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or carry vinegar with you... LOL

thank you I learned something, I did not know that salt will remove leech. I knew about vinegar but who would carry vinegar for the hike ?

Perhaps finally we will get decent timed and reasonably fast connection from Bangkok to Pattaya as now 6.30 am train is not all that convenient. At least two times I was planning to use it just for fun but who and his boy would wake up that early?

thank you for those ideas, heat may be the problem to box of tissues to wipe a sweat may be necessary

but nice bulge where it should be here's another one from dream travel series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv_TSdIXbUE

still possible Christmas Travel 2020.mp4

it's one thing to open country but before we jump on the plane we need to make sure under what condition our own country will let us to return. But it's one more sign that things are moving in the right direction, Hope Thailand will follow

That Ivermectin story is brilliant,

since when one need to attend party to get drunk? Can't just 4 or 7 friends get together and empty some bottles ?

how do we know? Not that I don't agree or see merit in such gloomy statement but, specially 2nd part ( my underscore ), may or may not prove to be accurate. Material devastation may take longer to repair but one of immaterial nature like pandemic effect may be repaired surprisingly fast.

thank God no loss of life is reported and good news to all those roadside fishermen catching awesome fish specimens as shown in quoted article and also on YouTube clip somebody posted yesterday

and this is question answer to many workers world over are pondering during pandemic not restricted to sex workers. I see people settling in new jobs, deciding to retire, going back to school and making all kinds of decision forced by the situation they found themselves in during pandemic so situation of sex workers in by no means unique although it may be much harsh because , as you noted above, their limited shelf life. As for what happens to the scene anybody's guess is as good as next person. All scenarios are possible from most of venues closing permanently for lack of funds or /and personnel all the way to rebound happening much faster than anybody expects since bringing bar back to life requires dusting of spider webs, mopping floor and making several phone calls to former staff. We can only speculate but in fact nobody knows , even people in the business. My guess is that it will be mix of those extremities, some venues will go back to life very fast and many of others breathed their last already without even knowing it. So for first several months we will have less choices in more crowded places. The same will probably happen to us - some will return as soon as it will be possible, others will take 'wait and see" approach resulting in coming later on or abandoning idea of travel to Thailand at all because they find other interesting places or even that life without travel is quite bearable.

YouTube here's link to episode 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4omYc8zMtvY

sun rises and sets the same like everywhere, if Thai people eat so wayward tourist will find something to eat. Unobstructed view toward Wat Arun and lack of crowds in Grand Palace may be an attraction itself. For me only deterrent are entry requirements , not what's may be on the ground there. But world is slowly coming to senses , so will Thailand one day

that seem to be a problem in many places, powers are either too afraid to ease up or too easy going to dismiss any threat.

At least they identified obstacles correctly, first step in right direction

7 project I watched episode 2 today and liked it better than first. Not BL in this episode but few familiar faces from other BL series (Yaht, Earth, Sammy)

shortly we will have saying ' you can take ladyboy out of bakery but you can't take bakery out of ladyboy"

sure , we can't even reliably predict when we will be able to go to Thailand again, not to mention more monumental questions about the future

as we learned recently whether country is 1st or 3rd world power, often can't stamp it's will long term on backward and undeveloped country s there's hope for minnows

Always did. World in 1900 and in 1945 was completely different and the same when we compare one in 1990 with that in 1945

perhaps that's the goal - learn to live with contained covid as attempts at "zero covid" policies seem to be just pipe dream. My sister lives in a country with slightly above half of population vaccinated and that along with other standard measures was enough to bring infection rate down exponentially ( about 100 times in 5 months ). Warnings about fourth wave from mid-Aug so far did not materialize that much either. Perhaps THAT virus requires less than standard 70% for herd immunity? just saying as I'm not neither very interested in medical stuff nor qualified to say much ( although being built by qualified staff did not prevent Titanic from sinking ) .

perhaps it's the same mechanism which makes us missing our school years, we forgot tons of homework, bad marks, failed tests and nasty teachers but good stuff lingers on in our memory.

Good point !