BusyB

Southern Europe is full of winter sun with no restrictions and not as far to travel ... etc ...

They should use the bypass anyway ... Petchkasem is a polluted nightmare. And with the prevailing daytime breezes coming off the sea, the nitrous oxide and particulate matter gets spread right across the city.

Thank you for the lesson. ????

And with other drugs legalized and cheaper, they wouldn't need meth anyway ... true, meth is evil incarnate ...

Yup. I'm still very active and surrounded by people mostly half my age at work ... but no doubt at 60 things get a bit slower. Out riding the bike all day today, now my back hurts. At the same time though, time seems to speed up ...

It also r e d u c e s greatly the chances of passing it on, because the body responds quickly to the invasion and keeps the viral load low, which is why it also requires less hospitalization and ventilation. If Sinovac keeps these people out of ICU or hospital then thank god for Sinovac ...

They didn't get the numbers they wanted but the concept didn't fail which was what I was referring to. As to the outlook for genuine tourism I answered that aspect on another thread. It's a pretty bleak outlook with respect to Europeans at least and certainly as long as they fiddle around with these restrictions as if vaccinated tourists are the problem.

I was about to ask the savant to what we owe these words of wisdom ... but yours'll do just as well ;D

I've always been put off by the tales of the mosquito swarms ...

Thanks for a genuinely intelligent assessment of the situation. What amazes me is how many farangs think the 'Sandbox' has a) failed and b) failed because of the tourists and are c) essentially campaigning to keep everything shut. Amazing Thailand.

I tend to agree, sad as it may seem. Millions are suffering from this, and I have a close up view of how it is affecting one family with which I am friends. There are few even thinking about Thailand in EU, because here we've got our standard digital vax certificates, and most of some of the world's best destinations are w i d e o p e n ... Thailand is only interesting for those with a real interest and maybe history there, like me. And if they don't get their act together soon, I'll give up waiting, sadly. The perception that fully vaxxed tourists are the problem is the most egregious deflection from the real problem and how it unfolded in LOS.

I read about a small scale trial in NL a few days ago that gave it a positive spin actually ... but as I said, small scale and by no means approved by any health authorities. It might work as an emergency measure to protect people, but there's a long way to go before that's acceptable for international travel etc.

I just paid nearly 500 baht for a SomTam here ... (and it didn't even have shrimps)

Yeah, right, pump up the GDP numbers with a real estate boom and claim to be mastering the Covid slump at the same time ... no ordinary Thai will benefit from this.

Why bother - surely everyone knows it's a dangerous crossing ...

Indeed, whatever defects at that age he'd still have had a fighting chance if vaxxed. Unvaxxed not much.

To think when I was a kid I wanted to be a Hells Angel ...

Indeed, but those levels of corruption are endemic in low tax regimes. You don't raise the cash to pay your cops (among others) then the cops will raise it themselves at the 'point of delivery'. And if you're too poor to afford to pay, then tough, either they don't help you if you need it, or you go to jail if you've broken something small and can't pay your way out. And the top cops aren't being given fabulously fat and heavy brown envelopes by rich politicians and businesspeople. (Not as a rule anyway, and drug deals or busts etc. are only available to a small circle.) The top cops are paid like in a pyramid scheme - the lower ranks raise the cash from the public, take a percentage and have to pass the rest on up the chain. It's like Amway or other multi-level selling systems - you get a handful of fabulously rich types at the top, the rest are just the minions that bring in the dough for small rewards but need to do it to survive. What kind of a country makes its cops buy their own GUNS for god's sake? Well, one that doesn't raise tax to pay for those guns. Or motor bikes ... Or any sensible equipment. Or decent wages as motivation to actually investigate things. The list goes on ... Sad really.

Yeah, low education standards mean very little awareness of basic physics and its relationship to everyday life ... visible on LOS roads every day, no sense of speed, inertia, friction and so on ...

For that you have to raise taxes ... no tax, no public services (or at least none worthwhile) ...

I interpreted it as meaning a hotel manager would be checking me ... either way it doesn't make sense .. especially in connection with PCR tests and tiger Morr Chan app ... whatever - not applicable to me right now anyway, by the time it is it'll have changed again ;D

What is a hotel manager going to be checking on little old me?

However the same syndrome is now becoming highly evident in the 'west' as well ...

"being checked daily by an SHA Plus manager..." What on Earth does that mean?

It saves them having to fork out for a decent social security system ...