.

I'm not interested in an expat community. You should not project your own needs to others ????

8 minutes ago, The Hammer2021 said:

The wealth of Pattaya is the issue not the snobbery some over sensitive western visitors.

I doubt those chinese tourbus hords provide much to the wealth of Pattaya. And as being not a visitor but living here, I prefer not to to be blackfaced after a motorbike ride from Naklua to Central Pattaya and being able to sit outside in a restaurant without inhaling the poison of 50 tour busses while dining. But I might be over sensitive ????

6 minutes ago, The Hammer2021 said:

Covid has closed Pattaya down since April  2020. Prior to that it was thriving with thousands of tourists visiting weekly Ip to 50 tour buses were parked in Pratumnak,  third Rd and other locations. Malls were packed.

So the virus has it's positive sides. I don't miss the tattooed drunk western low lifes and the stinking tour busses full of Chines one-dollar-tourists.

I enjoyed this "high season" more than all the others for the last ten years.

8 minutes ago, tgw said:

Starting a war with the rest of Ukraine would taint relations for the next 50 years and possibly mean the termination of persons dear to Putin and confiscation of Russia's international possessions, as well as a lockout of all Russian business and money from the rest of the world.

Then Europe would face some bloody cold winters.

3 minutes ago, Nickelbeer said:

I have lived in Pattaya for six years now. It is dead as a doornail and getting worse. I can't WAIT to get out of here and head for the Philippines. Thailand is a rotting corpse, stinking up the retirement options.

Not very smart to live six years here if it only takes a ticket to get out of this hell ????