MrMo

One point that the Thai people in general fail to appreciate that in many cases it is not the foreigner who ends up paying.   Those of us who have a family here will, when we die, leave to that Thai family whatever is left in our estate.    They will end up the loosers.

I have recently needed a CT scan at a government hospital.   When booking the scan, we were told that it would cost Baht 17,000 but to bring a total of Baht 25,000 to cover total costs.   The bill charged turned out to be Baht 29,000 for the scan with the total coming over Baht 50,000.

Which planet are their script writers inhabiting ?

But when will 70% of the population be vaccinated ?   The figures referred to in the seventh paragraph highlight the lack of clarity in the governments information releases or the clarity in the reporting of them.

It does seem that most organisations in the world, be they national, global or scientific sources, believe that not just two shots of one type of vaccine will provide the necessary protection.

Has the government considering how they can cater for the multi-sourced vaccines in order to protect Thais against all variants ?   And if they wish for social freedom for Thais in Thailand the need to include all non-Thais.

And the semi-lockdown is going to start in which year ?

And what sort of certification is being provided ?   Will an inoculation in Thailand be accepted by other countries ?

This doesn't seem to be discussed anywhere.

As far as the "offences" are concerned, they all seem to be in breach of the regulations with perhaps the exception of two people on a balcony.   

As to the level of fines imposed, that is another matter.

Just don't break the rules to start with and there will be no fine.

5 hours ago, tonray said:

Just what we need for the image of foreigners in Thailand...oh brother. hit him with 6000 baht fine...if he transgresses again....throw him out

Better still, put him in a Thai Quarantine facility until he can get a flight home.

The headline of this article and the first sentence of the second paragraph do not agree.

The headline states that expats over 60 who have an underlying condition will receive Covid vaccinations free of charge.

The second paragraph states that expats who are over 60 and expats who have an underlying disease will receive Covid vaccinations free of charge.

A condition is not a disease.    An and is not an or.

Any chance of having these fundamental discrepancies clarified ?

It is cock-ups like these that lead to the rumour-mills going off at 359 degrees from the truth.

12 hours ago, bwpage3 said:

70% of 66,000,000 people = 46,200,000 people /50,000 jabs per day = 924 days /365 days per year = 2.5 years to vaccinate 70% of the population.

 

What about the other 30%?

 

Migrants illegally entering Thailand?

 

Tourists?

 

 

Now let's be fair.   He said "Bangkok".   That will take only 9 months,   Bangkok may then be able to attract tourists again by next March.   At least it will be in time for Songkran 2022.

As to us lot out in the boonies, your guess is as good as mine as to when we will get the needle.

That works out at GBP 240 per day or, to use smaller numbers, GBP 10 an hour.   Let me assure, Lorraine King, that the MIRROR's owners are extremely unlikely to be prepared to fork that out for a guy who will have little to contribute to society to the few years he has left.

It is now 17 years since I first got involved with assisting in English teacher training and English camps in Thai state schools.   I was asked by both Thai and farang enthusiastic teachers to get join them in helping Thais learn colloquial, conversational English.   It was great fun and the satisfaction obtained was all the reward needed to ensure I'd be available next time around.

Then the Ministry of Education went through a whole deck of Ministers in a short space of time, each bringing in a new, hopeless English policy.   The result was that all those enthusiastic Thai and farang English teachers lost heart and now just put in the hours.

So many points in this article hit the target in Thailand:

- pupils don't need to everyday watch the flag go up the pole to know they are Thai

- they need to be told when they have not achieved a satisfactory level of a subject

- they need to learn to managed risk

- they need to learn that the concept of loss of face is keeping them ignorant of so much that schools should be teaching them.   If you don't know, ask !   Otherwise you'll stay ignorant !

- designated times and durations need to be set for staff meetings.   Almost every day a class for my boy is cancelled at short notice as the teacher has to "attend a meeting".   Except for the afternoon break being extended on the last day of term, I do not recall any class being cancelled for lack of a teacher in my time as a pupil.

2 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

I would also refuse treatment at one of those field hospitals.... 

 

I believe for those who are asymptomatic that isolating at home is more than sufficient. However, I also understand the government make the rules and I have to comply whether I like them or not. 

 

Thus: I would choose to go to a more comfortable hospital.... either pay myself or ‘try’ and get my insurance to pay for it.

 

There is another thread running which indicates insurance may not pay for ‘unnecessary hospitalisation’ for someone who’s tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 but shows no symptoms.

 

Thus: IF in the unlikely event that I have to take a Covid-19 test (i.e. because Wife was exposed in a Supermarket etc), and IF I test positive and am expected to isolate in a ‘field facility’ I would claim a headache, tight chest etc and ensure my Dr signs off on medically necessary treatment so that my insurance will provide cover. 

 

 

 

 

Are there private hospitals accepting "Positives" ?   Hate to think what the charge would be.

15 hours ago, Tropicalevo said:

 

 

But they got the name as the operating hours were 7am to 11pm.   Perhaps they should change the name whenever restrictions are imposed upon them.

3 hours ago, prakhonchai nick said:

Contradictory statements coming from Buriram and Anutin.

 

When one arrives in Buriram on a bus or train, how do those controlling things know where passengers have come from. Trains and buses stop everywhere. Very easy to say you boarded at Korat for example (though of course Thais would never lie!)

Doesn't matter where you say you came from, you'll be documented.

4 hours ago, petermik said:

Thailand has many laws/rules and regulations the implementation of these is a different matter

Many years ago a law was brought in covering the limit to which car windows could be blacked out.   Performing artists, who needed to change in moving vehicles while being transported (at least, I hope they were being transported) to their next venue, complained bitterly.

Though they needn't have bothered as it was later reported that the police had just 4 density measuring guns in the whole country.

The headline editor responsible for the headline of this article should be fired, instantly.   Otherwise the credibility of Thaivisa (which has fallen downwards in my opinion) and its parent, "The Nation", will fall to even lower depths.

Where is the the "plan explained" ?   "Plan" is a word for which the Thai language has no rational meaning.

This does not surprise me.   I have been waiting for something like this ever since the police disappeared, on-mass, to "inactive duties".   With hardly any police stops on the road for around 10 months, how can they be expected to pay for the little luxuries of life ?

In the last 2 days I have driven through Buriram, Khon Kaen, Nakorn Ratchasima and Udon Thani provinces and, for the first time for months, have encountered police road checks.   No problems.   The police were very polite and correct.   Other drivers were pulled to one side so presumably there were some offences committed.

National Police Chief Suwat Jangyodsu's plea comes as a result of the manner in which police offices have have been required to obtain an income in order to provide a reasonable living for their family for decades.

If they were adequately remunerated it would be at the expense of the government purse which would then be required to obtain the funding from the more, even most, affluent citizens and businesses (is there a differenc ?} of the country.

There are obvious ways in which reforms could be implemented but they would cost those at the top.

That is all very well and very commendable.   The two main problems are :

- the police have to be out on the street to catch them.   We haven't seen police out on our streets since early Covid days.

- the police need a meter of some sort to show that the vehicle is exceeding the safety limit.   When a few decades ago a limit was set on the dark-tinting of car windows it turned out that the was only somethin like 4 meters in the country capable of testing them.    That was a rule soon forgotten.