Death of the last Thai Viceroy
Girls, boys, keep the chatter and jib-jab down please. It's Monday yet again.
BANGKOK SOS - SAME OLD STORY
The 'Sixth Wave' of Covid is on the way, and there will be 'tens of thousand of new infections' every day, starting next month.
 As Thailand gradually recovers from Lockdown Fever, the spread of the newly emerged BA.5 Omicron subvariant of the coronavirus has put Bangkok back on high alert.
 The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA, City Hall) and the new Bangkok governor say they are ready to cope with yet another wave of the Covid.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2352909/
THAILAND POLITICS
The aftershocks rumble on...
https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40018087
WHO declares monkeypox a global emergency
Yes, well good for the World Health Organization (WHO?)
The only glitch in this panic is that Thailand and neigbours have no surge of monkeypox cases and no polio whatsoever.
otoh The SARS Cov-2 novel coronavirus is with us and not leaving.
THAILAND CORONAVIRUS
There is just no good news from Thailand about the coronavirus.
During the 24 hours of Sunday, health officials reported
 2,390 confirmed new infections
 30 additional deaths
 24,702 active cases
 874 serious cases
2,358 recovered
Try to learn something new every day.
 -- My mother
Well today I learned something quite very new. Thailand had a third royal family.
"Had", because the last member of the 'Viceroy line' has just died, aged 100 and a half.
His Serene Highness Prince Bhisadej Rajani was the grandson of the last Viceroy of Siam, Prince Bovorn Vichaicharn.
He had a life of amazing exploits. He was a spy for the British in World War Two, and then was an original member of Thai Serei - Free Thai Movement.
His older sister and hugely popular princess was Vibhavadi Rangsit. Yes, the name of the north-south highway running past Don Mueang airport,
More Background at the Facebook page of Royal World Thailand:
https://tinyurl.com/33y6ja7j
PHOTO: Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun and Queen Suthida Bajrasudhabimalalakshana (behind chair on right) began the 7-day funeral rites  for Prince Bhisadej Rajani at Wat Benchamabophit, aka the Marble Temple.
THAILAND POLITICS
The morning paper has a truly excellent summary-roundup of the state of Thai politics, written by the experienced old-hand (and former Bangkok Post editor) Veera Prateepchaikul.
The headline:
100,000-baht bribes are a hot topic in parliament
The 'Group of 16' opposition mercenaries whose loyalty depends on which paymasters are offering them the most remuneration.
NOTE: It's not a new development that a Thai government and rich political parties are handing out the white envelopes. But this round of grifting is blatant.
PHOTO: The convicted heroin trafficker and would-be prime minister Thamanat Prompow (left) confers with parliamentary allies including white-haired Pichet Sathirachawal, right, a list MP for Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP) who has 'turned coat' against Prayut and the junta..
Related
Payments scandal overshadows vote
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/politics/2352512/
Latest Monkeypox/Coronavirus Panic Update
1. Everyone: Mask Up, immediately.
2. Monkeypox is being driven overwhelmingly by sex between men. Of 528 confirmed cases reviewed, 95% are believed to have transmitted during sex between men, according to a new paper in the New England Journal of Medicine.
https://www.msnbc.com/cross-connection/watch/who-declares-monkeypox-a-global-emergency-144654405955
Very much related
CAUTION
This may put you off your green tea
 Could masks be making us sick? That's the suggestion in a Japanese study, published this week in Nature's Scientific Report's journal, which looked at bacterial and fungal growth on face masks worn during the pandemic. The results are kind of... sickening.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/are-masks-bad-for-you-
MONKEYPOX CHILDREN ANAL RAPE
The U.S. state of California on Sunday discovered it had twice as many monkeypox victims as Thailand.
Both victims were children - a toddler and an infant.
Both had forced anal sex rape by gay or bisexual male perverts.
The extremely effete head honcho of the generally un-useful Centers for Disease Control and Prevention noted that, by the way, children under 10 are at "high risk" of getting monkeypox when they are anally raped.
Rachel put it gently, noting the children "had contact with men".
And just like that, a child in the Netherlands was raped anally and has monkeypox. She said:
"Both of these [raped children] are traced back to individuals who come from the men-who-have-sex-with-men community, the gay men's community."
In fact, Rachel's C.D.C. has never heard of a monkeypox victim who was not raped anally.
The China-owned World Health Organization (WHO?) stated delicately that children - as well as older people and pregnant women - are more at risk from monkeypox by rape - and between three and 10 percent of the rape victims die of the virus.
The U.S. CDC warns:
 Monkeypox primarily spreads through close physical contact [such as rape] or towels or bedsheets that have also been used by a patient. In rare cases, it can also be transmitted through the air.
As of Sunday midnight, more than 16,000 monkeypox cases have been detected globally, mostly among gay or bisexual men who caught the disease through sexual contact. And an unknown number are kiddie-rapists.
PHOTO: The infected Dutch child had more than 20 rashes from the virus.
https://tinyurl.com/3cm5ttat
MONKEYPOX
FACE THE FACTS: SAD BUT TRUE
 Big surprise: China's World Health Organization (WHO?) announced that Monkeypox is a "global health emergency." Of course it has.
 And now the Department of History Repeats Itself reports on the dominant method of spreading Monkeypox.
 It reminds the world of our first politicized epidemic. Remember? A few decades ago? Surely you remember. Even The New York Times had to report the unmitigated truth:
 Exactly what the China-owned WHO? is now forced to admit and publish, and broadcast.
 "Nearly all the infections have occurred among men who have sex with men."
[And also tiny children, to be honest.]
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/23/health/monkeypox-pandemic-who.html
And you'll likely be banned from Twitter if you point this out.
'Stay there'
Public Health Minister Anutin indicates Thailand has no plans to get the Nigerian monkeypox patient back from Cambodia.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2352889/nigerian-monkeypox-patient-can-stay-in-cambodia-says-anutin
On a more delightful note, Mick Jagger
who is 78 years old (and getting older)
and his Rolling Stones mates proved (again) Saturday they are every inch the showmen at a stellar concert at the Hippodrome de Longchamp in Paris.
In front of a very large crowd.
Sadly, Bangkok is only going to get Justin Bieber, instead.
Related, sort of... and even sadder
Steve Morse to step away from Deep Purple permanently. Band pays tribute.
 Morse, aged 65, says it's impossible to commit to Deep Purple's future plans as he looks after his wife, who is battling cancer.
 "I simply must be there with her."
ECONOMY WORLD U.S.A.
This is a news report, with day-to-day predictions of what to expect this week:
Biden Administration Bracing for a Tsunami of Bad Economic News Next Week.
https://www.vrbo.com/9697628ha
QUESTION ASKED
The only answer that I can think of is, "Why not?"
GLOBAL WARMING
The United States was finally properly informed about global warming science by the expert Jane Plemiannikov on the TV broadcast 'Good Morning America'.
https://bit.ly/3cEhUr9
A billion here, a billion there... This is coming to Thailand. There is no way that Prayut loyalists can prevent or alter that.
 U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg requested Congress subsidize electric vehicle purchases as millions of Americans struggle to fill up their gasoline-powered cars.
Right now, electric vehicles make up approximately exactly zero percent of Thailand's consumer car fleet.
https://nypost.com/2022/07/19/buttigieg-begs-for-electric-car-subsidies-as-americans-feel-pump-pain/
This man is super-cereal about Global Warming:
 Al Gore Compares 'Climate Deniers' to Uvalde Police Officers.
Okay, Doomer.
https://bityl.co/DRAS
SPORTS
In Soviet America, the shark jumps you!
Shark leaps out of water in front of Hawaii surfer
VIDEO:
There are still civilised people in France.
Eco-protesters tried to stop a bicycle race! But civilisation prevailed.
Tour de France fans took justice into their own hands and tackled militant eco-protesters before dragging them off the road to stop them blocking the race.
https://www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/environmental-protests-disrupt-tour-de-france-for-a-third-time
[The Monday Morning Joke]
AN EDUCATED DOG - KNOWS TOO MUCH
A young Irish boy goes off to college. Half way through the semester, having foolishly squandered all his money, he calls home.
"Dad" he says, "You won't believe what modern education is developing!
They actually have a program here in our institution that will teach our dog, Jack, how to talk!"
"That's amazing," his father says. "How do I get Jack in that program?"
"Just send him down here with $10,000" the young boy says, "and I'll get him in the course."
So his father sends the dog and $10,000.
About two-thirds of the way through the semester, the money again runs out.
The boy calls home. "So how's Jack doing son?" his father asks.
"Awesome, dad, he's talking up a storm," he says, "but you just won't believe this. They've had such good results they have started to teach the animals how to read!"
"Read?!?" exclaims his dad. "No kidding! How do we get Jack in that program?"
"Just send $20,000, I'll get him in the class."
The money promptly arrives. But our hero has a problem.
At the end of the year, his father will find out the dog can neither talk, nor read.
So he shoots the dog!!!
When he arrives home at the end of the year, his father is all excited. "Where's Jack? I just can't wait to see him read something and talk!"
"Dad" the boy says, "I have some grim news. Yesterday morning, just before we left to drive home, Jack was in the living room, kicked back in the recliner, reading The Economic Times, like he usually does. Then Jack turned to me and asked,
"So, is your father still having an affair with that pretty lady Rachel who lives down the street?"
The father went white and exclaimed "I hope you shot that son of a bitch before he talks to your Mother!"
"I sure did, dad!
"That's my boy!"
The kid went on to law school and is now a politician. [h/t Ace]
TECHNOLOGY
Key images in a number of influential papers that have directed 15 years and hundreds of millions of dollars of Alzheimer's research appear to have been algorithmically enhanced. (Science)
By which I mean they're as fake as a Confederate $3 bill, to the point that the chemical they are supposed to be showing evidence of may not even exist.
https://www.science.org/content/article/potential-fabrication-research-images-threatens-key-theory-alzheimers-disease
TRUE STORY
97% of actual real scientists know this quite well and have a name for it: publication bias.
You can look it  up.
A quasicrystal with two time dimensions could be the answer to creating robust memory circuits for quantum computers. (Phys.org)
Or, on the other hand, not.
https://phys.org/news/2022-07-strange-phase-quantum-dimensions.html
