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Absolutely, tragically, unbelievably inhuman: this is a real endorsement of the regard with which very many Thais (particularly those in positions of authority) see foreigners - no compassion or sympathy at all. I'm 100% certain that no Thai official would publicly humiliate an elder Thai person who's just been bereaved like this. and who is obviously grieving, lost and confused.

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Nobody's yet mentioned that with Sinovac the antibody count drops to 30% after 40 days - as reported already by Thai medical staff who have had the double-jabs early on, and then become infected . . .

"They no longer hide . . . "? What you say makes me smile. I came to live here in 1996, and sent a one-cubic-metre package of personal goods on ahead by sea. It disappeared into the guts of Customs in Bangkok, and I was told " . . . they're waiting for their bribe." I was indignant and angry. At that time there happened to be a big public outcry going on in the Thai papers and TV about corruption in Thailand. "Yeah, right, good, they've got what's coming!" was my reaction. But then I read a little bit closer about what was actually happening. It turned out that the public wasn't up in arms about 'bribery and corruption' at all - this was an accepted part of life that folks just shrugged off. No - they were furious about a glaring inconsistency in the corruption; the bribes to get your stuff in through the seaport and docks were higher than the cost of the bribes at the airport. Everyone was indignant at the unfairness of this, and people were protesting, and demanding that this dreadful inequality should be put right immediately. This was 25 years back. Not much has changed since then.

Posted 13 minutes ago 7 hours ago, KannikaP said: Erm . . . . because the comment you are 'replying' to is about seeing huge piles of passports in immigration offices from agents, and the bribery going on. You have stated three things in your reply, none of which are even remotely connected with 'bribery and corruption':- 1. You went to do a 90-day report (not to get an under-the-table visa extension) 2. You were the only person there (totally irrelevant) 3. You were in and out in less than five minutes (utterly and totally irrelevant) ???? Has that helped to ease your total bewilderment at all?

I used to think that all this ridiculous and excessively bureaucratic paperwork visa-wise was the side effect of a little undeveloped nation desperately trying to make itself look important. Then, a few years later, I got to thinking no - that's not it - it's a cunning plan to get lotsa brown envelopes by making the whole visa business so long-winded and unbearable. Now I've come to realise that, actually, it's both.

I wish people would get to realise that 1,500 people is all it rakes in a poll. It is the optimum number and provides an error margin of 2.5%. Mathematically it's known as the 'confidence interval'. The only fly in the ointment, Thaiwise, is that the survey needs to represent a random selection of the population. This is generally done by random computer selected phone calls but, in this country, undoubtedly it'll be done by a junior government geek with a clip board in the nearest and easiest shopping mall. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The margin of error in a sample = 1 divided by the square root of the number of people in the sample How did someone come up with that formula? Like most formulas in statistics, this one can trace its roots back to pathetic gamblers who were so desperate to hit the jackpot that they'd even stoop to mathematics for an "edge." If you really want to know the gory details, the formula is derived from the standard deviation of the proportion of times that a researcher gets a sample "right," given a whole bunch of samples. Which is mathematical jargon for..."Trust me. It works, okay?" So a sample of just 1,600 people gives you a margin of error of 2.5 percent, which is pretty darn good for a poll. ------------------ https://www.robertniles.com/stats/margin.shtml --------------------------------------- Also . . . . -------- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/howcan-a-poll-of-only-100/