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55 minutes ago, lanng khao said:

48-72 hrs before departure from airport, not arrival at your destination.

Even this could be tricky for a flight the day after a long weekend!

Even the differences in premiums by country seem a bit weird (all 1 year):

Hong Kong, China, Vietnam, Israel, Jamaica: 14k

Indonesia, Ireland, Philippines, Korea, Sri Lanka, Canada, India: 23k

UK, France, USA: 43k

Also a 1 year premium ~ 2x 180 days. With people getting vaccinated, in 180 days Covid should be way less of a problem. (Especially for people who have been vaccinated, but get no discount.)

39 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

The app’s handover sparked wild speculation that authorities were meddling too much in the management of MorChana, which has already got 7 million downloads.

With only 10% coverage of the population, how useful can it be, meddling or not?

2 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Infectious diseases and livelihood crises led the rankings of risks expected to pose a critical threat to the world in the next two years, according to a survey of more than 650 World Economic Forum (WEF) members from business, government and academia.

With the benefit of hindsight, we can see that this might have been foresight about a year ago. Now it's hardly insightful...

12 minutes ago, JeffersLos said:

 

I guess the whole racial profiling PC thing hasn't reached here yet. 

That's just for rich farang ????

6 hours ago, webfact said:

The government’s Equitable Education Fund (EEF) has presented research showing students lose 50 per cent of their maths knowledge and 30 per cent of their reading literacy after prolonged home-learning away from school.

It's quite possible this has more to do with courseware quality than home-learning per se. & with so many kids studying from home, there's a great opportunity to improve courseware via multiple small experiments.

(UK comprehensive school maths & languages severely stunted my abilities in both those areas... If I could pick up Chinese in my 30s, a donkey should have been able to teach me French & German in my teens.)

45 minutes ago, webfact said:

Prof Prasit Watanapa of Mahidol University, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, announced that the six patients had contracted the virus near their homes and were now being treated in hospital.

So there's community spread in Bangkok..?

Seems like Thai people mostly just want a vaccine?:

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According to the survey by YouGov, a marketing firm based in Britain, 83 percent of respondents in Thailand said they wouldn’t mind getting a vaccine, followed closely by U.K. (80 percent) and Denmark (70 percent). The survey was taken between Nov. 17 and Jan. 10, covering 2,088 participants in Thailand.

3 hours ago, wprime said:

 

They're moving away from pointing with their hands:

https://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/2018/04/01/humiliated-police-to-prohibit-pointing-in-pressers/

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In lieu of pointing, red circles around subjects will become mandatory in all photos published by the media.

So THAT's why someone here was trying to get Mysteron rings!

On 1/16/2021 at 12:43 PM, gearbox said:

According to Boston Consulting there were only 15000 households in the world with net worth >  $100 millions USD in 2013.

And 14000 of them worked for BCG.

On 1/16/2021 at 2:19 PM, Jingthing said:

He's married. 

Believe it or not...

https://www.lazada.co.th/catalog/?q=cheese

?

6 hours ago, FarFlungFalang said:

Sorry for your loss,there are now reports of issues being raised in Norway who are investigating 23 deaths in elderly after being vaccinated who are now recommending caution when vaccinating.

This is v strange. Norway vaccinated 42k people, 29 die (~0.8/1000). Israel vaccinated ~2m people*, initially mostly over 60, 2 die** (0.001/1000 and they don't think those deaths are vaccine-related). That's a ~10,000-fold difference in death rates.

*0.65m by the time of that article, but I can't find reports of more recent deaths.

**Maybe four.

15 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

A vaccine which is 95% effective ensures that the vast majority (95%) of SARS-CoV-2 carriers have no symptoms and thus do not, cough, sneeze as readily and thus do not contribute to the spread of SARS-CoV-2 as significantly as those with symptoms. 

This seems a reasonable assumption. But this hasn't been established:

3 hours ago, Trujillo said:

What has been measured in the trials on the BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273 vaccines, as well as other experimental COVID-19 vaccines, is not whether they prevent infection with and transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 but how well they can prevent or minimize symptoms of COVID-19 disease...

I suspect that's the answer to:

3 hours ago, Trujillo said:

what is the purpose of showing some certificate of vaccination

ie vaccination certification is based on the reasonable assumption that vaccination reduces transmission significantly, but this effect simply hasn't been measured yet.

7 minutes ago, AlexRich said:

If you can protect the bulk of your assets, then marriage in Thailand is an option

Pointers on this* could be helpful!

*Other than the obligatory "don't pay medical expenses for a water buffalo until you've sought a second opinion".

Girl scouts, right down to the woggle!

1 hour ago, webfact said:

 

The Ministry of Public Health Permanent Secretary recommends that everyone wears warm clothes, refrains from sleeping in the open air, eats nutritious meals, exercises regularly, drinks 6-8 glass of water each day, avoids bathing or showering with water that is too warm, and apply some lotion to dry skin.

A real nanny state ????

35 minutes ago, kiwikeith said:

Another thing just released is elderly are dyeing after being vaccinated, they never trialled the vaccine on the elderly,

Israel's vaccinated ~2m people, about 6x the original trial size. With the exception of frontline workers and younger people who took up spare appointments on standby, they were over sixty, and there have been very few adverse events.

(One bit of good news from that data: 30-60% protection 13-21 days after a single dose of the Pfizer vaccine.)

19 hours ago, webfact said:

Fire 'kills dinosaur’ in Khon Kaen

"Dinosaur ashes touted as Khon Kaen's next big tourist attraction"

FTFY

https://www.bot.or.th/English/Pages/ContactUs.aspx

?

48 minutes ago, Seth1a2a said:

Cleveland Meredith was found with a Tavor X95 assault rifle

Israeli equipment... a quick roll of the conspiracy drum please!

2 hours ago, douglasspade said:

They leave a line of bubble blisters or rash as their toxins spread over the skin usually because people slap and smear them. Mostly below the eye, neck, mouth and around the ears. I had them under the armpits as they crawl up my short sleeves and on my head as they got caught in my long hair. We actually had an emergency procedure put in place as how to deal with them during night shifts. Toothpaste was the best known ointment available in bulk at that time we could distribute to the workforce.

 

They tend to like fluorescent lights, bug spray do not kill them and body mosquito repellent actually draws them in.

Sounds like the ALIEN of insects O_o

4 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Owners of fighting roosters must put their birds in the sunlight or even light a fire to keep them warm and healthy.

NNBT's public service message to TVF members?