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Lets see, ive not yet born 40 years ago but anyway. Blue boy closes already since the lockdown. So is gtower divine bliss. Anyway, during current lockdown, all bars are closed anyway and i dont go to bars here so i cant provide anymore detail. But i do see some MB (money boys) that goes to zouk bar before covid. Pre-lockdown, sauna also still very active, but covid did brings down some sauna that i heard were permenantly closed. Not sure if we will see they open up again post covid. Massage precovid was open albeit on the down low. Some continue to open during covid time but recently several centers were raided. The raids are mainly focused on licensing, breach of Covid restriction and immigration, but the media of course capitalize the fact that the center serve gay clients. Pictures of masseurs (blurred faces) were publish in FB, and comments on the post is not something i wish to read. Nevertheless, if i want a massage, there are still options available. MB were active in grindr pre-covid, with healthy streams of indonesian MBs that comes using the visa free option and stay here 2-3 weeks at a time. There are also those from thailand, nepal, myanmar MBs too, mostly from those who uses to work in different area and change profession. Some are also holder of UNCHR. Occassionally we have western MBs/rentmen visiting. Covid time, this has significantly reduced. Hope itll return back to normalcy next year. Politcally, i dont see any changes soon. We have activists but they are hiding behind HIV/STI causes, rather than specifically for Gay. In social media, those transgender ones are the one being subjected to attack or ridicule since they are accused of not respecting the religion beliefs. One famous case recently is Sajat, an enterpreneur who is in hiding now after failing to attend her court day where she was charged of insulting the religion for dressing like a women in a religious event she sponsor. But she is an influencer and a damn good entepreneur, and people are buying her products despite of this. There are few more of these. We have siti kasim, a lawyer who always support lgbt+ right, safiey illias, another transgender influencer. Anyway, other than these few cases, if it happens in private, no one cares, not even the gov. While there is laws in about sodomy inherited from the old colonial law, it is not enforced. But we have a separate religious court and only applicable to muslim. So gays from other religion here dont really have any legal issues being gay here, other than the bully and discriminationa from their close community/relatives/friends

Only reason i can think of is the one who make the list really like that #17 or really hate #18 lol

Are we denying the fact that there is man boobs and flat chested female? Lol

You have something on your lips

I think theyll be opening as long as they reach 70%. I guess farang will be in the 30% who will have to wait for the vaccine.

I do know that in chinese/korean royal system, there are eunuch system, basically men who were castrated, serving the king. Not sure about thai though. But they still behave and potray a man role, even married to woman in some of the stories ive watched haha.

Does private hospital in bangkok taking covid patient?

Wait, US is not a democracy?

Fomo = fear of missing out

To simplify things, do u mean thai culture accepting trans but not gay? Man-kathoey relationship is accepted as long as the kathoey is adopt a women lifestyle and traits, aka trans?.

Where in this world u dont find homophobic of some sort? As long as its different that what they think is normal, these bully will discriminate and condemn. Some countries have laws against this but doesnt stop it from happenning though. While the system or rules helps a bit, tolerance is hugely individuals.

The 5 criteria listed above, will one of the criteria enough to trigger closure or all 5?

It couldve goes the other way around too, meaning one dose doesnt gives protection and cases goes up since people let their guard down, so much so that instead of giving some protection to many, they give not enough protection to most. And instead, they might need to give those who delayed their second dose additional boosters. But yeah, we all glad it goes well and now many countries follow suit to address the supply shortage

I want to clean the refrigerator after. Dunno where i read this before but its the literal translation of the word thai use for rimming lol

I recalled UK was heavily criticized when they decided to vaccinate majority of the people with one dose first, against the AZ trial 2nd dose at 3 weeks. Turns out the efficacy is better at 12 weeks, and many countries now follow suit. And whats more important is one dose of AZ also gave a very reasonable protection at above 70%. I think other countries are delaying 2nd dose of diff type of vaccines too but too lazy to research. At least one of my friend in a diff country are getting his 2nd dose date nuch later than the recommended 3 weeks for pfizer.

In addition, the Phuket sandbox tourism model could be paused on short notice if infections spike to 90 cases per week. Lol This alone is enough to make me not book anything yet.

Thanks. I guess i need to get it in writing that my insurance does cover covid. It does have worldwide coverage as long as im not staying more than 90 consecutive days overseas, and the company also have thailand presence.

So one must take the insurance with the thai gov? Most insurance here already include covid-19 as part of coverage, so if your annual limit is above usd100k, it fits the criteria.

Looks like no requirement for covid insurance?

When the picking is slim, ill be very flexible. But when im spoil with choices, like when im in bangkok, ive never regretted my decision to pick my ideal hunks lol. My tolerance of bullshit does increases when the guy is super hot lol But yes, i agree, the one that is not so popular tend to gives you better experience as they believe they need to work harder?

Sounds about right. And Dubai airport have one terminal dedicated to A380s flight, and business/firstclass passengers can board to the upper floor of the airplace straight from the lounge.

Is phuket sandbox also include 3 days isolation in hotel? Why are they keep adding restriction?

You are right, i wont be rushing to buy an annuity once retired. While the certainty of monthtly spending seems logical, all i need is to be discipline with my spending, and i believe i dont have such issue on this. And yes, 60 might not be the retirement age by the time i reach there. There have been multiple attempt to extend the current withdrawal at 55 to 60. When we change the retirement age from 55 to 60, employees in my company were given a choice, to continue working or keep their retirement at 55, and receive some compensation. There has been talks to extend it further than 60 as well though not much has been done yet. Uts a suggestion by world bank, who proposed gradual transition to age 65 for withdrawal. Currently, those who continue to work pass 55, will still contribute to the fund at a reduced 4% rate.

I for one will not have annuity or pension as over here, only goverment workers have such benefit. My father received around 40% of his last paycheck monthly as his pension so its pretty good pension scheme for government worker here and of course free healthcare at goverment facilities as well. For me working in private sector, we contribute to a retirement fund. 11% of your salary, and employers will contribute a minimum of 12%. Some company increases this amount further up to 19% as part of employee benefits. The fund has a minimum dividen of 2.5% to offset inflation but has been giving us around 5% dividen annually. The fund is accessible for a number of reasons prior to retirement such as buying a house, medical spending, education etc. Our gov has allowed special withdrawals of this fund during covid period for affected workers. On retirement (at 55 although retirement age has been revised to 60 for most of us), we can either take it out lump sum, or choose to do a monthly witdrawal of our desired amount. Im still undecided if i were to do the monthly withdrawal or take it out and put it somewhere else. Of course this alone wont be enough for most people, so one still need to have own savings and investment to supplement this.

Cant say im surprised.