FarFlungFalang

3 hours ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

Caught with cannabis? What's the judicial punishment; death by stoning? ????

I see what you did there, no reported cases of people being stoned to death but I've be pretty close on numerous occasions.

4 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

And if they jump through all the hoops and the Red Bull heir 

If the hoops are made of hemp fibre that would be a step, jump, leap in the right direction.Hemp rope makes the best ropes for the fly systems in theatres as the ones they use now give one splinters.Fly's are what the lights and scenery etc. hang from.

45 minutes ago, connda said:

Anutin needs to hire me onto his campaign for PM as I have the winning strategy for him.  I ❤️ Science!

Legalize Cannabis for Everyone To Stop SARS-Cov-2!!!
Anutin will be declared a savior and national hero.  He'll win as PM by a landslide. 

Cannabinoids Block Cellular Entry of SARS-CoV-2 and the Emerging Variants
"In follow-up virus neutralization assays, cannabigerolic acid and cannabidiolic acid prevented infection of human epithelial cells by a pseudovirus expressing the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and prevented entry of live SARS-CoV-2 into cells. Importantly, cannabigerolic acid and cannabidiolic acid were equally effective against the SARS-CoV-2 alpha variant B.1.1.7 and the beta variant B.1.351. Orally bioavailable and with a long history of safe human use, these cannabinoids, isolated or in hemp extracts, have the potential to prevent as well as treat infection by SARS-CoV-2. "
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35007072/

I remember saying wouldn't it be funny if this would be the case.

4 hours ago, webfact said:

The "intent of the law was to make it free to grow" he insisted. The interpretation of the law was another matter. 

If the correct amount of interpretation comes in a brown envelope it will be accepted.

2 hours ago, Don Chance said:

I have heard of synthetic cannabis is around the corner.

I went around the synthetic cannabis corner about 15 years ago.Might be time to do some up to date research.Or maybe you're suffering some memory loss.

2 hours ago, Fat is a type of crazy said:

Hi Far Flung

I think when they offer a visa it is based on the premise that the information held within it is correct. When they checked it at the airport on arrival it it seems he couldn't back it up. It appears to be Tennis Australia's fault though you think a tennis player like him might check independently. .

 

Australia went hard on the tougher types of covid of course, particularly when there was no vaccine, or when it was being rolled out. The roll out was slow, and there were bad errors with a few nursing homes out of 100's or 1000's as you say,  but states did a good job keeping people safe. Thanks Dan. I was not impressed with some limits to travel between states though which got a bit silly. 

Now of course it's a weaker but more contagious variant and people have had the chance to get vaccinated and lockdowns are pretty much done and its up to the individual to stay safe. I haven't heard that being vaccinated could increase the infection rate. Heard the opposite. 

The experts have done their best. Vaccines were created.  I heard them in fact say it is normal for it to mutate. They got so much right. Thanks Dr Fauci. 

I think the Australian government has done good in a difficult situation. 

Hi Fats, speaking from experience Aus immigration do a pretty thorough job when checking documentation before giving out visas, especially during these times. I also question why they didn't stop the woman tennis player at the border and only revoked her visa after revoking Novax's visa?Which was only revoked after the noise on social media.Smells like politics to me.I'm pretty sure vaccinations don't have any effect on increasing infections but it does seem like a bit of a coincidence and of course how do we know?I'm sure I don't "know" any thing about the virus (I haven't seen one yet and I haven't seen anyone die let alone die from the virus) we just have to "trust" our "internet friends" and those experts who make money (and 15 minutes of fame) from this situation.I certainly don't trust anything I read or see on the net because I don't have any way of knowing if it's true or not.I don't know any of these experts and even if I knew them how do I know they can be trusted?I think many may believe a lot of stuff but I don't think many actually "KNOW" anything.Some people put their faith in religion some put their faith in the experts they see and hear on the net, personally I don't put my faith in either as their is far to much monetary profit being made from both.In short I'm not what one would call a "true believer". I'm not being coerced to drink the "cool aid" either I would rather do it without coercion. 

2 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

Wait I thought the NCPO was disbanded when he was made the PM and the CCSA was responsible for controlling covid.

.^[4] The NCPO was formally dissolved following the swearing-in of the new cabinet on 16 July 2019.^[5][6] Critics like former Thai ambassador Pithaya Pookaman charge that the NCPO "...is practically still very much intact. Its arbitrary power[s] ... transferred to the existing Internal Security Operations Command chaired by the prime minister."^[7]

The "Internal Security Operations Command" should be changed to " Internal Security Usurpers Command" or ISUC for short!

1 hour ago, Bkk Brian said:

However it is to be expected that in those cases being found globally and actually identified as Omicron the majority of those have been in vaccinated people and so it would be expected to be milder.

 

However its also unfortunate that in SA region where the majority have not been vaccinated and currently where the majority of cases are, the hospital and ICU admissions are surging so labeling it mild there is not true.

 

What is becoming clearer is the R value which is now showing evidence its higher than Delta. If that really turns out to be the case then that is indeed very worrying.

There are reports of Omicron spreading to patients already in hospital for other reasons including ICU wards, so although the numbers of positive cases is increasing in hospitals it doesn't necessarily mean the Omicron variant is the cause of increased hospitalisations same with the number of kids in hospital with covid they got infected whilst in hospital for other reasons so this could be a reason for the increase in covid numbers in hospital.  

2 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Nothing is both a Dog and a non-Dog.

Do you understand what I mean?

Nothing is a word, therefore a thing hence nothing is a thing and not nothing.Nothing is also a concept hence also a thing hence nothing is a thing therefore not nothing.Nothing does not exist hence it is nothing.

41 minutes ago, edwinchester said:

Since last year Thailand has had alot more deaths than previous years. The suspicion is that many of these will be unreported covid-19 related.

 

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2020/08/06/lifting-the-veil-on-thailands-covid-19-success-story/

I have a suspicion that the UK counted anyone who died within 1-3 months of a positive test as having died from covid.Thais seem to be being more precise in classifying a death from covid (not with covid) so I suspect the numbers will vary considerably.It seems to be more to do with how one classifies their deaths rather than what actually happens.I can trust the experts but what I don't trust is the media (don't trust em) telling me what a politician (don't trust them either) was told by an expert.

I think these 2 graphics from ourworldindata kind of put Thailands testing efforts into perspective and shows how the Delta variant works with 2 different testing regimes.

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus/country/thailand?country=~THA

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-testing#how-many-tests-are-performed-each-day

1 hour ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Daily report for Bangkok province, a slight decline in new cases to 3,963 from yesterday's record high level, but still the province's second highest daily case count of the pandemic. And 58 new deaths and a COVID case fatality rate of 1.57 percent.

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/photos/a.106455480972785/375279617423702/?type=3

 

If the infection rate is rising that might indicate the testing numbers are static for Bangkok.

12 minutes ago, MrJ2U said:

In our village the majority aren't going to take Sinovac and can't afford Sinopharm.

 

They may be persuaded to use Astra.  Everyone has smartphones and knows the reports on Sinovac and it isn't positive.

I haven't heard what the monks are saying on the issue.I guess their iput will have considerable sway over the elders.

1 hour ago, ukrules said:

I have it on good authority that the peasantry 'up north' aren't wanting this Sinovac <deleted> - they're declining the vaccine in large numbers as they know it's garbage based on the word on the street.

 

They're waiting for AZ.....

Is that why they are giving it to the ai falang?The word on these streets many of the older folks don't want any of the vaccines.

3 hours ago, damascase said:

Well, Australia does deny entry to Australians, if I’m not mistaken……

They don't deny entry, you are mistaken, you just have to get in the queue and wait your turn, but you are not denied entry.

4 hours ago, George Bowman said:

This morning I got my first shot of Sinovac out here in the boonies of Phitsanulok. The AZ will follow in a few weeks. I was always taught by my father that he didn't run a restaurant and no complaining about what was on the dinner table. I applied that logic here. And I have to say that the medical folks on the ground are doing a great job under the circumstances. 

 

 

You sure you're not taking the Pissandalook?

3 hours ago, anchadian said:

Switzerland has sent 100 respirators and more than one million antigen tests, worth around CHF9 million ($9.8 million) to Thailand to support its efforts to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic.

@TNAMCOT

 

https://twitter.com/TNAMCOTEnglish/status/1420595889400283138

 

Good on the Swiss.They see Thailands testing numbers are appallingly low so they say here you go now you have no excuses to not test more, not very subtle but I like it.

4 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

Today's COVID death toll of 165 is about TRIPLE what the typical daily road deaths figure for Thailand used to be... although in recent days those numbers have been around 10-15 per day.

 

All the folks here who used to post -- ohh but there are more road deaths every day in Thailand than COVID deaths -- seem to have moved on to other deflections and distractions.  Don't hear that argument any more these days.

 

Still here!How many deaths cause by covid over the last 10 years?It seems the Thai administration is giving the covid regulations about the same token gesture they give to enforcing traffic regulations.Travel restrictions anyone?Road blocks?Stay at home enforcements?  

1 hour ago, Blumpie said:

I'm sorry to say that the WHO has stated time and time again vaccinating out of a wave does not work.  It takes far too much time to get immunity up.  

 

 

In surfing terms if one gets caught inside when a cleanup set comes you're going to get pounded.Thailand got caught inside and is getting pounded.