JonnyF

Or we could just get vaccinated, and then carry on with our lives amidst the myriad of diseases and viruses that were around long before Covid. There's a thought..

Good to see that someone finally gets it. Better late than never. Let's hope this insight catches on.

Obviously this phenomenon does not occur in Bangkok. Or Phuket. In those places, the neck muscles remain tight. But consume alcohol elsewhere and the muscles in the neck relax to invite Covid into the body. Packed like sardines on the BTS is fine. But sitting next to someone in a restaurant is dangerous (but only if the drink on the table contains alcohol). What a clown.

2 violent, left wing extremists. One a convicted paedo, one a convicted domestic abuse repeat offender. Both attacking him, along with others.

No I don't think it SHOULD happen. Absolutely not. But it's not beyond the realms of possibility.

The way I see it is that 10 years is nowhere near enough for what he did. So Karma increased his sentence to one that is more appropriate. Feel free to disagree though. His conviction had nothing to do with what happened that day, but tells you a lot about the character of the man, as do other videos on YouTube showing him to be ultra aggressive. Totally in line with Rittenhouse's story about being attacked by this scumbag. Good riddance to bad rubbish, who knows how many children he would have abused in the coming years...

A short jail sentence in my opinion. The guy is clearly an idiot, but ultimately he was attacked by rioters (one of which was a convicted paedophile and the other had been convicted of domestic abuse) and acted in self defence, albeit with excessive force. However he had no reason to be there, he was looking for trouble and found it. An acquittal would lead to huge riots so I'd expect a short jail term. Hopefully he'll get a shortened sentence for doing the public a service by removing a child rapist (Rosenbaum) from the face of the earth.

If I had to guess, I'd say the influential wealthy families that lobby the governemtn have business interests and like to party in Bangkok, not on Soi Post Office.

Apologising for racism. Classy.

No tears from me. As far as I am concerned their racist entrance fee policies can go down with them. And no, a driving licence, a work permit or even proof of income tax paid doesn't get you in for the local rate if you are of European descent. Not since about 2016 anyway.

Just let all restaurants sell alcohol, all of the time. There has been no spike since November 1st. Why? Because alcohol and Covid are completely unrelated. This law was absolutely ridiculous as many of us pointed out for months. Just because a few puritans hate to see others enjoying themselves, that is no reason to destroy businesses.

Well, the countries who have cosied up to China and gone with Sinovac tend not to have the greatest record in terms of transparency of information. Thailand being one example. Either that, or they're using the Chinese test kits as well ????.

What he lacks in presentability, he clearly makes up for in negotiation skills.

15 days since relaxing restrictions in Bangkok and still no spike. Excellent news. Onwards and upwards!!

A swab test to visit KSR? Are they having a laugh? Even if I wanted to go there (which I don't) I'd simply turn around and spend my money elsewhere. Hopefully everyone does the same thing and they drop this nonsense pronto.

I haven't noticed a crackdown. I've had 2 bikes with aftermarket exhausts go through the checks in the last month and both have aftermarket exhausts and both passed, including a Ducati with a Termignoni full system. Both also have the licence plate under the tail section. Although I did notice that on the Ducati they only tested the right side exhaust for sound and emissions. Since the bike has one exhaust pipe for each cylinder (one on each side of the bike) they must be only recording about 50% of the total. I was going to point that out to them, but by the time I had finished watching the episode of Squid Game on my phone, they'd already finished the test. Oh well, never mind ????.

As the west donates money and vaccines from its struggling taxpayers into places like Thailand, the Uber wealthy in places like Thailand donate nothing to the cause and instead buy up multi million dollar companies in the West. All the while arguing that foreigners shouldn’t be able to buy land in Thailand, as they buy up prime real estate in cities like London. Our politicians are complete mugs. Absolute muppets.

Me when I read this.

Hopefully they open pubs/bars in Pattaya soon. I saw loads of "Pattaya looking" types in Bangkok last weekend. I think we are being invaded. There will be rows of Pattaya plated Fortuners jamming up Soi 4 soon, bringing their unvaccinated brethren with them, Chang vests, cargo shorts and all. Sunburnt shaved heads everywhere. Please lord, open a few bars down there - this has to stop ????.

It's encouraging to see there hasn't been a large spike in cases since easing the restrictions at the start of November. Anecdotally, I went to a well known Irish pub in lower Sukhumvit last week and it was so packed there was nowhere to sit. We had to find another place. That level of socialising with no big spike shows me there is light at the end of the tunnel.

That's not too outrageous. I did 2 nights at a hospital in Thong Lor after breaking a collarbone/shoulder and the bill was over 50,000 Baht. The food was good though.

For Thai Airways or Thailand? For Thai Airways, of course it would be nice to have a decent option for flying home. Also, it would be good for Thai people to not have to subsidize that level of corruption and mismanagement through their taxes. For Thailand, a lot of us probably moved here because things were a bit more relaxed and wheels could be greased to a certain extent, rules could be bent etc. It's a novelty to start with, kind of like the Wild West especially after being suffocated by the nanny states we came from. However, there's always a line, and in my opinion that line has been crossed in terms of the gross mismanagement, corruption, cronyism, nepotism since the Junta took over. They are ruining the country. So yeah, dialing it back a bit would be good.

It was only a matter of time. Many of us had predicted such a scenario. Like someone else said, worth the risk if returning to family or work but why anyone would take this risk for a couple of weeks holiday in Thailand while most things are closed is beyond me. 12 hours sitting on a plane in a mask waiting for a stick to be shoved up your nose to see if you're going to be locked up for 2 weeks. I can think of better ways to relax.

I think you misunderstood. I am saying that none of them like wearing a mask and the ones that I know well have complained that it is uncomfortable and causing them skin problems. That doesn't mean they would stop doing it given the choice, they would still do it because they have been indoctrinated to think that not doing so means likely death even though they are all double vaxed. If Thai's were so fine with wearing masks, you wouldn't see so many of them wearing them as chin straps. I think there are some benefits to masks, for example if someone in an outdoor restaurant sneezes the mask will catch most of the spray. However, if you're sat next to someone who has Covid in an unventilated office for 9 hours a day for a few days, I don't believe a mask will do much good since they are not sealed, people remove them to drink water etc. The virus will be present in the atmosphere, and eventually some of it will get past the mask unless it is absolutely airtight, which it isn't. Covid isn't going anywhere, like Flu. To suggest people need to wear masks for the rest of their lives is unrealistic IMO.

A lot of the Thai women where I work are extremely irritated by wearing masks, some of them having to get specialist treatment for skin problems that have developed by having to wear them in the office 9 hours a day. Just because they don't complain as much, doesn't mean they're OK with it. As for the OP, when I want advice on how to live my life from some hospital director I'll ask for it. Until then, he should keep busy working out more ways to overcharge foreigners for medical treatment and keep his advise to himself.