If you must travel to Thailand, make sure you are vaccinated and up to date yadda yadda blah-blah-blah
Flashback
What is bad for the Reds is good for me.
Vladimir Nabokov, 1968
Good morning class, it is the second day of the second week of the third month oif 2022, all of which signify nothing.
The 7th Wave of the Chinese Covid-19 continued unabated.
'STAY AWAY FROM THAILAND'
or to put it another way
Yanqui, stay home
Today's advice from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to all Americans everywhere.
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This is The Word
"If you must travel to Thailand, make sure you are vaccinated and up to date with your Covid-19 vaccines before travel," it said, adding that "even if you are up to date with your Covid-19 vaccines, you may still be at risk for getting and spreading Covid-19."
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And also Hong Kong and New Zealand. In fact, the mass infections of China's newest colony are spreading to the mainland.
And if you haven't been shot, don't go anywhere.
The CDC elevated its travel recommendation to "Level Four: Very High" for Thailand, Hong Kong and New Zealand.
In total, the CDC urges Americans to avoid travel to about 135 countries and territories.
The CDC lists another 33 destinations as "Level 3: High" and recommends unvaccinated Americans avoid travel.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/2275635/
The 7th Wave of the Chinese Covid-19 continued unabated.
The horrible news from Monday:
21,162 new cases of Chinese Covid-19 coronavirus, up by 719 cases on Sunday.
65 new Covid-19 deaths, an increase of six from Sunday. The number of deaths has increased every day for a week.
NOTE: Figures are preliminary, assembled and collated as received. They will be adjusted in due course.
The number of people under medical care as of Monday: 230,459
Discharged from care on Monday: 23,159
You shouldn't really kick the Thai 'government' or the stumbling Thai medical community too hard over their total inability to deal with the pandemic.
Because the country that invented and unleased Covid-19 coronavirus in 2019 has absolutely no idea how to control it or mitigate it.
Latest Headlines from the Middle Kingdom
China Reports Most Daily Covid Cases Since Wuhan Outbreak
Omicron sparks clusters in Shanghai, Qingdao, Dongguan
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-07/china-reports-most-daily-covid-infections-since-wuhan-outbreak
China reports highest COVID-19 tally since initial outbreak
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/public-global-health/597102-china-reports-highest-covid-19-tally-since-pandemic
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie "Silence of the" Lam told citizens not to panic as people flooded grocery stores in anticipation of a lockdown with rising infections.
According to Reuters, Hong Kong is reporting an average of 43,093 new infections each day as of Sunday.
CORONAVIRUS THAILAND
They won't, of course. At the moment, the junta-controlled "government" actually insists it has done a bang-up highly successful job. We need to push them move.
Reminder: The junta and military have been in office during the entire life of the Chinese Covid-19 novel virus, and can't blame it on anyone else.
We need the admission of failure of all of their policies, and disclosure of who was responsible, before we can move on.
Reminder 2: As of midnight on Monday, these are the figures on how the junta has handled the Covid-19 outbreak:
Thailand:
3,047,857 infections
23,303 deaths
Reminder 3: The disease continues, the numbers rise daily and the alleged 'government' has no advice or helpful information.
Monday case totals: 21,162 new infections; 65 more deaths.
CHINA GOES EAST
The Communist Party of China says its next war games in the South China Sea will go north and east to the Paracel Islands, just off Vietnam.
The Hainan Maritime Safety Administration said the drills will last until March 15.
https://bityl.co/BD6E
The last meal of the cricketer Shane 'The Great' Warne was Vegemite and toast. Then he died of a heart attack in his bungalow at Koh Samui.
'Geez, you can't beat Vegemite ... always great wherever you are.'
"I have dined with Shane in many fine establishments, but rather than sample some of the local Thai fare, we tuck into a plate of Vegemite on toast,” wrote CEO Tom Hall of 'The Sporting News.'
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/mar/07/shane-warne-death-friend-describes-final-meal-of-vegemite-toast-at-thailand-resort
Not a single Thai citizen wants to stay in Ukraine.
Every Thai national living or working in Ukraine wants out.
Even the "humanitarian corridors" aren't at all humanitarian. Russian soldiers are in position witn weapons locked and loaded, just in case they get the urge to kill men, women and children.
... Those who want to leave Kyiv will be able to be airlifted to Russia. Official Russian spokesladies said Russian will use drones to monitor the evacuation and "attempts by the Ukrainian side to deceive Russia and the whole civilised world ... are useless this time".
PHOTO: Refugees die. A Ukrainian soldier runs to check on a family after a mortar round landed nearby as civilians tried to flee Irpin, near Kyiv, Ukraine, on Sunday. Four people were killed.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2275159/
UPDATE
IF you believe the Thai 'government'
all Thai citizens who wanted out of Ukraine are out.
Wait! Hold on! Where the heck did all those Russian tourists go?
Two Russian airlines stopped all services to/from Phuket on Monday.
There were no new Russian tourists and the ones already in Thailand were struggling and fighting to find a way out. They had no cash funds and noi access to money.
The president of the Phuket Tourism Association, Bhummikitti Ruktaengam posted on his Facebook: "Two Russian airlines have paused their services - S7 – Siberian Airlines and Aeroflot."
https://thepattayanews.com/2022/03/07/number-of-russian-visitors-in-phuket-instantly-drops-phuket-struggles-to-find-solutions-for-hundreds-of-stranded-tourists-with-no-access-to-funds-due-to-sanctions/
This is what I am now seeing from virtually every military export that I can contact:
The Failed Logistics Of The Russian Invasion.
VIDEO (20 minutes)
https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=50792
Even the roadside fast-food shops are noticing.
Putin just kneecapped the Russian internet.
Cogent Communications, second largest ISP in Russia, is cutting all service to Russia. So just like Facebook aka Meta, which had blocked "state affiliated news agencies" and Facebook will decide who they are.
https://mashable.com/article/cogent-communications-isp-russia-ukraine
Putin has banned Facebook and Twitter, and decreed a new law declaring that journalism is a criminal activity. "Fake News" will earn you 15 years of free room and board in a Putin dungeon.
And he also shut down 'Russia Today', favourite website of leftists and commies in Thailand and elsewhere.
Don't quote me, but it seems this Putin person is not all that popular?
#RESIST: Kherson protest against Russian occupiers brings hundreds to the streets.
Undaunted by the presence of Russian troops in their city, as many as 2,000 residents of Kherson, Ukraine, took to the streets, in a show of defiance and national unity.
"Russians go home!" and "Kherson is Ukraine!" were among the shouted slogans, the BBC eported.
Videos posted online showed Russian troops firing shots into the air in hopes of turning back the marchers.
[This is what troopies do when they are scared witless.]
A real global horror will begin by the summer. Global famine is inevitable.
- Translation of a 2,000-word 'analysis' of the Russia-Ukrain war, supposedly written by the Russian FSB (Federal Security Service), the new name of the KGB
[I'm going to go out on a limb here, and predict that there won't be a global famine because the Russians are screwing up Putin's invasion of the Ukraine.)
https://bityl.co/BDfX
On the Samizdata blog
If Mr. Putin is the answer, what on Earth was the question?
Two years ago, Biden called the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia a "pariah." Early last year, Biden released an unclassified report claiming that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved the operation to "capture or kill" Khashoggi.
The always well-informed columnist and political analyist Kavi Chongkittavorn discusses Joe Biden's upcoming event.
Asean heads gear for (yet another) summit with Biden
In some Asean capitals there is a prevailing fear that the Russia-Ukraine quagmire could hijack the summit.
There's always Myanmar, of course.
PHOTO: Flashback to 2021: US President Joe Biden used the Chinese sexting software Zoom to speak during the virtual Asean-US Summit hosted by Brunei last year. The US wants to hold the next summit in three weeks, on March 28-29.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2275475/
Acerbic and well-informed as always, columnist Atiya Achakulwisut has something to say about the Bangkok city election for governor.
City governor poll offers us a glimmer of hope
A win by Mr Chadchart could be argued to be a foregone conclusion.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2275511/
Related - U.S.A. INFLATION
JOE BIDEN GETS THE CREDIT
Food Prices Up 20% Over the Past Year.
This, too: National Average Gasoline (Petrol) Prices Top $4/Gal.
Report from Colorado: My little Front Range town usually has cheaper-than-average fuel prices for Colorado. Two weeks ago, diesel shot up 40¢ to $4.05, and today I saw it for $4.65.
Biden tries an imitation of Prayut
How it's going: Biden may travel to Saudi Arabia in quest for oil, report says, as Russia ban remains possibility.
Biden may travel to Saudi Arabia in quest for oil, report says, as Russia ban remains possibility.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/biden-may-travel-to-saudi-arabia-in-quest-for-oil-report-says-as-russia-ban-remains-possibility
https://www.axios.com/biden-saudi-trip-oil-b7a91070-8045-4155-9120-a35d59fd7603.html
And also
Biden Considering Easing Sanctions on Venezuela To Get More of Their Oil
No Plans to Ease Sanctions on US Oil Industry
Philippines President Rodrigo "The Punisher" Duterte authorises the raising of the age of sexual consent from 12 to 16.
The Philippines is one of the worst countries on Earth for sex trafficking and abuse of youngsters.
A joint 2015 study by Unicef and the Center for Women's Resources, a local non-governmental group, showed seven of 10 rape victims in the Philippines were children.
PHOTO: 'The Punisher' finally gets around to punishing paedophiles.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/2275175/
For anyone who knows a teensy-weensy bit about hockey, this is a timeless headline.
For Marius Grinius and the entire city of Montreal, it signals a great celebration.
https://deadspin.com/it-s-happening-to-the-maple-leafs-again-1848615557
Oh hell, yeah! Re-energise the Bureaucracy. That will definitely work.
How come no one thought of that before?
The U.S. Space Systems Command - the Space Force organisation that oversees procurement of new technology - is being restructured in an effort to re-energise the bureaucracy and bring fresh focus on the competition with China, officials said.
PHOTO: The commander of U.S. Space Systems Command Lieutenant General Michael Guetlein speaks at the Air Force Association's Air Warfare Symposium.
https://spacenews.com/space-force-to-reorganize-its-acquisition-command-to-focus-on-the-threat/
GLOBAL WARMING
Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past
The Independent (London) newspaper, March 2000
UK snow forecast in your area
The Independent (London) newspaper headline, 7 March 2022
RUSSIA UKRAINE ECONOMY
U.S. crude oil briefly tops $130 a barrel, a 13-year high on possible Western ban of Russian oil,
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/06/us-crude-oil-jumps-to-125-a-barrel-a-13-year-high-on-possible-western-ban-of-russian-oil.html
https://www.ebay.com/itm/403117210353
