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If you pushed on through Lopburi on route 21, you get to Phetchabun, which is quite nice. You've got Khao Kaw, the Switzerland of Thailand, and at the southern end is Amphur Wichian Buri, the home of the famous Grilled Chicken (gai yaang) Wichian. Then you can take the scenic Route 12 over to Pitsanulok and Sukhothai.

Probably not, but it will vary from one finance company to another, I expect.

The person taking over the car payment (as new owner) needs to be able to show a solid credit story to the finance company. That process can take a week or so. Obviously the previous owner has to come along to the finance company with you to sign the relevant documents.

I believe the reason is that the company was inactive, and that (by definition) you cannot trade shares in an inactive company. If they don't get you one way, they get you another. They could simply have said, as soon as he won the election: "You will never be PM.". The subsequent 2 months or so has just seen a lot of theater and blowing smoke, activities which are known as "the Thai way", which is celebrated in the national anthem.

I suppose we should at least be thankful that you are not a doctor. Overall, we have driven this thread far enough off-topic, and since you clearly didn't reason your way into your extreme viewpoint, there is no way for me to reason you out of it.

The old ones are always the best ones .... As it happens, I am very familiar with classification systems, irrelevant though they are to the subject under discussion, which involves ranking and is therefore not simply nominal. The clue is in the word "sicker."

You were the one who noted that she didn't get vaccinated previously simply "due to the negative posts on Thai social media", which is clearly behavior you disagreed with. If you don't want your GF's actions discussed, then don't bring her into the thread in the first place. Which are again subjective for each individual. There is no objective measure of "sickness" short of extreme conditions. Some people claim to be "sick" at the drop of a hat; others soldier on quietly unless they are at death's door.

Yes, vaccines work. But Covid vaccines are different in terms of effectiveness than a tetanus vaccine, or the polio vaccine, which helped completely eradicate polio in the wild in the US within 25 years. And I would not agree with your "statistical outlier" formulation, partly because the definition of "sicker" is vague to the point of being arbitrary. In passing, the last thing I would do if I had just recovered from a nasty Covid infection would be to rush to the local clinic to get vaccinated. That certainly sounds like something the idiot fringe on social media would recommend.

Excellent, just the sort of info I was looking for. Thank you very much.

Whatever you believe about the broader data, your experience still does not have the relevance you think it has, just as it would be foolish of an unvaccinated person to claim relevance in that all their vaccinated relatives got much sicker than they did.

I'm just looking for a recommendation of a decent restaurant or two, somewhere to maybe have a beer. No massages required.

I feel that too. Especially with people who cite personal anecdotes around Covid as if they had any relevance to the broader statistical pattern of sickness from this virus.

Well, the main Chinese vaccines contain the full virus which has been inactivated, which is the traditional delivery method for vaccines in the past. So I guess you could argue it either way; it does contain an inactivated spike protein but it is not just the spike protein, there's a complete viral structure in the Sinovac vaccine. I interpreted the original question as asking something like: "Do they inject you with spike protein?" to which my answer would be: Technically, no.

I was responding to a poster who wrote: "Spike proteins isn't that in vaccines?" The answer is: No, it isn't.

Vaccines don't use the spike itself - they deliver messenger RNA which causes cells to produce the S protein (the spike), as the very next sentence in the article you referred to explicitly notes: "RNA vaccines contain fully functional mRNAs that can be translated directly into the S protein," This process is then described in more detail in the subsequent paragraph. "They contain codon-optimized sequences for efficient expression of the full-length S protein and use the authentic signal sequence for its biosynthesis." (Emphasis mine) There is no spike protein in the vaccines themselves.

With the greatest respect, it went very smoothly because it was a shabby sellout. Hong Kong's rights under the Basic Law were guaranteed to remain until 2047 at the earliest. Halfway there, those rights have been utterly shredded, as the British authorities knew all along would happen.

Technically, the answer is No. The mRNA (messenger RNA) vaccines deliver a payload that uses your body's cells to produce a piece of the spike protein. The cells then display that spike protein piece on their surface, which in turn is recognized by the immune system as foreign material, so the immune system creates antibodies to neutralize what it thinks is an infection. You can read the whole sorry saga at the CDC website here.

At least these incursions allow Taiwan's air defenses to fine-tune their systems. If China were to be dumb enough to invade, it would be the complete opposite of a surprise attack.

I have to be present at a seminar in this town in a month or so's time, which will involve staying two nights. I passed through the town briefly several years ago on the way to Kanchanaburi, and saw only a dusty clump of buildings along the main road. Does it have anything or anywhere to recommend it, beyond the local temple with the giant chedi and an old canal?

It's easier to tell it to the 8000 million it didn't kill.

The point is to keep pretending that this virus is still a matter of special concern, and thereby help to prolong the fiction that the unprecedented hysteria of the past three years was justified.

I have no idea what "anti-vaxxers" claim. If you find one, ask them and report back, let us all know.

The only outbursts from "anti-vaxxers" about people wanting annual Covid shots will be an outburst of laughter.

At this point, the presence of powerful narcotic stimulants in the White House can only be a major positive influence on decision-making.

... also the UN's Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights, Articles 3.2, 5, 6.1 and 6.2, for starters