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What is the Thai government suppose to do: SMS from the Thai Government: "Thailand just experienced an earthquake!" No **** Sherlock! Within 10 minutes I knew where the earthquake occurred, its magnitude, and its initial effects. All of this was being reported on various international geological sites and news outlets. I really didn't need the nanny-state to inform me that Thailand just experienced an earthquake. Everyone already knew. Anyone with a modern phone could have found that information in a matter of minutes. This isn't the 1920s - it's 2025. People have communication resources. Actually what this really is is just one side of the political divide attempting to bash the other side of the political divide. It does nothing the unify the country. But it is pretty much standard operating procedure in this day and age. Politicians don't seek solutions, they seek fault.

You missed this one OP: Everything John Burdett writes about. That would have saved you the hassle of writing 20 choices (about 15 choices too many imho).

Boom boom boom, let's go back to my room... Brit expat knocked unconscious by 10 security guards at popular nightclub - police find drugs... "What! That's not my heroin, it's hers," Brit expat denies drug use, pee tests purple for opioids..." Brit expat spruiks new book: "Hell In The Bangkok Hilton"... Author of "Hell In The Bangkok Hilton extradited to the UK to face charges of pedophilia... Author of "Hell In The Bangkok Hilton" unable to collect book royalty states judge - author opens "Go Fund Me" page... Author of "Hell In The Bangkok Hilton" found beat, hanged in prison showers - coroner rules suicide... Oh wait! That's not fiction!

If you have children, make sure they have all of their shots, including the most recent MMR shots, flu shots, RSP shots, and Covid shots. Never can be too safe. Maybe get them twice to be sure. You too.

Here's reality: There will never, ever be peace. There is no profits in peace. If peace suddenly breaks out, the US weapons manufactures will not be able to make hundreds of billions of dollars in revenues and profits. The US war industry depends on forever war. The US must always sell death and destruction. Therefore the US will always find enemies it needs to bomb and proxies it needs to arm - forever. Or until it provokes a nuclear war. So in the case of Russia, first Trump will bluster about tariffs, and then sanctions, and then more weapons to Ukraine, the EU, and the UK, and then a ramp up in bellicosity and threats. Then bombing Yemen, then Iran, then Russia and China when they support Iran, then WWIII. "Defense" stocks will go through the roof. Then when the first carrier is sunk, it goes nuclear. The US would rather bring the roof of the world down on itself than compromise its self-aggrandized position as "The Most Important Country On The Planet" And if they can't have Greenland and Canada? Well - they can be bombed too! I'm sure a reason can be fabricated out of thin air.

I absolutely believe that living in the tropics near the equator affects the frequency of upper respiratory infections. In the last 18 years I've had 2 colds, no flu, and a case of Covid that lasted 2 1/2 days. I used to get colds every year, sometimes multiple times a year when living at 47.6 North latitude. Coincidence? I don't believe so. Of course, the "experts" who make vaccines and their bought and paid for toadies in the regulatory agencies will tell you with a straight face that vitamin D doesn't do anything and you must have your shots. That should change with RFK Jr in the HHS. Expect more independent studies. Personally I call 🐂💩 on the "experts." These charlatans have an economic incentive to lie.

And I don't believe that either.

That has been exactly my personal experience with flu shots. Haven't had a flu shot for 20 years, haven't had the flu for 20 years. I don't consider that to be coincidence.

We're cool. No damage here in our neck of the woods in NE Lamphun. But then we sit on some really solid mountain bedrock.

Sorta like the fickleness of tornadoes. One house destroyed, the house next to it untouched.

This is an earthquake prone region. They aren't rare. This one: May 5, 2014: Magnitude 6.1 "Epicenter near Mae Lao, Chiang Rai Province, approximately 70 km northeast of Chiang Mai. This quake, known as the Mae Lao earthquake." I was living primary in Chiang Mai at the time. The apartment I was in had a significant shake. The last fairly large one was here: November 21, 2019: Magnitude 6.2 Epicenter about 260 km east-northeast of Chiang Mai Northern Thailand has a number of active fault lines: However several techtonic plates converge in Myanmar, including the Indian, Eurasian, Sunda, and Burma microplates which make up the Sagaing Fault which is the primary major fault line in Myanmar, stretching approximately 1,200 km through central Myanmar. And this baby creates some large earthquakes as we have just experienced. Although there are fault lines outside of Northern Thailand, they haven't historically created much in the way of major earthquake activity. Thailand is more exposed to large earthquakes produced on the Sagaing Fault like we just experienced or on other fault lines in the surrounding area.

One thing about earthquakes. You get immediate feedback regarding your building's construction quality. Most buildings suffered no damage, but a few in the same geographic area suffer significant damage. Funny how that works?

I have two houses on a rai of land. Who wants a condo?

My guess is that a lot of building throughout Thailand are structurally compromised now. But TIT, it will be glossed over with brown envelops handed out to engineering inspectors. However, when the next major quake hits, my guess is that quite a few high-rises will be collapsing in their own footprints. "Don't worry about that cracks in the high-rise condos - trust us, it's only cosmetic. Slap a little plaster and paint over it and good as new!"

2013–2014 Season: 52% 2014–2015 Season: 19% 2015–2016 Season: 48% 2016–2017 Season: 40% 2017–2018 Season: 38% 2018–2019 Season: 29% 2019–2020 Season: 39% 2020–2021 Season: Not estimated 2021–2022 Season: 36% 2022–2023 Season: 54% www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/past-seasons-estimates.html Explain why flu shots aren't marginally effective. All vaccines are 100% safe and effective, right? Why isn't flu eradicated?

Why do I take rabies shots? I'm supposed to be an evil anti-vaxxer, right?

If the risk is so small, then there is no need for vaccine manufacturers to be 100% indemnified and completely free for liability. If vaccines are so "safe" there is no need for blanket liability protection. They totally safe, right, so no need for government mandated liability protection.

That's propaganda. You are repeating it verbatim. That's how effective propaganda is.

This is the efficacy of annual flu shots according to the CDC's own data. Then remember, according to "experts" in 2020-2021, Covid cured the flu. Sure, of course it did. Ah-huh. 2013–2014 Season: 52% 2014–2015 Season: 19% 2015–2016 Season: 48% 2016–2017 Season: 40% 2017–2018 Season: 38% 2018–2019 Season: 29% 2019–2020 Season: 39% 2020–2021 Season: Not estimated 2021–2022 Season: 36% 2022–2023 Season: 54% People are just propagandized into taking these shots which are not even effective. Then anecdotally, I used to take employer offered annual flu shots religiously, and I came down with the flu at least once every two to three years like clockwork. Many of those cases were really bad. I stopped taking the shot about 20 years ago. I have not had the flu since! Do I see a correlation - yep. Absolutely. You couldn't pay me to take a flu shot. Or a Covid shots. About the only shot I take now is rabies shots due to it's lethality (I work with a lot of animals). www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/past-seasons-estimates.html

The Kennedy-led HHS will be kicking off studies on vaccines and autism. Imho, the first thing that needs to be done is to pull the blanket liability protection the government gives to drug companies making vaccines. There is no downside to the manufacturers, therefore they have no reason to exercise due diligence. Then there is propaganda - a sizable chuck of these companies expense accounts probably go to straight-up propaganda as well as a ton of money injected into the pockets of the DC congress-critters. The phrase, "Safe And Effective" didn't magically occur - it's sloganism which is propaganda. It works too on the weakest minds.

The TM-6 just injects a flood of data into the Thai immigration system. My guess is that they have departments that have done nothing but archive warehouses full of TM-6s. You get to the point that there is such a fire-hose flood of data that it can't be processed, no less used.

My guess at the upcoming fiasco. It's the contractor's fault. It's the architect's fault. It's the structural engineer's fault. It's the cement contractor's fault. It's the rebar manufacturer's fault. It's the fault of all the Myanmar laborers. Thanks! I would have missed that one: It's the Chinese fault!

Yep.

The quick answer: This Is Thailand - Home to those whose lives are defined by status, and status defined by unnecessary opulence. Hence, every Thai government big wig needs a grand, ostentatious, palatial domain over which to govern. Thailand should hire DOGE to cut out the fat.

The "warning" will most likely be interpreted by international corporations as "think twice before bidding on construction jobs and agreeing to contractual obligations in Thailand," and "beware - this is earthquake prone territories."