Why South Africa is running out of Marmite
Here we are at another weekend - Saturday, April 23.
In just one 24-hour day, Friday, Thailand suffered
21,808 new, confirmed Covid cases
128 more deaths
This compared with the 129 coronavirus-related fatalities and 21,931 new cases reported for Thursday.
PHOTO: DON'T FORGET THE CHILDREN. A child gets shot with Covid-19 vaccine at Bang Sue Grand Station in Bangkok.
Test & Go? History, next weekend.
The ridiculous Special Scam For Tourists will be dropped, as of May 1.
However
All foreign arrivals will be quarantined, under guard, for a minimum of 24 hours. The full length of the quarantine will be decided the day after arrival, but all expenses will be billed to each of the tourist/visitors.
PHOTO: All foreign arrivals, including at the main Suvarnabhumi airport, must be fully insured, fully masked and 'fully vaccinated', whatever that means.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/2298846/
All Of The Above (and more) are tiny, grudging admissions that Thailand will live with Covid forever.
But say this for the junta: They know how to make simple things difficult, like the cities of El Lay and Philadelphia, and if they seem easy, just change them.
For example. I'll bet you a lot that you cannot put this official Thai junta announcement into sensible language.
 High risk people who had contact with a person who tested positive now only need to quarantine for 5 days. They should do an ATK test on Day 5 and Day 10. For Days 6-10 they are allowed freedom if tested negative but must observe symptoms.
The military men directing the ruling junta has made a positive decision in its collective medical wisdom that illegal immigrants are cool, but there is an Emergency In The Skies And In Buses, Taxis, Restaurants, Cars, Temples, Churches, Bars, Mosques and schools. Especially in schools.
 Thailand has been officially conditioned to believe that masks save many lives, possibly millions, and dissent or medical studies cannot be allowed.
 This is a lovely, beautiful, award-winning statement from the U.S. (this time) CDC on why it really, really needs masking rules backed by guns:
 "To protect CDC's public health authority"
 Did you know the C.D.C. has public health authority? Kind of out of the blue, isn't it?
https://news.yahoo.com/justice-department-appeal-ruling-struck-230049238.html
Related
(The first CBC joke since Norman Depoe)
How to spot Canadians in a U.S. airport - look for lots of masks
Thailand's junta claims, and it could be true, that in the last three years, two months and two days, it has doled out 60 billion baht to try to alleviate China's Covid-19 - 2.23 billion loonies, or 1.8 billion U.S. dollars.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/2298338/
Yeah, sure. This is EXACTLY what the alleged 'prime minister' of Thailand promised 10 months ago.
So keep a cart of salt nearby.
Thailand to 'fully re-open' on May Day
Test & Go, RT-PCR tests end this month
https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/2298846/
And this was what the junta promised more than two years ago.
Betong prepares for airline arrivals
https://bityl.co/Bujs
Related
Longer hours
Restaurants able to serve customers alcohol until midnight from May 1 - as part of the relaxing of Covid-19 controls nationwide.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2298878/
OK, Groomers
The seldom-expressed advantage of a Globalist Government.
UN aid workers raped 60,000 people as it's claimed organisation employs 3,300 paedophiles
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/politics/5562215/un-aid-workers-raped-60000-people-as-its-claimed-organisation-employs-3300-paedophiles/
And another Tip of the Day for planning your next motoring holiday.
'Womack Army Medical Center' is on Fort Bragg, North Carolina, a place you (obviously) do not want to become ill.
A soldier was left to die alone in his barracks for 5 days. His family wants to know why?
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/fort-bragg-caleb-smither-malpractice-claim/
GLOBAL WARMING
Yet another round of winter weather is expected to wallop southeast Saskatchewan this weekend.
Heavy snow, strong winds expected.
 IMPORTANT: Saskatoon is not in southeastern Saskatchewan.
 NOTE: Story is from the CBC, so double-check.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/colorado-low-again-southeast-1.6426136
"set to" - maybe, might, hopefully
EV sales set to top forecasts after motor show boom
Tax cuts and subsidies encourage drivers to book green cars, lower-priced models on the way
The Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) issued a forecast earlier that about 5,000 EVs would be on the roads this year, but figures from the recently ended Bangkok International Motor Show indicate that the target will be easily achievable.
PHOTO: Visitors check out an MG EP, one of the electric vehicles making a debut at the Bangkok International Motor Show earlier this month.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/auto/news/2298926/
If you're in Thailand
Enjoy it while you can:
A rare, early-morning rare drone shot of Wat Phra Kaew and the Temple of the Emerald Buddha - without ANY tourists.
And if you are not in Thailand
You missed Friday's 240th anniversary of the founding of Krungthep Mahanakhon aka The City of Angels aka Bangkok.
Thailand gets India-made Covid vaccines under Quad initiative
The Ministry of Public Health will distribute 200,000 coronavirus protein-based vaccine doses donated by India and its partners to state-owned hospitals across Thailand with the target of inoculating those unvaccinated people.
NOTE: 'partners' is a junta-censored word meaning the four-nation anti-China initiative, the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue - India,  Japan,  the  United  States and Australia.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2298498/
See That Bench? Go Over To It And Sit Down And Wait Until You Are Called eh?
Canadian hospitals face Covid cancellations - again
(Reuters) - Some hospitals in Canada's most populous provinces are cancelling or postponing medical procedures in the face of another wave of the coronavirus pandemic, increasing backlogs of procedures that health practitioners say will take years to work through and could cost more lives.
There are some signs the sixth Covid-19 wave may be peaking in Ontario, Canada's most populous province.
 But hospitals are facing a double whammy of new Covid infections and, to a much greater degree, health workers off sick or isolating due to Covid just as some had begun to tackle pandemic backlogs.
 Monfort, a teaching hospital in the national capital of Ottawa had to postpone "non-urgent interventions" - about 5% of the surgeries and procedures scheduled for Tuesday.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/some-canadian-hospitals-face-covid-cancellations-again-2022-04-21/
QUESTION ASKED
Is the Opioid Crisis Masking Real Rates of Suicides?
Probable answer: Definitely Yes!
Plus: There is almost certain grifting in reporting available numbers.
https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/addiction/news/20220421/is-the-opioid-crisis-masking-real-rates-of-suicide
CORONAVIRUS CHINA
Our efforts have been useless, we must redouble them:
 Shanghai further tightens Covid restrictions after weeks of strict lockdown.
 The Communist Party of China has ordered full lockdown (get this) "until Covid is 'eradicated'".
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/22/shanghai-further-tightens-covid-restrictions-after-weeks-of-strict-lockdown
GLOBAL WARMING
Today is Earth Day 52, also Lenin's 152nd birthday (but probably just a coincidence).
THE BIG UNFORTUNATE: The World has not ended.
Related
"I'm an Environmental Scientist and I Hate Earth Day"
https://www.thedailybeast.com/im-an-environmental-scientist-and-i-hate-earth-day
"I'm an Environmental Journalist and I Hate Earth Day"
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2019/04/im-an-environmental-journalist-and-i-hate-earth-day/
"I'm an Environmentalist and I Hate Earth Day"
https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/contributors/2019/04/21/earth-day/3523092002/
Reality Strikes
Biden launches $6 billion effort to save nuclear power plants, to help combat climate change.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nuclear-power-biden-climate-change/
SUNDAY READS
Narco Tanks of Mexico.
 Cartel violence waxes and wanes, and the cartels are heavily armed. Even so, it may come as a shock to many that Mexican drug cartels have their own 'tanks' (AKA 'Monstruo'), i.e. 'up-armored civilian vehicles more accurately described as technicals or armored cars.
https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=51228
Herschel Smith: All Famines Are Man-Made
On the day that Russia invaded Ukraine, worries of food shortages and price hikes also began.
Egypt, Bangladesh, Indonesia are already in food shortages, and the supply lines are broken.
China is panicking. It's now too late for China.
https://www.captainsjournal.com/2022/04/21/all-famines-are-man-made/
Sunlight penetrates U.S.A. Higher Education
Mao bust removed from Washburn University following news report.
PHOTO: Photograph shows that the Mao bust and other objects have been removed.
https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=19413
Al Jazeera with another good documentary:
Thailand's Fearless Cop
He was a decorated Thai police officer who took down a vast human trafficking syndicate led by a top military commander. 6 years later he’s finally ready to talk about the price he paid for doing his job.
 And it should be noted
 The biggest, most murderous human trafficking case was run by the Royal Thai Army. Which now runs all of Thailand.
I'm going to allow three guesses on the correct answer to Li'l Mike's columnist Faye Flam.
Question: Masks aren't required to fly. Should you wear one?
o Yes at gunpoint
o Yes with extra-judicial execution
o Yes with time in stocks to be determined.
PHOTO: Masked travellers wearing protective masks arrive at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata, India.
https://bityl.co/Bttb
The biggest Muslim holiday of the year (Eid al-Fitr aka Hari Raya) is coming, on or about May 1.
With violence against Muslims rampant, can India, or any other country, manage the fallout is the question we must ask
 There are more than 200 million Muslims in our country [India], spread across its length and breadth. Is it possible to reduce them to the status of second-class citizens and still survive as a democratic country with citizens enjoying equal rights?
 Would Indian foreign policy be able to manage the fallout?
https://theprint.in/opinion/violence-against-muslims-rampant-but-can-india-manage-the-fallout-is-the-question-we-must-ask/923286/
TECHNOLOGY
SPACEX NOW SERVING AS AN EXAMPLE TO THE U.S. MILITARY: SpaceX beating Russian jamming attack was 'eyewatering'
 "'The way that Starlink was able to upgrade when a threat showed up, we need to be able to have that ability,' said Dave Tremper, the Pentagon's director of electronic warfare."
 [English translation: The Pentagon does not have that ability.]
Related
NASA is supporting some seriously risky missions to the Moon - —it's about time.
 In recent years, NASA has been funding a second, much smaller-scale Moon program, at just 3 percent of the cost of Artemis.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/04/nasas-other-moon-program-is-about-to-take-center-stage/
Yes, the following is true, and despite scientists, here we are. And note that the self-appointed "experts" only found evidence of the biggest earthqake SO FAR.
 Scientists find evidence of largest earthquake in human history 3,800 years ago, in what is now northern Chile.
https://azertag.az/en/xeber/Scientists_find_evidence_for_biggest_earthquake_in_human_history-2104610
May now apply in all areas of Canada.
 TURN OFF THE 'FACE ID'. It's not a feature, it's a plot.
 BUT THEY CAN HOLD IT UP TO YOUR FACE IF YOU HAVE FACE ID ENABLED, WHICH YOU SHOULDN'T: No, police cannot force you to unlock your cellphone without a search warrant. Likewise thumbprint ID.
https://www.wbir.com/article/news/verify/courts/police-law-enforcement-cannot-force-you-to-unlock-search-phone-without-warrant-permission/536-0c126151-ea40-435d-b52c-9fb575da94b0
Why South Africa is running out of Marmite. (Hint: Commies)(The Economist)
https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2022/04/16/why-south-africa-is-running-out-of-marmite
EDITORIAL
If you have to run out of something, South African Marmite seems okay to be the first thing.
 But why in perdition would you cry, whine and kick your dog about it?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/MARMITE-Lynx-Africa-Ultimate-Love/dp/B08J3RMSY2
EDITORIAL II
All of that said, here's the deal: You cannot 'top-down' entertainment or news unless you are a dictator, like Prayut Et Fils censor and order all media in Thailand.
WEEKEND READING
Escape from Soviet Canuckistan.
A Give-Send-Go is for a cause near and dear to a lot of our hearts
While I was originally happy to be here as a permanent resident and retain my Canadian citizenship, the past few years have made me realize that I am an American in everything but name, and it is time to make that official.
https://givesendgo.com/G35R7?utm_source=sharelink&utm_medium=copy_link&u
The Real Reset is Coming... But Not the One the Elites Expect.
The public has been marinated in false narratives and disinformation spread by our elite ruling class and echoed by the dominant media.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/04/the_real_reset_is_coming_but_not_the_one_the_elites_expect.html
Freedom arrives in the club lounge.
Travel Mask Rules Were Increasingly Absurd and Ignored. Now They Are Gone.
The transparent arbitrariness of mask rules was one of the main factors driving cynicism about and resistance to pandemic control measures — when the rules about masks changed from one situation to another with no apparent consistency or link to sensible cost-benefit analysis, of course people concluded that they were being ordered around for no good reason, and they stopped listening.
