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6 hours ago, mtls2005 said:

No evidence has been shown to prove that ivermectin works against COVID-19.

This is simply not true*. There's some evidence, eg at least two RCTs in non-peer-reviewed publications (the horror). It's not particularly good evidence. But given the safety profile & low cost of say a weekly dose of ivermectin, I'd have thought this would motivate a much larger scale investigation of its efficacy as a prophylactic. Rolling out rather hastily-developed vaccines doesn't seem like a  particularly good idea either?

*and if fact checking continues in this vein, it's never going to have much credibility. Unless perhaps conflicting evidence is totally suppressed....

1 hour ago, mockingbird said:

My question is would it be possible to convert my setv to an education visa while in Thailand?

IDK, but it used to be possible to apply for education visas from outside Thailand. Given the SETV regs were just relaxed, eligible countries broadened etc, that could become possible again pretty soon, which would save converting an SETV.

Here's some language schools I found in CM (if you're interested in that city):

https://tslchiangmai.com/

https://www.welearnthai.ac.th/

https://www.facebook.com/thaiforfunCM/

(FWIW; there's more on chiangmailocator; I haven't contacted them yet & don't know much about them.)

It might be easier to get an education visa, if you don't mind spending a couple of hours a day studying Thai. (I'm over 50 but considering this.)

23 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Thanks, but: Permanently closed

There could be others (you could search on "makerspace bangkok" or perhaps the Thai equivalent if that page has it).

4 hours ago, Natai Beach said:

It did say that 80% of the 8.2 million long term expats have gone

Seriously??? I thought the Covid extensions made it relatively easy for long-termers to stay? And Thailand has definitely seemed more attractive than lockdowns everywhere else...

2 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Nour News, a news agency close to the Revolutionary Guards, said last week that Zam was detained by Guards agents after he travelled to Iraq in September 2019 and brought to Iran.

ie he was extrajudicially renditioned in violation of Iraqi sovereignty, which

a) was apparently a bad thing when Soleimani was killed.

b) didn't occur when Khashoggi* was killed in the Saudi consulate in Instanbul (because of extraterritoriality).

Doesn't seem to be anywhere near as much outrage about this...

*who was also fomenting an uprising in his home country, but you had to really search to find that detail.

5 hours ago, rooster59 said:

"High Quality, High Value, High Spending"

High... As a Kite?

6 minutes ago, sawademe said:

[Ivermectin is readily available in veterinary form locally.]

Given that it's been around so long, and presumably is rather easy to make, I doubt taking a veterinary form would be dangerous. (At the correct dosage, of course.)

Have you tried topical minoxidil? It should be available OTC & has a lot less side effects.

20 hours ago, ftpjtm said:

It was either the single worst and longest lasting case of the flu I've ever had, in spite of having a flu shot 2 months earlier, or I had COVID-19. I strongly suspect the later.

Might be possible to confirm that with an antibody test now?

From no money no honey to no glove no love

3 hours ago, ChouDoufu said:

maybe add some shelves and racks for the condo cleaning gear...... smelly mops and buckets.

Spray anything left out in the hallway with fish sauce?

Or put weird things inside anything with an inside. If confronted, point out that he's putting random <deleted> in the hallway... (If a personal effect is left in a communal space, presumably the space within the personal effect remains communal? Otherwise why not just set up a tent in hallway and live there too!)

39 minutes ago, lastminutebozo said:

What they should do is, empty an island. Get foreign volunteers/paid workers/military run the island.

Fantasy Island... or ASQ Island?

11 minutes ago, koolkarl said:

breath some of the most polluted air on this planet, all year?  The politicians need to wake up.

I haven't done an exhaustive check*, but in some places (eg here) the PM2.5 levels are 'only' bad for about 4 months a year.

*If anyone knows where to get historical data for city-level averages, please post.

3 minutes ago, fangless said:

Just send them on their way to Turkey  China in exchange for tourists!

They'd probably love to go to Turkey. But I doubt China would appreciate it...

From U-turn Thani to U-turn Thailand ????

16 minutes ago, webfact said:

Two Uighurs who escaped from jail in Tak’s Mae Sot district twice were caught in Bangkok, while the immigration police chief in Tak has been transferred for being lax in his duties.

Police chief: "What, it's not an open prison?"

17 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

The world will be guinea pigs it appears.

Russia & China have been for several months already... (But at least they're not using mRNA vaccines...)

8 minutes ago, Surelynot said:

Scary...lost a pound in a fruit machine when I was 17......so upset (that was 10 pints worth) never gambled since.

It's not always gambling debts; that friend's mother was involved in some kind of investment (/ponzi?) scheme.

2 hours ago, webfact said:

She has mentioned problems with being in debt. 

41 minutes ago, Surelynot said:

arrested soon after.....how did that happen? Either totally inept or some kind of scam.

"Part-time kidnappers" trying to recover debts rather than pro criminals. (I suspect; this happened to the mother of one of my Chinese friends...)

5 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Perhaps in another country.

It became part of the Queen's English around the 60s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay#Shift_to_specifically_homosexual