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Report Thailand Sees a Surge in COVID-19 Cases: Concerns for Public Health
sandrew33 replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
I’d respectfully suggest that either (a) you have some serious health issues or (b you need to learn to use a condom and stop confusing some industrial level STD with Covid 🤷🏻♂️😁 -
Report Thailand Sees a Surge in COVID-19 Cases: Concerns for Public Health
sandrew33 replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
It is compared to actual flu. People calling common colds flu is part of the problem. I’ve had Covid twice, the second time was barely a cold. The first time is was 4 days that felt exactly like last time I had a proper flu. Both flu and Covid primarily kill the elderly and infirm for most others it’s a few days of relative misery with “flu like symptoms” -
Report Thailand Sees a Surge in COVID-19 Cases: Concerns for Public Health
sandrew33 replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
They can be for many. At worst they are like a bad flu these days as you’d expect of a virus that is endemic. Unless you are very old or infirm it’s not likely to do much to you beyond 3-6 days of feeling crap. In that sense it’s exactly like proper flu. Worth noting that we rarely get stories about flu. It should increasingly be the same for Covid. But for reasons that aren’t clear there seems this need to whip out these stories every 6 months or so. -
Report Thailand Sees a Surge in COVID-19 Cases: Concerns for Public Health
sandrew33 replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
Let me guess cloth masks (entirely pointless but the main used ones in Thailand) or surgical masks (mildly helpful if you have Covid in reducing particle spread if worn properly and changed every couple of hours, entirely pointless otherwise or if wet). The only ones with any real benefit for those healthy are properly fitted (no beard, no gaps) N95 masks which are uncomfortable when worn properly, even moreso in hot weather). So which ones they wearing at Makro because 99% of mask usage in Thailand is entirely or largely pointless? -
Fed-Up Bangkok Locals Demand Action on Rowdy Foreign Renters
sandrew33 replied to snoop1130's topic in Bangkok News
You saying it doesn’t happen? -
Thailand Dismisses Claims of 94% Drop in Chinese Tourists
sandrew33 replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
To be fair there’s new hotels built every second week and there remains myriad brilliant ones. Perhaps avoid crap old hotels and fat bar girls and you’ll have a better time. -
Thailand Dismisses Claims of 94% Drop in Chinese Tourists
sandrew33 replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
A few years ago this was the dream but when we observe them replaced by bulk Russians, package tour Indians and those objectionable man bag wearing Benidorm types it’s basically a nil all draw at best 🙂 -
Fed-Up Bangkok Locals Demand Action on Rowdy Foreign Renters
sandrew33 replied to snoop1130's topic in Bangkok News
To be fair this isn’t a new issue either. I rented a condo in Suk Soi 23/1 for 2 years back in 2012-2014 and there were a couple of condo owners doing short term tourist rentals against the rules. My condo was directly above the pool and once a month or so you’d get young tourists (90% Brits) who would be at the pool with “friends” (mostly rentals) as late at 2-3am music on etc. it is frustrating but it is on the owners breaching the condo rental rules and they are the starting point for action. In our condo they were all Thai owners.- 102 replies
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Tourist Brawl in Phuket Sparks Debate on Visitor Behavior - video
sandrew33 replied to snoop1130's topic in Phuket News
Plenty of Thai beaches are paradise. Just not where the manbag wearing Benidorm refugees head -
Banged up: Thai prison nightmare exposed by British tourist
sandrew33 replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
Yeah, one suspects that there are a few important details of his story missing TBH -
I’m not sure they need a 15 point plan to spot the African crime gangs and their employees. Just walk down Soi 4, cross Suk Road and walk down to Soi 13 with some Police detouring down Soi 11 and you’d identify about 300+ crims on any given evening. And if they need a 15 point plan to identify the criminals in Pattaya well they really aren’t fit to be Police 🤷🏻♂️:)
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KO tragedy: British boxing hopeful’s final round in Pattaya hotel
sandrew33 replied to webfact's topic in Pattaya News
One mans perfectly comfortable is another mans <deleted>hole and many have plenty enough money that skimping on the hotel room is an unnecessary "hardship" -
KO tragedy: British boxing hopeful’s final round in Pattaya hotel
sandrew33 replied to webfact's topic in Pattaya News
We are really describing the Vogue as “swanky”? Does the author live under a bridge? -
Facial Recognition to Replace Boarding Passes at Six Thai Airports
sandrew33 replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
Nope. The electronic boarding pass was scanned at the initial gate before the escalator up to the scanners. Was never looked at by a person at any stage. -
Facial Recognition to Replace Boarding Passes at Six Thai Airports
sandrew33 replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
16 years of at least monthly arrivals and this has never been an issue. But sure … -
Facial Recognition to Replace Boarding Passes at Six Thai Airports
sandrew33 replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
This seems an entirely insurmountable problem and I’d suggest all airport immigration processes should be cleared with your company going forward to ensure their asinine system isn’t impacted 😁 -
Facial Recognition to Replace Boarding Passes at Six Thai Airports
sandrew33 replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
One assumes you have checked in online and so you have a boarding pass. One also assumes that the removal of the need for a boarding pass is for the purposes of the immigration gates where one step is currently the scanning of the QR code on the boarding pass. If you haven’t checked in online then countries and airports that already have done away with check in counters require you to check in at a digital terminal and print baggage tags (and boarding pass if you want one). So you’ll likely have the option of digital or printed yourself. As has been the case in many airports for years - certainly every domestic airport in Australia for example and for some time in Changi and various other international airports. This is simply replacing the boarding pass for gate clearance. And presumably you are aware that if one is too challenged to have a digital boarding pass or printed one or got one at a check in counter that the flight crew have a listing of every passenger by seat number. It’s weird how a largely expat board seems to have no actual experience or exposure to air travel 🤷🏻♂️ -
Facial Recognition to Replace Boarding Passes at Six Thai Airports
sandrew33 replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
This is the entire point. Much faster. -
Facial Recognition to Replace Boarding Passes at Six Thai Airports
sandrew33 replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
The replies in this thread are staggering. The no boarding pass no human interaction system isn’t exactly a new thing. Many domestic systems have had it for ages and in Singapore there has been facial recognition on arrival and departure for quite a while too, As to boarding passes, you get them when you check in online and they sit in your phone and you scan then or show them if and when required. Anyone departing Thailand at swampy recently surely saw the speed benefit in the new no human interaction departure gates, just scan passport and use fingerprint scanner. Rolling that system across more parts of the airport is a win.