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Already, hardly any of the ASQ hotels signed up for the 5 day quarantine for unjabbed so what are the non vaccinated supposed to do and that includes those who had the pointless jabs a long time ago and whose expiry date is now up ? I was looking at some European countries for connecting flights and many are back pre bat flue lies. Just bring your passport and you're good to go. Thailand needs to drop it all, every piece of it.

For years it was said that the Ambassador was built with a casino gaming floor Phetchaburi makes no sense but it could be a stalking horse, so that if people deride the idea then they will be happier with the alternative. If you let the locals set it up, it will be Chinese run in minutes. I actually hope they put it in Phuket and then we can forget about it and never go there.

the most disrespected police in the world.

I'm not sure which would go first if it happened to me but in the words of Denzel Washington in "Man On Fire", "it's off to the next life for you".

Real lucky. I hope he hasn't got the full role reversal with hoards of parasitic relatives begging for money at every turn, calling him and his spouse when they don't give or fail to give enough.

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Do the people who have to administer this farce ever question the stupidity of their paymasters who come up with a never ending series of ever more stupid "investment opportunities" for westerners ? Can they even comprehend just what 32,000,000 actually represents, if they are earning 20/30k a month ? Yet no-one who has $1m plus lying around is stupid enough to invest it in Thailand simply to get a work permit.

And if they make insurance compulsory for an extension of stay, then what ? Where does that leave you ? I consider that is something people should be considering and if insurance, even for Thai costs, is impossible at increasing age, then what sum of money on deposit, not forged each year but really on deposit, would be required to effectively self insure. If that was 5m baht, 99% of retirees would fail to qualify.

The airline in Oz won't let him on the plane without a visa covering his stay as the entry stamp isn't sufficient in length and the extension is never guaranteed. Even then, they may want to see evidence of a flight out. Easiest to buy a flight from Bangkok and present both, using a 60 day tourist visa to cover the whole of the trip.

When you have to pay a bribe equal to many years' salary just in order to be allowed to be recruited and the monthly pay is so low that such a bribe makes no financial sense, then even to the simplest child, it is obvious that there is another income available. From the earliest age, children in Thailand see their police extorting money on the roads, for every "service" and for every "crime" and this is normalised to the point where it is not even talked about but simply accepted. When they are "caught" they are not sacked but rather transferred for a while. It cannot be ended because you would have to start again and how on earth would you do that when the barrel is full of rotten apples ?

Nobody ever believed the made up 40m number, or the previous numbers for prior years, all similarly made up. It was all just bluster, never fact.

However, you need to understand that what would be collected in tax in any western country is simply not collected in Thailand because of a hidden cash economy, tax avoidance and bribes. Heck, they cannot even raise the VAT level back to the normal 10% since 1997 or whenever it was discounted to 7% and so many never pay that anyway. Income tax is a joke. So the clever Thais (sic) think taxing a few digital nomads will fill their coffers. It won't and they know that but it takes the light off their other tax free activities.

Welcome to Thailand. Here's your goody bag and a Bt20,000 fine for now wearing a face nappy.

Covid insurance is a scam, dreamt up to feed an industry lobby the same as ASQ was and is a scam, dreamt up to feed the hotel lobby. However, in a digital age, it is not beyond the realms of technology to have a country insist on any visitor having general medical insurance for worthwhile amounts (say $10m) instead of some meaningless $100k number. However, in the long term, I see this as all falling on the airlines and outbound immigration. They already check your passport, visa, entry rules, etc. so adding a covidbollocks jab requirement or some other <deleted> to that list is a marginal addition. Insurance companies would (quite simply) agree to meet an international standard for minimum medical care coverage. However, the notion that Thailand could manage 40m applications via their embassies is beyond comprehension. Neither could Somchai at immigration as they already stamp their lovely meaningless pieces of paper and waste your time. Add a further burden to that and they would go absent in even greater numbers.

What about a Thai mother (jabbed) and a Thai child (non jabbed) arriving after Nov 1st ? Is it just ASQ or nothing or is the sandbox an alternative ?

Believe it when it happens. It could change before lunchtime !

Of course, never sacked from the job his family bribed him into. If he's very good, his 15k a month might buy a few mansions, Mercedes, a few mia nois, oodles of cash and immunity from prosecution.

Ah yes, the "more Thai than the Thais" apologists.