Danderman123

You are bouncing around, between claiming that government authorities made incorrect statements about vaccines, to claims that the medical community is wrong about vaccination. Bottom line: vaccination protects against Covid infection, the degree of protection depends on the particular variant.

One of the most famous bargirl lie is "I no like Thai man". Curiously, a lot of customers believe them, and when I post about the Thai boyfriends, sometimes I get comments doubting my stories. I prefer bargirls with Thai boyfriends, because they can't pull the "you my boyfriend" routine. I did have one lady try that for 2 or 3 years before she admitted to having a Thai boyfriend. Sometimes I hire the boyfriend to do work in my condo or elsewhere, although most are not skilled. That means they are limited to moving heavy trash or furniture, jobs like that. And on rare ocassions, they come to take the bargirl home when she's too drunk.

That makes sense.

Of course, I am an idiot. I just downloaded the Service Manual for the unit. Although there is no specific callout for operating voltages, its obvious that only one power supply is used for the unit in all countries. The only variation is the power cable used, that varies by voltage. Just out of curiosity, I downloaded the service manual for a Roland U-220 I have in storage. That specifically states that 220 volts is okay.

yeah, that's where I got them from. I will look inside the unit before plugging it in to 220v.

it's a Roland Integra-7 synth. The input transformer is inside the synth. The first image shows the inside of the synth, the second shows the input transformer of the sister synth (RD-2000). The bottom of the input transformer for the RD-2000 shows that it works for 220V. The only question is whether the input transformer for the Integra-7 is identical to the RD-2000.

The point is that I already have this instrument in the USA, and it would cost me $2000 US to buy another.

in the specific instrument I am contemplating bringing to Thailand, the rating plate says "110v". But, a sister unit with the same input transformer says "110-220v".

Enough vaccinations and the R number goes below 1. No more mutations.

I don't think that's the case, except that an indecent Thai will have baht to give to her Thai man. Once the baht runs out, the Thai man is gone. If he is lucky, he has enough baht for a decent lady.

The market will decide that about 90% of these shops are going to disappear in the next year or so. Unlike bars, there won't be replacements for failed weed shops. I don't know anyone who goes to a weed shop, I suspect that the customers are mostly tourists. Low season will be deadly for these places.

On May 1, Pattaya emptied out. The week before, no lack of tourists, but May 1 was dead. There are still some venues with customers, but most are quiet.

Actually, AZUR Air flies direct to UTapao.

because you have a bias against MRNA vaccines because someone complained about them on social media. You would do better by linking to some clinical studies showing problems with MRNA vaccines. Of course, there have been a billion MRNA vaccinations lately, so good luck.

I think of it like pizza. Let's say you are given pizza to eat every day. After some point in time, you may still like pizza, but you are not going to go out of your way to get some pizza.

It turns out that some Japanese synths have a universal transformer that allows use with 220v.

good questions, which I will have to research. But why wouldn't a Japanese made synthesizer not run 110v natively?

Considering the average age of Farangs in Thailand, another mass outbreak of Covid would not be pleasant.

Interesting bias you have. I hope you realize that a lot of Covid anti-vaxxers oppose any vaccinations for schoolchildren.

No. Many anti-Vaxxers oppose vaccinations for schoolchildren.

Is there a practical way to use 110V items in Thailand? I have some nice Japanese made synthesizers I would like to use over here. I worry that transformers would induce noise that could make the indtruments useless.

You are a fugitive from the law of averages.

Were it not for poorly informed individuals, vaccination could eliminate the virus, as it did for Smallpox. As for vaccination of schoolchildren, do you oppose Measles, Polio, etc vaccination?

Correlation does not prove causality.

except for some misinformed holdouts, it could have gone better.