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At least you're willing to stack the odds in your favor however contrarian it may seem to others. At the end of the day, you're responsible for your own health. People can criticize your decisions, but it's your life. Not their's. They can do whatever they deem best for themselves.

There are literally hundreds of thousands of dogs in Thailand in need of a loving home. Contact your local temples and tell them you are interested in puppies should any of the temple's bitches have a litter. It's sad to hear that farangs working with adopted animals are now gatekeepers. Or just look online in Chiang Mai Facebook groups. Then you are dealing with the dog's owners and not some middle-man. One of our bitches had a litter this time last year. When looking for potential adoptees all we were concerned with was that they'd have a loving home and be well cared for.

This isn't just Thailand. It's becoming global in those countries without constitutions which explicitly protect the public's right to gather in protest. This is all ushering in a new era of explicit totalitarianism. That's - scary.

Pfizer only has full FDA approval to their product Comirnaty. Pfizer-BioNTech, although perhaps the same vaccine, is legally not Comirnaty. There are different laws applied to the two brands. Only Comirnaty is FDA licensed. Pfizer-BioNTech is still only authorized for use under a EUA. "The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine that uses PBS buffer and COMIRNATY (COVID-19 Vaccine, mRNA) have the same formulation. The products are legally distinct with certain differences that do not impact safety or effectiveness." Quote from: FDA Letter of Authorization (Reissued) linked below https://www.fda.gov/media/150386/download

The people at the top have a knee on the neck of society and they are rather fond of their new powers. Don't expect them to give that up anytime soon.

I ฿฿฿ Hansum ฿฿฿ man!!!

Why not a Teddy-bear. A Lego set. Let the kid have a life without screens during his formative years. Encourage the kid to play outside in the fresh air using their imagination. The kid will have plenty of time to get permanently hooked on screens in the future.

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.