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14 minutes ago, LukKrueng said:

1. Breakthrough cases refer to vaccinated people who got infected by COVID (as in the virus broke through the vaccines protection).

 

2. Pfizer tried to seal the research results for the next 70 years, not the past 70 years. A federal court in the USA ruled against it and they had to publish the results. Google and find for yourself.

https://christianresearchnetwork.org/2022/03/05/pfizer-reluctantly-releases-data-under-court-order/

 

https://newsrescue.com/1200-deaths-in-90-days-pfizer-safety-data-released-under-judge-foia-enforcement-and-its-not-good-expert-video-review/

 

Just a couple of samples ^^^

 

3. AFAIK WHO doesn't approve/disapprove vaccines or medications. The FDA and other such government agencies around the world do.

 

4. All vaccines offer "protection" for a limited time. Hence the "need" for boosted, currently the 2nd booster (or the 4th jab....)

 

Yup, and the UK Govt just issued a warning about myocarditis following Pfizer jabs, especially in young males. Not recommended for kids under 12 yo..

Link: UK Govt Org

On 5/5/2022 at 10:46 PM, chickenslegs said:

Children in these care homes are extremely vulnerable to this type of predatory behaviour. Some (maybe most) have already been abused by family members.

 

This is not unique to Thailand. I am from the UK and, if I mention Cyril Smith (former UK Member of Parliament and disgusting pedo) other Brits will certainly recognise the similarities. A massive cover-up of kids in care homes being sexually abused with the full knowledge of those people whose job it was to protect them.

 

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Cyril Smith was the tip of the iceberg. He was widely known to be a child abuser, but saw no arrest or punishment during his lifetime. Ditto Jimmy Savile (and the blue-blooded people he facilitated for), Lord Mountbatten, Ted Heath, etc.

2 hours ago, mtls2005 said:

Temperature check? Sheesh, nobody uses those things for eons.

 

 

 

 

The security guy at our office still checks the temp of everyone entering, every morning without fail, and enters details on a clipboard.. ????  Gives him a sense of purpose I suppose.

On 5/2/2022 at 1:11 PM, timendres said:

With China locked down and nearing economic pandemonium, Thailand should embrace a weaker Baht, and do its best to lock in as much export business as possible.

Hopefully, a lot of companies (and even whole manufacturing industries) will re-locate from the CCP's dystopian country and start self-sufficient businesses in their own yards.

Just returned to Thailand on the 1st (Sunday night), using the Thai Pass system. No problem Suvanabhumi end, apart from a queue at the desks, backing up to the escalators.

The Emirates desk jockey in UK wasn't clued up with the TP, and kept demanding to see our ASQ hotel booking, vax certs and insurance before issuing our tickets.. Had to call his supervisor to confirm the updated system, as they did not have a scanner to check the Thai Pass QR code. Hopefully, this has been updated asap since..

Might be useful to print out the docs required, or at least screen-shot everything you have on the phone before checking in, as finnicky apps like the Mor Phrom suddenly don't work when you really need to show them also.. ????

1 hour ago, SatEng said:

As I said, arrogant - thank you for proving my point

Would you like it if some Thais came to your country and played loud music all night right next door to you and then said that the local laws don't apply to them? Or drove around ignoring the traffic laws because they act like they are in Thailand

You would be complaining very soon

Um, I complain all the time anyway. ????  If you don't you never get anything.

Just got back from a month in the UK. -No masks, fear-mongering, virtue-signaling sanctimonious prats, etc. so you'll have to excuse me.

7 hours ago, SatEng said:

Walk around Pattaya any day and I have to say, unfortunately, the people not wearing masks are mostly westerners, or they have them around their wrists as they have to put them on to go into a shopping mall.

Regardless of whether it is the law or not, or your own ideology on mask-wearing, putting one on when outside looks polite. 

Not wearing one looks arrogant, is arrogant, and is why Thai people think westerners are arrogant

Arrogance < just better informed. Thais live in a superstitious world full of irrational fear of intangibles. Ghosts, spirits, rain, etc. ????  Actual / real threats like cancer, head trauma, dangerous driving, diabetes etc are totally ignored by a media and Govt fixated on creating fear and conformance. Thais still think the Omicron variant is akin to necrotizing Ebola, <deleted>.

Why would you care what they think? They don't, period.

15 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

Yes, cases lately are way down in the UK, which is a good thing. Unfortunately, a lot of people are still dying of COVID every day in the UK right now -- more than 200 per day lately...and about triple the current number in Thailand for countries of approx. the same population.

 

 

Yes, but these people (average age 80+) are mostly dying with Covid from complications attributed to basically old age. 

https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/freedomofinformationfoi/averageageofthosewhohaddiedwithcovid19

3 hours ago, lujanit said:

During Songkran it is the best time to be driving in BKK.

Yep. I remember driving up an empty Expressway years ago at Songkran. It was eerie, tbh. ???? Zombie Holocaust type scenario.

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BANGKOK (TNA) – Low immunity might cause Move Forward Party leader Pita Limjaroenrat to repeatedly contract COVID-19 in about one month

"In about one month".. Bizarre statement, and not a little sinister. Sounds like a threat, tbh.

On 3/24/2022 at 2:58 PM, AhFarangJa said:

Wholeheartedly agree, at present they are widening the road from our village to Prasart, totally unnecessary, and they are cutting down hundreds of trees, many of them decades old that provide shade and scenery. These will never be replaced, and as you say, what of the land they are taking from the villages. Someone, somewhere is making a massive kickback.

Look at who gets the timber concessions.

Anyway, who needs trees when you can have shiny "fancy lamps"?

25 minutes ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

They were all ruled by dictators or extremists. Ukraine is a fledgling democracy bordered by, guess what? Another dictatorship.

 

I'm sure the rest you can figure out for yourself. 

No. They were all deemed to be "dictators" and "extremists" as they wanted to trade oil (and other commodities) in other currencies than the USD, and not be controlled by debt. Yet, countries like Saudi Arabia, with horrendous human rights, and the very antithesis of any "democracy" is perfectly okay.

2 hours ago, Longreach said:

why do u need a bouncer at a 'restaurant'?

 

Probably leaning on the owner for "protection".

58 minutes ago, Credo said:

Wrong.  The majority of people get sick and that is why they get tested.

Nope. The Thai work force (especially contractors), school teachers, schoolchildren, etc have to be ATK-tested every week, (or every three days for the big corporations here).

It's "hot season" again in Thailand (and Hong Kong). Viruses and bacteria mutate every time there is a change of weather, temperature and humidity. Hence the spike in "cases".

3 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

 

 

 

 

Strangely enough it's been the hardcore leftists like Daniel Andrews, Trudeau, Sturgeon and Arderne who have shown the most fascistic undertones during this period.

All "Young Leaders" from the World Economic Forum.

1 hour ago, JonnyF said:

It's never going away. We have to live with it. We can't stay restricted forever, lots of old people die from Flu every year as well but nobody locks down. 

 

Time to move on and stop pumping the fear. The UK is setting a great example, I spoke to my sister and she said it's pretty much over there. Yesterday's news. Back to normal, no masks, everyone just going about their lives.

 

If you don't like Songkran that's fine, I get it - stay home. No need to restart all the fear peddling and calls for restrictions. 

The UK had to set an example, because it's Government, led by lying Boris got caught out flagrantly breaking all their own Covid rules and restrictions. The critical press caused a public backlash that forced Boris to then cancel those same restrictions. Makes you wonder if all those laws that could be instantly repealed for political reasons weren't just stupid and arbitrary in the first place.?

Still, that's what is achievable when you have a free(ish) press and independent media.

4 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

I can see why Thais follow the process but most farang won't bother to report test results due to the costs that will be pinned on them

I imagine a lot of people, foreign or Thai have had it already without realizing, due to mild or no symptoms.

The 3-day or weekly ATK testing requirements are mostly just there for people working here or schoolchildren.

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celebrities recounting their experience of having their narrow escapes and questioning why such an expensive resort did not have smoke detection, fire alarm or sprinkler system.

I bet they had an updated insurance policy though.

Ending of Covid restrictions started with Boris in the UK, basically because him and Cabinet of hypocrites got caught out flouting every rule they had imposed on the nation. So it was basically 'political' to end these restrictions, which begs a question; were they totally arbitrary in the first place?

And then you have Thailand's bunch of military cronies.. Hanging on to any little bit of power they can, because they lack the education, intelligence and vision to take the country forwards. Snouts too deep in the trough to see over it.

Fun fact (off topic slightly) : Discarded fishing nets are by far the biggest plastic polluter in the world's oceans.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/06/dumped-fishing-gear-is-biggest-plastic-polluter-in-ocean-finds-report