PatchinExPat

54 minutes ago, aboctok said:

What's wrong with you? Those who can't pay won't be on those flights, no matter how much they want to be. Backpackers who arrived cheaply pre-pandemic, who've had to wait it out for months, possibly have badly dwindled savings. Who the hell are you to judge? Lol, "no excuses." Okay, everyone will be on a flight, since you say they must be.

Are backpackers a special class of people, who have no responsibilities 

for their actions?

It is a mixed bag. Something are way cheaper living here.

Some things about the same as the USA,

and some stuff I want to buy is 2x as high.

Have to average it all out.

Whooowat. Bombs in trees.

This is getting serious now.

I think I will open a bomb tying in trees school

seems someone needs help.

Hate to speak bad of folks,

but the van drivers are crazy drivers.

I think we should send protesters there soon,

no reason for them have less fun than what we have.

Also take a little bad of Co-Vid 19

that always makes friends.

THEM

""A new Chinese study published in Nature Medicine suggests that people who develop antibodies after becoming infected with the coronavirus may not keep them for more than two months — a growing concern as several states in the U.S. see alarming spikes in COVID-19 cases.

When you get an antibody test, we don't really know enough to be able to assure you that you're safe. And I think the more we're learning about antibodies, the more we're beginning to say we're not so sure that you're safe,” Dr. Daniel Griffin, an infectious disease specialist at Columbia University Medical Center

In the study, researchers from Chongqing Medical University in China looked at 37 people who became infected with the coronavirus and showed symptoms and 37 people who became infected and showed no symptoms. Out of the participants involved, antibody levels fell to undetectable levels in 40 percent of asymptomatic people and 13 percent of symptomatic people just eight weeks after they recovered from COVID-19.

“Many of us were quite disturbed when we saw this study out of China, which actually demonstrated that in a number of individuals, particularly these individuals with more mild disease, that we're worried are the silent spreaders, that these individuals were losing their antibodies shield after just a month or two,” Griffin said.

Like many doctors, Griffin hoped that COVID-19 would leave those infected with a protective shield for a year or two since past studies on similar viruses like SARS and MERS found that antibodies last for at least a year.

“This is why we keep seeing the common cold coronaviruses cause infections on a yearly basis, often in the same individuals and we've even seen them do this in the same individual just a few months apart,” Griffin explained. “So this is quite worrisome that here we're seeing evidence that maybe a person can get COVID-19 more than once, maybe more than once in a short period of time.”

The findings in the new Chinese study also calls into question the idea of “immunity passports,” which some countries may issue to recovered COVID-19 patients to allow them to go back to work and travel because they're supposedly immune to the virus. But Griffin doesn’t think we’re ready for this type of approach quite yet.""

ME

So herd immunity appears to be so short lived it is worthless.

Kinda like the hands on a clock, if 6AM gets you, 6PM can get you also.

The only way to be safe is to confine all on the inside who have and

eliminate any outsiders from penetrating the group.

Or, just say the hell with it, if you die , you die and throw the doors open.

Because it looks like 6PM will come around for sure.

..

Good. Not a cure all, but good.

28 minutes ago, Chivas said:

lol pray tell how CCTV Footage moves around like that. Whoever was holding the smartphone knew what was coming

oh great, here come the conspiracy theories. 

I don't think anyone anywhere has been traveling lately.

You may be a first.

The rest of the royals better hire food tasters. 

Prince Harry and  Meghan are likely to become 

very jealous  and want back in the royal life style.

Oh, had to read it 3 times to get it. haha

15 minutes ago, robblok said:

Talking with the people around me in my BKK village. Also my friend who works at a big Thai company. They all started again. Markets in full swing. So that is my source. I believe what you say to its different all over Thailand. 

This could be stimulus money supplied by the various countries around the world.

Or just the same money being churned over and over.

Neither produces long term growth.

My wife's company  , which export finished stainless steel products

 is hoping to work at 1/2 of previous numbers.

150 or so jobs hanging  with hopes of global building to resume.

I don't see a good future for it in the coming 2 or 3 years.

Most restaurants need customers to much, to worry about

capital improvements. 

Besides the whole world is trying to attract the contracting pool

of very rich tourist and second home buyers to their doors.

Sooner or later those medium and super rich will be taxed to pay down

huge debts incurred by nations trying to survive right now.

Lack of people to tax will lead to super inflation as countries try

printing money as a way out of debt.

The future is not a rosy picture for anyone.

I read where Thailand is trying hard not incur debt, which is 

good for the country's standing but not so great for those

out of work.

National debt either has to work or it fails and situation

is worse than ever.

The only down side I see is if there was a lot of heavy metals 

or chemical residue in the canal.

I expect the soil is washed away top soil.

I often see bike riders not check traffic. When at a intersection they just try and turn onto

the little motorcycle lane, with checking. The thing is car and truck drivers often 

use that small lain to move over when driving slow or drunk or sleepy. 

It is a dangerous thing to just keep moving without checking traffic first.

Thai drivers are a funny thing, they just can't stand to see an 

open slot in traffic. They have to have it even if they are going turn

 in 100 meters.

Road space must never be wasted. 

You know I have never seen a cop stop a car for running a light

 or going to fast or any of 20 other driving infractions.

Thailand has traffic laws but they seem to only come into play

 in assigning blame after an accident.

This , the PO Box, sounds like a good idea for me,

I have almost zero mail from the USA since the 

start of this covid thing. 

I don't even get my monthly Thai bills anymore.

The other thing is address are screwed up over 

here. Installing a simple 911 system of address

would sure make finding things easier.

Now directions include things like nearest temple,

the 7-11 store, the big tree next to the second

curve in the road.

And once the change is made, there is no need

to worry about farther changes, it all fits together.

Sounds like good news.

Always open to good news.

Sooner or later they get out.

If they can be taught a skill to make and honest living,

that is all the more good for the better.

There are a lot of people locked up who have aged a little

and would rather work than steal and risk a return to 

Thailand big houses.

Language skills are always a plus. 

If 2 out of 10 take the opportunity reform and try to

go straight, that is a win. 

If the sentences are commuted, then they would not have to 

go abroad as slaves, but as workers ready to earn some respect

for their abilities. 

If it doesn't pan out, they always ditch the idea.

Give it a try, it isn't welfare it is work . 

But then haters will always hate, nothing new.