bitterbatter

23 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Are you talking about Thailand?

Yes, Thailand has a lot of laws, like many other countries. And there are more and more laws just like many other countries.

The big difference is still that many laws are not enforced in Thailand. So in a way there is still a lot of freedom.

 

Personally I think the Thai government made the right decision when they closed the country. And I hope they will make sure no Covid infected people will come into Thailand for the foreseeable future. Is that bad for busyness? Sure? But let's look at the alternative. The USA is a prime example how not to do it.

 

Do you really think that destroying thousands of businesses, and millions of incomes, is worth saving a few hundred lives?  I don't see it.  
You think that this will end soon and things will return to normal.  I don't see it.  I would love for you to be right.  But this is not about the virus, this is a global attack on human freedoms.  If I am right, the shutdowns will continue into next year.  
As for the US, again lots of distortion there. Doctors are saying that every test they have been taking in the last two weeks is coming back positive. Social distancing, and stupid masks are supposed to slow down infection spreading.  Mainstream media is only talking about number of infections, but now completely ignore the fatalities which are dropping quickly and at the lowest levels since this early outbreak. Here is a stat showing just how poorly the US is doing, compared to other countries. You won't see this in the news.

This goes way beyond GO GO bars.  Everyday more and more regulations.  There are people, whom I can't name, that only care about power.  This isn't about safety, it's about tyranny at its heart.  
Whenever people used to ask me, 'Why do I love Thailand?"

I answered, "Because of the freedom"
Those days are now gone.
People think that things will return to normal. I don't think so.  It is very difficult to unring that bell.
How often do you see governments get rid of laws?  Almost never, they just keep adding more and more.
On the surface the reasons always sound like good ideas.  But rarely are all the angles considered.  Anymore, whoever screams the loudest in the controlled media, gets what they want.  And these are usually the most emotionally unhinged, irrational, idiots you could meet.  
I cannot believe how quickly a few people can destroy a country.  
Shutting down a whole country indefinitely because the WHO says to do it?  For a fatality rate of 0.0000002?  More people die from tripping on stairs, a lot more. Way more people die from a head cold.  Why don't you just make death illegal?
Just 7 years ago, people were outspoken and took a stand for their political beliefs.  Now there is silence, and pent up frustration.
It is very sad to watch this happen.  
Live and let live.  A few simple principles to guide us is a far better solution, than a million DO NOT's.  If you give up you liberty, for safety, then you don't deserve either.  I will take dangerous freedom over being safe every time.

I have watched those monkeys, they are way faster then people.  This isn't for show. And climbing those tall trees in incredibly dangerous. Also it is cheaper.  So if you get rid of the monkeys,  more people will fall, less people will pay to get their trees picked, and more coconuts will fall without warning also creating another danger.  This is pure BS, once again being pushed by leftists who want to regulate away every single freedom they can think of to satisfy their distorted beliefs. 

Everytime we give in to these control freaks, we lose more and more. 

Do this and watch the price of coconut products to go up, sales will go down.

And to top it off, if they go down this route, what is the first thing people who own these monkeys will do? 

They lost the money to feed them...  So there is a good chance that they will kill them.  How humane.

Prepare for the worst and pray for the best. The one thing you can count on from the Chinese is not giving the real numbers

How dare these foreigners bring lots of paying tourists and business to Thailand!  Let's not talk to them and sell the permit to them, instead we will send them to jail and courts where they will be guilty until proven innocent.   Then they will pay big money for not understanding our very difficult to understand system of payola.

Too many have been brainwashed by all their heavy propaganda. I don’t see it happening for 5-10 years. 

While they are busy snooping in our business,  Can they also take a look into Thai spouses stealing expats money?

How soon before they come up with 50 more ways to tax foreigners?

If they don’t know who they were, and never talk to them, Then how in the hell do they know that they were drunk?  

If you listen to the speech, is about unifying and creating national identity, if you just watch the mainstream media talk about the speech it’s all about dividing the people. Ask yourself, who is really responsible for dividing the American people?