rattlesnake

How many Covid shots did your 'critical thinking' lead you to take?

Ask Newton… or Louis Pasteur.

Excellent. Why would it be any different because the illegals are European? If only European countries could do the same… Residing illegally in a country is a crime, as all the law-abiding Thai-based retirees on this forum know.

I agree. However, there are blind spot mirrors which these trucks are usually equipped with. Turning left on a large road is perhaps the most accident-prone manoeuver one can perform in Thailand – when I do it, I am extra careful, these bikes just turn up out of nowhere all the time. This was an unfortunate combination of two major driving errors, which are so widespread and recurrent in this country (usually involving cars rather than trucks) that I am actually surprised these accidents don't happen more often…

He must be new to Thailand. Motorcycles passing on the inside while I am signalling to turn left, is a frequent occurrence here. Indeed, it happens everywhere in the country, all the time. The way I interpret this statement is "I have always done this and it was never a problem"… because Thais are usually very wary of trucks and therefore it gives the truck drivers a sense of overconfidence.

Indeed, and they typically have several mirrors to see all angles.

If he had practised defensive driving, he would have seen them. In Thai traffic "logic", the bigger vehicle "wins", Thais typically know this and would not attempt to undertake a truck this way.

So he turned without checking his rearview mirror.

One big problem in Thailand is that indicating is used to show you are manoeuvering, rather than to warn you are about to manoeuver. Drivers will often start indicating and switching lanes/turning at the exact same time and expect other road users to adapt.

I've seen an uptick in helmet wearing in Hua Hin these past two weeks and the fine threat does seem to be working. The next step is to explain to people that need to fasten the strap…

Love this. It's Christmas every day at the moment. I recall three years ago, when my messages were removed from this forum for simply mentioning Malone's name. How fast the Overton window is shifting…

And everyone else in the world.

It's fantastic news and hopefully the beginning of much more.

And that is probably the biggest victory of all. Knowledge and awareness are the most potent weapons the population can wield.

It would have been so much worse for these guys without the jabs… Best to laugh about it indeed, "can't fix stupid" is what the Science crew used to repeat incessantly Can't say I disagree.

How many Covid vaccines have you had?

How many Covid vaccines have you had?

How many Covid vaccines have you had?

The TV is the single most effective indoctrination tool ever made.

Interesting insights.

Perhaps the ultimate ninja level is to be inclined to bury the hatchet (shuriken) with those who are worth it

Thanks, he seems to have made a full recovery, thankfully.

The mRNA issue is separate from other vaccinations, though the Covid fiasco lead lots of people to question – and ultimately lose faith in – vaccination as a whole (I am one of them). Dr. Palevsky warned in 2021 that this episode would probably deal a fatal blow to the vaccination industry.

A lot of people took the vaccine because they believed it would stop them from catching Covid, just as all other vaccines had beforehand. My dad was one of them and he even mentioned the polio vaccine – as most boomers did – to justify his stance. After his third shot (which made him unwell for several months), he actually told me I was right, as what happened was not what he had been sold on. I think this is a valid piece of anecdotal evidence as my dad is not a conspiracy theorist by any stretch of the imagination. So your son is vaccinated against Covid? I'm just curious to know where various people stand on this – for example, I know people who took the shot themselves but drew the line at their kids. Which brings us back to the initial issue: the "misinformation peddlers", often qualified doctors, who spoke out (usually in reasonable terms) against these failures should not have been silenced, threatened and smeared. And those who believed "factchecker.org" and the like shoud realise that they were manipulated.

Biden, Rachel Walensky, Fauci, Rachel Maddow and many more all pushed the message that "the virus stops at every vaccinated person" and it had a great impact on collective perception from the get-go. But they were used as basis for the previously discussed coercion. And they were challenged by several doctors, who were smeared and lost a large part of their income and status. A unilateral stance was adopted and pushed aggressively, with no room for nuance or contradiction – this would already be ethically questionable if the stance has turned out to be the right one, but that isn't even the case. It's more than the odd adverse event here and there. It's significant, and that is why Dr. Redfield now refuses to administer the mRNA shot. His status gives an additional aura of credibility to concerns which have been voiced by numerous health professionals for four years. It's time for the truth to come out, I hope RFK will be the catalysing agent for this.