CygnusX1

As both an anti-masker and an anti-anti-vaxxer, I’m accustomed to abuse from both sides!

Except by the unfortunate Thais who used to generate their income from international tourists?

I’ll never infringe Thai mask laws because I’m not returning to Thailand until they’re well and truly gone. If that’s never, then so be it. Loathe the things. I’ve had to wear one in Australia for a total of 40 minutes while getting my two AZ shots, that was bad enough.

Sorry, but even before the latest news of the new SA variant, a return to normality by 2024 was overly optimistic!

Hope your daughter’s fully recovered. However, after billions of shots, there’s truly overwhelming statistics showing that the proportion of people suffering severe side-effects is tiny, as in 1 in a hundred thousand or less. Your daughter was just really, really unlucky. I stress again that I agree that the vaccines should never be mandatory.

I certainly don’t agree with vaccine mandates, except for some special cases such as aged care workers. I just think that the arguments put forward by anti-vaxxers on the supposed dangers of vaccines are ludicrous.

The thing that mystifies me about anti-vaxxers is that even if there was good evidence that hydroxychloroquine etc was effective, surely you’re far more likely to experience undesirable side-effects from a powerful drug that you’re taking every day rather than from a vaccine you take only occasionally, even if you have to have booster shots every 6 months for the rest of your life, which I think will be the case for this virus from China. Just do a web search for side-effects of the various anti-malarials.

I’ve suggested this in 2 previous posts, along with the question “Can anyone see any problems with this?” Since nobody’s ever replied, I assume that everyone thinks it’s a great idea!

Canberra, Australia, currently at 97% double vax for over 12’s.

Seriously, why not 20,000 baht to every Thai citizen who’s fully vaccinated? Can anyone see any problems with that? The Thai Govt could fund it just by printing money, might drop the value of the baht slightly, which mightn’t be a bad thing.

Thanks, well timed. I’ve just sent this to a mate of mine who seems keen on going to Thailand.

96.6% for over 12’s in Canberra, Australia, so far, so it’s possible to get pretty close to 100%.

I won’t be returning to Thailand until those horrid face masks are well and truly gone. So far, in Australia, have had to wear one of the things for a grand total of 40 minutes, while getting my AZ shots. By contrast, having to be jabbed with a tiny needle to be allowed entry to Thailand, even if it’s every 6 months for the rest of my life, which is looking increasingly likely, is utterly trivial. Those with genuine medical reasons should be exempt of course.

I always thought that watching pr0n in Thailand was supposed to be like sitting inside a ski lodge on a blue sky powder day watching Warren Miller films (sorry, only skiers will understand this reference).

My Philips 3400A top loader automatic is still going strong after 38 years of use, zero repairs and zero maintenance.

So that’s about 6.6 baht per kilolitre. Just for comparison, in Australia I pay $4.18 or about 102 baht per kilolitre, around 15 times as much, so you’re all doing pretty well in Thailand with water charges.

I set up an automatic debit to pay the electricity bill for my Jomtien condo from my Bangkok Bank account 3 years ago. It wasn’t an easy process, involving a visit to the electricity company head office in Naklua, before going to a Bangkok Bank branch. The very helpful lady at the bank spent over half an hour with me completing a fiendishly complicated form. During the last 20 months that I’ve been stranded in Australia, I regularly check my account through Bangkok Bank’s Bualuang website, and so far the very small monthly fixed electricity charge has always been debited successfully. Of course, I won’t know for sure if it’s really worked until I can return to Thailand, if ever, and see if my condo still has electricity.

Even though it’s an obvious idea, I see very little discussion on rewarding people who’ve been vaccinated. I’d have thought that 20,000 baht in cash to every Thai citizen who’s been fully vaccinated would dramatically increase the numbers. Surely the government could afford it, they would just have to print a bit of money, lower the value of the baht by a very small amount. Can anyone see any problems with this?

I don’t see the iCloud drive to the left of the windows explorer panel, only Dropbox and One Drive. However, I logged into iCloud from the PCs Start menu, and created a Books folder as you suggested, and transferred a couple of epubs. It worked! I can now read them on the iPad. Thanks for going to the trouble of setting iCloud up on your spare PC, this will save me heaps of time in future.

OK, thanks for that, it worked! I was looking at iCloud from the Files app on my iPad, not the website. Now I can transfer my daily updated Finances spreadsheet from the PC more regularly now that it’s a lot easier.

Tried your suggestion, but I did need to install iCloud on my PC, which I did easily enough. No good for Books app, as it doesn’t show up. Copied a couple of test files from the PC to Downloads and Numbers folders (in formats readable by an iPad), can see on iCloud on the PC but not on iCloud on the iPad. I’m sure it can be easily done, but don’t worry, I’m not asking for step by step instructions. I’m just making the point that for an expert such as yourself, transferring files from PC to iPad might be simple, but it’s a process that I will continue to dread, and should be one factor in a non-expert’s decision on whether to purchase an iPad, Android or Windows tablet (my vote’s still for the iPad, as it’s so brilliant in every other way).

Thanks for that, as I said, I’m a computer illiterate. Yes, I was aware of the “Files” feature that I think has been improved with newer versions of iOS. It’s still not really the same as on Windows though. I can’t see any of the files I have in “Books” or “Photos”, and I can’t copy/paste files between apps. I’ve not set up iCloud on my PC, so I’ll try that. After using third party software to transfer files, which has been a bit hit and miss, I bought an iExpand drive to do copies, but the process is still a lot more convoluted than with Windows, and I’m never quite sure what’s actually happening. Despite my problems, I have become an Apple fanboy, and would now never be without an iPad.

I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with my 12.9 inch ipad pro. It’s a fantastic bit of kit, and I use it for a couple of hours each day. Everything just seems to work better than on other tablets, and the foreign language keyboard’s brilliant if you’re learning Thai. If you can afford it, I’d highly recommend the bigger screen. The hate part I have is that the iOS operating system doesn’t display a simple tree of folders and files like Windows, and each of your files is tied to a particular App. This can make doing a simple file transfer from a PC a nightmare for a computer illiterate such as myself. You’re supposed to be able to transfer files using iTunes, but I could never work out how to do it, and have had to use third party software. By contrast, an android tablet I had many years ago just appeared as another hard drive when connected to my PC, and I could just drag and drop files onto it. Even so, I’ve used my iPad way more than my Microsoft Surface Pro. Back in the days when I could travel, I took the Windows tablet as a back-up, as I found that just occasionally I needed the power of a full-on PC operating system to do something, rather than iOS.

Or even LOW season (as we once knew it).

And malaria tablets seem to have way more undesirable side effects than vaccines.