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The stupid stick has arrived in thailand with parading moron experts who think they know more than the experts who have spend decades studying and treating viral diseases.....but of course the morons saw something on the internet or facebook or heard a rumour from noi's sisters cousins friend who surely is more believable than worldwide data that has demonstrated without doubt that the vaccines have prevented untold numbers of deaths and hospitalizations with a tiny fraction of serious adverse reactions.

Dumb and delusional or intelligent and rational? Unfortunately the D & D bunch seem to be growing rapidly. New arm chair "experts" who know more about disease than people who have first hand experienced studying, comparing, identifying and treating disease for decades. D & D who are willing to believe some hot air blogger BS over detailed data. D & D who still cling to the big lie that T won the election even after 60 court cases thrown out and vote recounts by republican state officials. D & D who buy into the idea that Jan 6 was just another tourist day at the US capitol in spited of thousands of hours of high quality video taking by thousands of different people who were there. It is always ok to question information but an intelligent and rational person should be able to sort out facts from internet BS. Jim Jones would have a field day with new cult recruits these days.

If all the people who rant and rave about covid would have gotten the vaccines when they first became available the number of hospitalizations and deaths would be exponentially less along with the economic chaos around the world. But millions refuse to take the vaccines in spite of overwhelming evidence that they provide a high level of protection from serious disease and death. Whining about masks and the media will not change that fact.

If you get a retirement visa and plan to stay in thailand for six months do you also have to have health insurance for a year or six months? Is the health insurance required just for covid or for all medical? Thanks

and the soi 7 beergarden has been torn down and redeveloped for decades...according to rumours...yet it is still there...pretty much same same with some different girls

There are a lot of retired English speaking ex pats here, many of whom are bored, and would likely be glad to help out as a volunteer English teacher IF IF they didn't need non sense work permits for volunteering to help the kids. In my experience what the kids really need is more hearing the English language and less studying diagraming sentences as taught by Thai teachers. I was a volunteer and my task was to speak English only to the kids and attempt to get them to give it a try. Most of my kids had never even met/heard a native English speaker in person and amazingly after a while I was able to get most of them to not be so shy and to actually give speaking a try. And a few actually picked it up pretty well. If the Thai govt would treat these expats as a valuable asset and develop a program to encourage them to help and give serious people an incentive of an easy to extend one year visas and no work permit BS I suspect that a few thousand expats would volunteer a few days a week at their local schools. What have they or the kids got to lose? (I know, it could mean a loss of face but get over it for the kids sake.)

"Use your head for something other than a hat rack." "Might as well, too wet to plow and can't dance." "So if your friends jump off a bridge does that mean you will also jump?" "Dumb as a box of rocks." My grandmother.

OP English is likely better than 99% of the English teachers, professors, government officials, as well as a lot of expats whose native language is English.

If all the unvaxxed anti vaxxed would have gotten the shots when first available i suspect that the covid pandemic would have been and would continue to be much much less severe and millions of deaths would have been saved not to mention all the economic nightmares that continue to drag on and on. Argue all you want and cite obscure internet "experts" but I do not believe for one minute that above is not a true statement. Does anyone who is not delusional?

It would be great if the rest of the world gave up shaking hands and went with a wai...never did much care to shake hands with some strange guy in a bar who had just likely returned from a toilet.

and no prices shown on link?

If all the unvaxxed anti vaxxed would have gotten the shots when first available i suspect that the covid pandemic would have been and would continue to be much much less severe and millions of deaths would have been saved not to mention all the economic nightmares that continue to drag on and on. Argue all you want and cite obscure internet "experts" but I do not believe for one minute that above is not a true statement. Does anyone who is not delusional?

take a few bowls of mango sticky rice to hand out to immigration folks...a good investment in reducing hassles

so i have to go outside, climb a ladder to open a second floor window? no thanks

reminds me of screens installed at a house i once owned while away...they put the screens on the inside of the sliding glass windows so every time you wanted to open or close the window you had to remove the screen..TIT

I heard from my wife's sisters cousins friend that there is a bar girl on soi buakhao that can predict the future...ask for noi.

Simple: Hand out big fat envelopes to the cops/politicians and do anything you want. Don't hand out envelopes and stay closed or get raided.

Looks like a motorbike freeway in the making with the usual lack of any enforcement against riding on the side walks.....

the biggest lie in usa (and thailand)....equal justice for all.

So all the bars that openly sell booze very near to police stations and are all over social media with pics and videos are "special" or perhaps their brown envelopes were fat enough to allow them to openly flaunt the "law"? I guess you are "selfish" if you don't offer up bigger envelopes. Corruption at it's finest from the bottom to the top with no fear of retribution.

Gee Let me think: If you believe that trump won the 2020 election in spite of 60 court cases being tossed and numerous recounts done by republicans might you also believe that Jan 6 was just a regular tourist day at the capital and that shoving a lite up your butt and taking worm medicine will cure covid? There is a difference between being rational and intelligent and delusional and dumb.

Covid has reinforced how many people think they know more about a highly infectious disease than scientists and doctors who have spent decades studying a wide variety of infectious diseases. People who have actually treated patients for decades with all manner of flu etc. It has also reinforced how many people don't seem to care if their vaccine refusal has continued to drag out the pandemic to the detriment of worldwide economies not to mention disrupted families with preventable deaths. That scares me more than covid itself as I believe I know enough to know what I don't know but am willing to trust people who get their information from decades of first hand studies and practice and not some whackjob on the internet who wouldn't know which end of a stethoscope goes where.

The biggest lie in the world: Equal justice for all, nobody is above the law, blah blah blah.

becaus there is a sucker born every minute that believes in chain letters, ponzi schemes, fomo, and santa claus?

you want to share your "observable data" with us as that is contradictory to every bit of valid data I have seen...do you really think that no mask is same as masked? Delusional or know more than scientists who study disease transmissions for decades. How about be part of the solution and not part of the problem?