GroveHillWanderer

That was the situation when that article was written, as of December 22, 2021. In the same article, it said all EU member countries should recognise all three of them by January 22, 2022. So depending on which country you're going to, there would appear to be a good chance SinoPharm is recognised. Also, some countries don't have any restrictions on who can travel there any more - including (but not limited to) the UK, Denmark, Iceland, Ireland, Moldova, Norway, Slovenia and Sweden. I would imagine more countries will be dropping restrictions as time goes by. Here's a list of all the countries with no CoVid-19 entry restrictions. https://www.traveloffpath.com/countries-without-any-travel-restrictions-or-entry-requirements

Actually, the evidence of people making alcohol goes back around 13,000 years, which would make it distinctly older. 'World's oldest brewery' found in cave in Israel The oldest known accounts of 'sacred' prostitution only date back to about 2,400 BCE. Even then, it's not clear that this was prostitution as such, rather than a kind of ritualized sex for religious purposes, without remuneration. Does the Old Testament Refer to Sacred Prostitution and Did it Actually Exist?

Are you sure about that? According to the info on the COVID Passport website linked to below, all vaccines with WHO emergency use listing (which includes SinoPharm) should now be accepted for travel. Which COVID-19 vaccines are accepted for travel to Europe?

Of course outside of a study like the one mentioned, the very good and practical reason for not getting vaccinated while you're infected is the risk of infecting other, potentially unprotected people at the vaccination site.

I'm not sure there's 100% unanimity on how long to postpone a vaccination if positive for Covid. In fact, a recent case study suggests that getting a vaccination while infected might actually aid in recovery - though possibly only if you have a compromised immune system and a persistent infection (and you mention having diabetes and lingering symptoms). According to the link below which documents the case of an immuno-compromised patient with an ongoing infection: Vaccine Used To Treat – Rather Than Prevent – COVID-19 Having said that, I'm not sure what the official policy in Thailand is in this regard and whatever that is, will probably trump a one-off, foreign-based study. It's food for thought, though.

The sentiments expressed in this picture, posted at the very beginning of the war, are starting to look more apt every day.

According to various reports, the UK is planning to do exactly that. Here's one link that was already given on this thread, by @placeholder. UK pledges to send more arms

Actually, it kind of is like that. Russian only ever controlled the Eastern part of the modern Ukraine (and Crimea). After the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was formed, it then went on to become part of the USSR. So no, Russia never did rule the what now constitutes Ukraine - although Ukraine was once part of the Soviet Union (which of course, is precisely what many people think Putin would like to re-create). Also, another part of what is now Ukraine used to belong to Poland so perhaps you think that part of Ukraine should revert to being part of Poland (since historical part ownership seems to you to be so dispositive).

RIA Novosti (aka RIAN) is a Russian domestic news agency, owned and operated by the Russian federal government. So when they publish an oped about Russia's intentions for Ukraine, what makes you think that they are not a reliable source for such news? They are basically part of, and a mouthpiece for, the Russian government so I would say you'd be hard pressed to find a better source than RIAN for information about Russia's attitude towards Ukraine (or on any other subject for that matter). It's akin to saying that you don't think the Xinhua News Agency is a good source for info about Chinese Government policies.

That's not what this bill is about though. It outlaws: That means the provisions of the law could apply at all ages and grades, not just grades K-3. As various analysts have pointed out, the language about K-3 is there purely as a fig leaf to disguise what is almost certainly the true intent of the bill, which is to make educators afraid to even mention the topic, for fear of the legal repercussions. Not least because it would allow parents to sue them and/or the school for anything the parent thinks is "not age-appropriate."

I think the inference is that after Tangmo had gone overboard, instead of trying to look for and/or help her, or even call the authorities for help, Sand (and others on the boat) seemed more interested in sending text messages to various friends and acquaintances. I think it's sometimes referred to as "depraved indifference."

Whataboutery at its finest.????

The problem with Africa's relatively low rate of vaccination is no longer a lack of vaccines - it's a lack of demand. As per the report below, there's a large amount of vaccine hesitancy in many African countries. 'The doses are here, but vaccine hesitancy remains high'

Whether a country does or does not have nuclear weapons has absolutely no bearing on whether it chooses to give someone up for prosecution by an International Court. Karadzic and Mladic thought they were safe because they were part of the ruling elite at the time they committed their war crimes - and they even remained protected for many years after the conflict ended. However justice has this strange habit of catching up with people in the end. Governments change eventually (yes, even in Russia). Putin will not be in power forever. In fact if this war continues to go as badly for him as it has been doing, his fall from grace will hopefully come quicker than he or anyone else imagined.

I dare say Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic thought they were perfectly fine when the International Court opened cases against them, especially with them being on the winning side in Serbia, and all. Didn't work out too well for them in the end though, did it?

You guys don't understand climate science, do you? An overall rise in global average yearly temperatures means an increase in all types of extreme weather events - higher highs, lower lows, more extreme droughts, more excessive rain, more frequent (and more powerful) hurricanes, cyclones, typhoons and tropical storms, etc, etc. Extreme weather gets a boost from climate change

Wonder no more. No trees were cut down. All copies of her book are printed on recycled paper and the printing company uses 100% recyclables in its printing process. Severn's green efforts earn company Greta and the Giants printing contract

Nobody has to prove you wrong. You have made a claim without providing any evidence to support it. Therefore your claim can be dismissed without evidence. In any event, by the rules of logic and common sense, it's up to the person making the claim to prove it, it's not up to others to disprove it.

I doubt if it was the officers that were digging the trenches in the radiation-contaminated areas. That would have been the more lowly conscripts. And some of them have indeed admitted they had no idea where they were being sent and thought they were going on military exercises.

In the past I've travelled into Manchester many times with my wife (who is Thai). I don't think it's ever taken us more than 1 and a half hours to get through, at most. We haven't been back for over two years, so I can't speak from personal experience as to what it's like more recently, but I'd be a little surprised if it would take as long as 3 hours, even at the present time. Edit: I've just seen the post from @Mike Teaveeabove so in light of that, it sounds as if it could potentially take that long.

If you're talking about a re-entry permit, I didn't get one for several years now but the last time I got one it took about five minutes.

On my third marriage extension in Hua Hin - only had the one visit (the first year) so far.

Ermm - you might like to revise that. As the Times article below puts it, "there is little doubt" that the actual Queen Charlotte, who was queen from 1761 – 1818 (the exact period when Bridgerton was set) was of mixed race. Our royal family is a rich mix of races Here is a contemporary portrait of her.

Plenty of Thais have been fined for not wearing masks. In fact even the Prime Minister, Prayut Chan-ocha was fined for this. PM fined ฿6k for not wearing face mask during meeting at Government House

One thing to bear in mind here though, is that there are over three thousand species of mosquito and this would only affect a single one, leaving 99.97% of mosquitoes unaffected. So even if every single Aedes Aegypti mosquito were wiped out it would have only a minuscule effect on the total number of mosquitoes in the world. It's also worth noting that this species of mosquito was native to only a small area of sub-tropical Africa until recently and has been artificially introduced elsewhere by human activity, such as the trade in tyres (which was how it was introduced into Florida in the 1980’s - so it actually doesn't belong there). It also only evolved a domestic form relatively recently that feeds exclusively on humans (its ancestral form, which still exists, preys primarily on non-human animals) and getting rid of all of the domestic variety (even if possible, which it may not be) would actually only be putting the species back to where it was a few decades ago. Evolution of mosquito preference for humans linked to an odorant