ArcticFox

Yep. And it will remain "failed" until they embrace "old normal."

What's killing more people in Thailand on a daily basis: Covid or road accidents? OK - banned driving! Place a moratorium on driving until we have Zero Road Death. Why not?

They are always coming back to somehow pairing alcohol consumption with Covid. I'd bet that there is as strong, if not stronger correlation between shopping in crowded shopping malls - so logically, the public should refrain from shopping in malls. And has anyone been to a Buddhist temple during services. 100, 200, 300 people packed into an enclosed space. Yep, better refrain from religion too. But the government message is constantly - "prohibition, alcohol bad (for plebs), prohibition." Trust me. Eventually everyone of these puuyai leaders and bureaucrats telling the public to mask up, stay at home, and stay away from people "Oh, and don't drink!" - end up getting caught having parties and celebrations with their friends and families without a mask in sight with everyone hugging and slamming back drinks. The true horror of this 'pandemic' is the hypocrisy of those insisting on totalitarian restrictions on the public while ignoring those restrictions themselves - and getting caught - then listening to the excuses. "What is bad for thee is good for me!"

I'm not concerned at all. Just providing you with the information you were seeking. I don't worry about tests other than to stay away from places that want them.

Always pragmatic! ????

These are Thais so they are covered. The fat cats which create a pay-day for hospitals are foreigners who pop positive and then are forcefully incarcerated into a private hospital. You know? You and me. Which is why I'll avoid testing like the plague or being in a situation where I may be exposed to testing. Even if you have had Covid, you can pop positive for a long time. Best thing to do is just stay away from that madness.

Oh my goodness. To be a company with contracts to supply governments with Covid tests. What a field day for shareholders!

Brother-in-law effect. Someone owns a large tract of land in the sticks. Brother-in-law who is a regional puuyai lobbies for an airport on that particular location. Cha-ching! "Come on Big Money!"

Aren't you all incurring foreign transaction charges? Personally, I only use my credit card for US based companies.

I just order COD. Less of a hassle if a merchant takes too long to ship the product - just cancel and there is no need for refunds. If it's for a larger ticket item were COD is not offered, like Jingthing said - use a bank transfer from your Thai bank. Piece of cake.

If you're serious PM me. I won't post that info on this forum for all the obvious reasons.

Find it? I've looked. There is none.

Given the foot dragging it sorta looks to be the plan. What wins? The SoL and the rich kid. Justice? Lol!

Universal optimists!

The answer's in the research. Most people with a university degree and a background in STEM should be able to read these research papers. "An unresolved issue of SARS-CoV-2 disease is that patients often remain positive for viral RNA as detected by PCR many weeks after the initial infection in the absence of evidence for viral replication." https://www.pnas.org/content/118/21/e2105968118

Ah.....Omicron is 'Covid.'

I wonder how many world leaders have stock in companies manufacturing Covid tests? I'd love to have their portfolios.

....until they lock down. ????

Drop the following search terms into Google and do your own reading. "Imperial College London 500,000 deaths covid model" Goodbye.

You should have been up to date on you shingles vaccinations. They are available. The reason your parents exposed you to chickenpox as a kid was because if you got it as an adult it is a much more serious problem and your parents (that generation) understood that fact. But since the 1990s? Everyone can get a chickenpox vaccination. And having had chickenpox as a kid, I'd much rather have had a shot.

Based on what model? Because that prediction is a model. The Imperial College 'scare' modelling has been getting this wrong since March 2020. By the time we hit 2025, my guess there is going to be a revolution in medical ethics driven by events over the previous 5 years.

Of course, there will be that 20 or 30% of the population who simply want to live in a medical dystopia forever as that form of governance makes them personally feel safe, even if it shreds economies and basic human rights.

Interesting. I stated pretty much that same thing when reports of Omicrom were coming out of the South African front-line medical community indicating that Omicron was extremely infectious but produced a mild or asymptomatic illness. That in turn made for insinuations that I was a very bad and heartless man for inferring that the population may be better off if Omicron is allow to run its course, which as Dr. Manoon states, means that it will probably infect everyone anyway - so instead of fearing it - embrace it. Let's get over with it and get back to old normal. I'm in the generation who attended chicken-pox parties. The effectiveness of that approach isn't lost on me. Or we could, I guess, insinuate that generations of parents who purposefully exposed their kids to chicken-pox were very bad and heartless parents. Dr. Manoon is not the only doctor worldwide now making the same statements. My guess is that this will be more and more widely accepted - except - by those who will be financially impacted by the advent of natural immunity base herd immunity, in other words pharmaceutical companies. When their stocks crater they will scream for intervention by the CDC, the WHO, and other agencies subject to regulatory capture. And everyone with a financial stake in pharmaceuticals will show up in attack-dog mode. Countries like Thailand who have been decimated financially (third-world and developing nations) may likely be more open to letting this milder variant run its course, at least in some quarters where rational medical minds still exist. And like colds and flus - SARS-Cov-2 is going to be around forever - just in a less virulent form. A concept that used to be widely understood in modern virology but got hijacked in the last couple of years. Colds and flus have ended the lives of the elderly and immune compromised forever. That's just nature. And when people accept SARS-Cov-2 in it's evolving less virulent forms as just another cold or flu - we can all get back to living life as we use to. And the elderly, immune compromised, and anyone else who feels the need can get their annual flu/covid shots.

Someone nominate Jingthing for the POTY award! Well deserved.

The actual question is do any foreigner teacher receive respect in Thailand?