[Expats in Thailand to receive COVID-19 vaccinations free of charge]

1 minute ago, jomtienisgood said:

Is that stamped in your Passport??

Interesting.......  Immigrant from where i wonder ?   Nothing nasty in the question, just interested as the flag of St Andrew and the flag of Thailand is a strange mix....... Not too many Scots would do that .... 

[Expats in Thailand to receive COVID-19 vaccinations free of charge]

Free ?   You don't even get pox free here.......... As the Brass said.........       

 

"I didn't give you a dose, you paid for it ".........   

[Expats in Thailand to receive COVID-19 vaccinations free of charge]

1 minute ago, Neeranam said:

Leith, Edinburgh ???? 

As i said, a foreigner........  ????      Not quite as foreign as my family though........ Thurso..... 

[Expats in Thailand to receive COVID-19 vaccinations free of charge]

19 hours ago, Neeranam said:

Good on you Thailand. 

I was tired if reading all the Thai bashing paranoid foreigners' posts. 

Foreigners posts ?   And which part of India are you from ?  

[CCSA confirms closure of entertainment venues in 41 provinces from Saturday]

1 hour ago, scaldedfummy said:

Been hearing spike of cases everywhere, some places in Asia, too. We're in this for a long time I think. Maybe 2 to 3 years more?

Sadly this could carry on for years, everytime someone coughs the whole shibang will be closed down........  Fear's contagious and the figures being touted around at the moment have got most of the population hiding under their beds shaking with fear.....     You'd think the SS was banging on peoples doors.........  Rampant hysteria........ completely out of control and no one to stand up and give strength and guidance.....       

[7 Dangerous Days: Day 4 - 29 killed, 392 people injured on Thailand’s roads]

Well, after reading all the posts on TVF concerning C19 and sensing the fear obviously present in some posts, i've come to the conclusion that Twain had it right..........

 

It's going to be hard to convince a lot of people that they've been lied to........   

 

 

[Government Will Not Impose Nationwide Lockdown]

Ha ha........  I've got to stop reading all this fear talk on TVF, i'm getting a yellow streak down my back......   more infectious than C19........   Don't forget.......

[Phuket’s plan to re-open to foreign tourists on 1 July could be delayed]

It's quite revealing listening to individuals who are scared senseless by something they've had no close contact with, it reminds me of a girl i once met who was scared to go to sleep because she thought she would die.......  She was a coffee sellers dream...........    It's all getting a bit weird, a bit like buying life insurance before entering a battlefield........    Can you imagine all this flip flopping going on for the next few years ?    Dear me........... Enough to drive you to Chang !  

[Phuket’s plan to re-open to foreign tourists on 1 July could be delayed]

11 hours ago, orchis said:

yes they should hire the Thaivisa experts.

Not such a joke as you'd think........ Do you think this site is not read by the powers that be...... ?   They'd do themselves a favour if they took some advice off TVF, some of it makes sense.........  I once needed to land a letter on a certain desk that there was no chance of doing it normally........ TVF, better than the Royal Mail...... Bang, problem solved......  10,000 views in three days and one of them was the desk required....... Ways to skin a cat come to mind........

[Phuket’s plan to re-open to foreign tourists on 1 July could be delayed]

6 hours ago, heybuz said:

Total cases 4.21M 4,210,000

Recovered 3.64M 3,640,000

Deaths 35,608

 turkey covid stats.

Oooooh, i better get under the bed !     

[Phuket’s plan to re-open to foreign tourists on 1 July could be delayed]

16 hours ago, soalbundy said:

For 2.5% it was deadly, especially if they had underlying concerns; for most it was a bad case of flu; for others they didn't even know they had it, let's not make a mountain from a mole hill.

I'm finding that for a lot of individuals it's an excuse to justify their irrational fear of something most of them have had no close contact with.....   Scared witless by social media.......   

 

SCARED..........

[Sales of illegal sex toys is big business in Thailand: report]

I'm a bit reluctant to let this one out of the bag as we'll all be reduced to buying toilet paper if the gestapo get wind of it, but my ex used to swear by a liberal lashing of the chap in the boat with the bum gun.......... Swore by it........     I always wondered why the water bill was so high ....... 

[Sales of illegal sex toys is big business in Thailand: report]

Honestly, you couldn't make this garbage up....... What's next a Seal raid on the grannies playing pontoon as it could pose a threat to national security ?       Just when you thought you'd seen it all..... 

[Phuket’s plan to re-open to foreign tourists on 1 July could be delayed]

Desperation........ Give it another six months and you'll be able to buy Phuket for twenty quid.......    I would of thought they'd of figured out by now how much money you could make on testing everyone coming into Thailand, minimum quarantine just like Indonesia and Bobs your uncle, in to spend and enjoy...... This fiasco could go on for another two years easily, every time someone coughs then whole place is shut down.......   Glad i'm in Istanbul, all the bars and restaurants are open and the little flowers over here could match anything in Thailand.......      What a sad farcical situation that's been generated day by day.....       97 dead and willing to sacrifice the stability of the whole country, just shows you how contagious fear can be........  LMF........... 

[Tough COVID Measures Will Revive Tourism]

Yeah right, and drilling holes in a rowing boat wil make it float better.........   Hasn't anyone realized yet that basically what's happening is that the government is applying the same policy with C19 as they did with Mr Red Bull........ If we don't do anything and keep waffling on about it, everyone will just get bored and forget about it and carry on.........  Every major problem in Thailand has been dealt with in this same manner........ Just forget about it, it'll go away........   " Kit maak, mei dee naa "...... 

[Thailand's sex trade: A million women in it and it's bigger than the drug trade, says Chuwit]

Just now, Excel said:

And you know who owns Poseidon ?

Let me guess..... The Bulldozer man or the boys with the shiny buttons ?  

[Thailand's sex trade: A million women in it and it's bigger than the drug trade, says Chuwit]

I live in Huay Kwang Soi Ratchada, a stones throw off one of the most famous pleasure palaces in Bkk,  Poseidon, situated on the street of a thousand brothels, all of them mostly cater for Thais.......   And by the way, none of them sell broth........ 

[Thai govt considers allowing foreigners to more easily buy/own property]

49 minutes ago, SupermarineS6B said:

Izzy Friedman......... look him up......  There was also a bar full in the Madrid bar in Pat Pong, the spooks that ran SE Asia.......... You learn something every day eh .......... That's if you've been here longer than five minutes though..... 

Update........ It appears he was even in Pattaya, amongst the bar fly heroes and Brigade of SAS.......

 

Air Force pilot, Izzy Freedman, talks about going to Vietnam in 1963 as an advisor when only 12,000 troops were there. He recounts the work he did flying rescues out of Laos and Cambodia. When he left the Air Force he was hired by Air American and flew missions during the Vietnam conflict. Recorded in Pattaya, Thailand, in February 2014 as part of California Reads, War Comes Home, a program of Cal Humanities       Gerry Berry was the last off the CIA building but i'm sure Freedman was in the vicinity.......   

 

[BREAKING: Thai government set to announce more restrictions nationwide]

19 minutes ago, NanLaew said:

Yeah right.

How many confirmed dead again ?      Not even three days road traffic...... 

[Thai govt considers allowing foreigners to more easily buy/own property]

1 hour ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

I wonder how many old guys nursing a drink in a Sukhumvit bar were the pilot who flew the last chopper off the roof of the American embassy in ''Nam"? ????????????????

Izzy Friedman......... look him up......  There was also a bar full in the Madrid bar in Pat Pong, the spooks that ran SE Asia.......... You learn something every day eh .......... That's if you've been here longer than five minutes though..... 

[Thailand's sex trade: A million women in it and it's bigger than the drug trade, says Chuwit]

And this is coming from a man who bulldozed down Thai peoples businesses in the middle of the night..........    Oh yes........   This fellah's up there with the best of them........   

[Government Will Not Impose Nationwide Lockdown]

5 minutes ago, bermondburi said:

I don't make the rules. If you don't like it, you should leave Thailand immediately.

Boring........ worn out ....... not even the Thais are saying that anymore...... 

[Government Will Not Impose Nationwide Lockdown]

3 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:

 

I am not scared of facing Covid, we are all going to the same place in the end. I do not stay in, I do as told, wear a mask, social distance and wash hands regularly when out, and when out, I could be hit by a bus. These "experimental vaccines" are not 100%, no vaccines are, but vaccines that have been around are proven to be affective, these are not classified as vaccines, they are still in their experimental stages, and will continue to be until 2022-2023-2024 and then if the FDA deems the data is good will move them up a category to be vaccines.

 

The risk to me, is a risk that I cannot take for my families sake, "experimental vaccines" carry a risk, Covid is a risk, I see risks different to you, in other words, high/low, they are all risks, stock markets have a risk, but with your life, no thanks, what I am saying is there is no liability against anyone who produces it, sells it, administers it, now to me that's like playing Russian Roulette, e.g. take your chances, I won't follow everyone else, it's up to the individual to weigh up the risks and how they perceive it, one size doesn't fit all.

 

I remember when they were reporting people dying of these "experimental vaccines" and they were all saying, it's not the vaccines, they would have died anyway, they were old, it was a coincidence, well yeh sure right, then they started dropping like flies much younger, healthy doctors, nurses in the front line and others, and they kept saying, it's a coincidence, or they had some underlying conditions that we couldn't know about, but then someone brave enough came out and said hang on a second, blood clotting is being caused from these "experimental vaccines" and then we have those like yourself that goes on the defensive when someone thinks outside the square and doesn't go the way they want us too.

 

Give me a break, you want the "experimental vaccine" got get it, for me, like I said, I will look for alternatives until I am convinced that these "experimental vaccines" are safe enough for me to say jab me, until then, not a part of it, oh and don't worry about me infecting you, because even if you have the jab, you can still be infected, like me without the jab, the severity of the infection will depend on your immune system which can also be a risk, but I have one and if it comes to it being tested without the vaccine, well, that was my decision not to get an "experimental vaccine" at this point in time.

 

Trust is something I don't have when others are telling me it is the right thing to do when it comes to my life, suffice to say, I will stay in control of that for as long as I can thank you very much, I am no hero, I'm special ????

 

100 %..........  After all these years abroad with all kinds of nastiness lurking around every corner i'm in the same boat....... Last time i was in Afrika i saw a man die of cerebral Malaria....... three days,    Brown bread !   I'll take my chances with C19 thanks......     As for experimental vaccines........ I'm no guinea pig..... 

[BREAKING: Thai government set to announce more restrictions nationwide]

1 minute ago, NanLaew said:

Some people don't get it. They think traffic accident and seasonal influenza fatality statistics are comparable.

All death's are comparable..... Look up the figures for malria, dengue, TB and Aids, then you'll see a comparable death rate........  C19 is small potatoes in Thailand......   

[Government Will Not Impose Nationwide Lockdown]

This is why i've always loved Thailand.........  An old friend of mine descibed it once as vibrancy.......  I call it another thing......   It's the equivalent of discussing quantum mass theory with your girlfriend......   Don't expect too many answers......