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On 1/5/2021 at 4:03 AM, gyps said:

Hard to make large profits when one coin is $33,000. But, I had an opportunity at $9,000 a few months ago. Oh well!

I bought $4000 bitcoins end of 2019 when it was just below $3000 so it's done me proud. Over 15 times my investment in just under 18 months.

People are taking it more seriously now and the volatility is still there but not so severe. Still a lot riskier than gold though but I see people playing the lotto so up to you how you gamble. Just don't gamble what you can't afford to lose.

1 hour ago, Madeline Thompson said:

I'd love to see Pattaya rescued

In order to be rescued it needs to have somewhere to be rescued to. Pattaya is like the Titanic except it has no lifeboats and there are no other ships anywhere in the ocean.

Unless you can continue to swim in the ocean for 3 years drinking sea water and eating fish your chances of rescue are zero.

What is there will have to sink below the waves and only then can they build something new once this is all over.

The sex industry and bar girls are almost gone and even if it reemerges it will face tough competition from other places. COVID is not going away, even now the one of the new vaccines is ineffective against the South African variant.

It's going to be a long road. The problem is at the moment you run a mile along it and the mutations mean the road gets a 1.5 miles longer. At the moment we get a new variant roughly every 4 months but it takes 6 months to have an altered immunization to deal with it. The faster the infection rate grows globally, the faster new mutated variants will appear.

In the immediate future (1-2 years) it's likely that we will have to learn to live with it and any other virus that emerges like it.

There are some people who will risk it I'm sure and still go to Pattaya (if anything is still left there) to consort with the girls there, but to add long distance travel through multiple airports plus risk getting infected by close contact with the girls will make most people look closer to home to satisfy their urges. Perhaps their wives might get even more attention now  ))

COVID is a moving target and until we are up to the speed where we can create reengineered vaccines faster than it mutates we can't win the race.

At least you know. 

I always check any new appliance to see if the earthing is real. Sometimes they just give you an earthed plug but the earth connection does not exist or is not connected inside safely.

I would also make sure you also checked the earthing on your sockets as that is sometimes not what it seems. Not one but all sockets. I found 2 earthed sockets not connected to the ground in my place which I had repaired. My friend found none of his sockets were really earthed.

Assume nothing when it comes to Thai electrics and safety standards.

There are a lot of people who made that mistake only once.

15 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The January 9 party ended up infecting at least 26 people.

Obviously he invited some migrant workers returning from Laos.

There's no indigenous COVID in Thailand of course.

Learn how to drive well in Europe, then come to Thailand to learn the skills they don't teach you there.

• Riding the wrong way against traffic on the main roads
• Overloading your scooter correctly
• How to carry 3 or more passengers 
• Weaving in and out of high speed traffic
• Weaving in and out of low speed traffic
• Driving without lights
• Keeping control after drinking all night
• How to drive without a helmet
• How to pull out without looking
• Escaping quickly after a crash
• The benefits of driving without insurance
• Deciding accident responsibility with a tyre iron
• Earning money from faked accidents
• How to ignore the highway code.

There are some police training courses to help I believe

Part 2 about avoiding legal responsibility after a serious crash, requires you to be rich or have wealthy parents

That comes later once you get connected to the right people.

Good luck )))

13 hours ago, graemeaylward said:

What is the "magic formula" that Thailand has?  Even neighbouring countries are rampant with this plague!  It would appear from the figures issued daily by the government the the Thai variant is a) very mild  b) hardly contagious as it doesn't spread like all other variants, c) disappears as quickly as it comes!  Clearly, with so few tests being done, the figures are meaningless.  What would be interesting would be to compare the numbers of folks, particularly elderly, who have died, with previous years, for the each month.  I remember someone posting the increase in the number of deaths of people diagnosed with "viral pneumonia" early last year at the beginning of the crisis and would be interested to see if the trend continued.

The closest you will get is the information on excessive mortality. ie the number of excessive deaths that occurred which are above the average expected  during this time.

According to Thailand’s mortality data is taken from the Bureau of Registration Administration between March 2020 and July 2020 there was an 8.5% above average death rate for this period which equates to about 13,000 additional deaths than would have been expected. Since then, access to these records have been closed and the figures were retrospectively revised downwards by the government. Whilst there is no direct evidence that these excessive deaths are related to COVID-19 it is hard to pin down another clear culprit. More information is contained here with the source references. 

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

Other research undertaken by the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, in Bangkok took an extensive random survey of staff and admitted patients (not specifically COVID related) within 52 cottage hospitals during April to June 2020.

The result showed that 3.7% of staff and 12.1% of patients already had antibody against SARS-CoV-2 in their blood, indicating that they had already contracted COVID and recovered . Again this cannot be directly translated to a National rate but it would tend to indicate that at this time COVID was far more widespread than certain people would have us believe. 

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.24.20139188v3.full.pdf

There is very limited data available to find the real picture as access to certain key records are now officially closed. New laws in March 2020 also restrict what Social Media and the Press can publish about COVID-19 to only information the Government approves. The punishment is up to 5 years imprisonment.

https://rsf.org/en/news/thailand-uses-covid-19-restrict-freedom-inform

In my personal opinion, I am reluctant to believe the figures stated by the government throughout this crisis come anywhere close to the reality of how widespread and prevalent COVID-19 was and still is in Thailand.

I leave it up to you to draw your own conclusions.

23 hours ago, TSF said:

Just got a mental image of  this blind drunk alcoholic alien rolling up at his local Immigration office to extend his visa with fingers, toes & nose missing from leprosy, coughing blood into his hanky from TB, legs swollen from elephantiasis, trackmarks up both arms from drug addiction, sores all over from syphilis, and now the poor bast*rd has disease 2019 too.

Then of course you find out he was the last person to sleep with the Bar girl you just spent the night with when a MorChana warning pops up on your phone.