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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."

The builder's will claim Force Majeure. If that doesn't work - bankruptcy. Fyi. Sometimes the lowest bid isn't the best course of action. I seriously doubt that the Italian/Thai partnership will be rebuilding that structure. The deepest pockets will end up covering the cost (hello Thai government)! 🇹🇭

Safe and Effective!

You can buy a three bed, two bath cement reinforced with rebar house in CM for 2.5M. I wouldn't pay that much money to live like a sardine stacked next to and on top of other people. Quality construction there. This is an earthquake zone. Builders, architect, and structural engineers know that. That would be a class action suit in the US. Here. Owners are probably SOL.

I'll continue to live in Thailand and could give a da*m. Btw - there isn't going to be a war between the two counties as much as the OP and a majority of AN members probably wants one to break out. What the hell is with people in this day and age: everyone but a minority of us wants global war. The problem being, most of those who are itching for war - don't want to fight in one - they want to send other people to get killed. You people are sick.

Good idea. UN peace-keeper are the closest thing to neutral. That is sanity. If the UK/EU try to put NATO troops in Ukraine and call them "peacekeepers" Russian will call them "enemy-combatants" and they'll be targets. That in insanity and a deliberate provocation to start WWIII.

And you yourself as a far-Left ideologue do the absolute same - blindly follow your "leaders" on the far-Left. Trump bad. Biden good. Vance bad. Harris good. MTG bad. AOC good. AOC bad. MTG good. Harris bad. Vance good. Biden bad. Trump good. Ya'll are truly beyond hypocritical. You're laughable. You're patently insane! "Trump supporters all march in lockstep." Christ - you radical Lefties all march in lockstep. You're the pot calling the kettle black. Sanity is in the middle kids.