16 minutes ago, JamesPhuket10 said:

I assume you are referring to Covid and the mass wearing of masks was illogical?

 

Yes you ass-u-me  correctly,  wearing of the masks that  99.9%  of persons wore during the covidiocy was completely illogical  and they also did not stop brain injuries from motorcycle accidents.

 

P.S the  6 foot / 2 meter "social distancing" rule was also made up  arbitrarily. 

10 hours ago, LittleBear57 said:

Had to go to immigration recently. Looked at the beach at Jomtiem, loads of tourists sunbathing. Sky had what appeared to be brown grey clouds but were pollution. Not a chance of seeing koh larn. 200m max visibility. I wore a mask that day but I was pretty much alone in that. Tourists don't care or don't believe,  I guess.

Just back in the Uk for a week after 2 months in Jomtieen - have finally coughed up the last phlegm from that - worse year ever by far.

29 minutes ago, johng said:

wearing of the masks that  99.9%  of persons wore during the covidiocy was completely illogical  and they also did not stop brain injuries from motorcycle accidents.

Given that idiotic comparison I will assume you must have been in such an accident and wearing your mask instead of your helmet at the time!

50 minutes ago, JamesPhuket10 said:

let’s not forget—before COVID, masks were miraculously effective for preventing infections in hospitals. .........

 

.........But the moment they were recommended for the public, suddenly they became ‘useless’ overnight.  .......................

 

  .......   I bet surgeons only wear them for fashion. I mean, nothing says ‘style’ like a blue paper mask!  ................

That is what the person who posted above about MC helmets and masks must think!

They mix up surgeons wearing masks to STOP THEM spreading infections with them stopping the wearer from receiving infections.

We all agree that they are NOT 100% effective, an NP95 is much better but expensive etc,  but anything is better than nothing!

3 hours ago, scottiejohn said:

Given that idiotic comparison I will assume you must have been in such an accident and wearing your mask instead of your helmet at the time!

 

I've never worn a mask whilst driving  my car or riding my motorcycle that would be idiotic.

I did for a milisecond whilst riding my pedal cycle due to the  "stazi"  harassing me on their loudspeaker whilst I peddled past them..

I also to my "shame" wore them extremely begrudgingly in shopping malls  during the height of the covidiocy ...remember they even wanted people to wear face masks  during sex ??  now that really was  idiotic  don't you agree ???

 

And  again as we have "the experts" here perhaps  they can remind us of the case fatality rate of the SARS COVID19 virus ?

 

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9613797/

4 hours ago, johng said:

 

Yes you ass-u-me  correctly,  wearing of the masks that  99.9%  of persons wore during the covidiocy was completely illogical  and they also did not stop brain injuries from motorcycle accidents.

 

P.S the  6 foot / 2 meter "social distancing" rule was also made up  arbitrarily. 

🤣🤣🤣

5 hours ago, Stocky said:

It's fine down south

 

Until the floods.

16 hours ago, J Branche said:

 

 

Government needs to start by educating the kids in school on better methods to reduce pollution, the health impact and financial burden toll.  It needs to be a broad initiative and unfortunately the enormous task it would be to educate the current generation is probably to much.

 

 

But why does it always have to be the government?  Why can't one's self be a solution?  Pick up a trash here and there, make one's surroundings clean, and perhaps other neighbors will join until it spreads out.   Where I live, we all pick up trash the moment we see it.  

Before playing golf or tennis, I would suggest all farangs here make sure there is no trash in their streets.  Do that exercise of picking up trash and by the time you're done, you've sweat and guess what, your place is cleaner.  

Are there still a lot of 2 stroke motorcycles left in Thailand?  I think they were slowly being replaced by better four stroke motorcycles.  The two stroke engines just add to the poor air quality so much.  

1 minute ago, Hanuman2547 said:

Are there still a lot of 2 stroke motorcycles left in Thailand?  I think they were slowly being replaced by better four stroke motorcycles.  The two stroke engines just add to the poor air quality so much.  

No, 2-stroke motorbikes we're phased out in 1999 or 2000. Long gone.

Back then the air pollution was mainly due to trucks, buses, two stroke motorcycles, tuk tuks. Now it generally isn't, it is the burning of fields and crops. Take that burning away and the air here is infinitely better than it was in the late 90's.

23 hours ago, Robert_O said:

The first thing is to replace the oil-burning Tuk Tuk 2-stroke engines! They all burn oil because of their design. Get rid of Two-stroke machines and the air quality will improve in a year!

As far as I know the typical Bangkok TukTuks
-have a 4-stroke engine
-use natural gas (NGV)

And too be honest- they are noisy and embaressing, but they are NOT stinking! Especially because they run on gas. So every 125cc motorbike or Diesel-Pickup is much worse concerning PM 2.5 pollution

14 hours ago, Gecko said:

well, they give good advice, saying stay at home, don't do outdoor activities😆

yeah they said the same thing for the wuhan flu too

8 hours ago, Young Hick said:

But why does it always have to be the government?  Why can't one's self be a solution?  Pick up a trash here and there, make one's surroundings clean, and perhaps other neighbors will join until it spreads out.   Where I live, we all pick up trash the moment we see it.  

Before playing golf or tennis, I would suggest all farangs here make sure there is no trash in their streets.  Do that exercise of picking up trash and by the time you're done, you've sweat and guess what, your place is cleaner.  

Girlfriend and I do pickup trash. Everybody in our neighborhood knows us.  We are only ones weekly fighting to keep a small portion of the neighborhood clean.  She is Thai so I let her cut back the bamboo, plants, trees that intrude on the walking paths. (Not sure if it could be protected job)

 

Many people stop and say thank you.

 

Local government should understand the ROI that spending a little to keep the city clean returns.  More property buyers equals more tax money, more sales equals higher Condo/House prices which equal higher transfer tax amounts.

8 hours ago, Hanuman2547 said:

Are there still a lot of 2 stroke motorcycles left in Thailand?

 

Yes there are still quite a few    I have a couple.

 

But its nothing like when I first came to Thailand in 1996  then most bikes were 2 strokes, the noise ,smell and smoke  at the traffic lights when the light went green was astonishing !  especially in Bangkok .

 

I really don't think that  vehicle pollution is anywhere near as bad as it was in the past..what is much much worse IMHO is the  forest and field burning and probably dust from construction activities ?

12 hours ago, tomazbodner said:

Until the floods.

It's a tropical monsoon climate, so it goes with the territory. Traditional rural houses are built on stilts, towns and cities rely on flood defences. Thankfully Hat Yai's did their job last year and the city didn't flood, just some suburbs, our's included though not high enough to enter our house.

 

Air quality no so good today.

 

12 hours ago, Young Hick said:

But why does it always have to be the government?  Why can't one's self be a solution?  Pick up a trash here and there, make one's surroundings clean, and perhaps other neighbors will join until it spreads out.   Where I live, we all pick up trash the moment we see it.  

Before playing golf or tennis, I would suggest all farangs here make sure there is no trash in their streets.  Do that exercise of picking up trash and by the time you're done, you've sweat and guess what, your place is cleaner.  

I live walking distance from a beautiful Andaman beach, without any tourists, and always bring a garbage bag with me. The locals are all smiling and waving to the farang ba. Some of the children help me when they see me. 1 bag a time, is a drop in the ocean, but it makes me feel good.

'Timely government interventions'.  5555555555555   That'll be the day.

 Thailand claims this is a safe destination for everyone.  Pish, Posh crap.  The powers that be are killing citizens, young and old, prematurely. It's disgusting. 

I can say this in my filtered 2.5 condo with the doors and windows closed, sitting very comfortably in AC. 

 

I breathe clean air 95 percent of the time.  

On 2/18/2025 at 4:33 AM, Robert_O said:

The first thing is to replace the oil-burning Tuk Tuk 2-stroke engines! They all burn oil because of their design. Get rid of Two-stroke machines and the air quality will improve in a year!

 

Pish Posh. You believe this. Amazing. 

On 2/18/2025 at 10:31 PM, KireB said:

I live walking distance from a beautiful Andaman beach, without any tourists, and always bring a garbage bag with me. The locals are all smiling and waving to the farang ba. Some of the children help me when they see me. 1 bag a time, is a drop in the ocean, but it makes me feel good.

Show them the way brother!