thaibeachlovers

I can't post my opinion of nursing unions without being suspended for it, it's so bad. That is the people that run the unions, not the actual workers. IMO they are the reason nurses have been paid a pittance for decades.

I was talking about lack of preparation for the coming storm, not whether staff are under extreme pressure, but the apparent reality of them being under extreme pressure would support my contention that not enough was done to prepare. They have had at least 18 months to recruit more staff and train them- did they do so?

I'll take her word over yours. She actually works in a hospital and you...........................................?

Governments, since Nixon can't run out of paper with money printed on it. They can apparently invent it out of nothing. "Small problem" of inflation may result though. https://www.barrons.com/articles/gold-standard-dollar-dominance-bretton-woods-51628890861 President Richard Nixon announced a bold economic plan, including the severing of the U.S. dollar’s ties to gold.

According to a nurse I know, they've done sod all, regardless of the propaganda.

I too found lots of action in Chiang Mai, but it involved avoiding get run over by maniacs while riding the m'bike. Nearest thing to fun I found in C M was a boring version of a soapy massage by a fat woman that was as much fun as being suspended above Thapae Gate by my nuts. Typical C M- can't even get a soapy massage right.

You found fun before 11pm? How long ago was that? Far as fun is concerned, Chiang Mai is the Dead Zone. They didn't even put on a show for New Year. Apparently China Town put on a parade for Chinese New Year, but it was so huge I blinked and missed it.

Impossible to recreate with actors. Like Walking Street it was about sex, so unless the actors are prostitutes, it's gonna fail. The difference with W S was that back in the 80s homosexuality was a crime, so guys would use hand signals and meet the katoey away from the street. Best night I ever had there was when a certain British royal's ship was in port. Place was heaving with sailors. I looked for him but no luck.

In some western countries nurses wear scrubs now. About as unsexy as possible to get.

No reputable airline will fly a sick person for same price as regular passenger without a fit to fly certificate. I guess anyone without insurance is not planning on surviving a severe heart attack or a serious stroke.

If that was his choice to live like that who is anyone else to denigrate him for it? It's no business of anyone else. I certainly never went out of my way to be like a Thai. I was there for my benefit, not anyone else's. However, if he hadn't made his son learn English then he was a bit sad IMO. What happened to kids learning English at school?

Fair enough. I don't think many men that went nursing with that in mind would last long. The job isn't just mopping fevered brows and looking pretty for the Drs. It's darn hard work and not well rewarded. I don't think I went home on time very often either. When I started in the 80s, I worked in the largest hospital in NZ and there were only 6 males out of 900 nurses. Wasn't till I worked in London that I met many male nurses and they were mainly from the Philippines. I guess some non nurse men have images of male nurses having the time of their life, but far from the truth for those I knew.

and sometimes not so funny. In Nana I was once accosted by a girl that I'd taken out years before, but the time had not been kind to her. Perhaps she was on drugs, but she looked awful. I was going to give her 1000 baht just out of pity, but she demanded 500, so I gave her that instead. Quite sad as her sister, that I had also taken out, had died in a m'bike accident.

That often happened to me in bars if I was tardy about asking a lass to accompany me to the hotel. Happy days back then when the girls really were slim and attractive, and the punters outnumbered the girls.

She managed to communicate to me she had a boyfriend who had broken her heart. When I started visiting Thailand, I spent a lot of time in Tilac gogo on Cowboy ( way back before it went all blue and chrome and horrid. Got talking to a nice lass who told me that she was there because her farang husband died. Very sad. Even now I don't think she was making it up, as that sort of sadness can't be pretend. When I came back to Thailand six months later, she was gone. Every nice bargirl I enjoyed being with on one visit was gone the next time I returned to LOS, except for a couple that I had extended relationships with over the years, but eventually even they vanished from my life.

Strange statement. I never got involved with anyone I worked with, and I was actually with someone when I started nursing. I went nursing to help people, believe it or not. BTW, nursing stopped me thinking that women were special. Being bullied by female managers probably gave me my attitude to women now.

I guess that to anyone that lives in fun devoid Chiang Mai Pattaya must seem like Sodom or Gommoroh, but I doubt it really was similar. In some ways it was quite tame.

They regretted it when the sterile fun devoid island they created started to lose its appeal to tourists. I understand they tried to rectify the situation, but I've never been back to find out if they were successful. The nights I spent in Bugis Street were mind blowing to a young lad from NZ. I never even knew what a lady boy was before I went there. Every night was a blast though. Happy nights them.

Agreed. Pattaya was a fun place I liked to go.

Red top papers refers to British newspapers that concentrate on lurid stories of sex and scandal. Not regarded as particularly factual. They like to portray Pattaya as worse than Sodom or Gommoroh.

I don't care either way, as I long ago accepted that I'll get it and probably be a casualty, or I won't and either option will be just life as a gamble.

Changed my mind on that post

Yes, because we live in an island nation far far away that was easy to quarantine, but IMO the bad effects on societal cohesion will be severe. BTW, it's likely that they just postponed widespread infection. We are currently being warned to expect many infections now that omicron is loose in the community.

As one that is actually living in NZ, I disagree that it was "OK". Far from IMO. I'm not alone in that either, by far. However, I doubt they publish the opinions of those that disagree with our "leader". I suspect that we will be living with the detrimental societal effects of government policies for far too long in the future.

IMO they resorted to knee jerk policies because they wanted to be seen to be doing something. I don't think it's a secret that I was of the opinion that Sweden got it right, at the beginning.