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On 4/14/2020 at 3:35 PM, webfact said:

Wannapa said business had been good since the coronavirus virus emerged in January with an average daily profit of 2,200 baht ($67) compared with about 1,800 baht ($55) before.

Like all Thai people, he confuses turnover with net profit.

With good luck, he has a negative net profit before taxes if he pays ...
Why negative?
Quite simply because he considers that the depreciation of his "truck" which is not one but which is a pickup does not enter into account in his provisional budget;
no more than diesel and its salary ...

Just now, mauGR1 said:

Besides that, all the millions who were making a living with foreign tourism, will have to invent other jobs, which would be impossible while watching tv at home.

I find you very optimistic ..
Already before Covid-19, most of the employees in large numbers in the Malls spent most of their time with their eyes on their smartphones staring at bullsh*t;
when you asked them a question about what they were selling, you had the unpleasant feeling of disturbing.
it will not change ...

except that instead of being 20 to sell something their boss will only take 5 which will be more than enough.

On 4/14/2020 at 5:46 PM, Mavideol said:

China always, always tells the truth... if they were to release more water how could they control their neighbors economies.... they send military escorts ships, disguised as fishing ships to protect their fishing boats that are encroaching on other countries maritime rights but all in good faith

 

All this will end in a real military confrontation.
Forget the skirmishes where
the Chinese regularly take the patee each time they cling to the Vietnamese .
If in addition to the Vietnamese army are added those of Cambodia, why not Laos which has it over its head to be colonized without any economic fallout;
I could have spoken of that of Thailand, but it is an army of operetta which has almost more generals than men of troop; so let's forget it and let it parade dressed like at carnival ..

1 minute ago, mauGR1 said:

Buying time, i guess, which is better than nothing.

I understand, but there are no more consumers, neither from other countries nor even from Thailand;
10 to 15 million unemployed people in a country which boasted of having around 1% a few weeks ago.
and unemployed people without compensation, therefore angry, who risk not marching peacefully in the streets.
Instead of traders I would stay firm by adding a few barricades in front of my shops.
and then with what money will they restock their stalls and pay their employees?

4 hours ago, webfact said:

by launching a new measure to woo international investors

Many European, Japanese and US companies have understood the limits of offshoring;
they will relocate, Thailand will therefore lose many factories

4 hours ago, webfact said:

and spending Bt1.9 trillion on recovery.

How weird ...
To give 5,000 baht to the poor in Thailand the PM does not find enough money;
on the other hand to try to revitalize the economy, the tap with cash is easily reopenable with all the drifts that we already know: the brown envelopes will swell again 

8 minutes ago, Thailand said:

The only option is to reopen, the problem then is where are the jobs.

But it's too late ..
The industrialized countries in Europe and in the USA AND in China have closed their borders;
the planes are nailed to the ground.
Re-open to receive zero customers, what will it be used for?

1 minute ago, MasterBaker said:

i got 3% off this month, so generous!

You receive your bill very early.
Me, never before the 22nd or the 23rd of the month;

I"ll see that in a week.

47 minutes ago, OneeyedJohn said:

Excellent quality pictures - what did u take them with ?

Lumix G85 and the zoom which is sold with it  14-42 , bought 3 and a half years ago in Robinson Sakon Nakhon 

2 hours ago, fruitman said:

That would be great! I hate it when they come in a restaurant while we are eating to annoy us with tickets....also when they sit on the chairs outside which are for guests or customers.

When we have lived here for a long time like me, it does not bother me at all that they come so I can buy  a ticket;
sometimes even I have to call them because when they see a farang they dare not come; they do not imagine that one can want to play like the thai people

3 minutes ago, giddyup said:

Anything but tiles.

I hope so ..Maybe false tiles ;

I have not seen the substitute material

5 minutes ago, Gandtee said:

Can you provide proof of those amputations? I doubt it. You haven't a leg to stand on.????

Two Australians at Sawang who would still have one his right leg and the other his right arm if they returned to Australia on time;
but here in Thailand we do not treat often, amputation is so much easier with drugs to take then the inevitable paracetamol which treats everything, cancers, ulcers, Alzheimer, etc ...

It is unfortunately not a Thai invention but the Thai doctors found nothing Thai to replace it.

3 minutes ago, 473geo said:

But 'chronic fatigue syndrome' - hospital - really

 

You don't seem to know what it is ..
Yes, of course for hospital to have a diagnosis, an encephalogram,  even a radio of the lungs;

things that you will never have when going to see a doctor in his private practice ..

I remind you that I live in a village in isaan lost in the middle of nowhere .. not in Pattaya or in Bangkok where you have a maximum of possibilities on this side.

2 hours ago, webfact said:

He added that the GLO is studying the possibility of selling tickets online.

As has been done in Europe for .... for almost 40 years ...
Better late than never !

it won't do the trick for the tens of thousands of ticket sellers who will have to find other jobs.
The Thai military really has the art of not being loved.

3 minutes ago, 473geo said:

You went to hospital because you were feeling tired!!!

No because I was suddenly sleeping 20/24 

while I have always been in excellent shape;

making between 15,000 and sometimes more than 20,000 km per year on mountain bikes on all types of roads and of course off-piste.

Normal pulse,
no temperature,

no cough,
but excessive fatigue after walking even 10 meters.

I don't smoke and never drink alcohol

For me who never see a doctor it was something not normal

2 hours ago, Grumpy John said:

Shush laddie,  I  was on a fishing trip now you've stolen my bait. 

It depends on what you are fishing;

if it's big, could you tie her to your triple zero hook?

3 hours ago, Yinn said:

Maybe you agree the doctor and medical is terrible in thailand? 

Many doctors in Thailand are notorious incompetents.

I have had an original illness for almost two months; it's called "chronic fatigue"; and it is suddenly caught without warning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_fatigue_syndrome

One of the symptoms is that it makes you want to sleep, headache, etc..

Some days, at the beginning, I slept almost all day, say 20 hours a day; and well after two visits to the public hospital of Sawang then that of Udon Thani, the two doctors who examined me of course did not find what I was suffering from and the worst they gave me drugs that make you sleep ; as if I needed that extra!

On 4/14/2020 at 3:04 PM, kingofthemountain said:

100 people they can handle

wait in few weeks when 1 million of hungry and angry people will be coming...

They would still have to come to an understanding and organize this kind of thing

in the land of the me, me, me first.

24 minutes ago, johng said:

Did the old roof blow away in a storm ?

these were  metal  sheets which could actually have taken off a few days ago when we had a good windstorm with great surprise, no power outage ! , But not at all ;
I don't know what they will be replaced by;

it is the house of one of my sisters-in-law and most of the workers are residents of the village.

24 minutes ago, Thaiwrath said:

They just keep on having to throw this one into the discussion ! 

They did not write dirty farang;

it's already an improvement ..
In foreigners there are of course the Chinese ...

21 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Bangkok stays dry

This is not what I see in the photo; there are puddles almost everywhere