This seems like a demonstration of just how toxic smoking is!
This seems like a demonstration of just how toxic smoking is!
Yes smoking....and injecting yourself with bleach....all good!
Surfcrest
BenCH (May 2nd, 2020)
Most everybody breaks the law but are not caught or prosecuted. There are few law abiding citizens.Originally Posted by latintopxxx
I think Latin is referring to the drug dealers, rapists, murderers, money launderers, muggers and robbers who make up the majority of prison populations. I don't think he's talking about the speed limit breakers, prostitute hirers, literers and non helmet wearing motorcyclists Francois.
There are quite a few Thais for whom a particular poster "doesn't give a shit" and they include decent young men from usually impoverished backgrounds who are trying to earn an honest living entertaining us. Sadly, occasionally they have the misfortune to meet-up with a falang for whom they are worthless individuals , ripe for screwing in every sense of the word.
I wouldn't expect him to "give a shit" about offenders whom humane societies send to prison as (rather than "for") punishment, preferring the Victorian view of Charles Dickens in the character of Joe Gargery in "Great Expectations" to run-away prisoner Magwitch... a paraphrase." You are welcome to our food . We don't know what it is you have done but we wouldn't want you to starve because of it, would we Pip."
...oh stop beating that tired old socialist drum...as if Thais are a naive sheltered lot...they practically invented sex...the craziest live fuck shows I've seen have been in Thailand...have u ever visited Thai porn sites???...kinda arrogant to think that u the all knowing westerner r in a position to teach them...lol...
Today, I highlight one report from the Bangkok Post, an article from The Times from April 29, 2020 with the results of a YouGov survey in the UK. Do you find them surprising? An updated selected extract from the worldometer website, one report from The Guardian of April 30, 2020 and an article from The Sunday Times of April 26, 2020:
For the full report see: https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand...s-cases-sundayThailand reports 3 new coronavirus cases Sunday
published : 3 May 2020 at 12:21
updated: 3 May 2020 at 13:42
writer: Reuters
Thailand reported three new coronavirus cases and no new deaths on Sunday, as the country started lifting restrictions on some businesses and aspects of life.
The new infections marked the lowest number since early March, just before the country started reporting clusters and tolls started rising.
Thailand has seen a total of 2,969 coronavirus cases and 54 deaths since the outbreak began in January . . .
Below are the survey results from The Times, do they correspond with your views?
For the full report see: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/p...hows-55f620fz7Public against swift coronavirus reopening, poll shows
Francis Elliott, Political Editor
Wednesday April 29 2020, 12.01am, The Times
Public caution over easing the coronavirus lockdown is underlined by a poll which indicates that more than a quarter of people do not want any restrictions lifted even if the government concludes it is safe.
Boris Johnson is expected to give details this week of progress against the five tests he has set before the government starts “refining” social-distancing measures. The most demanding is the need to avoid a second wave of infection that would overwhelm the NHS.
Mr Johnson will not set out specific measures under consideration until shortly before a May 7 deadline for parliamentary approval for the lockdown to continue.
Among measures being lined up for the first wave of adjustments are increasing the number of shops to open, allowing households to combine and restarting some sports.
A YouGov survey for The Times found that 28 per cent of people do not want any aspect of the lockdown eased even if all five tests have been met. Other options attract modest support: 22 per cent want more shops open and only 11 per cent want schools to be reopened. Only 4 per cent want the lockdown lifted entirely, according to the survey . . .
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https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
Having just updated the above table from worldometer, it is worth considering the value of comparing death rates with other countries and this is exactly what is discussed in the following article by Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter in The Guardian of April 30, 2020, which some members may have missed:
For the full article see: https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...ther-countriesCoronavirus deaths: how does Britain compare with other countries?
David Spiegelhalter
It’s tempting to try to construct a league table, but we’ll have to wait months, if not years, for the true picture
Thu 30 Apr 2020 14.56 BST Last modified on Sat 2 May 2020 10.30 BST
At prime minister’s questions on Wednesday, Keir Starmer said he had added up a total of 27,241 coronavirus deaths so far, leaving the UK “possibly on track to have the worst death rate in Europe”.
Is he right? Unfortunately, measuring the impact of the virus is a fiendishly complex task. It’s nothing like keeping score in a game. Starmer, as a lawyer, would know that we have to define our terms carefully. And so, assuming we want to make a comparison based on death rates, we first need to decide what a death rate is.
You would think it would be easy for a bean-counting statistician to count deaths – the one certain thing (apart from taxes). But it is remarkably difficult. I have stopped taking much notice of the number given out at the daily press conferences, as it is only based on reports from hospitals, oscillates wildly around weekends, and recently included deaths that occurred a month ago. And this week the number of UK deaths jumped up by nearly 5,000 to 26,097 in one day – rather close to Starmer’s count – by retrospectively including non-hospital deaths that had tested positive for the virus . . .
Also looking at the above table, over the last few weeks I found myself wondering why Vietnam was showing such a significant difference in Covid-19 infections and deaths compared with the UK despite having a greater population. The following article from The Sunday Times of April 26, 2020 offers an explanation:
For the full report see: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/Coronavirus: turn the second wave into a ripple and we may stay afloat
As countries that locked down more quickly than Britain start to ease curbs against Covid 19, the danger of a new flood of infections increases
Tony Allen-Mills and Andrew Gregory
Sunday April 26 2020, 12.01am, The Sunday Times
The mobile phones of millions of Vietnamese users of a messaging app named Zalo started buzzing this month with an urgent alert from the ministry of health in Hanoi. Anyone who had visited the Lucky Star gym in the Me Linh district of Hanoi between 6.30am and 8am during a 10-day period in March was instructed to self-isolate immediately and to contact their local authorities.
The recipients of the message knew exactly what it meant: someone who had been using the gym had tested positive for the coronavirus. The government embarked on a nationwide effort to trace that person’s every contact during the period he or she would have been likely to infect others.
If it seems barely credible that a national health service in a country of 97 million people should be able to focus its resources on the gym-going habits of a single citizen, that is exactly what Vietnam has been doing on a near-daily basis for much of the past three months. Television bulletins feature warnings about the potentially infectious activities of individual coronavirus patients. Recent video clips posted on YouTube discussed the travel records of patient No 237 and, soon afterwards, No 243.
In Britain, lockdown measures were introduced in late March after 8,000 cases had been confirmed. It took only eight cases to spur Hanoi into action in late January. Vietnam had suffered through several previous epidemics that crossed its northern border from China. It had learnt to take no chances . . .
Remember: Coughs and sneezes spread diseases
And once again, to lighten the mood, I repost an image first posted on facebook:
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Remember: Coughs and sneezes spread diseases
christianpfc (May 3rd, 2020)
So as being discussed above re Vietnam and the UK / Thailand not perhaps using the same intense efforts re the tracing of individuals on a Country wide basis etc just so much, so DOES anyone know why is there is SUCH a difference in the UK Covid death rate ( 26000 and counting) compared to Thailand (54 - and counting ?) - its such a massive gap between those two numbers, anyone care to speculate why ?
One obvious answer of course could be a lack of reporting / telling the truth from the Thai authorities ( as if they'd do THAT even! ) but with SUCH a large numerical difference it's hard to believe even they could manipulate the numbers in such a fashion?
My Thai friends are almost gloating at that fact and are scarily starting to think that is was "never such a big deal as it was made out to be' and " no need for everyone to lose job" and that "Thai people stronger, can survive everything better than farang" - and the trouble is with just 54 deaths Country wide there it's actually hard to argue the point with them other than saying "let's hope you're right" and they haven't still worse to come ?
goji (May 3rd, 2020)
Perhaps it's the spicy food.*
* Slightly tongue in cheek but an enzyme in pineapple 'kills' gelatin so you can't make a pineapple jelly. However, if you add chilli then that kills the enzyme and the jelly will set.
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