Tanomazu

You don't understand the basics of how mRNA vaccines work. In addition you are confused about what natural immunity means and refuse to concede that natural immunity confers longer lasting immunity than the vaccines, which the latest study have found. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v1 In addition you think you can predict what mRNA vaccine will cause 5 years into the future, lol. Sorry, you're deluded and not believable in the slightest.

What a load of hogwash! Very obviously the question was about "natural" immunity vs vaccine induced immunity. Of course natural immunity can only happen once you have been infected. That is natural immunity, ie not vaccine-induced immunity. The study CLEARLY concluded that natural immunity is stronger than vaccine induced immunity. That's what the author's clearly say themselves. Obviously you don't even understand what natural immunity means. "Conclusions This study demonstrated that natural immunity confers longer lasting and stronger protection against infection, symptomatic disease and hospitalization caused by the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2, compared to the BNT162b2 two-dose vaccine-induced immunity. Individuals who were both previously infected with SARS-CoV-2 and given a single dose of the vaccine gained additional protection against the Delta variant. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v1

Sorry, you're not believable. You don't have that knowledge. You simply can not and do not know what the mRNA vaccine will lead to in 5 years time, whether the production of the viral protein will not be repeated at some point, whether it will be done in numbers too great for my particular immune system. From your comment above it is clear that you do not know what you think you know. From the government itself: "mRNA vaccines work by introducing a piece of mRNA that corresponds to a viral protein, usually a small piece of a protein found on the virus’s outer membrane. (Individuals who get an mRNA vaccine are not exposed to the virus, nor can they become infected by the vaccine.) Using this mRNA blueprint, cells produce the viral protein." https://medlineplus.gov/about/ I think I trust the world's largest medical library, sponsored by the US government, more than your self-declared knowledge, which they contradict. You are obviously not sufficiently equipped to understand what you are posting. It doesn't matter if mRNA vaccines are fragile. If they are injected in the body they are not decayed, and if that happens then they cause the cells in the body to produce the viral protein. Even if it is the spike part, that is of course what leads to infection. You clearly do not understand the basics of mRNA vaccines.

That is correct, only a few hundred cases sufficed to get Thalidomide pulled from the market after 5 years. With the Covid vaccines there have been many thousands of "adverse events" recorded in the US, UK, Germany, France, etc. Yes, the vaccines do provide protection. Do they provide better protection than natural immunity? Latest study says they do not. Are the vaccines safe? Depends who you ask, not for the relatives of those who died after taking the vaccine or suffered serious illness. For the rest yes.

Maybe I can be of help here: "Conclusions This study demonstrated that natural immunity confers longer lasting and stronger protection against infection, symptomatic disease and hospitalization caused by the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2, compared to the BNT162b2 two-dose vaccine-induced immunity." https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v1 So, yes. There is evidence. Clearly you're not aware of it.

The mRNA vaccines actually fool the body to produce the viral protein itself. Thus your body itself becomes the illness if you have been vaccinated with an mRNA vaccine. Are you sure you can guarantee me in 5 years time these mRNA vaccines will not produce the viral protein repeatedly or in numbers that are too great for the immune system to defeat? You have this knowledge, cdemundo?

Rather than kill of censorship what the internet did was to give would-be censors the tools to pursue ever greater censorship, right now the internet is full of milions of little PC Plods deleting what they deem unacceptable. Many of them sit in the Philippines, the main hub of Facebook censorship, who, of course, outsource censorship to the cheapest and least educated labour. It's rare you'll find a genius working in censorship.

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV): This pervasive respiratory virus has proven resistant to vaccination. Children treated with one vaccine in the 1960s developed an enhanced form of the disease, suffering high fever, bronchopneumonia, and wheezing. Many were hospitalized and two died Dengue fever: The Philippines halted a school-based vaccination program in 2017 after reports of complications and several deaths linked to the product, Dengvaxia. The French manufacturer, Sanofi Pasteur, later said the vaccine posed a risk to people without prior infection from one of the disease’s four stereotypes, actually increasing the risk that the child would contract a more severe form of the disease. https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/here-s-why-we-can-t-rush-covid-19-vaccine In what became known as the Cutter incident, some lots of the Cutter vaccine—despite passing required safety tests—contained live polio virus in what was supposed to be an inactivated-virus vaccine. Cutter withdrew its vaccine from the market on April 27 after vaccine-associated cases were reported. The mistake produced 120,000 doses of polio vaccine that contained live polio virus. Of children who received the vaccine, 40,000 developed abortive poliomyelitis (a form of the disease that does not involve the central nervous system), 56 developed paralytic poliomyelitis—and of these, five children died from polio. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutter_Laboratories

Vaccines are not repeatedly injected? Okay. Sounds like you're in the know about this.

Well, 0.49 times less likely to be infected, okay. I suppose that is significant. However, in terms of safety, do you remember Thalidomide? It took 5 years until the dangers of Thalidomide led to its withdrawal in the UK. For years that drug was considered safe. Seems a bit early to judge the vaccines are safe.

You mean the data showing that despite high uptake of vaccinations record number of cases are being reported?

It is a curious paradox: Censorship is flourishing in the information age. I still remember how discussion was on talkboards in the early 90s. You were free to express your opinion, there was a belief that the Internet would defeat censorship for good. How wrong that was. Gone are the days of robust argument, now replaced with a stage for the narrow prejudices of a few.

To some degree that's true, however, recently there has definitely been an increase in censorship, intolerance of others, polarization of opinions. Most likely it has to do with the fact that Western democracies are a humid and fertile ground where all manner of vegetation thrives, and the increasing number of groups in society, feminists, nationalists, socialists, black rights, hispanic rights, asian, arab, jewish, conservatives, environmentalists, vegans, etc etc etc, actually leads to a proliferation of opposing viewpoints. In addition social media makes those more visible. People are more educated and smarter than ever as well, so that only increases the likelihood they all think they are right.

That's what I thought. It must be the volume of foreigners in Thailand, coupled with the fact the officials get paid peanuts and can't be bothered to do that work. Would be a lot of work, but they get paid for doing very little now.

It's the whole point of a talkboard! If you don't have disagreement there's no point of having one. But more generally, in society, social media has probably been a major factor, as people "block" those they disagree with, some do it on here as well, and of course that creates a small circle of like-minded people who then become snowflakes when their worldview is challenged. Being in a bubble of re-enforced views actually creates extremism, rather than avoid it.

If you receive salary income, say from an investment company you own in the Cayman Islands, that is not taxable if it is not paid in or remitted into Thailand within the same calendar year it is received . Capital gains from the sale of shares in a company listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand (if the sale is made through a licensed broker) or from the sale of investment units in a mutual fund are exempt from tax. Any capital gain or investment income from sources outside Thailand is not subject to taxation unless a resident taxpayer remitted the process into Thailand within the same calendar year it is received. And yes, according to the letter of the law you should be paying tax on your pension in Thailand, in reality if you even tried the Thai tax authorities would turn you away. This has actually happened to pensioners who tried to pay tax in Thailand apparently. https://home.kpmg/xx/en/home/insights/2011/12/thailand-income-tax.html

If you live 180 days in Thailand than you can be liable to pay tax in Thailand and the double tax treaty is irrelevant in terms of tax liability in Thailand. It just means you need to sort out your home country residence status with the home tax authority to avoid paying tax twice using the double taxation treaty rules. In reality of course the Thai enforcement authorities can not keep track of who stays how long in Thailand so nobody in Thailand pays tax on their pension, when according to the law they should. You are right that savings generally are not taxed in Thailand "if not paid in or remitted into Thailand within the same calendar year it is received". https://home.kpmg/xx/en/home/insights/2011/12/thailand-income-tax.html

Really. "The Policia Nacional has taken down an international pickpocketing gang which preyed on tourists in Mallorca. A total of 34 members, all of Romanian nationality, were arrested during multiple raids across the island yesterday." https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2020/08/12/police-arrest-34-members-of-romanian-pickpocketing-gang-who-preyed-on-tourists-in-spains-mallorca/ Crime gangs with 34 members, all Romanian, not a problem. Okay. That's probably why the police arrested them then, because they're not a problem? "Palma caught up in Romania mafia ring SPANISH police have arrested a mafia ring of nearly 300 Romanians, two being picked up in Palma, in one of their biggest operations against foreign criminals. The network was organised by one leader, known as Iorgu I or Talanu, with several lieutenants, and operated in eight of Spain's 17 regions, the Interior Ministry said yesterday. “The crimes for which these mafia groups are accused include violent robbery, forgery and fraudulent use of credit cards, drug trafficking, falsifying documents, illegal possession of weapons, prostitution and offences against worker rights,” Interior Minister Jose Antonio Alonso told a news conference." https://www.majorcadailybulletin.com/news/local/2013/03/23/13582/palma-caught-romania-mafia-ring.html So organized Romanian crime gangs of THREE HUNDRED Romanians engaging in violent robbery not a problem then. Okay. That'll be why the Spanish police conducted a nationwide operation to arrest them then, because they're not a problem. "A united nations of crime’: how Marbella became a magnet for gangsters" The new international crime organisations have made Marbella their centre of operations. And as violence rises, the police lag far behind. “The Costa del Sol is a kind of hub, or ‘coworking’ space, where almost every major criminal group in the world has some sort of presence,” a senior National police agent investigating organised crime told us. The rise in lethal violence is worrying the region’s security forces. “ Last August was an especially bad month: “Eastern European gangs were breaking into homes all the time,” Álvarez-Ossorio said. “There were robberies and assaults happening constantly. We call it ‘black August’, and I think it was really a turning point.” A resident of an upmarket suburb in Marbella, who asked not to be identified by name, said she’s afraid to leave anything of value in her home. “I wear a lot of bracelets,” the woman said, showing off each one and noting its value, each in the tens of thousands of euros. “And when I go running, I cover them up with a wrist band. I don’t leave them in the house.” Asked if she ever thinks about moving, she said: “Yes. In fact, I’m sure that’s what I’ll end up doing.” The Costa del Sol is home to more than 100 different criminal organisations. They range from extremely powerful, tightly structured mafias, like the Serbian, Morrocan and Dutch groups, to gangs of small-time burglars. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/may/20/a-united-nations-of-how-marbella-became-a-magnet-for-gangsters It's so bad in Spain even the mafiosi themselves are scared. Of other mafiosi. More than 100 crimininal organisations operating in Spain not a problem. Okay. Robberies and assaults happening constantly not a problem. Okay. A rise in lethal violence that is worrying even the region’s security forces, but not a problem. Okay. So many crime gangs that even the criminals themselves are scared, but not a problem. Okay. Residents wearing their jewellery to avoid it getting stolen in a break-in in their home and saying they will move away. But not a problem. Okay. Just my "worldview". Okay, genius. Well, clearly you know Spain so well. And btw, Gamberros, youth hooligans, are a problem in Spain due to the 20% plus unemployment, they don't just stay in a neighbourhood, they have scooters and cars and go shopping where you do. And yes, housing qaulity is a lot poorer in Spain than in Thailand, where the standard of housing in CM, BK, and Ko Samui is considerably higher than in most Spanish cities. I know, cause I lived in both. Canary Islands? Lol, yes, winters are great there. Ideal if you like black ash beaches and being bored out of your mind. And cultural life in Spain has been severely limited by animal rights fanatics and left wing extremists, one of the crowns in the jewel of Spanish culture, Tauromaquia, is now barely hanging on by a thread due to the prohibitions on bullfighting in many Spanish cities. As someone who grew up learning horse riding from a Rejeoneador I can tell you that it is a sad time for Spanish culture. Sure, Spain has better museums and opera than Thailand, but it does not have Buddhist monasteries, a Lantern festival, ancient Thai ruins etc. Madrid airport is very limited, all Spaniards know this. Nobody wants to fly to Caracas, everyone wants to fly to Bangkok or Tokyo. But they often have to go to Frankfurt to fly there, because Iberia, the Spanish airline, is very poor and limited in its offering, and even if they offer flights they are wildly overpriced compared to what's on offer in Frankfurt. Outside of Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia, in the smaller cities, btw Spain offers far less in dining options than Chiang Mai, Bangkok or Ko Samui. It's just a fact. It's mostly Spanish, which is great of course, but if you want to try a range of other cuisines, bad luck. Choice of Shopping in Spain is better? Far from it. In Thailand you don't just get a range of malls Spain can only dream of, you also have Asia's largest market, Chatuchak (and it will be back), where you don't just get designer clothes, but unique items, where in fact the designers from Gucci go to be inspired. Shopping in Thailand is better. And the weather in Thailand is better, btw, because in winter it is TEN degrees warmer than in most of Spain and a winter in Palma, Barcelona, Madrid or Valencia will see your furniture moulding green from the humidity which the Winter causes. It's horrible. I lived it for 8 years.

It's very enjoyable to hit the countryside with the scooter, driving it on a city highway with Thai pickups would be my idea of hell. I sometimes was tempted to take it into the city, but you read a story like this and glad I never did.

Why would you have a Thai Taxpayer ID, I presume because you worked in Thailand previously?

Indeed the pickup driver was as usual to blame, however, not much consolation for the family of that Ukrainian woman. If she had been driving a pick-up herself, ironically, she may be alive now. I only drive my scooter in a rural setting, I would not do so in the city, precisely because the quality of driving in Thailand is dangerously poor.

Why is it the worst thing you've done?

How is it xenophobic to point out that Thai people drive dangerously poorly? That's not a "perception", that's a hard fact. Look at the accident statistics! What phobia? He's just telling you a fact.

Actually Lamborghini now do a 4WD. No good? https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/lamborghini/urus

It would actually be awesome if they turned Thailand into a 0% income tax jurisdiction like the Cayman Islands. I mean it's not like anyone is paying tax or the government is providing benefits of any kind anyway. Then you'd get some super rich, if the political stability thing is sorted out. There's actually not enough tax havens in Asia. Why bother with the prentense of collecting tax or the government actually doing anything for the people? You could just as well go no income tax.