pomchop

posted elsewhere? like a catholic priest?

amazing how many people don't know the difference between weather and climate

Often the problem is not the food which is cooked or boiling hot...the problem is the plates and/or utensils which are washed in buckets of cold dirty type water. Never gotten sick off of street food ever.

If not fully vaccinated jump through hoops with tests and quarantines...IF fully vaxxed with boosters welcome to Thailand. Your choice. Unfortunately those who have followed the recommendations are being penalized.

There were 92 Covid-19 fatalities, the highest so far in the latest wave, and an all-time high of 28,379 cases during the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry reported on Friday.

like i said.."not foolproof"

When spending more time in Thailand I used to go twice a year for full checkup in LOS...minimal cost. If I saw anything troubling/serious I fly back to usa where it is coverd by medicare a and b and a supplement plan....obviously not foolproof but the BUPA insurance I had just kept going up up and away.

Because they spend their time scouring the web trying to find obscure tin hat conspiracy theory to support their "idea" that covid is some giant world wide conspiracy and that vaccines do nothing. They also like to pretend that they, with very likely zero medical training or real world experience in treating covid patients in hospitals, know more about infectious viruses than scientists and doctors who have spent decades studying and treating real people with covid and other viral diseases. Whether this refusal to acknowledge the obvious that vaccines do not totally prevent anyone from getting covid they have been hugely effective at reducing and preventing hospitalizations and death in those who have the basic common sense to get vaxxed and quit spreading lies and misinformation. After all Noi's second cousins friend's brother in law told Noi's girlfriend that she thinks covid is the same as the flu for unvaxxed people....and we all know that Noi and all her friends attended Harvard where they studied diseases and treatment for decades.

Unvaccinated people are about 29 times more likely to be hospitalized with Covid-19 than those who are fully vaccinated, according to a CDC study released Tuesday. The new study also found that unvaccinated people were nearly five times more likely to be infected with Covid than vaccinated people. The data is in line with comments from federal and state health officials, who have been saying for weeks that millions of unvaccinated Americans have been putting themselves at serious risk. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/24/cdc-study-shows-unvaccinated-people-are-29-times-more-likely-to-be-hospitalized-with-covid.html

FACT to all except the tin hat brigade.

Tell the millions upon millions of people who avoided getting seriously sick from covid by gettting vaccinated that they are rubbish. Then take a look at most any news source from any city and see how many stories u see where unvaxxed people ended up in serious or fatal condition where they finally admit that not getting vaxxed was DUMB. Vaccines are not rubbish but antivaxxer misinformation sure is big time rubbish.

keeping generals in power indefinitely is much worse than letting the people choose their leaders.

In a democracy the people vote for the person they want. It is not then overturned by power hungry generals in coups or by storming a capitol to keep votes from being certified.

I would bet that Thai airways has a lot of planes sitting around. How about the Thai dictator call his fellow Russian dictator and offer to fly how ever many charters are necessary to get all these poor russians back to the fatherland....in return for payment in GOLD which Putin apparently has a huge stash?

Maybe I have been around a lot longer than you think.

oh no...taksin ruined the farang night scene....horror of all horrors....and yet somehow the farang night scene still goes on and on and on 17 years later..... exactly HOW did Taksin "ruin" the farang night scene?

Believe it or not the priority job of the PM is not to " help expats."...the job is to help Thai people and Taksin did indeed help a LOT of poor Thai people. The health care was a major boom for poor people along with loads of new roads paved and water systems in remote villages that had been ignored for decades. Some may also recall that "border runs" were being abused by a wide variety of ex pats ...as were overstays...a lot of shady ex pats got caught and have likely moved on to Cambodia. While ex pats may not like border and overstay crackdowns it is called enforcing the law. Taksins biggest "mistake and asset" was that he came across as helping poor people in Thailand rather than the ultra wealthy who could not care less. The ultra wealthy did not like that one bit and helped to arrange a coup to replace him with a dictator that would do their bidding. Worked out well for them as the rich got richer and still don't give a hoot about the millions of poor Thais who they see as their servants and nothing more. If the current coup crop gave a hoot about law and order Mr Red Bull would have been in jail long ago rather than going on for decades about Taksin, who was after all, ELECTED by the Thai people.

Amazing how many people on this forum seem to be all in on the idea of military coups overthrowing legitimately elected people like Taksin 1 & 2 in favor of authoritarian dictators. Sounds a lot like Trumpets trying to overthrow fair elections in USA . Let the Thai people vote for who THEY want and then let that person serve their term without being overthrown by a bunch of power hungry generals.

Hogwash, BS, Go Hoke.....I don't think so. Not even close.

The OP says the law is 50 years old...Taksin was PM 2001-2006 so ...about 15-20 years ago.

While a bit of a pain maybe the best way to prevent padding problems is to have adequate supply of small bills and pay the correct amount as each drink is delivered. No claims of no you gave me 500 not 1000 baht and if the price of the first drink is double or triple you pay up drink up and get out of the place. Maybe a good practice until you get to know the place and can observe others to see if anyone is having any problems? I really don't think drinking for hours with check bins piling up, you getting drunk, and then trying to sort it all out is a great idea especially in a bar that is new to you.

TAT execs too busy enjoying their absurd junket to moscow travel/trade show to be bothered.

Armchair quarterbacking? What exactly is it that biden can do that would satisfy his critics?...damned if he does, damned if he doesn't. I for one am glad we have a sane president that does not think he knows more about everything than all the people around him and is willing to listen to the opinions of dozens of allies rather than just shooting off his mouth.

The biggest LIE; Equal justice under the law. Not only in Thailand that money talks and the rich almost always walks regardless of the evidence or crime.

The internet is full of stories of "sweet dogs" like pit bulls that end up ripping the face off of some innocent child or passerby. Dogs that have been purposely bred to fight with specially bred jaws that are much much stronger than normal dogs are not now and never were meant to be family pets. Ask some pit bull owners whose dogs killed or maimed their own children how "sweet" their little doggies were. All it takes is being in the wrong place at the wrong time when a pit is having a bad day or is under some nonexistent perceived threat. Are there some pits that don't attack? Sure but are you willing to take the gamble. Stop with the macho posturing that i own a dog that can kill you and get a normal dog.