Lorry

Having said this, boosters are generally not recommended any more. Anybody who has ever had PrEP will count as previously immunized when PEP is necessary.

Yes, exactly what I was saying.

Thai defamation laws are violated even if what you state is true. Marc was such a lovely person, so many farang held him in high esteem. He tirelessly worked to bring Thais and farang closer together. He never crossed any red line. Unfortunately, I didn't have the good luck you had , and didn't know him personally.

TRD's first set of FAQs say otherwise. Please read Question 9 one more time.

Yes to all of the above

Yes, I think so too. TRD has said it very clearly. My " unnecessary restrictions" are unnecessary according to the rules of today. They are just a layer of - hopefully unnecessary, and maybe useless anyway - safety.

I agree. Let's turn it around: if you want to avoid taxes, sell your house/stock in a year you are not a tax resident and remit it in the same year (or in another year that you are not a tax resident) The same logic applies to any remittances of money (not only capital gains) you made after 1/1/2024 for people who in some years are not tax resident: choose these years to remit income, and remit income that you in made this same year You agree?

It's a very different kind of medicine. SiPH is a bit like Thai government medicine: you do what is absolutely required. Not more than that. It's very minimalistic, but I like this approach. Sometimes it's too minimalistic. In Bumrungrad/Bangkok Hospital and many other places of Thai private medicine you do everything which you could possibly think of, as long as it's paid for by the patient's insurance. I have once seen a patient in SiPH whose list of daily medications consisted of 1 (one) pill per day. Impossible in many other private places, 10 pills three times a day is much more common.

Exactly. And you have to understand the context, and the kind of barefoot medicine the WHO (correctly) promotes, for places like sub-saharan Africa. In a village in Mali, you don't have the resources to check all kids for worms, and chances are, most will be infected anyway. So just deworm them regularly, better than doing nothing. In a city in an upper-middle income country like Thailand, the situation is very different.

The list shows only a fraction of the restrictions, general restrictions when purchasing something. There are many others, I mentioned depositing money in a bank account. There are limits for withdrawing money, limits for purchases of certain goods etc etc A couple of years ago, in a country which according to that list still has rather high limits, I brought my old dental crown to a gold shop. I got 15 €, had to bring my passport which was duely copied. Newsmedia create a climate where people feel the mere possession of 4- or 5-figure sums is a criminal offence. Next to the headline "Guy kills wife" may be a headline "Police catches guy with 20,000 cash" - even in countries where this is not illegal at all.

You presume that. I don't. Wow, great news! So Pattaya is deserted now, Soi Buakhao all empty, Soi 6 is only girls! Why didn't you tell me earlier, tomorrow I will travel to the now pristine beaches of Pattaya.

Isn't this defamation of poor old Marc? Maybe his estate will sue you.

Thais do this with dogs, they give them worm meds without symptoms every couple of years. I still have to meet a Thai stupid enough to do this to himself.

That was my experience with moxifloxacin from this company - hard to find. Only the biggest and most well-stocked pharmacies had it, not my neighborhood pharmacies (of which there are 11)

That club was a place to socialize with Thais. But thinking of it... OP is tired of "Thai faces", maybe that club or something similar would be a solution.

Sending an email and sending a letter (jewelry doesn't need big, bulky packages) by snail mail isn't such a big difference. And as for "defamed Thailand" - 555

Every country in the EU has different limits and different rules. The limit is often much lower than 10,000 €. 1000 or 2000 is more typical, that's not much more than a nice dinner party. And no, not only commercial transactions. A typical example is buying a used car for cash from a private seller - illegal in most countries. There is generally a climate of fear and suspicion when people see banknotes exceeding 50 €. 10 years ago, I wanted to pay an AirBnB by depositing 1200 € cash in the landlord's bank account. The teller called the manager, they threatened to call the police. The usual cr@p. The best answer is always the story of the Dutch jews. There was a census in the 30s asking everybody his religion. Law-abiding Dutch all answered truthfully, they had nothing to hide. That later saved the Nazis a lot of work. If someone who has power over you wants information about you, it's never in your interest to provide that information.

https.......post.com/opinion/opinion/2843523/digital-wallet-tokens-could-hit-scheme

Today's Bangkok Post has a critical opinion piece by Chartchai Parasuk about the workings of the digital money. He calls it "inferior money"

Not proven afaik. If it were true, Thais (and Indians, Indonesians etc) should hardly have any worms. It may depend on the dosage. It's possible to kill people with capsicain (= capsaicin), once the host is dead, the worms will die.

It's bisacodyl with an "a" in the middle. Dulcolax (with an "o") is avalable in Thailand, not difficult to find (distributed by DKSH).

"Essential" hypertension is what normal people call hypertension. "Essential" just means doctors pretend there is no obvious, simple reason (funny, weighing 300kg, smoking 40 cig/day, and never moving away from the TV is not considered a reason for hypertension by doctors - they will still call it "essential") An example for high BP that doctors don't call "essential": some tumours produce hormones that make your heart beat faster and your BP going up. "Pulmonary hypertension" has nothing to do with what you call high BP. In some diseases of the lung, the pressure only in the blood vessels inside the lung is elevated. You cannot measure this with a BP meter, and BP can be normal.

Read my post from yesterday. BCDC has pictures of their main clinic on the internet. You can count how many floors the building has (I think it was 2), and from the looks of the location it's obviously not for an international clientele. Their website seems to be only in Thai.

The "food" industry poisoning the people for profit is not a phenomenon unique to Thailand. McDonald, Nestlé, Mars, Pepsico ... where exactly are these from?

Don't really know. It seems to me that Scandinavians are very happy about it, they love, trust and believe their governments. Germans, Austrians, Swiss are not happy and grumbling, but if their government says "jump", they jump. Southern Europeans have always been the creative types. But they more or less follow EU regulations because they live on EU subsidies. These are gross generalizations, but there really is almost no resistance against the abolition of cash.