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too good looking to be wasted in restaurant

there are politics and economics involved In some places treating covid patients may be more lucrative for doctors and hospitals no numbers may be inflated. Some governments may be doing the same to keep population cowed and scared. Other may treat is as matter of national pride and both cases and deaths may go under reported. Those are not conspiracy theories. Where I live, for a while ( it's leveled now ) your unemployment benefit was higher and waiting period waived if you applied because losing job for Covid than for other reasons like shortage of work. Honor reporting system worked only to some extend it seems as it looks government started looking into it.

You are obviously right. I used word ' impossible ' not to reflect on Thailand situation but rather to underscore point that what we see unlikely today may become reality another day. Even best performing economy may suddenly restrict access to money for example due to co-oordinated hackers attack on banking system or even more simply - because sudden lack of electricity which few summers ago good chunk of Eastern USA and Canada learned when grid collapsed due to some malfunction

I'd say rather ' people with income". A lot of retirees would become all of the sudden in favor of opening when it was announced that due to covid foreign money transfers are suspended . ( I know it's impossible, one year ago having Swampy empty for 6 months in row seemed impossible too )

this comment from an article drew my attention : "As Mr. Ud told Associated Reporters “What good is it that I am safe from this virus that about 99% of people survive if I cannot eat and have no home and no way to take care of my family?”

good sign , it means life is coming back to normal. Bangkok without traffic gridlock is like church without God

it looks that as pandemic progresses we know more and at the same time less about virus behavior and dangers. but since there's progress in works on vaccines days when we will have less vital but more interesting discussions about bars and boys are near

that 410 000 is predicted total or on top of what normal rate of death is ? Honest question Alarmed by virus menace we tend to forget that people are dying daily for various reasons and at this time unfortunately many because they can't obtain timely care since most resources are going to combat Covid.

what we need it for some people in charge to see what you presented and act on it instead of keeping big chunks of populaces idle, fed by scary narratives . ( by the way I wonder what that negative 200 death around May 18 means? certainly not resurrections )

While this is correct, I'm afraid that those days we can find some specialists supporting any theory or hypothesis. When we move to a stage ' most specialists are now saying....." then we will know we know something.

you got that right but if that is what people want , so be it. The same with Thais panicking about first case in 100 days and volunteering themselves to choke economy. But at least toilet paper buying panic , worldwide phenomena 6 months ago seems to be forgotten.

or until riots force them to and then it will become really dangerous

some people have all luck in life

hope opening borders and starting flights will be next step so we can join Thai's collective sigh of relief in their country

ask Michael to change August to September in the tittle

I guess there would be takers

test yes, insurance cost I can swallow but quarantine ?, Thailand can forget about me

CONGRATULATIONS , You achieved 100O ' likes ' !

I agree, can't argue with that

His name was Ivan, apparently he was just performer not available for an offs and he is long gone

you will see it perhaps but I will not, age has it's disadvantages

I was about to

and when we multiply that 130 000 figure by planeloads arriving at Swampy every few minutes , only then devastation to Thai economy becomes more pronounced.

kayaking from ship playing Malacca Strait and landing on some secluded beach just before dawn

which makes sense, Bangkok is big city with big client base in any circumstances even if deprived foreign whorers. Pattaya depends of tourists and to a great degree on foreign ones which are now almost extinct species so engagements may be much harder to come by. Ice cream sellers are rarely busy in Alaska in February.