RobMuir

2 minutes ago, MrJ2U said:

That's ok if you have a job.  In the end that accrued interest on top of the principal has to be paid.  It's just kicking the can down the road.  

Yes, kicking it down the road to a time when covid is gone and people can make money and start repayments again. 

Probably the most sensible decisions made by governments during this pandemic. Makes little sense for banks to start mass repossessions under these circumstances.

40 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

 

However the UK variant did enter Cambodia via 4 Chinese nationals who had traveled from Dubai and sparked the outbreak there.

Amazing these third world countries have the ability and technology to trace the origin of it. 

Which country did the UK's tracing of the B117 Alpha strain show up?

7 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

You would know about that right?

 

"When I had the Mexican strain and passed in on unknowningly everyone got angry, upset and two cut ties altogether and still don't speak to me."

 

https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1218924-wedding-rings-in-thailand/page/4/?tab=comments#comment-16530976

 

Yes, terrible stuff. I hope they find a cure soon. 

And a big lesson to be learnt from that.

Lying about it and denying how it occurred just makes it worse for everyone.

It mutated and become drug resistant and spread across the globe. 

9 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Zero marks for effort there Rob, a bit like saying its a good guess it did not come from Iceland.

 

However the UK variant did enter Cambodia via 4 Chinese nationals who had traveled from Dubai and sparked the outbreak there. Ironic right.

 

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/15/uk-covid-variant-pushes-cambodia-to-brink-of-national-tragedy

 

It really depends on how thorough you're the detective work is to play the blame game.

 

Seeing as you like to make the comparison with VD, then do you also lay the blame for Mexican Gonorrhea directly with Mexico even if you catch it in Thailand? Or do you blame Gonorrhea as without that then the Mexican version would never have happened?

Good information from Brian as usual. 

So, Thonglor- Cambodia- Dubai so far. Keep going.

Good question. Probably blame the Mexicans for the Mexican gonereah. If they had of practiced safe sex it never would have happened. It doesn't surprise me with that blase attitude towards personal hygiene that they also have exceptionally high covid numbers.

24 minutes ago, johng said:

 

Just like they "proved" it originated in Wuhan ?

Yes, that is correct.

And the Thai strain has been proven to have come from Egypt.

From the banks of a famous River there sometimes which is jokingly called De nial.

15 minutes ago, johng said:

 

It's called that because that's where the variant was first "discovered"  and the reason it was discovered is because of the massive testing going on in the UK 

 

They have back traced it proving beyond any reasonable doubt that it mutated in England. 

7 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

was it chocolate cake? 

 

i like chocolate. 

My favourite also.

But after reading the link it shows  it wasn't really cake. 

The link says a packet of snacks.

So sorry, no cake and no chocolate mentioned in the link.

I hope she is jailed for a few years and forced to eat Thai prison food.

26 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

You could have a stab at that one I'm sure we can all predict what it would be ????

Well considering it is called the Kent/UK/British variant I reckon with a bit of research I could narrow it down somewhat.

Fairly confident it didn't come from New Zealand.

32 minutes ago, connda said:

23 minutes ago, connda said:

Par for the course in Thailand though.
 

 

Well that was a clever Thai bashing golf pun.

Good one.

I have found that us rich people get priority in all countries in varying ways. I see it as a small reward for all the benefits that the poor receive from the high taxes i pay.

9 minutes ago, connda said:

Thank goodness vaccines are being acquired nationwide and redistributed to vaccinate these poor, aging grandmothers with multiple health problems.

Well the old aging grandmothers are likely to stay home and not be exposed because of natural social distancing.

Whereas the younger caddies out working to bring income to feed old granny are, and if they take it home with them old granny could die from it.

The younger caddies are also more likely to visit all their boyfriends up close and friends spreading it further. Especially now we have the highly contagious UK strain running rampant around the country. Old granny hasn't got up close and personal for a couple of decades now.

I can see you don't agree with it, but it makes sense to me.

53 minutes ago, Keesters said:

 

So money becomes the excuse for getting a vaccination before others. 

I don't know if you have noticed but the tourism industry in Thailand is quite large employing millions and has been the hardest hit. 

Around the country they have vaccinated people from the tourist industry first. Most have had their second shot now in Phuket.

It might not be what is acceptable to the human rights/woke/LGBTQ/PC brigade in the West, but in Thailand they don't carry on with all that nonsense so they can just do what is most effective and beneficial.

1 minute ago, rabas said:

 

a total of 13 UK variant cases were caught in ASQ before April. 

 

It has 2 silent mutations found only in Cambodia that distinguish it for the proper UK-alpha version.

 

Thanks for your ever reliable no nonsense information. 

Do you know how it entered Cambodia? 

3 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

This wave came from Cambodia not from the UK. Please pay attention. 

Of course it did. A bit like the Kent strain must have come from people sneaking in to the UK from a mysterious European country.

It is a bit like having a venereal disease, no one wants to admit they gave it to someone else. Blame anyone and everyone else.

1 hour ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

From the Thai’s who do not need pre-flight Covid-19 RT PCR test perhaps ???

 

I don’t expect thoughts or information such as that to penetrate your ‘anti-british’ bias. 

 

 

 

 

I have no anti British bias, if it was the Mexican strain I would say it.

Anyway, a family of four Britons first brought it over on Jan 3rd.

I don't expect facts to penetrate your anti Thai bias.

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/first-four-cases-of-uk-variant-strain-of-coronavirus-found-in-thailand/

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The fast-spreading variant of the virus which causes COVID-19, first identified in the UK, has been found in Thailand in a family of four Britons who arrived from Kent, in southeast in England.

So there we have it. From Kent, flown out of England on Jan 3rd three months after the UK knew it was a more deadly be variant. Reckless, negligent, irresponsible etc.

I wonder how many others they infected on that long haul flight into Bangkok, which is now the epicenter of the pandemic in Thailand. 

Let's call a spade a spade as you said. 

1 hour ago, daveAustin said:

outward travel was stopped from the UK

Well how did it get out then?

32 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Playing down the risk of the Indian variant 

I believe the PC term is now the Delta variant.

32 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

 

We can see already the Thai officials complacency when the UK variant arrived and look at the state of the country now.

That would be the Alpha variant. Some are claiming it came over on a boat from an unnamed European country and is not even really British.

Totally agree with you yet again Brian. The Thais were lulled into a false sense of security with their previous success. Especially leaving New Year 2021 open and allowing travel and getting away with it which breathed some life into businesses that needed it.

That Alpha strain is a terrible thing and has caused the Thais and many other countries a lot of grief.

RIP

10 minutes ago, webfact said:

50% of the island's inhabitants will have been vaccinated.

 

Way to go Koh Lipe.

About triple the amount of vaccinated people than on my home island, Australia.

Never been down there, I might head down. Looks very nice.

1 hour ago, rumak said:

 

OK,  i had to go back a bit to see exactly what "topic"  we were supposed to stay on.

I think i got it now..........   ????

Perhaps we could start a topic with no actual topic and people could just share whatever is on their mind without going off topic.

Back on topic, how beautiful are Issan women!

1 hour ago, Excel said:

You've got it but its not the sausage in a roll type.   Real BBQ'd dog marinated 24 hours in boiled rats genitals served with a topping of pickled water monitors entrails. Keep you going all day that would ????

Oh, I heard they had an uncooked version of the same thing. 

Like sashimi.

31 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

No one will forget it came from China though

That's right Brian. 

Not that there won't be some Chinese who will deny it. A bit like, well, you know.

49 minutes ago, Odysseus123 said:

they have built up the soi outside by a couple of feet

A very common problem, you can always see the oldest houses in villages and even cities are below street level.

You can never do too much "Tom Din" when building here. The more the better.

18 minutes ago, faraday said:

Do you live up here Rob?

Nah, I just post from my parents basement in my underwear.

I hope to make it there one day though. I was thing Sakon Nakon, have you heard of it? 

I want to try the local delicacies, I heard they do a ripper hot dog.