Dibbler

If the new regulation ever happens it will be meaningless without a driver education campaign, supported by enforcement and fines that encourage compliance. 

8.2 million woken up to scams, cheating and rip offs in Phuket, Chiang Mai and Bangkok have decided instead to take their vacations in Sihanoukville, Luang Prabang and Vientiane.  Chinese tour companies already scheming with local governments there how to take advantage of the coming tourist wave. Good riddance, lets have more quality tourists in Thailand!!

Highlights the need to have frontline medical and emergency staff vaccinated to avoid having to take drastic measures such as closing hospitals!

Successfully registered to be jabbed with Sinovac which hasn’t yet passed Phase 3 trials? Or Astrazenica produced by a company that’s never before manufactured vaccines? If there is not a choice I’d rather wait until private hospitals are able to offer a choice. 

It’s called leading by example. First the Thonglor cluster started by ministers, here a super spreader event hosted by a different  minister, and maskless cabinet meeting led by the prime minister. They clearly don’t care whether their actions lead to citizens getting infected. Dangerous days lie ahead... 

Allegedly ground zero for wave 3 is Government House 2

And joining the dots, all three types of failures may be caused by driving under the influence of a substance that starts with the letter "a" that is often associated with road accidents in Thailand, especially around public holidays when casualty rates are very high.  What could that substance possibly be and how can driver behaviour be modified to avoid its use???

Land of Smiles, only country in Asia without a COVAX vaccination plan .  Even the nefarious junta across the western border and despot to the east have organized something for part of their respective populations. Thailand putting all its eggs in one basket?

2 hours ago, johnarth said:

2 dead maybe from corvid 19 and 186 die on roads in 3 days but no problem with that

Ahh but they think they have a fighting chance of suppressing COVID with a lockdown, and they are probably right.  Whereas they know full well they have close to zero capability to enforce road safety laws....

The weight of evidence (China, Australia, NZ) is that lockdowns actually work.  So why are Thailand leaders saying no to a lockdown?  Accept the science and public health advice, do a proper lockdown, seal the borders using Border Police and the Army to enforce, immediate quarantine for all cases detected, and they will see community transmission reduced to zero in a few cycles.  Ensure the current ASQ is maintained for all international arrivals so any cases are caught before they get into the community.  Perhaps a month or six weeks of people having to do it tough then they can reopen business and schools again.

By March?  How about by next Thursday?  Any delay in imposing restrictions to reduce the spread ahead of the New Year break when 15 million people return home, and come January hospital beds will be filling up... 

You seem like a typical tourist.  Most expats avoid people like you. The discussion here is more about serious long term living.

Yes, in Sri Lanka sometime tourist but mostly there for work. Otherwise a Thailand resident. And you, from your posts you sound slightly jaded? That's why we're having this discussion, to find places for people like you to move to where you might fit in better.


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Just now, torrzent said:

Thank you for confirming that my information was from an independent verifiable 3rd party and not subjective photoshop such as your own!

I think perhaps you've not been to Sri Lanka recently, would that be correct Mr Google expert?  No photoshop required to show the natural beauty of Sri Lanka.  Attached more genuine photos from my recent trip to watch blue whales off the coast of Mirissa.  Incredible to watch these amazing animals just a few hours sail off the south coast.  From Colombo one can be out watching whales within half a day.  

3 minutes ago, torrzent said:

That 2 hour drive you describe is a poor quality white knuckle 2 lane road with high speed head on collisions on a regular basis.  The picture you provide does not portray Colombo but more likely Hikkaduwa.  The Colombo beachfront is more like this,

 

 

Not now, there is a 4 lane major highway linking Colombo and the south coast. It's a fast road and I have driven it many times in the last year. Road was built with government money for post-war reparations.  I've not visited the slums you show photos of but that's not the coastline I am familiar with.  Looks like you just copied photos from the internet.  I could do that too but chose to use photos of my own. 

14 hours ago, torrzent said:

Colombo is terrible, but maybe you like Karachi as well?

Colombo is liveable and more interesting is that it is 2 hrs drive from the south coast and some of the best beaches in the Indian Ocean.  This is what it looks like.  Clean water, clean beaches and great surf!

When I was in PP I couldn't wait to get out.  I've never been anywhere where the people so openly ask for money all the time. Even the tuk tuk driver from the airport spent the entire journey repeatedly telling me "you go to nice hotel, big tip for me"
Maybe I was unlucky, or maybe it has changed.
 
 

In Cambodia officials put on their uniforms to commit crime, at least in Thailand they take their uniforms off to commit crime. Both countries corrupt from top to bottom though...


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