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22 hours ago, KhunKenAP said:

You can bet the police will be checking all open bars and arrest any patron's and bar owners for a single violation of any of the 22 rules. I would estimate the odds of anyone in a bar frequented by farangs being busted at around 90%. Of course there will be mass confusion on what is OK or Not OK. They will arrest first and ask questions later, so they can get picture in the news media.

 

Best they stay closed until these stupid 22 rules go away. 

I heard that lots of small bars have put a kitchen in and are open, any one know about Hua Hin I lived around soi smorprong and there are about 10 small shop bars around and some were selling food before I left and got trapped in NZ 28th January, I know my friends wifes son has reopened his restaurants in udon thani and you can get a drink.

20 minutes ago, Mulambana said:

Why don't you wirte it for a foreign media and see if anyone will accept it. Otherwise, there is always your blog and YouTube Channel where you can rant all you want and as much as you want.

Just read some insurance policy regarding cover for C19, there is no cover for travel to any country with a travel ban in place, so if Thailand lifts it travel ban then you will not be insured if you left a country under a ban and any cover will not include C19 medical costs.

The big question is how will Thailand let tourists in if there is no companies that will cover C19, maybe the Thais will create one or the Chinese, and then if a huge second wave hit LOS the companies that covered C19 would go broke and not pay out, Maybe the PM has some news on this, maybe won't require it for Chinese just deport them back on a special flying ambulance .

16 hours ago, Megasin1 said:

then you have to allow for other trend bucks as normally Songkran and the superb driving standards would have contributed to the normal death levels during this period and they have been muted. If you did a proper analysis it would be much covid 19 higher

The truth be known? we will never know, one thing is certain and that is the push to reopen Thailand to the Chinese. Suicide mission if enacted will totally destroy Thailand.

It's not show time any more it's Blow Time, NZ which had a almost perfect elimination is now getting reinfected due to  letting NZ citizens back in, these are people that have been living overseas for years and have now panicked and are being allowed back in , NZ government stuffing them into private hotels run by private security companies who are blundering and this service is costing $4000 per person.

The USA being run by Donald Duck has led the world in lunacy now India is blowing out of control, south America is a cot case.

The Thai government were told by the airlines that they were not interested in the plans to reopen Thailand as who? would be flying, certainly not European or Indian passengers, Australians and NZ'ers can't fly between countries , they are talking about Fiji being allowed into NZ and open to tourism but that's on hold now as new case are appearing in NZ each day.

One thing I did notice is that the Thai airport seems much more stricter with hygiene than NZ and the Thai airways repatriation flights only allowed 120 passengers per flight where as air NZ is cramming them in.

Maybe Thailand is doing something that NZ and the rest of the world can not do and that is invoke discipline . The chinese can do that but Donald Duck can not, the rest of the world can not and people are now tearing down statues around the world and renaming products with colored skin photos on them. NZ is getting rid of the Eskimo Pie ice cream as the politically, correct red necks are saying it is racist, and NZ'ers are tearing down statues as well.

I have never seen any thing like it, I want to return to LOS after Xmas if possible but now see that the world is gone totally mad, there is sad days ahead for the airlines which will require massive funding to return to some kind of norm.

I have lived in Thailand over 15 years and have a Thai son and wife and a good family, I really miss what I regard as home, I think that those of you that are trapped are lucky as life in the USA and England is crazy-- hence all the expats returning home to NZ ect. 

I do not think that Thailand can reopen for some time, I have many friends who have lost their tickets on Thai airways, opting for a refund minus 300 dollars, no one has had a dime yet and the airline is flying repatriation flights but who owns it or who will revive it if Covid goes away?

These are stressful and anxious times for humans, sadly the maniacs at the top have no clue how to handle this and the greedy are trying to re-open tourism and KFC ect out of greed, creating a second wave.

Maybe the world should reopen together and steam ahead and save the airlines- who knows one thing you should do if that happened is kiss Granny good bye.

Cheers to you all over there ,stay safe Im feeling homesick.

13 hours ago, TheDutchEngineer said:

When was this? You must be really insane to invest in property in these times in Thailand with current laws and political 'development'

 Correct , the property in the picture looks like a stripped Bank repossessed house, maybe he has been selling these in collusion with a Thai and a whole lot of BS papers to people who are thinking that they are cheap because of the  C19 situation 

17 hours ago, Mak25 said:

Assuming any one person is asymptomatic, this person might have infected others and these again might have infected others and so the chain goes on. It is unprobable that all of them are asymptomatic now. At some point somebody would show symptomps. But with 0 domestic cases for the last 2 weeks, not sure why they think there are so many asymptomatic cases now.

I watched a documentary on c19 and doctors said asymptomatic people are healthy people . It is disturbing that he says that 50 percent of people in that age range are asymptomatic. Does he mean Thai people? If he does then the figures touted don’t add up and I would suspect the virus is alive and well in los. Look what is happening in Beijing, it would be a brave move to open the borders to China, just look what happened in New Zealand 2 days ago when 2 asymptomatic English girls were granted a exemption on grounds of bereavement, they tested positive for c19 . NZ made one slip which could spark a new outbreak. So wo betide molly soppy. I think that Thailand should do some serious thinking before opening the borders, especially to China 

12 hours ago, xtrnuno41 said:

Guess the 5 year old shot his brother by accident.

As i see size of .357 guns, cartridge on floor, so not a revolver.

He should have pointed it to himself and then squeeze the trigger, backwards?!

With those tiny little fingers and power you need then to squeeze? As he had a wound going in chest and going out back. 

Well you never know how a cow fetches a hare, but its sad it happend with the kids.

But however its the same as putting kids on motorbikes and let them ride in traffic.

Guns have to be locked inside steel and very secure lockers in New Zealand and this article is why. So sad 

20 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

My Son had both his Thai and British Passport within a month of his birth. 

 

 

I got my sons thai passport when he was 3 months of age. If the mother is thai it is easier than if the father was thai and mother falung. You need birth certificate, passports and take all I’d you have. I had to take the boy to the Embassy in Wellington and no problems. I have since renewed at BK with his old passport, birth certificate and parents passports no problems and I registered my son in the blue book as soon as we returned to Thailand so if applying for in los register and birth certificate as previous poster said 

18 hours ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

Tourists aren't coming in from overseas for a good while yet, even if the borders opened tomorrow with no restrictions.

 

International travel won't return to normal for many months yet.

 

Business owners and people employed in the foreign tourism sector will continue to suffer, but those that diversified or rely on domestic tourism will survive. 

 

The whole thing was a massive, unsustainable bubble anyway, and the environment is no doubt breathing a sigh of great relief.

Thailand was not benefiting from Chinese tourism, only the rich benefited, and a billionaire thai minister is touting there return . Meanwhile the wuhan high speed railway is flying ahead with Chinese financing and Burmese labour, Myanmar is now full of c19 Bangladesh also the thai borders are surrounded with C19. On top of this Thailand is taking credit as being a safe country after letting thousands of  Chinese into Thailand when the virus was running wild in wuhan.  Now they want Winnie wuhan flue bear back as soon as possible. One thing is certain, airlines will never be the same . The world has gone mad this virus has exposed how mad the worlds leaders are. Donald Duck  versus Joe Alzheimers  Biden for the next president of Disney land

11 hours ago, Jimbo2014 said:

There is only one country Thailand really wants back.....  

Yes!  NZ Herald detailed article yesterday said China figures for c19 were ten times higher than they reported and something like close to 100k cases still active , surprisingly a billionaire minister wants them to return to los. Seriously this would be the nail in the coffin for Thailand’s tourism . I would say that 75 percent of thai’s don’t want Winnie wuhan back from China . Once’ bitten twice shy

On 6/4/2020 at 1:25 AM, SunsetT said:

At New Year and the week or 2 afterwards, one of the 3 times annually that I stay in Udon, there seemed to be more farangs around, and not just in Soi Sampan (Bar Street?), than there have been for a couple of years. But what the future holds is anyone's guess!

How’s the Irish Clock going, I think it would survive, as to soi faluung some bars might close and reopen later with new tenants 

5 hours ago, habuspasha said:

Thank you, Rooster.  Great read--as always.  As an American I've been struck by the way George Floyd's death has triggered responses throughout the world.  Surely long overdue in the States, but why everywhere else?  My first answer was that it reflected global angst and anger about America's new isolationism and disavowal of responsibility--a chance to deflate American claims to exceptionalism.  But I am pleased to see other countries taking the opportunity to explore their own traditions of racism: Australia and the Aborigines, Britain and the Raj, France and Algeria.  Are their no similar developments in Thailand?  

New Zealand has been protesting and tearing down statues in an act of what deputy pm Winston peter’s, himself Maori call acts of lunacy. He says you should learn from the past, not destroy it 

9 hours ago, Tropposurfer said:

Agree! To those who peddler hoax ideas like this pandemic is some sort of liberal leftist conspiratorial hoax take a look at the numbers out of Spain Italy Brazil and the next terrible phase that seems to be unfolding in the US to see a glimpse of what would have, and might still happen, if this things is not taken seriously.

According to my relatives in Hua hin there is no problem with c19 they say the problems are Bangkok and Issan

as the bar girls fled home from Phuket and other parts . The numbers touted for the virus remain in the shade, we may see a second wave when the girls return 

19 hours ago, worgeordie said:

So now they have found the Phone,which was in her bag

all the time, but they were looking everywhere for it ,and

first reported they could not find it. what a tangled web

we weave....

regards Worgeordie

Maybe ,just maybe someone important gave the phone to mr plod

3 hours ago, ukrules said:

This is going to be fun, games, finger pointing and quite possibly a blame game as to who brings the first case to Thailand from inside the 'bubble'.

 

 

This will be Show Time!

14 hours ago, ukrules said:

Of course it will have a zero effect on the spread of COVID-19.

 

Right now there are ZERO cases of COVID-19 in the country outside of the quarantines, or so they claim.

 

They've walked themselves into a trap by announcing zero infections over an extended period of time and there's no clear and easy way out of this situation for them.

 

Removing curfew will not in any way change the fact that there's zero COVID-19 cases in the country, the number will continue to be zero regardless of what people inside the country do.

 

The only way there will be new COVID cases inside Thailand now is if the government allow them to enter from abroad.

 

When that happens everyone knows who to blame.

 

Seems to me, the government is very keen to let the Chinese back in, I wonder if he will let NZ citz in.

If he does let Aussies and Kiwis back in then the problem would be flying in as there won,t be flights and the NZ govt will not let you back in until the border is regarded as safe.

On RT news yesterday the Russians are set to release a drug that they are testing that stops the effects of c19 on the lungs, the very thing that kills people is when the lungs cant process oxygen to the blood.

So that may be  a game changer due to be released in July.

If Thailand opens the gates again to China and recieves a second wave of c19 then tourism will be in complete chaos, chaos like in America and Britain where the virus and the people are still going crazy.

NZ latest score , no new cases for the last 20 days, 1500 0dd total cases recorded-- no active cases, 21 deaths of which 10 were from an old peoples home.

I hope I can come back soon.

Cheers to all you guys, keep clean and Healthy.

16 hours ago, smedly said:

took the 5 months to figure out

 

so how many were/are infected in Thailand and how many have died undiagnosed ?

I watched a interview with 2 top experts on c19 and they said asymtomatic people are healthy people 

17 hours ago, SkyFax said:

And just to note, on the Forbes list of The 100 Safest Countries In The World For COVID-19, PR China is ranked #7.

New Zealand has no active cases an no new cases for 20 days now. 20 deaths, so why are we ranked 9th. Switzerland ranked number 1 and they     now admit to making a big mistake over not locking down, the virus went through their old people’s homes killing 33 percent of their dead. They have high infection and the virus is still active there so the poll is a crock 

15 hours ago, KhunKenAP said:

A superior office had to tell them to widen the search area? Are all low ranking police incompetent in Thailand?

 

Now they are considering a covered body as a possible suicide. Guess that question I just asked has been answered.

 

I personally think it was the mushroom picker. There was another news report earlier about a mushroom picker finding another body. Do we have a serial mushroom picker murderer, or a copycat? Police must look at this as another possible theory.

 Could be, forensics would be able to tell if there has been any sexual contact or cause of death, I think you do not kill your self and cover your own body 

18 hours ago, andre47 said:

Thailand has already a list with countries of low risk.

China with Hong Kong and Macau
South Korea

maybe they will add

Taiwan
Australia
New Zealand
Vietnam

Europe and USA for sure not, they are still high risk areas and this probably will not change until we have a vaccine

Okay assuming that they add New Zealand and Australia, there probably will not be flights available ,and if there are they will be expensive , then if you manage to get to Thailand you will probably have to go into quarantine when you return .Nz and Australia are not going to allow their people to travel at will to Los when covid19 countries like China that the virus originated from are flooding through Thailand’s borders.It would be senseless said Scot Morrison and Jacinda Adern would Agee .

19 hours ago, steven100 said:

OP ;  as with THAI airways, there is also a cash flow problem being played out here. They don't have any cash to run daily operations domestically, let alone internationally. 

They are currently in the hands of receivership or voluntary administration.

 

I seriously doubt they will be even operating in August.  Why do you think they keep pushing the date back ?

 

" In any case, the rehabilitation plan must be approved by creditors before it can be carried out. If the plan is not approved, the court will issue an order canceling the rehabilitation process, and the automatic stay will lose its validity. "

"It is therefore unclear how Thai Airways will emerge from this process," 

I am currently stuck in NZ we have 2 thai students with us. They’re flying back to Thailand on Thai airways on 17th June to reunite with their parents . Cost 3600$ nz each,so thaiair are still flying plane Limited to120 passengers 

9 hours ago, phkauf said:

THAI hasn't flown to the US in maybe 10 years so that excuse is nonsense. THAI debt held by some of the leasing companies most likely is under US Law so they would ABSOLUTELY need to file in the US or just hand back the planes to avoid that. Also if THAI entered into any aircraft lease securitization that would also be under US Law, but I doubt they did that.

They want to avoid filing BK in the US at all costs since the US Bankruptcy Court will have zero tolerance for the type of shenanigans they can pull off in Thailand.

If THAI were to play games with the leasing companies, those aircraft could never leave Thailand at risk of being impounded. Imagine getting stuck at an airport in Europe with no plane to take you home is not good for business.

This will be fun to watch.

Quick solution! Impose a three thousand bht airport tax on the 65 million Chinese tourists set to flood back in, problem solved, next problem please 

15 hours ago, ChipButty said:

I find that hard to believe no Thai women involved, who opened the bank accounts for them and normally they are the one who pretend to be from the customs dept getting the money transfers

 Interesting that some arrests were made in Hua Hin I know an old guy there who has major problems with his wife’s invisable boyfriend who is going to do wonderful things for her .She has spent all her savings and wants to kick my friend out after being together for many years.I told her and him that the unseen BF was sitting inside a container in Nigeria smoking a havanna cigar,possibly may have been in Hua hin with his laptop and cigar 

17 hours ago, Quickmill said:

I don't see the big problem here, basically are simple and already in force hygiene and cleaning rules/behavior in the "regular" massage parlor or Spa, the only difference is the temperature check, and the mask, obviously the big room with many seats will be penalized, but this is mostly in tourist area and actually i don't think there will be soon a flock of tourists.

The small foot massage shop or a simple small massage shop will be penalized as well, but honestly, do you think that people are spasmodically waiting to get their foot massage again?

I think it' will be more give the opportunity to people to back to work....but how many are going to reopen, not because the difficult to respect the "restriciton"??

 

 I can just imagine undercover police policing parlours ,more likely businesse as usual as it can be,with fewer customers .I would still go to get a good foot massage 

13 hours ago, Misterwhisper said:

Even more puzzling, then, why the THB continues to be so strong although the economic situation apparently is in such shambles. Something stinks.

 

 

One theory is Thbt is kept strong as the filthy rich are buying up overseas assets at large