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4 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Easily fixed by removing the pole and the wires and getting the space covered up.

but still extra work and more expensive.... so still waste of money..

Pprobably no one saw it was under the wires until they reached it at the top.. The one who started should have looked first, and measured the distance....waste of money.

where did they come from?? How long were they already in Thailand?? I am not sure Koh Samui has an international airport. Not all needed information again in the article. 

It seems he obvious that he is no leader. He gives the responsibilty to the provinces, because he is aware that it will be far worse with the new Omicron after the holiday season. So he can say. Look I have given you happiness for the New Years celebrations. The rest ....... was for the local authorities

The vaccines don't protect you against the virus that is known for months, but only to protect you against death or severe illness. So 2 doses Pfizer are still doing their job by protecting 70% for severe illness. 

However many Thais got a mix of Sinopharm, Sinovac or Astra with 1 Pfizer and nobody knows if 1 Pfizer is strong enough in combination with something else to protect against severe illness. In Europe eldery people are vaccinated with 2 Pfizer or Moderna and they are given now a 3rd booster. But in Thailand if you got 1 Pfizer with something else and the booster is 2nd Pfizer are you than only vaccinated with 2 Pfizers or is the booster doing its job as in Europe/??

He should be transferred into inactive post already a year ago..I feel sorry for Thailand that these brainless government is ruling. It is proven already that the country is going backwarths day by day instead of recovering. Yes the Government has vaccines enough, but started with a lot of bad working vaccines, than they couldn't produce enough of a better one, and people started to pay for the good ones in private hospitals. The Government delayed and delayed because they only want the vaccines they bought for the people, Now suddenly they changed and Pfizer was added and they mix and mix, without knowing with what results...Now Omicron is a new threat but first they have a priority for the holiday season and after that with the knowledge of now probably a lot of new cases with new restrictions. Anutin does not read the news of the rest of the world??    Yes indeed maybe a fouth or a five jab is needed, because they don't know with their mixing vaccines if, which or how long the people are protected

That is in Norway. In Thailand things are different.. Look at Phuket in 1 day 5 people infected, and already as far as we know 14 other cases in the rst of the country. After the mass events it will skyrocketing... or maybe not as we see in every day in the Covid cases...

1 hour ago, Midwit said:

Your welcome to stay home and prevent the spread all you want. To tell everyone else to stay home and hide in fear all I have to say is shut up. 

we will see.. some people never learn unless they are confronted with it... Everyone is free to do as he/she likes.. for me no problem, but you need to accept the consequences too and not complain

Hua Hin seems to become a ghost town, with many shops closed and for sale and rent. We walked yesterday around in the city and it lost its glamour... Very sad to see...And with the new strain and the lockdowns in Europe it will not be better soon

In Europe they are taking strong measures to prevent the spread of the new strain. Here in Thailand we first have to party and when that is over and there are a spike in new infections we start to think about what the people did wrong... Not fuly vaccinated or too long ago, false ATK results, no masks wearing and of course not to forget too much alcohol.... Nobody like that the celebrations would be cancelled, but sometimes it is better to prevent than have a new lockdown afterwarths again... There are more years to come

If you get so many jabs there is aways something that will work. First a Sinovac and or a Sinopharm, than an Astra and than a Pfizer or a Moderna,,, and if it is not working enough we give you a booster.... But...in fact you are not vaccinated with 2 the same vaccines to have a good protection so a booster could do his its job better as recommended by th WHO 

2 hours ago, 2009 said:

Yeah, but the thing is once gay marriage is granted that opens the door for a lot of other things.

 

It isn't enough that they are allowed to have the same civil rights through marriage (i.e. right to each others property, pension).....and by the way I think gay couples should have those rights......but then if they are married they want the right to kids and it just keeps going.

 

Next thing, they have the right to dress their kids how they want. They have the right to use puberty blocking hormones (until the child or they decides to have puberty).

 

Marriage just opens the door to all these other things.

 

It becomes a can of worms.

 

If a man and a woman can't make a baby due to a medical problem they get medical help with that and in many places paid for by the state. But if two woman are married and they can't make a baby (because nature simply doesn't allow), they want they same benefits (artificial pregnancy paid for by the state).

 

It seems we are unable to draw a line anymore without the extreme fascist left calling us bigots or something.

 

 

 

According to the Constitutional Court a marriage is to reproduce .... Two women who could not get pregnant should be helped the same as a heterosexual couple...because women are the only ones who can carry them.... But I don't know if adoption is so important for ALL gay couples.. Gay couples like to be free and go around and with kids your are limited....So first a legal relationship is more important than adoption of kids for the few who want that 

Although Omicron is not very dangerous at this moment, I doubt it is a good idea to organize mass events as for celebrating New Year's Eve.  Vaccinations are not protecting enough against this strain and to prevent a new wave maybe it is better to prevent again, than boosting the local economy now with a result that half January everybody goes back in lockdown or more restrictions. That will cosst more money I think. Thailand is not much different than Europe

Marriage is in fact an oral agreement between 2 people who promises eachother to stay together till death will them part, at least it was before the Reformation and a few centuries after. The promise was made in front of the priest or high ranked official and the family as witness. Same in fact as here in Thailand the ceremonial marriage. In a marriage in that time the women were very quickly pregnant and than there was a family created. Father, mother and a kid or many kids. 

In times of need  death or hospitalization, there was always someone around who was allowed to do the decisions. 

But times changes and to be nowadays gay/lesbian or whatever are more accepted and people don't need to live a secret live anymore. But than an other problem occurs. The relationships can not be confirmed by a priest or high ranked officers, because in the last century everything needs to be legal and witness as family are not valid anymore. and people are tied with the written laws. Gay people can't get kids and there for can not create a family. In fact the adoption is not a need for couples , but there is a big need for legalization of he relationship. 

I have experienced with our foster kid who was only just 17 years old when his mother died. His father was only ceremonial married and he could not do anything to claim the body and arrange the funeral. Happily we had the papers that we were the boys legal guardians and with a lot of talking, the boy could claim the body and arrange the funeral although he was still underaged. Gay people has to deal with the same, and if there are 2 Thais married it is probably not a big problem because in Thailand a brother/ sister or other relative can o it, but with mixed relationships foreigner and Thai there could be serious problems. Suppose you need permission for a surgery of life and death, and the family of the foreigner has to be found and give permission... t could be too late...

And all the talking about adoption here if it is good or bad for a kid... Nobody knows.... Yes a father and a mother have different ways, but 2 mothers or 2 fathers  I think it will not be a big difference .. How many kids grow up with only 1 parent, because of divorce or death??