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I would say no.. the only country that has impressed me so far with their management of Covid is New Zealand.

Meanwhile in California:

Don't get COVID in Texas.. This is the fate that awaits you:

When its 1 person doing stuff that's stupid, you call it stupid. When its a coordinated pushback of mass opposition to masks, social distancing and common sense measure.. you have to begin to wonder if its a genocide to cull the herd and provide more resources to the rich.

I disagree with that!

COVID is today's survival of the fittest (and average IQ in a lot of cases). Everyone likes to talk about how terrible Trump is but I find it way more revealing that we share the planet with so many stupid people and some of them are even board members.

While living in Issan the number of mosquitoes was 20 fold what it was in Pattaya. It has something to do with the ocean being nearby as mosquitoes like fresh water not salt water and there is no river nearby. Speaking of which there are actually more mosquitoes in Bangkok than in Pattaya even though the water of the Chao Phraya and the canals is really putrid. When I lived in patts for a few years 3 things that drove me nuts more than the open sewers were.. 1. heat during daytime (many a time thought I would have a heatstroke) 2. the traffic (saw many a drunk thai/ farang get into car accidents.. even saw 1 guy get decapitated in front of me by coming under the tires of a bus) 3. farang landlords (where do I begin) Dengue I didn't worry about as much after a few years. Issan I lived for 6 months and I gave up.. dengue was a big factor but the #1 deal breaker was I saw a farang have a accident and I tried to help him but translating instructions into thai for the sawang booriboon was an exercise in futility. I knew if I was going to stay in LOS I needed somewhere where atleast the doctors and nurses could speak enough english and me enough thai that we could communicate. Chances of that are a lot better in Bangkok/ Pattaya I'd imagine.

Patient, 30, said ‘I thought this was a hoax’ before dying after ‘COVID party:’ Texas doctor

This is the more entertaining version:

I always thought so myself too: Just kidding I managed to condense down to: Nikon D600 FX w/ 35mm f/1.8 FX & 85mm f/1.8 FX Nikon D7200 DX w/ 10-24. I tried 24-70 f/2.8 and 70-200 f/2.8 but they're too heavy. My last vacation last year I was surprised.. I took like 6000 shots on my phone and 2000 on my dslrs. My fav ladyboy took like 600 shots but like a 1000 videos.

I personally know of 3 people who have died and 5 who have gotten it. 1 of the 3 that passed away was a person in our ladyboy scene and simply wished to remain anonymous on forums. Met with him quite a few times as our favorite ladyboys were best friends. The virus is not a joke and to not be underestimated. Hell one of the 8 is the person who does my taxes every year.

Did I miss something?

OMG that's not even funny.. there are so many crazy people out there. I and my ladyboy met one.. and she still has a broken nose from that.. thankfully not a gunshot wound.

Well since you were specific I suggest reading this report where a person was COVID-19 positive on a 15 hour flight from Guangzhou to Toronto, wore a mask the entire flight and no one else got covid from him. https://www.cmaj.ca/content/192/15/E410

Locally sure. That said are a lot of thai's now wearing masks? That'll surely get the number of infections down.

Except Thailand has 2 distinct demographics.. young thai's and elderly retiring farangs. Would elderly farangs that pass away really cause news headlines out of the ordinary? Seems to me the only headlines farangs get in Thailand anyways are when they jump out of buildings.

Do you really trust a government that shuts down any news that is damaging to it?

There's a prevalence of the attitude: but it only happens to older people.. things are fine but there's no one I know who has it.. things are fine but there's football on tv.. things are fine I don't need to worry about it.

Sadly that's out of date.. 60,021 cases today, not 35,000

Just an example of what happens if you tell a person to wear a mask..

Unless they're a Svitlana Karen. Trump wanted more Norweigens but to Norway we're a shithole country. No state healthcare, no state education, no basic safety net, so why would they give up all their benefits to go to a shithole country.