THIS IS NOT A DRILL! SHANGHAI IS LOCKED DOWN!
THIS IS NOT A DRILL! SHANGHAI IS LOCKED DOWN!
The giant city of flip-flops
Shanghai is almost as big as Bangkok.
 The new lockdown should at least ensure the "stillness" required to bring the outbreak under control, he added.
 "Doctor" Wu had told a briefing on Saturday that Shanghai could not be locked down for long because of the important role it played in the national and even global economy.
PHOTO: A worker in a protective suit walks at an entrance to a tunnel leading to the Pudong area across the Huangpu river, after restrictions on highway traffic amid the lockdown to contain the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus in Shanghai.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/shanghai-reports-record-asymptomatic-covid-cases-lockdowns-begin-2022-03-28/
https://apnews.com/article/covid-china-locking-down-shanghai-b406df3a0113b9be99273324fec2c12e
As you might expect, it's not going well.
As you might expect, the world's Big Media is circling the wagons to protect China's president-for-life:
 The truth is...
Xi's crazy dream of 'Zero Covid Strategy' is totally shambolic.
EFFECTIVE ON MAY 1
Foreign tourists and visitors can forget about pre-flight tests for Covid-19.
But (there's always a big fat but)
Right after landing, they'll have an ATK test.
https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40013930
'I'm doing my best'
That's what he said
After 8 years and 9 days as 'prime minister' Prayut admits
'It's the best I can do'
On the day that Thailand suffered the worse day ever of Covid-19:
 27,560 confirmed daily Covid cases
 85 more Covid-19 deaths.
PHOTO: It was billed as a 'speech to the nation'.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2288070/
There is general agreement that Prayut is not lying.
It's the best he can do.
And it's not acceptable.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/politics/2287730/
PHOTO: There is no joy in Bangkok. Clutching their vaccination papers, morose city residents line up for YAS (yet another shot) at a mobile vaccination unit near the City's Rama VIII Bridge. In the background, more people scramble for permission to join the line.
Call on me
If you are Russian or Ukrainian
AND
you are stranded somewhere in or near Phuket
Call the new hotlines of the Tourism Authority of Thailand and we'll see what we can do.
Call between 8:30 a.m. and 7 p.m.
We might be ablve to find a flight home for you.
More info at
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2276407/
TWO QUESTIONS
World record 91,553 see Barcelona make Champions League semi-finals, PSG down Bayern
The crowd figure surpassed the previous record for a women's match when 90,185 watched the 1999 World Cup final between the United States and China at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.
1. Where in the HELL was decrepit Don Tony Fauci while this was going on?
 2. Are all these people going to die this week?
PHOTO: Unmasked - all players, all spectators.
I missed this earlier, my apologies
Lee stomps Stamp Fairtex
Singapore: "Unstoppable" Angela Lee defeated Stamp Fairtex to retain her One women's atomweight world championship at the weekend.
Singaporean-American Lee spent more than two and a half years away from the circle to focus on her pregnancy and becoming a mother before her return to the organisation's 10-year anniversary spectacle.
The match-up between the two athletes was a perfect showcase of Stamp's up-and-coming skills versus Lee's years of experience.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/sports/2287322/
The city of Washington, D.C., has totally and completely absolutely banned
[NOTE: Washington is the capital city of the U.S.A.]
 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
 The Cry by Theodore Taylor
BUT WAIT! THERE'S MORE! BET ON IT!
https://foxmetronews.com/news/self-own-california-gov-gavin-newsom-poses-with-to-kill-a-mockingbird-banned-by-district-in-own-state/
 Kamala Harris went to her hometown in Jamaica and said:
For Jamaica, one of the issues that has been presented as an issue that is economic in the way its impact has been the pandemic … we will assist Jamaica in COVID recovery by assisting in terms of the recovery efforts in Jamaica that have been essential.
Learn it. Memorize it. There will be a quis on Monday.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/say-what-kamala-harris-tosses-word-salad-after-meeting-jamaican-prime-minister
The airport at Austin, Texas, is running out of fuel. Hmmm
Is there another city in the world that can plan that poorly?
https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=51040
Vitit Muntarbhorn is a highly respected pointy-head with a couple of shelves full of awards for his writing on human rights, refugees, the victimized, etc.
You may need hip waders to get through his latest but, man, is it worthwhile!
 Cambodia's progress has been stalledhe situation in Cambodia can perhaps be described as straddling a testament and a predicament.
 The testament is the 30th anniversary of the Paris Peace Agreements (October 1991) which brought peace to the country after a long period of warfare and the "recent tragic past". It established a pivotal framework for human rights, democracy and sustainable development in the country.
Farewell, Ubiquiti
A fitting question for April Fool's Day:
 Does the United States actually have ANY hate incidents?
Two black girls wrote 'All [n-words] should die' graffiti in latest hate-crime hoax.
https://www.facebook.com/SacSheriff/posts/278081774512396
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TECHNOLOGY and SPOOFING
Did you get a text from yourself promising a ‘gift?’?
 And you clicked on it, right? Because it's 2022 and you've learned nought. Even Verizon is telling you lay off the sauce for a while.
 The funny part is, that this IS ACTUALLY Russian Dezinformatsiya.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/28/22999719/spam-texts-own-phone-number-verizon-att-tmobile
TECHNOLOGY
Yes, well, they're so far behind Taiwan now, they need to get a hurry on.
Top Chinese chip makers push ahead with capacity expansion.
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3172628/us-china-tech-war-top-chinese-chip-makers-push-ahead-expansion-plans
Russia exposes thousands of troops to radiation poisoning, then has second thoughts and pulls out of Chernobyl.
Russian forces leaving Ukraine's Chernoby after radiation exposure
The troops 'panicked at the first sign of illness'says Ukraine's state nuclear company, after they dug trenches at the highly contaminated site.
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/russia-central-asia/article/3172657/ukraine-war-russian-forces-leaving-chernobyl-after
Just for a moment... consider how strange this sounds... even though it is exactly what Joe did:
 Israeli-Arab front confronting the Americans over their opening to Iran.
And speaking of Washington's former daily newspaper:
 Washington Post authenticates laptop after dismissing 'fake' scandal in 2020.
The Washington Post, a former newspaper now owned and directed by Amazon Cares About Hunter Biden's Laptop and Emails.
And also "balled wife jokes". You get it, yeah, I get it.
31 March 2022
Today, all day, is April Fool's Eve, which used to be a fun celebration.
Thailand junta cancels all April Fool's Eve parties unless invitees are masked and fully vaccinated including booster and variant Updates
WE'RE NUMBER ONE!
First to the top
Asia beame the first world region to report more than 100 million cases of Chinese Covid-19 novel virus.
The region is reporting over 1 million new Covid-19 cases about every two days, according to a Reuters analysis. With more than half of the world's population, Asia contributes 21% of all reported Covid-19 cases.
 The highly contagious but less deadly BA.2 sub-variant of Omicron has pushed the figures to greater highs in recent weeks in countries such as South Korea, China and Vietnam.
 For what it's worth... BA.2 now represents nearly 86% of all sequenced cases, according to China's World Health Organization.
PHOTO: People line up during a mass testing for the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) at a makeshift nucleic acid testing site outside a shopping mall in Beijing.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/over-100-million-covid-cases-in-asia-1-million-every-48-hours-report-101648623340827.html
https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/2287582/
THAILAND ECONOMY TRADE
Bank of Thailand balloons inflation prediction to 4.9%
Surges in prices attributed to war
The BoT skyrocketed its inflation rate forecast for this year to 4.9% from 1.7% because of energy and food price surges attributed to supply shock from the Russia-Ukraine war.
Headline inflation is projected to be 4.9% in 2022, higher than the central bank's inflation targeting range of 1-3%.
The bank assesses the headline inflation rate will tally 1.7% next year, a slight increase from an earlier estimate of 1.4%, said Piti Disyatat, secretary of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC).
https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/2287594/
https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/2287634/
Junta jumps in
The alleged 'minister of economy' made headlines on Wednesday with an out-of-left-field prediction that exports from Thailand will grow by 10% betwee now and New Year's Eve.
Arkhom Termpittayapaisith, one of the quietest junta loyalists, credited the Russia-Ukraine war with pushing up prices of Thai goods.
It won't be easy.
Chaichan Chareonsuk, president of the Thai National Shippers' Council (TNSC), said achieving export growth of 10% would be very challenging.
Okay Groomers.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/03/29/i-was-just-wherever-i-could-adding-queerness-christopher-rufo-has-video-from-disneys-all-hands-meeting/
Child Grooming Corporation Disney Will No Longer Use Words "Boys" or "Girls" Within the Park, Because All Children Are Transexual Now Or Something
Or they will be, once The Mouse gets done re-orienting them.
https://www.outkick.com/disney-goes-woke-will-no-longer-say-boys-and-girls-within-park/
