ok,

what can  you think of an organisation (WHO), ranking one of the worst dictatorship, a country with nearly no healthcare system (by western standards) at the top for "best COVID-19 containment and impact management".

(did I mentioned, that Thailand is also ranked at the top ? there seems to be a systemic in this ...)

“Collective health is based on strong leadership..."

blabla bla

yes another country like china with no democracy and a place where you go "to the gulak" (prison camps without sentence) for criticising the  government.

(did I mentioned they also praise China for handling the so called covid-pandemic?).

some hints:

how many people were tested in Cambodia ?

how many people dying at home did they test?

how many hospital beds do exist in Cambodia, where you could actually see people dying

(I guess, most people in Cambodia die at home. There is no hospital infrastructure in Cambodia , to provide help for many  people . 

In Germany they are counting,  how many people with covid are in intensive care in hospitals. does even one bed in cambodia exists with this kind of intensive car. As far as I know, everyone who can afford it, is going to Thailand for real medical care (f. e. helpful treatment in a hospital)

the firework festival is one of the rare public  activities ("festivals")  in Pattaya I like. Normally many Thais from Chonburi province are coming to see this event.  Most of them will not stay at night so not that much to earn for the hotels. I wish the Thai people having  a good time seeing the firework this year - this time without (farang) tourists. 

(me, having good memories from the past ...)

????

sorry, most what was written is just wrong.
No engineer for electric helping?
f.e.
UK : if an electric light is only built with plastic material - how can you earth it? (????)
solly

it is no problem, if it is intended (!!), to built a led light lasting for years. There is no technical reason, why the lifespan should be limited. You just need to built it properly. (extremely simple! )
f.e. heat: LED themselves does not(!!!) produce much heat. That is the reason why it is efficient (most energy leaves as light, not like conventional light , where most energy is low frequency radiation ("heat").
Of course it is possible to built it the way it gets hot and so destroying itself. If you want to limit the lifespan it is an easy way to go...

In today times, the way products are viewed are not a result of the "quality" of a product but instead it is the result of the advertising (older word for it is "propaganda"). Today the companies invest much more money in propaganda then in technically developing their products to a higher level. Developing products is mostly intended to built them cheaper or change the design.

The former discussion shows, that the vast majority are not able to get the knowledge to choose a high quality products. even, if they are interested in it. One reason is, that , despite the nearly endless quantity of information available, even for a simple product there seems limited access to reliable and help full information available.

So in the end, you have mostly consumers, who are just do not care or on the other side consumers, who are just fabricating fantasies of "knowledge" , being in the fantasy world of imagination of knowledge.

of course, this principle does apply to most subjects today (political competence, "common sense", ...


does using a search engine helps ?
fe: an "EXpert"
About Sarah Levison

"Sarah is a lighting expert at The Lightbulb Company with a background in hospitality and a keen awareness of the important role lighting plays in our everyday lives. She has worn many hats with us over the years, developing an extensive knowledge of lighting and the lighting industry. She is passionate about working with customers, understanding their needs, and providing them with the best solutions. "
just reading her "self- discription" says it all: she is just a propagandist. no need to read her text. There is no technical expertise.(I did read it)
I looked at the first 5 (!) pages of my search engine results: all is advertisement (propaganda). no surprise: f.e. google earns billions for placing your "side" in the beginning of of the search results. and, most of the internet content is just propaganda made for manipulating people to buy products (old word:"propaganda).Millions of people are being paid to produce this content and publicate this.

I  know, it is possible to get a license for Thailand, if you are a licensed German Ham.

https://www.qsl.net/rast/text/licensing2014.html

No idea of other countries...

https://www.qsl.net/r/rast//text/

https://www.facebook.com/rast.org/

http://www.qsl.net/r/rast/

https://www.facebook.com/QRA.PATTAYA.RADIO.CLUB

https://www.rast.or.th/

13 hours ago, webfact said:

Don’t believe fake news that mobile phones cause brain cancer: Digital Economy Ministry

rule of thump: if you hear someone talking about "fake news" she/he is lying.

as most of the people are too lazy to inform themselfes - I start goooogling fro them:

f.e.

Chinese Neurosurgical Jounal

conclusion:

"Most calculations of laterality show a trend of increasing risk for time since first use, cumulative duration of subscriptions, cumulative duration of calls, and cumulative number of calls. In Asian people’s, cell phone use and glioma had certain relations, while has very little relationship with meningioma incidence."

"In children and teenagers, cell phone use is associated with the incidence of brain tumors. We need longer time observation to supervise longer time (>20 years) mobile phone use whether has severe effects on incidence of brain tumor."

https://cnjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s41016-016-0059-y

I would add: cellphones do not exists widely that long. f.e. it needed about 100 years, till it was officially accepted that asbestos leads to lung cancer. In Thailand asbestos is still allowed for buildings.

IN Thailand, there is no limit for toxide in food ......


https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200212121948.htm

http://www.mayfieldclinic.com/psa_cellphone.htm


good news: they (?) are just starting a large study with billions of guinea pigs (!!!) to get results for the question, whether there is a bigger risk of getting brain cancer with 5g. No ,no evidence yet, they are just starting !

And yes, for your information: 5g use a much higher frequency and this DOES have an impact of the damage done!

Some say, that 5g use a frequency, on which the cells are resonant, meaning they will absorb much of the energy. "absorb" means, the whole energy "is going" in the cell.

congratulation: you reach level two, cause you were able to read this text till the end     ;)

you earn half a cooky

On 10/13/2020 at 9:21 AM, webfact said:

 

Picture: Manager Online

This picture is, for me, the most interesting part. Is it from Phuket?

compared to the massive amount of money they (?) did earn with tourism in the last decades (especially in Phuket) it seems there is - compared to that money - nearly nothing spent for public infrastructure.

espec. in urban places:

roads

as you see in this picture (and this is typical) what is done is just the cheapest you can get.

Just some centimetres of new asphalt, the old is not even removed properly, so the street surface is getting higher and higher and the level of the footpath and the level of the first floor of the buildings are nearly at street level. The new asphalting will only resist 1 to 3 years. ( too thin etc.)

wastewater treatment

guess what happens  to your excrements (and to that of the other millions of tourists)

waste management

you guess ....

quality of food, controlling of toxic ingredients

forget it, they do no even have limits. In short: it is dangerous to eat in Thailand !

( you can find results of testing - google!. It is a nightmare!)

and so on. 40 years before , you could say, its a poor third world country, but nowadays, Thailand would have had enough money to do it properly.

If you only stay in Thailand for 14 days, you mostly do not understand what is going on. But if you live here for a longer time and are interested in the important and fundamental circumstances of your living conditions - which for me is healthy food, none toxic air and water (not to mention the threat to live in traffic)  you realize, that basic and fundamental conditions for life are far from acceptable in Thailand.

On 10/3/2020 at 4:08 PM, Promula said:

I usually get a couple of bad colds per year but this is the first year I haven't, presumably thanks to everyone being more hygienic than usual.

this is exactly the reason, why all this distancing and self isolation , hygiene etc. is very dangerous. If you do not get a "cold" (virus) for a longer time, your immune system gets weak and you are much more vulnerable in the future, if you get infected.

So this guy may  give you the boost, you need to reinforce you immune system.

This is the reason, why it is only good, to isolate the real vulnerable persons, who `s immune system is so weak, that they can not stand a virus infect. Other persons need to get in contact with viruses to get their immune system "up to date",

and so be able to be a saving belt, for the weaker persons.

This is not a joke and you can inform yourself if you are real interested (internet! Gooogle!)

On 9/24/2020 at 11:04 AM, Kiujunn said:

Instructions how to handle covid patients in Sweden:

- no intubation if over 80

- no intubation if over 60 and comorbidities

you forgot to give the number of rate of survivals, intubating the "over 80.

I guess, its somewhat near 0 %

inform yourself , please!

6 hours ago, Mark Nothing said:

Prior to the year 1900, medical textbooks did not contain the word virus.  According to these texts, Colds and flu were caused by deficiencies in your diet of potassium and iron (fruits, vegetables, nuts, other).   The mineral deficiency caused cell breakdown requiring extraction of mucous and phlegm via fever, cough and runny nose.

 

Hence the cold and flu are not contagious. The city of Boston, Ma conducted tests in 1918 during "Spanish flu outbreak".  Studies prooved the flu is not contagious. 

 

Mucous and phlegm schwabs were extracted from citizens with the flu and inserted into 100 healthy citizen's nasal passage.  Result: 0 out of 100 got the flu.  Many other tests conducted with no infection to the healthy test group

 

It appears the parasites greedy for cash and power got control of the curiculum taught at medical schools and "virus theory" was introduced in order to cash in on pharmaceutical tablets. Others disagreeing were labeled as quacks, medical licenses revoked. 

 

"Doctors" who are coincidentally the most endoctrinated and well paid members of society are peddling this snake oil, because of learning "virus" theory.  I know classmates of mine went on to become doctors.  They simply learned from textbook and regurgitated data back.  Indoctrination.  Good people trusting in the system.

 

I personally have not had the cold and flu for over 10 years after changing my diet to mostly fruits and vegetables, eliminating fast foods and colas, and dropping 50kg.

 

For the hypochondriacs, please snap out of your stupor.  The parasites don't care about your health.  The parasites care about locking you down, eliminating your rights, and bankrupting your business.

not that I would say, it proves anything but

If I actualy ever had a "flu" "cold" , it must been decades ago (I guess mor than 30 Years), but not shure I ever had it.

In my adult working time, my motto was: If I feel the need to not work (without having whatever symptoms  ) I go to a doctor to get the sick leave slip, befor (!) getting ill. So no need to get ill. Interisting: My wife also never got a "flu" or something like that.  (after (!) the marriage).

If you want to know, what my lifestyle is, ask me. I do not pretend to have the "Stein der Weisen (Philosopher's Stone ?). It is just as it is.

I think, a healthy livestyle helps a lot. but  I am absolutely not fanatic with this .(mostly a good portion of using  my muscles daily - like bicycling and walking, garden work. yes not sport. eat for the most part (far from 100 %) healthy food like vegetables and some fruits. Avoiding proceeded food (very important) . I like tasteful food and for me, real tasteful (natural taste) is healthy .Junk food is unhealthy and taste like <deleted> or nothing . Unhealthy food mostly contains unnatural  ingredients with an addiction effect (sugar, salt, even cheese (I like cheese!, I would even see white rice and Wheat flour in this context)

That what I do not like about  the medical business : 99.9 % is treatment of illness and they are in fact not even good in this. But what is way more important and in fact is much more helpfull for having a good life and to live a long life is how to avoid illness. But they made nearly all of their money for treat ment of deseases. it is a proven fact, that the medical profession does not help a lot to have a healthy and long lifespan. Just look, where people get very old. It is not because of the medical system. this is a fact very easy to understand, but most people fail to recognise it. We pay a big part of our income for insurence but in fact get little for that. I think nearly 50 % of all medical expenses are for our last 12 month of living when, in fact the  most important parts of our lives  are allready over. And now, it is the same with covid19. Someone was writing, that in Australia they are paying (?) 1 Billion for saving one life (mostly costs for the lockdown etc. That is obviously insane, but many people cant understand it. Or focussing on the "rescue" of people, which are mostly allready in their last 12 month of their lifes (statistically). With all this effort, you could do so much for the welfare of the 75 years before. So many people worldwide will die or allready dying cause of the lockdowns and economic results of this nonsense. This is a fact. Why is that fact mostly not mentioned in the media? A decline of lets say 10 % of the world economy will have a desastrous effect for millions of people (about 1 Billion people). You can read and find it if you want. WHY do THEY not care about it. These are facts but the hype of million of CASES is just a media hype.

You can read about the huge number of CASES in India (never in relation to the huge population there - about 1.2 Billions). Do you read about the desastrous  consequences the recession has to the hundreds of millions of the poorest in India?

2 hours ago, Zikomat said:

 The idea of walling away from the outside world, however reasonable it may sound, is inhuman in its essence. You there , you may die, we, meanwhile are better than you, smarter than you, luckier than you - we will live on. And this attitude is caused by the relatively week virus alone. I am afraid to imagine what may happen in case of something more deadly and serious shows up. The foreigners might then be exterminated only for being foreigners and all kind of ‘intellectual elites’ will explain to the masses why such treatment is fully justified.

"me too",

I am afraid to imagine what may happen in case of something more deadly and serious shows up.

Yes, I am afraid that this is just a foreplay, kind of exercise. They make this script  last years (you can find the source easely if you are interested). Yes and what will they do, if there will be a real threat?

No, dont call them "intellectual". These guys are everything but intellectual. In former times one would have used the word "cretins" for these kind of folks.

Even this self proclaimed  word "elite" is a joke. but hey - this is how propaganda is working.

13 hours ago, Matzzon said:

In the first eight months it was available, 28 of 37 applicants managed to obtain the Visa according to the Board of Investment.

if this is a fact, it is a prove,on which level these clowns are playing - its Kindergarten level

28 in a country with over 60 Mill. people ! How much did it cost to implement this sh..? start counting how many hours of manpower was used for this ! The one, who is responsible for this, should be transfered to the far east of Siberia.. or inner Mongolia ...

10 hours ago, webfact said:

He claimed that a predicted 3.2 trillion baht hit to tourism had proven to be wide of the mark; it was only 1.4 trillion and this was because Thailand had closed its doors to foreign tourism for most of the year. 

the problems of these clowns is, that they live in a bubble with all these others clowns. (incl. most of the  public ). So they can stick to their bizzar viewing without being corrected. There are nearly no risks for these clowns to stick to this side. Having an opposite oppinion  on the other side would incl. a lot of risks.

He claimed that a predicted 3.2 trillion baht hit to tourism had proven to be wide of the mark; it was only 1.4 trillion

had proven (bullsh..) who did prove that? it is still something in the future so how to prove it?

before they are unleashed

just see, how  these clowns speak about human beings!

14 hours ago, Srikcir said:

In a democratic regime the military wouldn't be allowed to make such announcements.

Civility of protesters would be the domain of the police who must advance nonviolent intervention as much as possible without depriving the Public of its right to freedom of speech.

Thus is why in part that Thailand is a "hybrid" regime that lies between "flawed democracies" (US) and "authoritarian regimes" (China). Thailand is not ranked as a "full democracy." Ref. Democracy Index.

There is nothing like "a bit Demoracy"  . For Democray what is minimum (!) requirement:

The people of the country have the power (everyone has the same power)

everyone got the chance to public  his oppinion without limitation and with the same effect (no control of mass media and censorship by the goverment and  some media owners (like in nearly every so called Democracies)

These are the fundamentals of real Demoracy. The rest is propaganda .

You can call it "faked Democracy," this would not involve the meaning, that is some percent of real Democracy.

There is nothing like  "a little pregnant"....

I am a 50 "% jai dee, I kill only every second man ...

20 hours ago, webfact said:

“However, the Army is not directly responsible for maintaining law and order at protest venues since the dissolution of the National Council for Peace and Order

you cant make this up

so why is he making remarks about that, if it is not in the reponsibility of the Army?

clowns

pretending to be a Democracy ....

I do not like Thai soap operas , and the soap  opera mascerade of this military

believe it or not:

I had a neighbour in my apartment block in Farangland doing the same (using a mortar) for hours at nighttime. You guess the nationality of  this woman?

right!

Good to see, that  (even) Thai people do not tolerate this kind of noise Pollution.

19 hours ago, userabcd said:

Could it be that the salary she earns is private and none of anybody elses business.

another clown

in my and the mercedes benz home country,  civil servants are rarely seen to be driving a mercedes benz.

It is not only , the prize of the new car. old ones are not even much cheaper cause the repair bills. Mercedes Benz parts are expensive. besides: do you know the salaries of civil servants in my country and the ones in Thailand. You will find the answer with use of your keyboard.

do you have the slightest idea of the financial costs of corruption for the whole society /economy ?

same :use your keyboard. Tip : Botswana has even less coruption then Italy. Try looking for Thailand ...

27 minutes ago, josephbloggs said:

Maybe you should come back to planet earth.  Absolutely nobody - at all - is claiming that adding public holidays makes the country's GDP/GNP increase.  No one.  Only you are taking that out of the article just so you can sneer at Thailand.  Tell me where anyone said it increased the country's productivity.

What the holiday is supposed to do, quite clearly, is to help stimulate the local economies throughout Thailand as this is badly needed.  Get people moving around the country (as they do on long weekends) and local businesses benefit, money gets spent in places it wouldn't have been otherwise, local people benefit, and, importantly, people who are hurting the most from the lack of tourists benefit.  It is a local economy stimulus, not a national GNP increase.

It's really not hard to understand unless you choose to ignore it and just bash.

troll

The Tourism and Sports Ministry is looking into the option of creating new public holidays in a bid to stimulate the economy,

nothing , nada, about "stimulating local  economies. notthing. He is talking clearly about a generell stimulus for the economy . Iam commenting to the words of the Ministry and not to YOUR hallucinations ...

6 minutes ago, josephbloggs said:

Maybe you should come back to planet earth.  Absolutely nobody - at all - is claiming that adding public holidays makes the country's GDP/GNP increase.  No one.  Only you are taking that out of the article just so you can sneer at Thailand.  Tell me where anyone said it increased the country's productivity.

What the holiday is supposed to do, quite clearly, is to help stimulate the local economies throughout Thailand as this is badly needed.  Get people moving around the country (as they do on long weekends) and local businesses benefit, money gets spent in places it wouldn't have been otherwise, local people benefit, and, importantly, people who are hurting the most from the lack of tourists benefit.  It is a local economy stimulus, not a national GNP increase.

It's really not hard to understand unless you choose to ignore it and just bash.

are you trolling?

"It is a local economy stimulus, not a national GNP increase?"

Do you really think it is a good idea to create a stimulus to local economies (whats that? "Througout Thailand" thats the opposite) with the effect of hurting the national economy in general? Its not only the tourists industry which is in a recession.YOU do not know this? amazing

And you seem also to think, that the governments all over this planet are  so stupid, not to make this <deleted>?

amazing you are...

next:

People can only spent their money  one time. If they were stimulated to spent it for different things, they will spent less for others. Oh the dilemmas of economy ..... There are good reasons, why some economist say, the governments should not interfere. Why ? mostly the effect is opposite to what it should be. And normaly it means, take money from someone and give it to someone  else . It is getting too complicate ?

Ok. better stick to easier subjects...

2 hours ago, Don Mega said:

Iam not civil servant and this WuFlu has not affected me or the company I work for, we are not in the minority.

another clown who is daydreaming, that he knows the number of the accountants department of the company, where he is employed. And, ofcourse there are companies, which are even make more profit in these time(Production of face masks, Propaganda, special medical equipment , etc. just look at the stock markets ...)

But I think, we are talking about the generell effects for a whole economy

you want to deny, that civil servants in Thailand are the group , marginal effected by loss of income  in this corono circus?

in normal countries on planet Earth,for every more holiday, there is a  loss in the GNP (grossnational product)

Economists normaly give a quite exact exact number for that.

But it seems, that far from this Planet, there seems to be  a country, in which the  clocks are going in inverse modus, -1-1=2 and the less people are working, the more the GNP is rising...

amazing Thailand