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18 hours ago, Joinaman said:

and people still run scared from this "deadly "virus that has killed only 97 in 16 months , which is 1 every 26 days, yet we accept numbers of road deaths like these without fear 

Exactly, this may be why they not to worried about testing.

14 hours ago, GeorgeCross said:

getting way too close for comfort for me. i now know multiple people who either have it, are in isolation or sick and awaiting results. multiple positive kids at my son's school as well (hua hin)

 

this outbreak is much bigger than before

 

local hospitals are either refusing to test or trying to get people to pay with many refusing to do so. no beds anyway. one of the kids from school sent home positive and whole family been sick for days.

 

i suppose at least they are at home, which is good for them but its obvious the system is creaking already with only a few hundred cases.

 

 

Thanks for the Huahin update, I live there but stuck in NZ. I will warn my mother in law to stay home from working in the market. 

The mass migration from Bangkok to Cha Amm and Huahin every weekend to the beaches must have something to do with this, plus the infections from the night club visited by the infected from Bangkok. 

Then there is also a high amount of myamer workers. 

May be a coincidence but Chiang Mai infections have risen since the conflict in Myanmar, very easy for people to to walk into Masai, Chiang Rai and very hard to control. 

I lived there for several years and people were walking across the borders in daylight without problems, now with the conflict things could get worse for the covid-19 infections from the borders. 

1 hour ago, VBF said:

You're being ridiculous and reading additional meanings into my words - the whole question is hypothetical unless and until one needs treatment for Covid or whatever other ailment.

 

I merely pointed out that everyone has the right to know what drugs are being injected into them.  (unless its a dire emergency, when you have to trust in professionals - note my comment "if circumstances allow for it.") Obviously the meds have to be prescribed before you know what they are, but at that point you don't just blindly take meds because a doctor prescribes them, you ask questions and challenge the reasoning, or get a second opinion.

Google Dr Sircus’s latest report,really well researched And an eye opener 

On 4/11/2021 at 4:33 PM, AlfHuy said:

Soon restaurants and massage shops closed again,  IMO

My friends wife shut down their restaurant which does really well,in the  northeast as they don’t know where the customers are coming from at present.

14 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

Add these two TAT Ministers to the numbers.  The government folks seem to not be Covid free after getting vaccinated.

 

https://www.tatnews.org/2021/04/tourism-authority-of-thailands-announcement/

 

Wishing them a speedy recovery.

 

The numbers today should be higher but I think they are reflecting the hospitals running short on tests and the actual lab doing the checking of being overwhelmed much like the government who was caught off guard.

That's the point, they should be ready to do testing, they have had plenty of time, my Thai wife said yesterday that Thai people are a lot more worried this time. 

8 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

Your price quotes are not accurate as you are not taking into consideration all the other things necessary to get the jab in arms.  The wholesale price has nothing to do with the final jab in a foreign country and is a false narrative of the final cost for a country to import, manage and all the other protocols/regulations necessary to provide the vaccines..  

Vaccine development has been funded by the tax payer. 

It should be free, legislation was made to let vaccine companies own what they developed and sell it back to governments, legislation was also passed granting them immunity from prosecution's from the side effects. 

Now private companies, hospitals, governments have turned distribution into a circus. 

At the same time they have ignored other treatments such as Ivermectin which has proven itself as safe and very effective, only now are brave doctors starting to speak out and use Ivermectin, possibly the safest drug in the world, its been around for years.

Instead greedy mania prevails and the world has become a shameful mess controlled by big pharmacy and greedy psychopathic maniacs. 

On 4/10/2021 at 2:34 AM, WHansen said:

I have read this several times to try and understand the process. I may be wrong but to me it looks like private companies need to apply to the Thai FDA to import vaccines, after approval is granted by the FDA, those companies/organisations can import vaccines and then the hospitals or clinics can negotiate with said companies to supply them vaccines.

 

I hope i have misunderstood this and there are NOT a lot of already rich people applying to be middlemen to earn lots of Baht from this importation of vaccines.

One thing is certain, the company that imports Astra will be in trouble. 

On 4/9/2021 at 10:04 AM, smedly said:

sure just lock them foreigners (cheap labour)  into factories weld the doors shut or lock them up at Immigration holding centers 

 

who on this earth would want to go near a hospital right now

 

 

why not offer free travel vouchers to all those wanting to spread out across the country these next couple of weeks - why on earth would you charge people for spreading the virus across the country - that would be counter productive - let them travel for free, lets get that spread going at the fastest possible pace as far and wide as possible 

 

GRRRRRRRRR 

Has anyone thought that maybe Prayut likes this as it gives him power to stop protests. 

Whichever way you look at the unfolding Situation in Thailand it seems pretty clear that travel bubbles are blown from bubble gum and things might go very wrong in the next few weeks, then this will make it more difficult for people wanting to return, it just might be unsafe for people to return. 

And as to latest reports from my friends wife, who is ex government, and my family in Thailand, crime is on the up and people don't feel so safe these days. 

Lots of bars going up over windows and doors. 

On 4/8/2021 at 1:09 PM, ThailandRyan said:

It walked in with an asymptomatic person who possibly tested negative.  Either that or it was brought in back in January and escaped quarantine.  Who really knows as they have never really been openly testing.

This strain has a longer tail than others. The latest outbreak in NZ was caused by this strain after a woman was released from quarantine after 14 days and was later found to be positive after 25 days causing an outbreak that luckily was soon controlled. 

NZ has just suspended people from India entering NZ as 19 out of 23 arrived with covid and 60 positive arrived in the last week. 

The people themselves say this is not fair, and they contracted covid on the way to the airport. 

Suspect is dodgy ducuments and testing. 

Indians make up a huge amount of Thailand's tourists, so dodgy vaccine papers are now going to be big business. 

Shortening quarantine now is brain dead, and Anutins travel bubble has burst. 

On 4/7/2021 at 1:13 PM, Shuya said:

Good thing they had over 1 year to prepare. Used the time wisely I see.

I'm sure if a local goes to a pharmacy, they will come away with a bag filled with a variety of coloured pills that will fix any ailments, no need for any silly quarantine or waxine. 

On 4/6/2021 at 9:58 PM, ukrules said:

We now have limited outbreaks in Bangkok, starting this weekend the masses begin to travel.

 

Despite their efforts at contact tracing I doubt they will manage to locate them all before Songkran.

 

I know for sure that many of the Thais with plenty of money like to come to Hua Hin, they rent large party type houses, some of them bring whole teams of uniformed chefs and waiters to cater to their needs - I've seen them.

 

I'm sure they also travel to many other places in Thailand.

 

He's making a mistake here, it will spread and this is the perfect time for it to spread.

 

Your right one of my Thai friends looks after one of these properties, it runs from the road to the beach, has huge accomadion for guests as well as 

catering, we can park there and use the beach if we like. 

There are many properties like this, add that to the ones that own apartments and flock to Cha Amm every Friday and maybe a big outbreak in Huahin is on the cards. 

22 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

No alcohol ? Boy, some the buffalos are in for a hard time in the coming weeks.

Yes you might get Dunk, and kiss a strange girl, further spreading the wirus 

17 hours ago, toolpush said:

Months? I can see this insanity going on for years

Don't worry, just remember what Prayut said when the virus first broke out, I am in control here. 

So don't panic, once he jabs all the Myanmar fish workers and the fleeing refugees things will return to normal. 

On 4/4/2021 at 12:09 PM, PatOngo said:

Here, here!

Thai Visa, through the pandemic has kept expats informed, us trapped that went home for Xmas and those still in Thailand. 

I am making plans to return I hope b4 Xmas, with wife and family. 

The world is in a sorry state, but I take my hat off to Thai Visa for keeping us informed and humoured through tough times, and to posters like Ubon Joe who goes out of his way to help people with visa problems, so well done, Thai Visa 

On 4/4/2021 at 7:58 PM, davemos said:

My mate whos a fire fighter in Sydney nsw visited a station in Soi 26.He was surprised tha a lot of their equipment was better /newer than  Sydney 

I think Mr Thaksin kept fire equipment up to date when he was around, or his cousins, could be wrong. 

11 hours ago, Albert Zweistein said:

Big profit flying 16 pax BKK - HKT. Oh they are bankrupt already ?

This article says the plane arrived initially in BKK with 130 tourists on board, so did 114 get off in BKK and then the plane flew on to Phuket??? 

On 4/2/2021 at 11:20 PM, Bradmeister said:

Not again with the Foreigners! 

 

So, if I was just in Minnesota, during the 4th wave, and picked up strain # 8 or #9...but was inoculated for strains 1, 2, or 3....Im not ok because I'm a foreigner and have a Foreigners proof from a Thailand list? Or I am ok because I meet Thailands Criteria!? 

 

What? 

 

Is any of this making sense to anyone. 

 

All the Spring breakers just returned home in the USA and shared South American, and Central American strains with they're little sisters and brothers and infections shot up 237% in schools K through High School in the Mid West.

 

The 4th wave just hit the USA, and its on its way over to a town near you soon. 

 

But we're going to have a list for Africans, Europeans, Sandanavians, Australians and Asians and North, Central and South Americans to come into travel bubbles? 

 

Delusional 

 

.... which brings us back to the Burmese coming in as legal or illegal workers..... how will they afford they're shots?  Are they part of the "Foreigners" list? 

They will be vaccinated with the Samut Prawn Vaccine 

18 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

A friend of mine recently offered a homeowner 15% less than she was asking, and in exchange offrerd to pay a years rent in advance. She refused. Now, the home has been vacant for four or five months already, as it is an extremely soft rental market. 

 

I am not a math professor. But the 15% would have represented less than two months rent. So, unless her phone was ringing off the hook, with potential renters, his offer was a good one. 

 

Pride? Lack of common sense and reason? She just does not need the money, and is not sincere about renting the house? One can often rack the mind trying to figure out the reasoning here. Or lack thereof. 

I have come up against this many times, there are thousands of homes like this, the owners would rather leave them empty than reduce the rent, I always say they have to much money. 

Many of them are Chinese Thai with established business in the area. 

What surprises me from your post is that they are still holding out for stupid rents during the pandemic. 

They are probably doing quite well from the rents they collect from Thais at markets, and the shops they own. 

I think that save face and stuborness has been bread into Thai by the Chinese. 

18 hours ago, Surelynot said:

Well I guess they would say that wouldn't they?..........got to be desperate times........14 rooms on our floor.....condo, central Bangkok.......... and I think we are the only occupants.

Overseas buyers are weary of the Thai property market as we all know. Until the rules change that will prevail. 

There are hundreds of thousands of empty new and second hand condos at present. 

Ever tried to buy a mortgagee house from a bank? They want twice as much as the lovely house next door sold for, and their houses have been gutted and overgrown. 

There are thousands of new condos for sale on the coastal stretch between Cha Amm and Huahin, they are all the same color and expats have said if you owned one that you'd go crazy looking out the window. 

The BK post once commented that these empty condos being built all over the country are drug money laundering 

As such the owners will sit on them and hope that one day when the high speed Rail between China and Los opens that Chinese buyers will be flocking in to buy their holiday dream homes. 

I hope the infrastructure will be up to it by then or the Cha Amm ones will be called t. Urd City. 

21 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Boris Johnson will stub his foot next week and the baht will gain a 0.5% against the pound

Which foot? the one on his head or the other 2.

I always thought he was trying to impersonate Donald Trump with the haircut, but his looks better as it's not a comb over 

6 hours ago, impulse said:

 

If you've ever spent time on Kao San Road, you'd appreciate how dodgy that statement is. 

 

I could print out thousands of exact duplicates of the vaccine certificate I received, with a simple laser printer and some card stock.  If I can do it, some entrepreneurial forgers will do it.

 

There's going to have to be some standardization and/or some way to authenticate any vaccine certificate.  So far, it doesn't exist.

I'm sure the counterfeiters and brown envelope brigade have a solution 

On 4/2/2021 at 12:00 AM, TacoKhun said:

Interesting, no Russian vaccine who one of the biggest tourist group.

Yes, and Russian vaccines are reported as performing better than most. 

The bit about tourists will not qualify if they are from a country with a mutated strain, gets me, just about all countries have had a case of a mutated strain, including NZ and Australia, Europe is full of mutated strains, so I guess this plan is up for review already. 

Next plan please. 

On 3/30/2021 at 12:44 PM, Rocking Robert said:

You still have to have a COE certificate and COVID 19 insurance

It's returning home that will be the problem, but I guess the number crunchers allow for this. 

3 hours ago, impulse said:

I get a kick out of all the guys who think these programs are (or even should be) aimed at rich western retirees.

 

And the guys who think they could afford land if Thailand let their northern neighbors start snapping it up, bidding up the prices.

 

And the ones who think there would be any room left in Thailand if they made it real easy for their northern neighbors to get a Thai passport.

 

Be careful what you wish for...

 

If they sold all the empty condos owned by the Chinese drug Lords, then you might see a rise in Myanmar Labour and a building boom

15 hours ago, simon43 said:

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...about making it easier for foreigners to buy houses in Thailand.

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Sorry, but I simply don't believe this.  'Buying a house' in my interpretation means owning (not leasing) the property (with its land/garden) in my name only.  Any other scheme is just deception.

Well there is plenty for a sale, I have heard rumours back here that some properties are going very cheap now. Still the wealthy land bankers will be holding out. 

Buyers will be weary nowadays of buying anything, one phenomenon that has happened is that property prices in most countries have shot through the roof, a phenomenon that I don't think will happen in Thailand, especially now Myanmar is in a state. Thailand also has its own problem with political uncertainty and turmoil. 

A market that states, Buyers Beware.