TallGuyJohninBKK

Your making a big, unsourced and possibly unfounded assertion above. The sexual assault episode you reference occurred in 2011. Logan appears to have continued working for CBS until 2018. And her Wikipedia summary says her descent into looney land began AFTER she had left CBS, which would have been 7 years after the fact. "Logan left CBS in 2018. After her departure from CBS, Logan began to make wide-ranging claims on a variety of conspiracy theories regarding topics such as the AIDS virus or the Rothschild family." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lara_Logan Folks should read the full entry on her linked above. The things she's done and publicly stated since her departure from CBS are truly breathtakingly bad.

After leaving CBS, when you then get variously dumped by among the journalistic worst in the media world, that's saying something: "Logan left CBS in 2018. After her departure from CBS, Logan began to make wide-ranging claims on a variety of conspiracy theories regarding topics such as the AIDS virus or the Rothschild family. In 2019, she joined the Sinclair Broadcast Group, a conservative media company.[2] In January 2020, she joined Fox Nation, a subscription streaming service run by Fox News.[3] In March 2022, she said she had been "dumped" by the network.[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lara_Logan Interesting to note above that she was able to sign on with Fox and Sinclair and appear on Newsmax AFTER her descent into looneyness. QUESTIONABLE SOURCE "We rate Newsmax Right Biased and Questionable based on the promotion of conspiracy theories and pseudoscience as well as numerous failed fact checks." https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/newsmax-bias-credibilty-reliability/ QUESTIONABLE SOURCE "Overall, we rate Fox News right biased based on editorial positions that align with the right and Questionable due to the promotion of propaganda, conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, the use of poor sources, and numerous false claims and failed fact checks." https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/fox-news-bias/ RIGHT BIAS Overall, we rate Sinclair Broadcast Group Right Biased based on political affiliation with the Republican Party and the direction of network news programming. We also rate them Mixed for factual reporting due to airing news shows with poor fact check records. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/sinclair-broadcast-group/

Had to take a stupid trip out to BKK CW today for in-person 90-day reporting due to having a new passport. On the BTS Skytrain portions outbound and returning, 99% of everyone on the train, Thai and other, were wearing face masks... On the BTS, curiously, there was a recurring loudspeaker announcement only in English, but not in Thai, advising that despite the general loosening of COVID regulations, both the BTS and MoPH continue to recommend that BTS passengers wear face masks while traveling. Once I got to BKK CW Immigration, 99% of everyone inside, staff and customers, were wearing face masks. In both cases, I was glad of it... Ohh, and BTW, my taxi drivers on both the outbound and returning trips between the BTS and Immigration likewise were wearing face masks.

What's your source for that info. Do you have a link to it?

Mask wearing continues to be "recommended" by the Thai MoPH for the general public when they are indoor spaces that are congested or poorly ventilated, and that apparently includes when people are on public transportation as well. And, mask wearing continues to be recommended everywhere for several specific at-risk populations, including the elderly, those with chronic medical conditions and pregnant women. More than 300 people per day are being hospitalized for COVID in Thailand, still, right now, even with Omicron as the dominant variant here. So clearly, for those who want to protect their own health and the health of those around them, it IS necessary and a prudent form of protection.

Engineers urgently working to restore power to Phuket International Airport Reminds me of the famous scene from the comedy movie "Airport." Just kidding!

Do about 10 high tension utility poles in one location typically get felled merely by heavy rain? Unless, of course, they were constructed without sound poured foundations suitable for the ground in the location involved.

Thailand is still running more than 300 new COVID hospitalizations per day (2,234 for the most recent week)... so some might consider their policy to be Smart!

I wonder if Amazon/AWS is going to build their Bangkok area data centers on stilts... so that when the inevitable floods come, they won't end up like Don Mueang Airport a few years back...

https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/aws-launch-infrastructure-region-thailand/ AWS to Launch an Infrastructure Region in Thailand October 17, 2022 at 7:00 PM PDT ... “We are committed to supporting Thailand's digital transformation through our local infrastructure investments and fast pace of innovation, helping Thailand-based customers unlock the full potential of the cloud to transform the way businesses and institutions serve their stakeholders,” said Prasad Kalyanaraman, vice president of Infrastructure Services at AWS. ... "The upcoming AWS Region in Thailand will enable developers, startups, and enterprises, as well as government, education, and nonprofit organizations, to run their applications and serve end users from AWS data centers located in Thailand, ensuring that customers who want to keep their data in Thailand can do so." ... "Thai organizations that choose AWS to run their workloads to accelerate innovation, increase agility, and drive cost savings include 2C2P, CP All Plc., Digital Economy Promotion Agency, Energy Response Co. Ltd. (ENRES), Papyrus Studio, PTT Global Public Company Limited (PTT), Siam Cement Group (SCG), Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, The Stock Exchange of Thailand, and more."

strange.... they write this whole OP article, and not a single quote or comment direct from Amazon/AWS anywhere to be found in their report?

From later in the OP report: "will see the development of state-of-the-art data centres in Thailand from which cloud service computing services will be made available to business customers in Thailand and Southeast Asia which will bring with it faster speeds and reduced latency." But then again, there was the article's following comment explaining why companies like AWS might be coming to Thailand.... (cough cough) "These firms are moving to Southeast Asia but are looking for countries with stable democracies, strong rule of law and ones which are not influenced by mainland China." What exact country might the above comment be referring to? Surely not any one immediately around here!

I got this just now using my 3BB fiber connection in BKK along with my VPN connection to a server in Los Angeles, which is pretty normal, though a bit slow on the upload side. Strange, though, I too had some unusual buffering problems playing regular HD YouTube content earlier this week, which my same internet connection should have had no problem playing just fine. At the time, I ran a couple speedtests on my connection, and they all came back fine and normal... But YT kept buffering. So it must have been some other kind of problem elsewhere.

My wife took a domestic flight with Thai AirAsia last week. TH AirAsia's website currently says masks are required on their flights. And, my wife reported that the air crew during her flight indeed told passengers that they should be wearing face masks.

Found this additional info from Singapore as of Oct. 15 on how the XBB variant has quickly become the main variant in their country, surpassing BA5. "In Singapore, XBB is now the predominant subvariant circulating in the community, accounting for 54% of local cases during the week of 3 to 9 October, from 22% the previous week (Figure 1). The previously dominant subvariant, BA.5, is now estimated to account for 21% of local cases, while the subvariant BA.2.75 is estimated to account for 24% of cases. ... As of 14 October 2022, the number of cases hospitalised, requiring oxygen supplementation and in the intensive care unit (ICU) are at 562, 44 and 9 respectively, compared to 365, 37 and 13 a week ago." ... Based on current information, MOH expects that this XBB infection wave will peak by around mid-November 2022." https://www.moh.gov.sg/news-highlights/details/update-on-covid-19-situation-and-measures-to-protect-healthcare-capacity

Afternoon wasn't especially good either: https://aqicn.org/city/bangkok

The latest weekly report today from Singapore shows a flattening of their running 7-day average of daily new cases, not a decline in the 7-day average, and continuing increases in hospitalizations. https://www.moh.gov.sg/docs/librariesprovider5/local-situation-report/ceg_20221019_weekly_report_on_covid-19.pdf

Girls just wanna have fun... and make some money.

Did you wear a face mask during your airplane trip? Were you wearing a face mask while in Thailand prior to testing positive yesterday? Perhaps, that's a signal that COVID is alive and well-circulating in Thailand, even though the government has tried to deprecate it in order to attempt to revive tourism.

Looks like a pretty sharp recent increase in Singapore COVID cases to me... https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=singapore+covid+cases

The Singapore government's statement was about dubious claims made in an article that wasn't posted here in this thread, and those claims were not the ones that I've made here. Singapore was objecting to the following: 'The article claimed that increased disease severity of COVID-19 is becoming a common occurrence, even in the fully vaccinated. The article also claimed that mortuaries, funeral parlours, and crematoria are facing a ‘pile up’ in cases. These claims are false." As I noted above, Singapore says it hasn't seen any increase in COVID deaths lately... But as the above graphs show, it's clearly seeing increases in cases and hospitalizations. If you think there's another graph from their report that adds useful information on the subject of rising cases and hospitalizations, go ahead and post it.

Lower hospitalization risk from XBB, as reported by Singapore, isn't the same thing as rising NUMBERS of COVID hospitalizations, as also reported by Singapore You can have a lower risk rate, but if the COVID cases are rising substantially as they have been, the numbers of hospitalizations can still increase. https://www.moh.gov.sg/docs/librariesprovider5/local-situation-report/ceg_20221012_weekly_report_on_covid-19.pdf

I've followed those public health COVID prevention measures pretty seriously since the outset, including wearing an N95 mask whenever I'm around others away from home... And now nearly three years into the pandemic, with an estimated 15-20 million people worldwide dead from COVID, I've yet to catch the virus, thankfully. So yes, in my experience, following sound public health advice does make a difference.

Screening for the XBB variant is prudent for various reasons, including that early research on it suggests it is highly transmissible (more than Omicron BA5), and is more able to evade protections from vaccines and prior COVID infections. In Singapore, it has driven a large spike in their local cases and increased hospitalizations there as well... though as yet, not any increase in COVID fatalities. "Eric Topol, MD, founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute and Medscape's editor-in-chief, said about COVID this fall: "There will be another wave, magnitude unknown." He said subvariants XBB and BQ.1.1 "have extreme levels of immune evasion and both could pose a challenge," explaining that XBB is more likely to cause trouble than BQ.1.1 because it is even more resistant to natural or vaccine-induced immunity." https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/982113 "Experts are also concerned that monoclonal antibody treatments might be less effective against newer variants like XBB and BA.2.75.2. “We’ve not seen this type of immune evasion before,” Michael Osterholm, director of the University of Minnesota’s Centre for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), told Fortune earlier this month." https://thainewsroom.com/2022/10/13/3-thais-found-infected-with-new-covid-strain-xbb-in-hong-kong/

--Grab Mart for access to the major supermarket chains. --Foodpanda for their access to the major supermarket chains. --Tops Online for a sometimes different selection of things they stock that may or may not be listed on Tops' locations on Grab or Foodpanda. It's very strange, I've found, in that for a given supermarket company, what products are listed for offer via delivery may vary from Grab to Foodpanda to the store's own company online presence -- for the same store location. One thing I really came to like about Happy Fresh, before it died, was their feature of allowing the shopper to select saved back-up choices in advance in case a particular item shown as available online ends up being out of stock in the actual store. That, and, they wouldn't actually charge your bank card until the order is completed, and they'd only charge you for what was actually available, accurately reflecting any substitutions or missing items. Foodpanda, on the other hand, charges your card for the full original order upfront, and then when things offered online invariably end up being out of stock in the store, the customer has no ability to pre-select backup items. And when your order cant be fully completed, they end up later having to process a separate card charge refund for the value of the missing item(s) -- which is annoying! With Happy Fresh, you could actually exchange text messages with the person fulfilling your order to work out any problems about substitutions or out of stock issues while they were preparing your order. Can't do that with either Foodpanda or Tops Online...and only to a limited extent with Grab. With Grab, Foodpanda and Tops Online, you may not find out that something or things that you ordered online aren't available and won't be delivered until your partial order actually arrives...and it's pretty much too late to do anything about it at that point. Tops Online, for example, has an option when ordering online to call you midday and advise if any items are going to be missing from the later delivered order. But, unfortunately, when they call you with the news, they have no current ability to allow you to choose substitute items at that point or increase or decrease the quantities of things. They're telling you, but there's absolutely nothing you can do about their news, at that point. Sadly, I had started using Happy Fresh more and more in the past year because they provided a higher level of personalized service, and thus increased the odds that I'd actually get what I needed, one way or the other. And that I'd only be charged upfront for what they actually delivered... Only to see the whole thing suddenly disappear into the void.