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7 hours ago, webfact said:

Going forward, and in its bid to recover post COVID-19, Thailand’s tourism industry will focus  on four key points: Safety, cleanliness, sustainability and not taking advantage of tourists.

Good to know!

1 hour ago, bermondburi said:

Qatar has flights direct to Phuket from Doha.

Which just leaves Pattaya, Koh Samui, Chiang Mai, Phang Nga and Krabi...

1 hour ago, Jimbo53 said:

From next month, the hotel quarantine period will be halved to seven days for fully vaccinated visitors to Phuket, Pattaya, Koh Samui, Chiang Mai, Phang Nga and Krabi, Tourism Authority of Thailand Governor Yuthasak Supasorn told a news conference.

OK but most flights to Thailand arrive in Bangkok... how do you get to those places?

On 3/20/2021 at 8:42 AM, Tropposurfer said:

Why not buy grapes (cheaper) and make your own ... easy. 

Might also be worth trying making it from soaked raisins or gou ji berries (aka gouqi - the best cheap domestically made wine I ever found in China was made of those).

2 hours ago, rgraham said:

Thank you so much for this update I have been really concerned about the oscars.

And so say all of us!

This appears to be a Thai/Indian generic manufacturer.

Has anyone come across this brand in Thailand?

14 hours ago, tonray said:

Couldn't we just provide every partner with a QR code activated chastity belt. That way the only way you're getting in is if she/he scans you first, implying consent.

ChAPPstity?

Or APPstinence?

9 hours ago, sirineou said:

but now I am concerned that J&J might not be one of the approved Vaccines.  

If they rule out J&J's, it'll look pretty hypocritical to allow SinoVac's, which is (supposedly?) barely 50% effective (/efficacious?). That wouldn't go down well 'up North'.

eg see this.

So I'd be quite surprised if they ruled out J&J - too hard to explain to the US.

33 minutes ago, sirineou said:

https://www.pattayamail.com/thailandnews/thailand-scraps-fit-to-fly-and-reduces-quarantine-to-7-days-with-vc-starting-april-1-347851

Are you still laughing Doctor?

I wonder how much the 7 day ASQ will cost...

Get rid of the ball and I'm in

1 hour ago, Captain Monday said:

Can you buy a can of beer for 65p and drink on the gutter-stoop outside Sainsburys?

In the Queen's English: yes, but you have to be a gargoyle.

14 hours ago, Orton Rd said:

Beer lao dark

That's pretty good ????

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Speaking on Friday, Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) CCSA spokesperson Dr Taweesin Visanuyothin said that water splashing is prohibited as our foam parties or any wet events that involve close contact with large numbers of people. 

Because Covid is water-transmissible? ????

8 hours ago, LivinLOS said:

Its impossible for "one " person to have condomless sex. 

No self love without a glove?

1 minute ago, Meat Pie 47 said:

I don't know what a carriage returns means

It's the 'character' you get when you hit the [enter] key.

7 hours ago, Crossy said:

There is at least one country where it's actually illegal to share a bed with mom and daughter, must have been prevalent enough to warrant a law. 

Country or county?

1 hour ago, Neeranam said:

Maybe you've heard of Duggan's Dew of Kirkintilloch? 86% proof!

Only Tullamore Dew...

wait, is this a Dewish consipiracy?

22 minutes ago, BenDeCosta said:

For me an alcohol ban would be the straw that broke the donkey's back.

What broke the camel's?

13 hours ago, Victornoir said:

Treacherous Albion comes to mind.

(More often rendered "Perfidious Albion" mon cher.)

6 hours ago, cmarshall said:

We have a natural experiment in Scandinavia. 

A natural experiment (in a few, rather similar countries) can support the notion that a factor is important in explaining a phenomenon, but can't prove that it is the sole factor driving differences between the natural 'treatment groups'*.

Think before accusing other people of poor reasoning.

For most of last year, Sweden was poster-country for inaction for certain political factions. How's that bit of cherry-picking extrapolation working out?

*To spell it out for the hard of thinking: other causal factors may exist, both between the countries/regions involved and/or in other countries (or indeed across time; this pandemic has not been a synchronous event).

Not understanding these other differences doesn't mean they don't exist. People who make that assumption should consider themselves ignorant.

19 minutes ago, cmarshall said:

Why is it so hard to believe that the Western governments have been either grossly incompetent or criminally indifferent or both?  Sometimes the obvious explanation is the right one.

Because the outcomes in different non-asian countries seem pretty inconsistent; there could be factors other than policy, at work. If you want to do a detailed comparison of

22 minutes ago, cmarshall said:

To say nothing of why the Thais, Japanese, Taiwanese, New Zealanders, and Australians would have developed any resistance to pathogens originating in Western China.

Most of those countries are islands, making excluding potential covid carries rather easy. Is being an island a policy choice? (Northern) Thailand is within the bat species range (which if IIRC covered Burma, Vietnam, Laos and southern China, to within a few hundred km south of Wuhan).

27 minutes ago, cmarshall said:

But, the facts are even worse for your theory since we understand even in Western China human contacts with bat population are a recent phenomenon brought about by increasing areas of human activity in a zone that had been wild.

Think about it: homo sapiens - genetically  modern humans - shared caves with bats. That's what "not that long ago in evolutionary time" means. (And in some parts of the region some humans were still living in caves not that long ago in historical time. eg google "Wa Zu".)

I don't know how significant this particular non-policy factor is; my main point is there are could be many other significant non-policy factors that we simply haven't imagined. So don't jump to conclusions.

30 minutes ago, ezzra said:

Goodness gracious me, what a bevy of beauties... wouldn't mind being a fly on any of the walls of that hotel...

I heard the wall behind the urinals is flyless as we type