TallGuyJohninBKK

Not just "when requested," but as he was clearly obligated to do under federal law.... something Trump has consistently shown he cares not a whit about.

You have no credible basis for making that claim.... (that COVID deaths among the elderly aren't "much of a surprise." Just because a person is older and/or has other health issues doesn't by any stretch mean they're already at death's door. And, many of the chronic health conditions that increase a person's risks from dengue also increase their risks from COVID: "The main risk factors for severe dengue fever were secondary infection, and co-morbidities (hypertension and diabetes). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7810113/

If the traditional patterns hold, we'll have a few months now during the so-called rainy season when air pollution levels here will be relatively low, followed by yet another seasonal spike of choking air pollution toward the end of the year lasting 5-6 months into next spring (the ag burning season). The annual rinse and repeat cycle. PM2.5 readings today for Thailand -- good to moderate: http://aqicn.org/station/thailand/bangkok/chulalongkorn-hospital#/z/5

And yet more than 4 times as many COVID deaths (69) in just one week compared to 5 months of dengue deaths (15).... I guess there's an awful lot of your "unluckyness" going round.

Of course, lost in the familiarly misleading partisan headline of this and similar threads posted here lately is the fact that Biden has been intentionally, deliberately uninvolved in the criminal investigation of Trump, and it's been/being handled by an independent special counsel. https://www.c-span.org/video/?528657-1/special-counsel-jack-smith-delivers-statement-indictment-president-trump# "“We have one set of laws in this country, and they apply to everyone,” said Justice Department Special Counsel Jack Smith, who delivered a brief statement to the press on the indictment of former President Trump. Mr. Smith also urged the “defendants must be presumed innocent until proven guilty…in a court of law.” President Donald Trump was indicted on 37-counts, with 31 counts related to violations of the Espionage Act." "An ongoing special counsel investigation was opened by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on November 18, 2022, to continue two investigations that had been initiated by the Justice Department (DOJ) regarding the former U.S. president Donald Trump. Garland appointed Jack Smith, a longtime federal prosecutor, to lead the independent investigations. Smith was tasked with investigating Trump's role in the January 6 United States Capitol attack, and Trump's mishandling of government records, including classified documents." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_special_counsel_investigation Independent counsel Smith doesn't work for Biden and doesn't report to Biden. That's what it means when they say independent special counsel.

The current Thai government isn't doing anything significant to reduce the country's high levels of seasonal PM2.5 air pollution. But at least they've now begun a new stricter reporting system that will better show the public just how bad things can get here:

The cost of clean air in Thailand "Air pollution increases the risk of many non-communicable diseases, such as ischaemic heart disease, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and lung cancer. In April 2022, PM2.5 concentration in Thailand's air was four times higher than the WHO annual air quality guideline value. This means the Thai population breaths in air that is too polluted, and which will affect their health. In 2016, it was estimated that over 33,000 deaths in Thailand were attributable to ambient air pollution." ... Research conducted by Associate Professor Witsanu Attavanich, an environmental economist at Kasetsart University, estimated that the social cost generated from PM2.5 nationwide in 2019 is equal to 2.17 trillion THB per year, accounting for almost 11% of gross domestic product of that year. https://www.who.int/thailand/news/detail/08-06-2022-the-cost-of-clean-air-in-thailand

"State Of Global Air reported that in 2019, over 32,000 deaths in Thailand were attributable to ambient particulate matter pollution (PM2.5). While more recent data is yet to be released, the trend is upward, and it’s very likely that in 2023, even more deaths will be attributable to air pollution." https://breathesafeair.com/air-pollution-in-thailand/#Air_Pollution_in_Thailand "A senior public health official has claimed that since the beginning of the year more than 1.3 million people in Thailand have fallen ill from air pollution, which kills more Thai people each year than obesity or smoking. According to the WHO’s State of Global Air report, air pollution accounted for nearly 8% of all deaths (more than 41,000 cases) in Thailand in 2019, with PM2.5 ranked as the top risk for such deaths." https://airqualitynews.com/headlines/air-pollution-hospitalises-200000-in-one-week-as-fumes-emissions-and-smoke-descend-on-thailand/

And Thailand just reported 69 new COVID deaths in the past one week.... Guess that helps put things in perspective some.

Seems the investigation of the SNP's finances began in 2021, more than two years ago now, and Murrell and his cohort were arrested by police and released in April, more than two months ago now, and no further action taken against them as yet. The police seem to be proceeding here at a quite leisurely pace.

So let me get this straight from reading the above news reports.... First her husband and the party's former treasurer are arrested by police, and then later released without any charges being filed. And now Sturgeon herself is arrested by police, and then again shortly thereafter released without charge. I'm not familiar with law enforcement in Scotland... But all of the above seems a very odd way for police to be going about their business. Usually, police only arrest people when they're pretty sure they have a good basis to believe they've committed a crime/crimes, and plan to seek the filing of charges.

Ongoing advice from the Thai MoPH: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid02dhEXfxZtaeKFZ7ZwKWFspRZvMuDf2nRA8emu8nUJAixR5CNMPwtp7kfNVAdqKQ9ul&id=100068069971811

New weekly update from the Thai Ministry of Public Health:

New weekly update today from the Thai Ministry of Public Health:

Thailand's spring COVID surge has showed signs of easing for the first time since the beginning of April, as the Thai Ministry of Public Health reported Monday that new COVID hospitalizations, serious condition patients and those requiring intubation to breathe all declined last week. The latest weekly COVID update broke a trend, at least for the most recent week, in which new COVID hospitalizations in Thailand had increased for nine of the past ten weeks since the beginning of April. The only increase in Thailand's key publicly reported COVID stats last week was in COVID deaths, which rose by one to 69 for the week versus 68 the week before, a new weekly high for 2023. Elsewhere, the COVID news was all good. New COVID hospitalizations for June 4-10 declined 12.2% from 3,085 two weeks ago to 2,709 last week. COVID patients hospitalized in serious condition declined 1% from 386 two weeks ago to 382 last week, the second consecutive weekly decline in that category. And COVID patients requiring intubation in order to breathe declined 4.9% from 243 to 231, also a second consecutive weekly decline. At last week's rates, Thailand was averaging 387 new COVID hospitalizations per day and nine new COVID deaths per day. For 2023 thus far, Thailand now has reported 563 total COVID deaths and 23,833 COVID hospitalizations. Thailand's seasonal COVID surge began at the beginning of April in the lead-up to the country's annual Song Kran holidays and its spike in domestic and international travel. Both the 3,085 new COVID hospitalizations and 68 new COVID deaths reported two weeks ago were year-high totals for Thailand. So while last week's death tally increased slightly, last week's drop in new hospitalizations was a significant retreat from the yearly high. Still, last week's total of 2,709 new COVID hospitalizations remained 16 times higher than the 167 weekly total reported at the beginning of April. And last week's total of 69 new COVID deaths remained 23 times higher than the three weekly deaths reported at the beginning of April. The Thai government last fall stopped publicly reporting regular COVID infections and positive tests, and since then has only counted and reported new COVID hospitalizations as the country's tally of new COVID "cases."

"Trump has been charged with 37 counts: 31 counts of willful retention of national defense information; one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice; one count of withholding a document or record; one count of corruptly concealing a document or record; one count of concealing a document in a federal investigation; one count of scheme to conceal; and one count of false statements and representations." https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/live-updates/trump-indictment/?id=99913217 AND "Former President Donald Trump has vowed to stay in the 2024 presidential race even if he is convicted on the wide-ranging 37-count indictment. In an interview with a Politico reporter who went on Trump Force One on Saturday, Trump reportedly said he will continue to run for president even if he's convicted by a federal grand jury, his spokesperson confirmed. "I'll never leave," Trump said. "Look, if I would have left, I would have left prior to the original race in 2016. That was a rough one. In theory, that was not doable." https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/live-updates/trump-indictment/trump-vows-to-stay-in-the-race-even-if-convicted-99989081?id=99913217 And now introducing, our would-be "Criminal in Chief"!

The latest WHO report on COVID worldwide shows continuing downward trends, amid the caveats about those numbers of much reduced COVID testing and reporting. But against those trends: --"Australia's cases were up modestly, and with the onset of cooler weather in the Southern Hemisphere, the country is reporting rises of both COVID and flu. COVID-19 cases have doubled since March, and most people haven't had a COVID booster in more than 6 months, Australia's SBS News reported." --"In China, the government is no longer releasing weekly data, but health officials have said the country is in the midst of an XBB wave, which isn't expected to reach the level of the country's late-winter surge, the South China Morning Post reported today." --"Elsewhere in the Western Pacific, the WHO said 13 of 35 reporting countries have noted increases over the past 4 weeks, with the highest proportional increases coming from Mongolia, Cambodia, and Laos." https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/covid-cases-trend-down-all-world-regions And by comparison, based on the latest report from the Thai Ministry of Public Health, current new COVID hospitalizations and deaths in Thailand are at their highest levels of 2023, with new hospitalizations having increased for nine of the past 10 weeks. https://aseannow.com/topic/1296929-covid-new-hospitalizations-and-deaths-rise-again-to-new-weekly-highs-for-2023-serious-condition-hospitalizations-and-intubations-decline/

I see the loony anti-vaxers here have evolved, much like a virus... Before, they were busy denying that COVID was/is killing people. Now they're evolved to deny that the COVID vaccines saved many millions of lives... (As usual, with no credible sources or documented justification for their claims). Despite overwhelming evidence this is true from numerous published studies involving both scientific projections and examinations of actual death rates between the vaccinated vs the unvaccinated. Peter Hotez, the widely respected dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor University, calls it "The Deadly Rise of Anti-science." "In this eyewitness story of how the anti-vaccine movement grew into a dangerous and prominent anti-science element in American politics, Hotez describes the devastating impacts it has had on Americans' health and lives." ... "By weaving his personal experiences together with information on how the anti-vaccine movement became a tool of far-right political figures around the world, Hotez opens readers' eyes to the dangers of anti-science. He explains how anti-science became a major societal and lethal force: in the first years of the pandemic, more than 200,000 unvaccinated Americans needlessly died despite the widespread availability of COVID-19 vaccines." https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/33293/deadly-rise-anti-science

Thanks, never heard of this place/name before... Looked at their website, via Google Translate (they also have an EN version for some pages): Deluxe Balcony Room: "Service rate: 5,500 baht/day Click to inquire about the June 2023 promotion starting at 3,600 baht/day* from 1 - 30 June 2023 only." "Doctors and nurses take care 24 hours a day. Relatives can visit 24 hours a day."

Look here for Pfizer and Moderna locations in BKK for June:

What's "Koon"?

It's what she looked like before her series of cosmetic plastic surgeries! ????

That the woman in question here has any Thai police officer rank is pretty rank!

Are you suggesting there's some subliminal messaging going on in that photo? ????

I just want to know...have both of them earned their paratrooper wings! ????