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This situation plays very well into the Thai government’s hands. They don’t have to deal with throngs of stinky farang passing into the country, they don’t have eyes watching their many violations of human rights, and they get to conveniently reinvent themselves as an expansion of the Chinese influence in SEA. Like our government here in the US, any move to help ordinary people who have built their lives around tourism is pure theatre, as they are bought and paid for. 

72 people died on Thailand’s roads yesterday and all it got was a shoulder shrug. But look at the amount of investment that has been made in the name of 3800 sick and 59 dead over nine months. If you can even believe the official numbers. Statements like this merely keep the fear and xenophobia ratcheted up.

I don't care who makes it, let them run that ish from Swampy to Hua Hin and I'm riding it. Anything beats three nail-biting hours on Phetchakrashem Road.

3 hours ago, chicowoodduck said:

Good Lord, sober up!  And get off of your meds! ????????????

 

You must be the guy who tells everyone to invest in Bitcoin as well?

 

 

Hey, you doubled your fun if you jumped in during this spring’s crash. I’m kicking myself waiting for it to drop to $27 a coin.

Hell, it’s all manipulated anyway.

7 hours ago, RotBenz8888 said:

You'll get this tatoo on your a**. 

It'll actually be a brand, tattooing takes way too long with the numbers they're touting. 

You'll get it after you clear passport control and before baggage claim.

13 hours ago, 2 is 1 said:

 High Roller's! Where Thailand put all that money?

Ayyy...them Tesco Lotus and Makro provisioning runs ain't cheap, boss. ????

7 minutes ago, Max69xl said:

It's about the incubation period. That's why there's been several cases lately in quarantine even when they produced a negative test result at departure. 

I know about the incubation period. That's why you have to stay in an ASQ.

Keep the negative test and the ASQ as a requirement, otherwise, open it up. They are not going to stop the virus by keeping the country closed forever. And they are not going to regenerate tourism by letting in 40 people on average a day.

On 10/13/2020 at 4:59 PM, Phillip9 said:

You would risk infecting the airline, immigration, hotel and hospital staff that would be interacting with you.  None of those employees have any desire to take that risk.

If you have a negative PCR test 72 hours prior to the flight, how exactly are you doing that?

1 hour ago, Jingthing said:

Those people would not have died when they did if they hadn't been infected with this virus. 

That statement implies that, if you get the virus, you die.

Clearly, that's not the case.

38 minutes ago, oldhippy said:

Yes and all those virologists work together with politicians in a worldwide power grab - Reptilians they are, the lot of them.

Good that all this is exposed by freedom fighters like Trump, Bolsanaro, Loekasjenko and you.

Nothing like ad-hominem attacks to prove your point.

So even if my US passport weren't radioactive, there's no way I'd jump through all these hoops, and I'm likely one of the people this thing's targeted for.

I have a long term rental contract, plenty of money, I'm nomadic, and I often stay at least 3 months when I visit the country, and I've been isolating for the last 7 months.

But all these requirements? I'm good. I'll find something a little less far afield this winter. It's already a slog in normal times coming halfway around the world, even when you fly in business class. I come to Thailand to relax, not be even more stressed. I can do that right here in COVIDLandia for free.

I understand the folks who need to get back to their families. Maybe that's who they should focus on as the first group of people to let in.

China should be the last country they consider letting in. And I say that as a holder of a Chinese business visa. But we all know why.

8 hours ago, uncle_tom said:

- So the answer to your question is the simplest one: Just get back to normal without delay. 

Yep. I have my credit card ready to buy tickets to Thailand right now. I'd even be willing to jump through hoops to make sure I'm COVID-free. But when I get to Thailand, I want to go to my house with my fiber internet connection and people around me who know me and will happily help me get through the first two weeks.

What is the point of limiting who can come in when they want you to have COVID insurance and stay in a quarantine hotel for 2 weeks anyway, on your dime?

Oh, that's right, they don't want anyone to come in.

Curious if this will work or makes any sense.

It's around the time I visit Thailand for the winter. Typically, I get a SETV and keep it under 60 days. Sometimes I bounce it for another 30. This year, I need to fly to Johannesburg for work.

Considering booking two round trips, US to BKK and BKK to JNB.

Getting my standard SETV for my stay in Thailand.

Arrive in Thailand, use visa, stay for ~50 days.

Fly round trip BKK-JNB, returning a week later.

Reenter Thailand on 30-day exempt stamp.

Lay around in BKK for two days before completing my round trip US-BKK.

Can prove my financial worth and all that. How much drama should I expect to get from Thai IOs in a situation like this? I can save thousands of dollars in airfare by booking trips this way, rather than a multi-city.

Thoughts welcome.

On 2/15/2018 at 11:04 AM, mrmicbkktxl said:

It's more like from amiga 500 to windows95,if they really to blurred to use a computer maybe iphone can do.Not to difficult to save some names,or go to phanthip and ask some computer freaks to help them

Heyyyy now don’t be hating on Amiga 500s! I owe the fact that I can get stared at by IOS every time I enter Thailand to the fact that my first computer was an Amiga.

Besides. A500 to PC running Win95 is a downgrade, not an upgrade. ????

It’s still going on folks. Her twitter account just posted video of them still wanting to get into the room.

https://mobile.twitter.com/rahaf84427714

this is nuts!

It's slightly harder for us digital nomads. I was sorted to be here just under 6 months a year with a twice-bounced double-entry Tourist visa. Now, I have to opt for METV and the silly requirements it has, or run by a consulate for a single entry every time I return to the States. Not a problem from a financial perspective as I always return home between entries, but definitely an added inconvenience and cost. Of course, with METV, I don't have to take a whole day out for the Immigration sideshow that comes with bouncing an entry...*shrug*

As it stands, I won't be here for more than 4 months out of the year going forward anyway because I'll be spending more time discovering my home country. If that was the desired effect, then they got it.

I heard that you can't bounce an entry on a METV like you can a tourist visa entry? Meaning that you have to be out of the country in 60 days per entry, period. Is that true?

Absolutely loving it on the beaches south of Pran Buri. Phone says 23 at 5:00pm...too bad we can't do this more often! AC has been off for two days and counting. Of course, this is nothing like 2013 when we had the AC off for an entire month.

By Thursday it's supposed to be 35 again; live it up, gents!

If this comes to pass they'll make more money off people who buy two-entry TRs and then bounce both entries to stay in the country for six months. I'll pay that extra 1000 baht to be able to avoid the local immigration office!

The last time I used a taxi from Swampy to Bangkok, the guy hit us for a flat rate of 700 baht and then tipped himself 100 baht at the destination. Ordinarily I would have stomped my feet and raised a ruckus but we had had a rough flight and at that point I was going to quibble over the equivalent of 6 or 7 $. It's really a shame that tourists have to go through this kind of nonsense right out of the gate after arriving here.

Nowadays, we simply get a driver direct from our house down south to the airport and back. Flat fee, quick, easy transport of us and our stuff, we get there at a decent hour, and no having to deal with the cost of a night in Bangkok or the taxi mafia there. I tip generously; the wais I receive are quite deep.