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That's complete tosh. If you qualify, you can obtain CBD at a Thai cannabis clinic for medical ganja.

Yep. You go to a restaurant and there you order a coffee with a marijuana leaf in it, and a lunch entree with marijuana leaves adorning it, and then order a cup of cannabis tea and cookies topped with marijuana leaves. And later that night you buy and smoke a spiff with a friend - then the cops show up lights ablazing, make you pee in a bottle ("purple!!! - you bad person, smoke ganja"), get arrested, thrown in jail and eventually deported. It's a Pandora's Box with the government itself advertising how wonderful it all is and how wonderfully liberal Thailand is too. "Look!!! Cannabis Leaf Salad!!!" But it ain't! Those mixed message will get good people thrown into Thai jail on drug charges - I guarantee, unless Thailand decriminalized ganja use.

Very dangerous stuff. Sunk the Titanic!

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Snark of the day.

The game plays like this. The Thai government demands that foreigners have $nnn,nnn amount of insurance. If a foreigner has a positive Covid test, then forcefully incarcerate the foreigner and hand them a bill for $nnn,nnn amount of money that matches the insurance requirements. It's a scam. The insurance should be there for people who get sick and actually need health care. Not for gouging foreigners because they are perceived as an easily available supply of large amounts of revenue created in a scheme that targets deliberately targets them, like the completely asymptomatic.

But that doesn't generate the income for hotels, hospitals, and insurance companies that this private-public partnership of government and corporate interests wishes to create. Problem - reaction - solution. They have created a high-priced "solution" that they want because it creates large amounts of revenue by raping the public, foreigners in particular. Yes - people should be allow to recover and quarantine at home. Even though I have land and a guest house on our property and the supplies and resources at any given moment to stay put for two weeks or more, I guarantee I'd be forced into an expensive hospital simply because I am a "Cha-Ching" foreigner. So what do I do? I don't record my movement at stores like 'good citizens', the phone stays in a Faraday bag, and I stay away from public testing like it's the plague. If they want my cooperation - then stop treating foreigners like milk-cows and extend the same rights to foreigners as they do Thais without the racist, rent-seeking discrimination. Here where I live in a village, Thais have been allowed to quarantine at home when Covid positive. The medical infrastructure is available already. But they'd force me into a hospital and hand me a $100K bill on the way out. When the Thai courts say that gouging foreigners at hospitals isn't discrimination because foreigners are 'rich' - well, then the racist, rent-seeking discrimination becomes institutionalized. Watch for future schemes targeting foreigners in order to transfer their wealth to Thai corporate entities now that the precedence is set and codified. But right now, forcing foreigners into hospitals for a hefty price is the current iteration of this scheme. It's a lose-lose situation as I won't willing play their game of "Milk-The-Foreigner-For-Money-In-The-Name-Of-Covid" as doing so takes money away from supporting the interests of my Thai family.

Perhaps Thailand officials need to explain to the IQ-impaired segment of Thai society exactly what the purpose of national parks are and their role in protecting endangered species - which cows are not.

For how many underground pubs that they bust, how many are not busted. This forced prohibition is incredibly unpopular. But then comes the fearful trembling, "You'll get Covid!" Yeah. Maybe so. It's time to learn to live with it and get back to normalcy, and I don't mean 'new normal' which is an ugly form of social control.

Anutin needs to hire me onto his campaign for PM as I have the winning strategy for him. I ❤️ Science! Legalize Cannabis for Everyone To Stop SARS-Cov-2!!! Anutin will be declared a savior and national hero. He'll win as PM by a landslide. Cannabinoids Block Cellular Entry of SARS-CoV-2 and the Emerging Variants "In follow-up virus neutralization assays, cannabigerolic acid and cannabidiolic acid prevented infection of human epithelial cells by a pseudovirus expressing the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and prevented entry of live SARS-CoV-2 into cells. Importantly, cannabigerolic acid and cannabidiolic acid were equally effective against the SARS-CoV-2 alpha variant B.1.1.7 and the beta variant B.1.351. Orally bioavailable and with a long history of safe human use, these cannabinoids, isolated or in hemp extracts, have the potential to prevent as well as treat infection by SARS-CoV-2. " https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35007072/

It's another sub-unit vaccine similar to Novavax as it supplies spiked protein in an adjuvant and as such probably has less adverse reactions.

Freeze chicken prices because pork prices are skyrocketing. ????

The OP is no doubt double or triple vaxxed so he's perfectly safe as the Covid vaccines are 'effective.' Don't worry, be happy! Modern science will keep you perfectly safe. But for those who worry - wear a N95 or N99 mask. You'll be fine. Don't worry about the other guys. They'll all die for sure!

The words, "Fragile" and "Egos" comes to mind.

I can just imagine. "Welcome to Thailand. You have Covid insurance but not good enough. Must buy good Thai Covid insurance from Thai company. You 70 years old. Ok. ฿10,000 or get back on plane and go home." Or something like that. I wonder how long before we start to here the horror stories.

How ironic. Every women in the village wants to have the same color skin as if have. And they just can't grasp why the crazy farang lays out in the sun a few minutes each day (Vitamin D Booster). Or course, I find it equally ironic that most Westerners come to Thailand and lay in the sun in order to attain a brown that is a birthright to the same Thais who spends billions on skin whitening cream. Freakin' Crazy world, 'eh?

In the West protecting your country and culture would get you label as a far-right-wing racist, a supremacist, as well as possibly getting you imprisoned for racial hatred, bigotry, and extremism. In SE Asian Thailand? It's 'protecting your country and culture.' The globally accepted norm for Thailand!

Ditto. I know my place in Thai Society - A walking, talking ATM. And as long as I can spit out cash in the correct denominations, I'll be free to remain in Thailand to "Visit My Wife" in one year incrementes - well - until they decide to change the rules. Then would I 'go back home?' No. I'd pick my Plan B country and still remain an expat. I'm sort of fond of rural third-world myself.

(Honorary) Dr. Anutin Charnvirakul, Esquire

Realistically, they will flood the courts with cases, and then the courts will give up and signal to the parliament and administration to enter the 21st century and allow cannabis and hemp to be grown as cash crops for domestic use and export, as well as to at least decriminalize the use of 0.2+THC because once the public starts growing it - like Thai roads - there aren't enough cops to enforce the law to the letter. Smoking a spiff - ฿400 fine. Hopefully that's the future. Then they can let another 30% of the prison population out of incarceration and back into the society to use their skills to farm cannabis.

Well he's got my backing now: Anutin For PM!!! Of course, this isn't New York so as a foreigner I can't vote. I like the theme: "A chicken in every pot, and six pots of pot in every home." I'll convince my family that he's our man!!!

The book is about 'generational theory'. "According to the Strauss-Howe generational theory, many nations undergo decisive changes every four generations. They calculate that to be about 80 to 90 years. They argue that, when this period is over, a radical transformation in the social and political structure occurs." - ExploreYourMind, Psychology, Theories It's about change that tends to manifest quite violently in relatively consistent waves of time. Literally earth-shaking periods of history. Like a tsunami, it's easy to dismiss an ultra low-tide as an anomaly without understanding what is about to crest the horizon. As stated by Samuel Clements, "History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes." And I've lived long enough to hear the four-part harmony starting to kick in. When this comes (and it will) most people will be standing flat-footed on the beach watching the fish flop.

You mean the insurance companies screaming to the government for help because they have to pay out on the Covid policies they sold last year? Those insurance companies? Hit us all with the shocker. Let's hear what the premiums will be as well well as the policy payouts limits. Here we are now, entertain us.

“Try to unlearn the obsessive fear of death (and the anxious quest for death avoidance) that pervades linear thinking in nearly every modern society. The ancients knew that, without periodic decay and death, nature cannot complete its full round of biological and social change. Without plant death, weeds would strangle the forest. Without human death, memories would never die, and unbroken habits and customs would strangle civilization. Social institutions require no less. Just as floods replenish soil and fires rejuvenate forests, a Fourth Turning clears out society’s exhausted elements and creates an opportunity.” – Strauss & Howe – The Fourth Turning

Reskilling and upskilling for businesses is crucial amid pandemics Are then perhaps the pundits in charge of media and "right-think" projecting to the unwashed masses that there will be more - Much much more - "Be afriad!". This first "pandemic worked so well at destroying society as we knew it, so why not usher in a narrative of Mysophobia now so that the average commoner is scared to death of anyone who coughs or sneezes or farts or breathes or touches a surface with a hand not slathered in alcohol-gel? Goodness, Westerners wade in the waters of Mysophobia as it is. Listen to what I've heard among 'clean farang' for years: "Have you ever eaten at a Thai street food vendor? OMG! They are filthy! Rats and cockroaches everywhere. Nobody washes their hands. The food is bacteria ridden! Eat that filth and you'll end up in a hospital with food poisoning for sure!!! <fear fear fear fear fear> Of course, after 14 years living in The Land Of (Bacterial) Slime, Somtom, and Plaa-Laa - I've contracted 'food poisoning' twice within perhaps the first two years of living here: Once at a popular international fast food joint, and second at a popular international fast food joint which is in direct competition with the first international fast food joint that made me as sick as a freaking dog. I made it vague enough that I can't be sued for defamation as that's how criticism is dealt with in The Land Of (Bacterial) Slime, Somtom, and Plaa-Laa, don't ya know? But Thai street food? Or mom and pop restaurants, which of course most "CLEAN" farangs equate with disease, and filth, rats and rodents, cockroaches, and projectile diarrhea if not projectile vomiting? I've never had a problem anywhere in Thailand. Ever. So - pandemics. Of course. Covid germs everywhere. "Beware. Mask up. Social Distance. Get the shots. Get the boosters. It's the only way to keep from getting the plague - or else? You'll die for sure!!!" And of course - if you are a "non-essential" business (smaller than a mall, Big C, Tesco, etc) then you need to close to keep the public "safe." And if you're are a bar, pub, night-time entertainment venue, and restaurant serving a glass of wine with a meal - you need to be put out of business for the sake of public health! - Well, unless your restaurant is franchised, International, and resided within a clean mall. Then it's perfectly safe, especially if you've paid to have a three-letter acronym placed after the name of your establishment to virtue-signal your safety and cleanliness to the Mysophobic masses surging across the borders in the billions, millions, hundreds of thousands, tens of thousands, thousands (hundreds). Hundreds of millionaires! Clean millionaires unlike <gasp> unclean commoners. So yeah - now we have all these plebs, and commoners, and low-classed nobodies who have been put out of work because - well - their type of work is "Non-Essential." Poor = "Non-Essential." Low-class = "Non-Essential." Middle-class = "Non-Essential." Entrepreneurs = "Non-Essential." You know - scum. So? Let's "Re-Train them all." Accept 'right-think' and make enough money to feed your family (maybe) and pay your bank bills (after we loan you more to pay off your previous balance). So now - the government will - Build Back Better! Globally! It's a concept that is completely organic in every country now. No doubt. Re-skill! Retool. Train people from Myanmar to do the jobs "Thais Don't Want To Do!" Pour public funds into corporations who promise to raise the Thai standard of living two fold, and their stockholders ROI by 20, 50, or 100 fold. Get those amoral Bar Girls off the street, dress them in factory cloths, and give them a job making slave wages! Buddha Rejoice. A Moral Society!!! Yeah. I get it. In fact, a lot of people are starting to 'get it.' Well - thank Buddha for rubber bullets and flash-bang grenades! @BritManToo <laughs>