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58 minutes ago, rastlin said:

Why would the rule treat unimmunized tourists the same as immunized greater than 3 months? 

The vaccines haven't been around that long, I guess they're just making a worst case assumption.

What about the 14 days for travellers from Africa, when only SA has a big problem...?

5 hours ago, webfact said:

This is because British government has banned its citizens from travelling overseas on holiday.

Just in time for the Thailand's (proposed?) reduction to a 7 day quarantine. Splendido!

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Helicopters are more dangerous, according to data from the federal government, with a fatal accident rate of 0.72 per 100,000 flight hours in 2018. [cf 0.006 for commercial flights, ie helicopters are 120x more dangerous]

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... personal or private helicopter flights are responsible for a disproportionate number of fatal helicopter accidents. Personal or private rides account for just 3% of flight hours but more than a quarter of fatal accidents. [ie private helicopter flights are another ~8.3x more dangerous again = ~1000x more dangerous than commercial flights]

Life's too long... apparently.

I thought the 'second mask' was the one everyone else is wearing...

7 minutes ago, ctxa said:

 

Tbh I couldn't care less if they catch me. That's why I wrote my own unit's number and not somebody else's/ 

 

Can't wait til they confront me about it, to laugh my <deleted> off in front of the juristic office guys and tell them that they can remove it 1000x if they want, I will put it back 1000x too until they give me back my spot ????

Best of all would be a fictional unit number... or five,  for good measure!

3 hours ago, ctxa said:

 

Meh, so many condos in Bangkok that do this. ????

But why not make the perfect crime... perfect?

7 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

Referring to expats as greedy despots may be a little harsh. 

"Dexpots"?

One mistake: not masking the number in the pic in the OP ????

5 hours ago, placeholder said:

Read the article. It says they were all in one section. And here's a photo from it:

:S

So the TAT aparatchiks have already made it to Israel...

3 hours ago, rooster59 said:

The mower is a chain driven four stroke device of 8 horse power that has four gears, one for reversing, and can reach speeds of 40 kms. 

Can it mow grass at 40 km/h? (Assuming 'kms' isn't km/second...)

1 hour ago, Puccini said:

From what I see on https://www.gov.il/en/Departments/Guides/ramzor-cites-guidelines?chapterIndex=1, 500 "Green Pass holders" is currently the maximum allowed for outdoor cultural events in Israel.

So the Green Pass is supposed to encourage (/coerce) people to get vaccinated, by allowing them to not go to cultural events (because of super-strict* capacity limits).

Good to know there's some vacancies for TAT aparatchiks  somewhere.

*Using every other seat, every other row, would be ~11% of the full capacity, so around 3300 in the 30k capacity stadium mentioned.

1 hour ago, gearbox said:

In 2 months the Mediterranean beaches will start opening, and with the vaccination full on there won't be any "area quarantines".

If we're not taking 'European' geographically, Brighton's probably the closest place to the Med where vaccination can be described as 'full on'...

Unless we're mean 'European' as in 'Eurovision', in which case there's Tel Aviv (comes with free oil :)

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How* are the bars, restaurants, agogos, massage shops, gentleman clubs and any business doing during covid?

*Who

18 minutes ago, georgegeorgia said:

I'm too old probably to be taking these at 60 but I did hear about the positive effects of sports enchanting drugs such as ligandrol...

 

I guess only body builders would know what I'm talking about....Ligandrol is a SARM ...

"'sports enchanting" I like it ????

I only heard about SARMs quite recently, but don't they have similar side-effects to anabolic steroids?

I think it's relatively easy for men over 50 in many places to get TRT now; I imagine pushing testosterone levels to the high end of the physiological range would give most non TRT using 60 year olds a massive boost by itself.

But have you checked out tongkat ali? There are a few studies showing it increases (free) testosterone and/ reduces cortisone - a huge plus for anyone doing serious exercise - it's been in traditional use for centuries, seems more or less side effect free, is cheap*, and doesn't involve injections.

*Slightly ironically, you can get tongkat ali extract powder from aliexpress...

11 hours ago, AlfHuy said:

Another hub.

Hub of shortcuts?

10 hours ago, geovalin said:

A notorious slaughterhouse in Cambodia that has killed more than a million dogs was closed on Thursday as the country steps up efforts to end the trade in their meat.

Panda-ing to dog lovers, China watch out...

https://globalgymbunny.com/category/asia/thailand/pattaya

12 hours ago, webfact said:

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union is planning to extend its export authorisation scheme for COVID-19 vaccines to the end of June, two EU sources told Reuters on Thursday, as a shipment of AstraZeneca shots from the EU to Australia was blocked.

To add some figures illustrating the scale of the problem with resistance to the AZ vaccine in the EU:

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For all the talk of Covid-19 vaccine supply issues in the European Union, official data show that close to 13 million doses distributed to member states have not even been administered. Most of those are from AstraZeneca, with many Europeans apparently unwilling to accept that particular jab.

According to the European Centre on Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC), 43.4 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines have been distributed to countries of the EU or European Economic Area, but only 30.6 million doses have been administered.

How could blocking exports of 0.25m doses to OZ, as they've just done, possibly help when they have 13m sitting around unadministered? What's the point of trying to hold AZ to its original contracted figures when they've generated such resistance to this vaccine?

Both decisions seem likely to just cause friction with no upside in terms of actually getting the bloc vaccinated...

8 hours ago, WildBillHiccup said:

but I am not asking for an answer to this Pattaya shouting phenomena only opinions.

Sadly it's not just a Pattaya phenomenon...

There are whole countries - which shall remain nameless - where the normal speaking volume of the loudest 10-20% of the population would be considered shouting in many other places.

And even where this is not the case, there are unusually loud people. I was in airport at 4am trying to get some sleep (as any reasonable person might expect) when a pair of extremely loud northern Chinese blokes turned up. Nowhere left to move to in a Chinese airport at 4am...

Terry Wogan can be happy now.

Seems difficult to marry a local though?

5 hours ago, Meat Pie 47 said:

Got a new tattoo today how you guys like it

 

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