ThePugAndMe

How is the US sanctioning Russia (whilst buying Russian sold gas from India at a premium) and forcing EU countries to do the same the effects of Russia's stupidity?

I don't have an address in the UK (my home country) or a bank account there anymore so what freaking country am I supposed to open the account in? Drop the "anyone smart" part of your message, it's nothing to do with being smart... just what makes life easier. What's the chances of Paypal / Thai government reversing their decision if we make a big stink about it?

I run a hobby esports competition and use paypal to send money to the winners from my Thai bank account. I was annoyed about their March 2022 plans (cannot receive funds) - but these new plans have turned a bad situation into a more terrible situation. I've got some patreon subscriptions and other recurring payments. What's the solution here for me? I can probably try to pay with CC for the subscriptions but how can I pay the competition winners if I'm no longer allowed to have a paypal account here ????

No they were touted as stopping transmission. There's plenty of evidence from all the usual talking heads (Fauci, Pfizer + Moderna CEOS etc). This numpty got vaccinated with his second pfizer (and 6th jab in total) and caught Covid 15 days later. If the vaccine creates antibodies that don't help prevent you being infected even 15 days after innoculation - perhaps the vaccines don't help at all. The reason we were wearing masks and socially isolating is because the risk from covid (including the OG strain) has ALWAYS been minuscule. Use your common sense for goodness sake, the reason the deaths are trending down is because the entire population has been repeatedly exposed to the virus and we've built up memory to it. That's how the immunse response to coronaviruses works.

He got a pfizer jab 15 days ago: https://thepattayanews.com/2022/06/13/public-health-minister-anutin-charnvirakul-receives-sixth-booster-covid-19-shot-today/ ????

The Thai entertainment industry and the Thai people deserve what they're getting... The minute Songkran passed without any noticeable rise in deaths, it should have been the time to tell Prayut to open the country or step down. The government is brute force keeping your job shut for no reason and you're not banging on the <deleted>'s house demanding he steps down? <deleted> is this nonsense. Nobody can prevent the power of the people except the ineptitude and laziness of the people.

What about the glyphosate (Roundup) that we continue to spray on our crops here. Banned in Europe and elsewhere but Thailand gov won't do anything about it. When you're listed along with the Philippines as countries that are a threat to the US national security due to population growth... spraying their deadly chemicals on your food under duress would make most people stop to think, but not the smarty pants in charge of this country.

Yeah, it's in the top right of your screen. Click on your account name and then click on the label "Logout". If you have nothing to suggest to someone, close the thread and move onto the next one. Clearly he is looking for locale specific information (stores in Thailand, fabric / material that suits Thailand's climate etc) which is what a locale specific forum is perfect for. Just because you seem slow, when a question like this is asked, the page is then indexed by google and it's how people get answers when some smart ass suggests "errr excuse me you tried googling it".

This sounds good! I will give them a call and find out if there are camping options - doesn't look like it from the website? I'm not vaccinated but the dog is. Touch wood haven't really had a problem with Soi dogs so far, I've found a loud stamp or clap sends them scurrying away. Yes, Pattaya is only 2 hrs away for me. I will DM you! Thanks

Hey guys, Over the Christmas period, I'd like to explore a little bit more of Thailand and I was thinking of going on a hike somewhere with my dog and then settle down somewhere and camp over-night. Problem is I know a lot of the nature parks do not allow dogs and I don't want to leave her at home. Does anyone have any suggestions of where we could go? Ideally close to Bangkok although distance isn't that much of an issue as long as I don't have to get on a plane to get there. I had these potential locations before I realised I probably won't be able to get the dog in: https://www.thainationalparks.com/khao-yai-national-park https://www.thainationalparks.com/kui-buri-national-park https://www.thainationalparks.com/nam-nao-national-park https://www.thainationalparks.com/kaeng-krachan-national-park https://www.thainationalparks.com/khao-yai-national-park

Look elsewhere, Thailand is full of scams right now. We had to pay just to ensure our ThailandPass got looked at. I would suggest contacting anyanana.com, they seem fairly decent

wasn't a study done in Wuhan done to show that asymptomatic spreading of the virus wasn't even a thing? https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4695

Before you roll your eyes and discredit everything he's saying - please look at the point he is making! Why should we give kids a medicine that has known side effects (heart issues - there is nothing such as a mild case of myocarditis!) when they are virtually unaffected by Covid? To protect a bunch of old people who have already had a chance to get vaccines/boosters if they wished to? The ones that haven't got the vaccinated, have made their choice...

Why don't you refresh your memory on the Diamond Princess cruise ship before you claim that my personal experience is meaningless. I have friends (some of them of advanced age) who brush off Covid as if it's nothing and we have government officials from Italy, Germany, the UK, US etc admitting to counting deaths in weird manners. So I will let two years worth of lived experience guide me better than meaningless fudged statistics I no longer trust: Anyway back to the Diamond Princess... Here's a refresher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_Princess_(ship)#Coronavirus_disease_2019 Despite the virus circulating freely. The age corrected lethality was between 0.025% and 0.625%. Only 26% of the passengers tested positive and of them, 48% were symptomless. And these were mostly old folks. That is simply not how a truly novel virus behaves when it encounters a population without any pre-existing cross-reactive immunity. So no, masks, vaccination and lockdowns haven't done f'all except destroy people's livelihoods, formative years of development, kept them from their loves ones and most heinously it's allowing for the selection of more deadly strains and preventing us from catching the less virulant strains (with fast mutating viruses like coronaviruses, frequent exposure to low virulant strains is how our immune system memory is built up). But please go ahead and educate me on mutations. I'd love to hear your theories.

What is your proof of that? The reason we wear masks and every healthy person is being treated as if they are a disease carrier is simply because apparently the majority of people who get it have no symptoms. That's what my own eyes and ears are telling me - all the people I know who contracted this terrible disease were fine within a day or two. The only reason we were supposed to get the vaccines to prevent the health system from being overloaded (because 2 years in, they still haven't beefed it up). Since the health systems are being overloaded in countries with 75-90% of the adult pop vaxxed, it seems the vaccines are pointless. The smart thing would have been to give them to the people that need it (elderly + immunocompromised), let the rest of us get on with our lives and contract natural immunity. Diamond princess cruise ship results already told us most of us have cross reactivity and some immunity.