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Fluoxetine (Prozac) is readily available at most drugstore over-the-counter. You can check online for dosing as an alternative to Fluvoxamine. While you are at it look up studies on Povidone-iodine (Betadine) as a nasal irrigation. The improvement in symptoms has a similar rate as Fluvoxamine.

The Devil's in the details.

Just an observation. The title of the OP is To Vax or Not To Vax which is an open invitation to comment. However, the OP post is about quarantine rules. So the OP's title doesn't match the OP's post, which I imagine is creating a load of confusion. Perhaps the OP's title needs to be edited to reflect the true nature of the post? Just being "Captain Obvious" on this as I agree with you - The 'vaccination' question is being beat to death elsewhere, however the OP's title invited the commenters to come and visit.

Filed under "Waste, Fraud, and Abuse." Who benefits by shelling out the equivalent of $3+ million USD of taxpayer money to two entertainment personas? Thailand should leave entertainment to the private sector.

You obviously have not read The Fourth Turning. If you had you'd understand where we are in that cycle (don't get too comfortable) and why other generational archetypes can't stand 'Boomers.'

Well written. With that title, I was expecting a morality piece. For a second I though maybe Chawit had "found Buddha" or something and gone all "Prayut" on us and started preaching an ingenuous, forced two-tier 'morality.' One tier for the commoners - no drinking, no marijuana, no sex, no night-entertainment, no massage, no fun; ...and another parallel 'morality' for the masters - 'Do as thy will is the whole of the law.' Ended up with a history lesson instead. Kudos

Dubai?

Yep

What a great idea. Selling kratom at stoplights. I gotta get my wife on that one. "Honey, I have a new job for you!" <laughs>

Back in the 1980s I watched construction workers erect bamboo scaffolding used to work on high-rise building in Hong Kong. That's the day I understand that OSHA was an anomaly and what I was watching was reality throughout most of the 'developing' world. And even to this day as I see the conditions construction workers and electrical line workers in Asia work under. All the OSHA-type safety laws are well and dandy - but they add a significant cost that the average Asian business isn't going to absorb.

Thais are selling leaves and sometime grafted clipping along the roads and highway outside of the city center. If you're really hard up, drive down to Lamphun, past the Doi Tii (Big Buddha) intersection and head south on HW-11 for about two kilometers then take the U-turn and head back. Last Sunday there were three or four people selling leaves and cutting along side the road between that U-Turn and Big Buddha. Sunday is your best bet as most of these people have regular jobs and moonlighting on Sundays to sell kratom. It's cheaper than online. 50 THB a package. By the way, a double-shot latte has about the same effect and tastes a heck of a lot better. Look for signs in Thai like this: You aren't going to see those signs in English. So imprint the Thai characters.

‘Winter Is Coming’ Unless you are waiting for The Winds Of Winter. Then you may have a long, long wait. Thank goodness HBO filled in the blanks. Now I don't care if Winter comes or not.

And a Mini no less. They have a wide wheel base and low center of gravity. Unless the other car pulled out and clipped her rear bumper. Strange.

The non-dramatic answer would have been: 1. Yes I do, and 2. a portion of my monthly pension funds or IRA withdrawal on a money basis which will be approximately $nnnn dollar a month to cover living expenses overseas. Your bank deals with a lot of Active Duty and retired military members who live aboard and as an expat, they are probably one of the best banks and financial services companies to deal with. I've had an account with them almost 50 years back when they were primarily into insurance. They are dotting the "i"s and crossing the "t"s for the government. They do KYC/CYA reviews periodical. They may even require you to phone them. Small price to pay - they are a good bank. Just fill in the form and call it good.

11.43mm - but who's counting. ????

The era of the Speak-Easy has once again returned! Where guys and dames can sidestep the G-Men' morality crusades against the average, thirsty citizens. Welcome back (100 years later) to The Roaring 20's!

There are never holidays at Grandma Poon's Backwater Country Store.

My guess is that the US newspapers in the 1920 had daily articles about police busting up 'illegal and immoral' parties. "Bad people!!!" I'm none too sympathetic. My grandfather ran a speak-easy during that time period as well as smuggling alcohol over the Canadian border. By grandfather was a heck of a good guy, but a business-man (not mafia) and prohibition was totally absurd (like all prohibitions). He operated under a pay-to-play agreement with the local police. The one story I loves was his story about police busts. According to my father, the police would kick-in the unlocked front door, go to the bar which usually was serving food. slam a bottle of whisky on the bar and arrest the 'bar-tender.' Grand-dad would bail him and and life went on. My guess is that was not so different than in present-day 2021 Thailand. Prohibitions are state sanctioned morality plays where the "elites" show the commoners their place in the power structure. You can have a thousand people in a mall, but place a bottle of whisky on a table and everyone needs to vacate. You can have 100 people in a Buddhist temple, but place a case of beer on the floor and everyone needs to be arrested and thrown into jail with maximum fanfare and media coverage. It's arbitrary and frivolous. The move shuts-off the release valves of the average man. "No fun for you commoners! Fun illegal! Bad people!!!" All and all it's just another brick in the wall.

Perhaps not. My best friend died of a massive heart attack in his late 40s. 6 foot 4, strong looking guy, a biker though not affiliated with a gang. My friend looked like he should live forever. Walked out of church one Sunday with his wife, and dropped like a sack of potatoes. I don't see that as 'frightening.'

Well, there's the definition of a Thai woman for ya!

Nope. However, she may exact a pound of flesh in a different manner as TIT.

Yeah. The governments (worldwide) are using this so-called "emergency: to leverage agendas that otherwise would never be allowed to fly. Here in Thailand the government has been hell-bent to implement a Neo-prohibition as well as enforcing a new morality on the unwashed masses. At the end of the day it's about showing the serfs who is in control. However, in the process they'll destroy their economy, especially the economies that supported the more economically vulnerable. The high-and-mighty only care for themselves. They want high-end revenue streams only - which - only benefit the wealthy and the governmental tools of the Thai ubermenchen. The lower and middle class are being tossed under the bus with willful impunity. So yeah - Go-Gos and the like are a thing of the past as well as the foreign tourism population that frequented Go-Gos and the bar-girl scene. Go-Go, the bar-scene, as well as your average farang tourist will be discouraged. Destroy the bar-scene and many foreigners will go elsewhere. You can find the same scenes in places like the PI or Mexico. Whether the Karaoke and shower-massage scene survives will be dependent on the Thai male population. Too many well-to-do Thai men frequent the Karaoke and Ap-Op-Nuat scenes so that may actually make a come-back (no pun intended). But that scene culturally caters to Thais and not farang. I don't think the high-and-mighty moralists in Bangkok are doing to destroy Thai cultural icons. It really depends on the social status of those who complain the loudest about these government imposed restrictions.

Translated: Wealth for the rich; Austerity for the commoners.

Whose fault is that doc? The people who aren't allowed to exercise? I don't think so.