Danderman123

Good luck finding an electrical 3 conductor cord in Lotus's. My opinion is that such cords are not available in Thailand.

Amazingly, 0 of the 2,500 hits are for electrical extension cords, that are usable in your house. Lots of other stuff comes up.

I am not seeing any 3 conductor extension cords on Lazada.

I went there for the same thing, and they said “no have”. At least, it was not available downstairs.

I went there yesterday, showed them this photo, and they said “no have”.

I renew my Non-O retirement visa via an agency.

I will have to give up my passport to Immigration to renew my visa, which means I will be without a passport for some weeks. my question is, if I have copies of my passport, can I check into hotels? Can I fly domestically with a copy of my passport?

Thai culture may make people more susceptible to police scams. BTW, not my significant other.

Here’s the latest scam: You get a call from the police (allegedly). They claim you have a fraudulent bank account, and that you will be arrested if you don’t cooperate. They demand your bank account information. Of course, they use that to steal your money. Obviously, the scam is in Thai, but if your Significant Other gets the call, her instinct may be to hide it from you, since having the police involved is a loss of face for her. Only after she realizes that the caller wasn’t the police will she tell you.

Because the millions who died from Covid-19 proves your point that Covid is just like the flu.

It’s irrefutable that the unvaccinated are much more likely to die. So, why do some vaccinated people die from Covid? Old fat smokers are much more vulnerable to Covid,

Except for the millions who died from Covid-19.

The Oxford Dictionary gives it as “ inflammation of the tonsils”.

You are missing my point. Wherever Covid really hit, the hospitals filled up quickly and people started dying like flies. Pattaya was the one place on Earth where large numbers of elderly Farangs got Covid in early 2020 (allegedly), but the hospitals were not impacted. Amazing Pattaya!

Given the deadliness of the initial Covid variant, its amazing the hospitals in Pattaya were not swamped with Farangs suffering Covid in early 2020. Many had it, but nobody went to the hospital, or died. Despite a lack of PPE, isolation measures, and treatments. Once Covid was recognized, and tests were available, then we saw, a lot of serious cases.

There is plenty of data available that the vaccinated are less likely to get infected, less likely to infect others, and less likely to die.

I am amazed how many Farangs had Covid in early 2020, before Covid tests were available.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02121-z https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9258292/

I’m not saying that the epidemic over, only that the worst has passed.

https://emergency.cdc.gov/han/2022/pdf/CDC_HAN_467.pdf

You can tell CDC they are lying: https://emergency.cdc.gov/han/2022/pdf/CDC_HAN_467.pdf

Now that most of the pandemic has passed, we can look back at some of the crazier issues that were considered in the depths of the progression of the disease: Herd Immunity: you don’t hear much about that anymore. Basically, there are so many dead ended anti-vax types that Covid will take years to disappear, if ever. On the other hand, at the start of the epidemic, some government idiots suggested that the epidemic be allowed to run its course, until so many people had been infected that the virus had no one else to infect. They seemed a little weak on the math. That approach would have led to full hospitals and millions dead. hydroxychloroquine: No, it doesn’t work, never did, no one believes in it anymore. I won’t start with Ivermectin, it still has some deadender believers. Vaccine deaths: any time millions of people do anything, over the next weeks, some are going to die, for whatever reason. If someone was murdered that had been vaccinated the week before, they showed up in the post-vaccine death numbers. But, now that over a billion have been vaccinated, we are not seeing large numbers of unexplained vaccine deaths. Counting Covid cases: the Deniers liked to point out flaws in the counting methodologies, but the bottom line was that Covid case numbers, if not perfectly accurate, gave a reasonable idea of the number of cases, and the progression of the disease. When Covid was a life and death issue, that was very important. Long term issues with vaccination: the anti-vax types told us that there would be long term consequences from vaccination. Still waiting.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/paxlovid-covid-pills-used-to-treat-biden-have-no-benefit-for-a-lot-of-adults-study?ref=home And with a 5 day relapse for those seniors who use it.

Her plan probably is to live with me when she is working in Pattaya, and see the husband when she goes back to Isaan. The problem is that 10 other ladies have the same plan.

The nasty hacking cough that so many had in Pattaya seems to be disappearing. Now there is a new flavor of Omicron raging in Thailand but it seems to be mild. I don't worry about Covid very much any more. Hopefully, enough people will get vaccinated that the disease will die out.