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News Forum - Thai officer caught on camera riding carelessly won’t be fined
All Thai are equal. But some are more equal than others. After George Orwell, 1984 -
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News Forum - Omicron subvariant likely to be a dominant strain in Thailand
True, but lethality by itself is hardly relevant. From an organizational (not personal) point of view, it's never foremost about individuals dying. It's about 1) preventing a potential overload of key components of societies infrastructure (like the ability to provide healthcare), 2) minimizing the cost of trying to maintain such services at an adequate level and 3) being favorable in the public perception of what is (not) done. To illustrate: the main goal of e.g. road-safety campaigns or taxes on tobacco is primarily to reduce costs to society, not to save lives (that's just a bonus, albeit one that's great to use in communications). -
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News Forum - Series of earthquakes strike 500km away from Thailand’s Andaman coast
We would need to check if there was a strong high tide, on 26 . But in simple words: Strong high-high tidal stress can cause stronger quakes, as low-low tidal stress (says C. Scholz, Columbia Univ.), because it is/can affect/ing plate tectonics. So quakes because of tides, possible, but for tsunami we would need to check tide times for Fukushima and Sumatra, methinks, to get an idea. -
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News Forum - Thailand to receive new LAAB Covid vaccine by end of the month
It's not laab as in the Thai food they'll inject, right?
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