Tomcat

thats great news... ill be on the first flight to LOS as soon as the rules allow

re edit ... it has re opened

what about Cash payments...i bet they keep that .  ..

these rules will change after a month anyway... its always going to start off strict

very nice

like my expensive Laptop arrives in Taiwan as a Jigsaw Puzzle...WTF

it seems that IATA want all hand luggage to be stowed in the hold... what a stupid idea.  As Mike O Leary called them ... 

" the Department of idiots "

If there is no second wave Trump will take all the credit , thats a given 

Anythony Costello former head of WHO doubts if a second wave is coming....Karl Frisson of University London College London thinks some kind of Immune dark matter is at play . Science is a moving body of knowledge so each day sheds new light but now the prospect of a burnout is a dice roll rather than a lottery win. A study last week in  LA found a mirror immune response in a control group who never had the Virus

By July we will have some idea.....anyway now there is reasonable grounds for hope

TT Chang was their best patron and he would know her name. Ill ask him later , we chat on LINE ID once a month.I think he had his own comfy chair in the corner

He is still stuck in Melbourne and even he knew of the sad demise of a famous institution ..i think Candy must have told him., she works in 7/11 now i do believe.

News travels fast these days

maybe they counting on cross- protective immunity due to the fact that we have been bombarded with the common cold etc. Look at the case of the Cruise ship Diamond Princess where only 5 of the passengers got it even though it should have struck everyone after 2 weeks

There wont be a second wave , this thing is going to burn out ( IMO) . Also Asia got the weaker strain and its appears that in Japan they are the Master race anyway according to some and so were spared its ravages... of course i might be wrong

The resident Mamasan must be on the street map by now  she has been there for so long.  she was ok really and i used to buy her a drink or two on occasion.although i had to push her away sometimes as she had the habit of inviting herself along as a facilitator to often.....

anyway im sure she will be there if the bar survives

the bar spawned the lovely "Candy"  ... and her many admirers like Candylover ( remember him) and TT Chang

1 hour ago, JustSumGai said:

  Almost as bad as the virus is the fact that NO ONE KNOWS "anything". 

I agree this seems to be the case..I think the Science will start to converge around  Xmas...but now its very confusing

But one things for sure , when i do take off , i aint going nowhere near that middle seat .  Some trains you have to book in advance and only every fourth row can be taken....as my Attorney tells me , where theres blame , there a claim

A Lawyer was on RT last night and he says that this Covid will be a legal health and safety Wild Wild West . A lot of Companies are going to get shot up in this 

14 hours ago, The-Sith said:

 

5. No bats are sold in the Wuhan wetmarkets

 

The Bat maybe the intermediate carrier ...  the bat feces ends up in say a piece of fruit which a Civet they may eat and so on. Bats are definitely on the menu in  many of these places ..not sure about the Wuhan market but wouldnt be surprised

22 hours ago, rxpharm said:

Here is a Reuters news release about the EU not requiring empty middle seats for airlines to resume flights.

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This news report does not fully answer the middle seat issue and even mentions that the EU is a bit vague on this

The twitter feed below went  viral  and was from a Professor Weiss last week after being forced into a plane where he was told the middle seat was blocked off  but the plane was full and packed to the rafters, he said will probably never fly again.

Lets face it no one is going to climb into a middle seat unless its free . So i cant see anyone making a  booking if they dont have a gap of some kind.

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As he was signing out of his last shift at the hospital on Friday night, Weiss says he told a group of physicians that he was actually more nervous about getting on an airplane than walking into a COVID ICU.

seems that THAI Aiways could file for bankruptcy ... shit i hope i get my 2 grand back

the R figure is .7 to 1... the same as some parts of England... crikey you will be in furlough til next summer i reckon .

Worldwide all these pesky wet markets must be destroyed with no mercy shown , otherwise we will be living with another branch of the Covid family

I think you may have a sense that the Covid virus can be destroyed. The bad news is that it cant and even if there is vaccine ( i doubt it) we will still have to endure this horror for years and years and years. Its going nowhere and there will be many more deaths as we cant stay at home for ever ...collateral damage there will be

The R count is the same in Scotland as it is in England. N Sturgeon is just being cynical ... 

Life has changed for ever and its more dangerous ...we have to get used to it .

20 hours ago, Cherjam said:

Thank god I'm Scottish

exactly Ignore Boris , listen to Sturgeon , bankrupt the economy 

yes..agree

for example just now the UK it was reported excess deaths for around 2 months just gone compared to last year was 50,000 excess deaths........,more than the official COVID death toll reported so far over here

methinks any Country true death toll will be a lot higher once this way of counting is used... nowhere to hide , right !

yes and songkran deaths but they should be able to factor that in. Countries cant be compared now at this stage 

, i meant by variables the way deaths are recorded and so on

11 hours ago, Pdoggg said:

 

 

Maybe it's better to look at the death rate per million of population. 

Its better to measure  total excess deaths after one year, it all comes out in the wash then.  compare this year with last year

that way most of the variables are ironed out and a more accurate count is known.  Countries like China you can exclude as its all BS

11 hours ago, Pdoggg said:

.  But once time in the monkey house becomes part of the calculus then maybe knocking one out while watching Pornhub becomes more appealing. 

 

OMG ..That would be a show stopper for most of us and certainly me. I did not realize how strict it had become over there . 

I was thinking ahead a bit maybe  to Xmas time but time will tell . Of course it all depends on Air travel and the limits imposed by IATA and all the Countries involved ...

Im not sure how much sway the sex club industry mafia has in LOS but probably more than in Western Europe

No one will be getting a vaccine jab before next Spring thats for sure and maybe never . One hopes that the prize money will concentrate minds

I agree . the vaccine is the way for Girly bars to re open . Unless the virus suddenly retreats by xmas the good times are in the past.. 

one supposes that it could all drift online as Thaifriendly is still active. As long as the Hotels are open and are not to fussy this may be the only way.

Expect a huge joiner fee .  Im optimistically pessimistic about the whole thing

I think most guys prick rules there heads so no doubt about the barfinablity. The big question is the distance issue and whether these types of bars will come back...lets face it from London to Las Vegas and beyond go go bars and the like are pondering this issue .. It does not bode well , maybe South East Asia will be different though. 

re edit ... maybe you meant will girls be available....sorry i may have mis read