JonnyF

5 minutes ago, Eric Loh said:

Rather be a gullible and alive than a dead denier. 

What am I denying? Pray tell.

What do you expect when the Covid Czar himself backs out of taking it at the last minute?

Leadership 101 ???? 

4 minutes ago, placeholder said:

Thank you for not providing evidence to support your claims.

As I said, it was aimed at the gullible.

1 hour ago, Olmate said:

Sorry but no one,s interested if your blind or not..off you go and buy a beer to have with your soup!

Apology accepted. 

PS it's never too late to learn how to think critically, or how to have an intelligent debate.????

4 hours ago, Olmate said:

It’s not permitted..that’s all you need to understand!

Really? ????

Personally I think it's normal (in a mature society) to question the wisdom of such decisions and have an intelligent debate about the logic and impact of such decisions.

Blindly accepting every single decision about what we are 'permitted' and 'not permitted' to do seems a very dangerous route to go down, especially when delivered in the form of diktats from a government that came to power in the way that this government did in 2014.

30 minutes ago, TigerandDog said:

Thailand aren't the only ones using that word. In Oz the NSW govt say they are establishing vaccination hubs throughout the state.

But the chances are that the NSW govt will actually do it. There's a big difference between actions and words. 

There's no way they will let it die.

It's the perfect vehicle for transferring funds from taxpayers into the trough. It's an absolute goldmine for those involved. 

Expect various convoluted schemes to bail it out with public money while appearing not to bail it out with public money.

Personally I will never use them again, even in the extremely unlikely event that they start to offer competitively priced flights like they did a couple of decades ago.

23 hours ago, BBJ said:

Done 200km on my KLX since I bought from a buddy a year ago. Transported by truck to the off road places I ride so does little to no road mileage.  2009, 250s only has 16k on it. 

Yep, I don't know why people would do huge miles on these types of bikes, that's not what they're built for. If you want to tour with a bit of light off road then a CB500X, Tenere, Versys type of bike would be far better. 

These bikes would generally get ridden to the trails and all the other stuff would be off road, which is generally low mileage as it's tough to rack up hundreds of kms on dirt tracks. 1000 kms for an oil change doesn't sound too bad at all, I change it every 5-6 hours on my KX250F and that doesn't really bother me, it's a 5 minute job. It takes me longer to jetwash the bike after riding it than it does to change the oil. The oil filter is even easier, 2 bolts on the side of the engine - a 2 minute job. 

As for 32,000 kms, it would take most people many many years to rack of those type of kms on what is essentially a street legal dirtbike. I guess they could if this was their only bike/daily rider but again I doubt people would buy this as their main form of transport.

The only downside is the restriction to 24hp. I know it's only an exhaust and ECU mod but I just hate the principle of Honda Thailand always selling their poorly spec'd/restricted/lowered bikes in the Thai market.  

10 hours ago, gearbox said:

My gf got her first jab yesterday with the Sinovac vaccine. I told her to walk away if she gets offered AZ.

 

Today in Australia it was announced that Pfizer is the "preferred" vaccine for people under 50. Guess what, nobody is going to touch the AZ vaccine with a 10 foot pole now, no matter if the age is below or above 50. People don't like being forced to use "inferior" vaccine,  whether that perception is true or not. However our moron PM has put all our eggs in one basket with AZ, so this wrecks all vaccination plans and schedules. Bye bye international travel in 2021,  mid 2022 looks optimistic now.

Total over-reaction. Given the efficacy of Sinovac she'd have been much better off with AZ.  Unfortunately this type of reaction will only lead to delays vaccinating people and prolong the damage that Covid is doing to the world. 

To put it in perspective, she'd be 50 times more likely to get a blood clot from contraceptive drugs.

https://www.ft.com/content/a24bf793-7cbe-4335-812d-5b3c05dbe6b7

11 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

The EU doesn't think any such thing as it's regulatory bodies have made clear.

 

Independent sovereign nations have made their own decisions on such issues.

Yes, and many suspended it's use before there was any proven link. Macron didn't help with his stupid quasi-ineffective jibes.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56412784

Now they have the most tenuous of links to a minimal risk I'd imagine they'll do the same again. If they do, I hope they'll do the right thing this time and give it to countries who can use it. 

3 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

As most of my family are in the uk, I'm puzzled why you would think that. And to be honest I would feel the same about the uk making progress on it's vaccine programme even if they didn't.

 

Why you would think I would be sick enough to gloat over another country having high death and infection rates is beyond me.

I guess the anti UK rhetoric for months on end might have led me to such a conclusion. You seem delighted that after many false alarms, they might have finally found a miniscule issue with the AZ vaccine. Can't stop posting about it. Spreading the type of fear that leads people to choose to not get vaccinated. Each to their own I guess. Fortunately the UK has already vaccinated vast swathes of it's population with it, hence the plummeting death toll and a distinct lack of bodies piling up with blood clots.

Now that the EU thinks AZ is so dangerous, hopefully it will drop the export ban so that other countries like Australia can share the UK's massive success story. That would be better than hording it while simultaneously being too afraid to use it. If they don't want it, give it to someone who does.

The EU's policy of constantly sniping at the AZ vaccine is only leading to more deaths in it's member states. I have nothing but sympathy for the EU member states and their citizens. The UK suffered membership long enough so I fully understand their pain. I never thought the benefits of leaving would be so stark, so soon.