jayboy

This is also my experience, at least for ordinary Thais at village level.I have personally seen this system in action with my own eyes with the end of life period of my stepmother.

This is mostly complete nonsense.I know this from anecdotal experience of several ordinary Thais who had palliative care and pain relief drugs administered in their final days.This took place at village level with support from the local government hospitals.I am fairly sure that morphine or similar was provided - obviously in limited quantity and as required - for the family to administer.Not ideal and constrained by funding but equally not terrible.I don't know much about the institutional issues and someone better informed might want to comment.I do know that the post completely misrepresents Thai compassion for pain and suffering.

Not really the same though the Trump factor was an issue in both elections, but far more directly so in Canada. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/06/canada-australia-elections-donald-trump-slump-factor-slump

I don't know why Thailand is being singled out and the comparison with diverse backgrounds in Canada is surely completely irrelevant.There is of course a problem in the fashion industry world wide with the unrealistic body types that are so often portrayed.Whether we like it or not the top models in every culture will be tall, slim and beautiful.In Thailand the particular twist (since tall slim beautiful girls are not in short supply) is the ethnic/class bias with darker skins suggesting a farming/Isaan/ethnic Lao background.On top of this are the biases of a Sinocentric Bangkok.I may be too optimistic but I feel the situation is changing for the better. Incidentally before some genius starts bemoaning the influence of the West on skin prejudices in Asia, the preference for fair over dark skin was well entrenched throughout Asia long before the West made iots presence felt.

You have already pleaded ignorance of the rat picture significance, a well known trope of antisemitism and deployed extensively by the Nazis in their murderous propaganda.Any educated person knows this. So you have ruled yourself out of the discussion - at least as a serious contributor.

Actually I don't believe it was zoonotic, much more likely to have originated in a Chinese lab.But to adopt your vernacular, the jabs did save grandma.

Doubling down confirms rather than deflects my assertion.The pandemic days were distinguished by conspiracy nuts and misfits who ignored medical advice and more often than not described the conforming majority as "brainless sheeple", often gobbling down ridiculously inappropriate drugs like Invermectiin and braying about "natural immunity". We know now that medical opinion was sometimes flawed but vaccinations saved many hundreds of thousands.

Actually I sort of agree with you on the cover up aspect.The New York Times was an egregious example, overlooking Biden's increasingly limited capacity and doubling down on the judicial witch hunt on Trump. The bad news for you is that anyone who uses expressions like "brainless sheeple" automatically forfeits the right to be taken seriously.

A clear anti Semite based on this post.Conflates Israelis with Jews, and concludes with an infamous antisemitic trope.

I have never met anyone who is anti- Israel who isn’t also antisemitic. Why don’t these people care about Hamas slaughtering members of the PLO nor do they care when Muslims slaughter Muslims. Nor indeed about Muslims slaughtering Christians both in Egypt and Africa They care about only one thing.

Continues to miss the point, to an almost comical effect.My observation was a general one and not specifically about COVID. It was about a particular unlettered mindset, a demonstration of which has just been thoughtfully provided.

You and others miss the point.It's nothing particularly to do with COVID variants.To make an argument on any subject in which "I've always been saying it" plays a prominent part is to betray intellectual weakness and vapidity.If there is a case to be made or an argument to be countered, then do so with logic and facts.It is irrelevant and boring to say one has always been saying it.

When a comment contains these words, it is invariably a signal that the whole content should be disregarded.

Medconsult have now advised they will have Mounjaro available quite shortly though as yet no indication of pricing.I suspect 13/14,000 per month but don't really know.I'm interested because a close relative might be a candidate.I need to do more research but to date I think Medconsult is dealing with weight loss jabs professionally.What I don't want is a prescription service only because all the evidence available suggests medical supervision is needed.I'm pretty sure a proper service will be available at the well known Bangkok hospitals but maybe more expensive? I'm somewhat surprised there isn't more discussion of the subject on this forum.

Just an unfortunate blip.Overall the benefits of multiculturism are immense and we should thank our leaders for introducing it.That's the official line. The reality is.Britain’s ruling classes did not make Britain diverse with the consent of the governed. They did it despite repeated demonstrations that the population wanted nothing to do with half-baked dreams of an American-style melting pot. They suppressed discussion of issues of integration, covered up crimes and scandals, buried data, and insisted over and over again that the project was working, terrified of what might happen if they were proven wrong.