
retsdon
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7:30pm.Just came back from a drive around what is the tourist area of our local town. If I'd driven the same route 25 years ago at 5am in the morning it would have been hopping in comparison. Nothing but shuttered shopfronts and the occasional empty restaurant. It was like something from a Dystopian movie.
Take the headline number and add a zero - at least.
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It's a constant stream of fantasy. Provides news stories though...
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The question is moot because nobody is going to come anyway.
But there's probably less face loss in saying the tourists can't come rather than inviting them and then getting the cold shoulder.
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Tomorrow never comes.
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Everyone knows but nobody can speak. It's not the bedrock for a healthy society.
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I was on an internal flight earlier this week and it was absurd. At Don Muang in the toilets, every other urinal was closed to maintain social distancing and yet on the plane itself we were packed in like battery hens. There wasn't a single spare seat.
I've had my two Pfizer shots, so wasn't that concerned, but if I hadn't, I would have been genuinely worried. There's no way that if anyone on that plane had Covid that they wouldn't have infected a slew of people around them. We were all shoulder to shoulder for almost two hours.
And yet they lock poor sods into workers camps for a month, supposedly to stop the spread. It's a joke, but it's a joke that will end in tears.
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So if any worker hasn't had Covid before, he'll surely have got it by the time he gets out.
Sorry, but there's something sinister about trapping people into contracting a life-threatening disease because their passports are the wrong colour. The dark underbelly of Thailand is getting revealed here...
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On 6/25/2021 at 6:05 PM, wensiensheng said:
Indeed. I haven’t been able to cut my grass for the last three days. The ground is too soggy.
but hopefully the intrepid 300 arriving on day one won’t mind a beach holiday in the rain. It is warm after all.
At this time of year the onshore wind and rain runoff dirties the sea all the way up the west coast of the peninsula from Singapore to Yangon. It's not the best time to visit, covid or no covid
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Pulling into a beach on the Andamans from the seaward side in the late 90s, we were wondering what all that mass of white stuff at the tideline could possibly be. Turned out it was hundreds/thousands of plastic water bottles that had blown across from Thailand - probably Phuket.
Garbage travels...
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1 hour ago, wensiensheng said:
I agree.
But the government seems to feel it’s the other way round. Plenty of test kits to give to tourists, but not so much for Thai’s.
Covid tests are unpleasant things and having had a series of them recently I'd actively avoid having to repeat the experience.
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I'm surprised they don't get tired of always playing in a game where the cards are rigged.
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I remember reading a novel once -the name of it escapes me now - in which the main propagandist spent his time making detailed plans that he knew would never come to fruition, even while he was making them. But given his circumstances it was the only means he had to justify his existence to himself.
The TAT is like that now. It can't admit to itself and others that foreign tourism is dead in the water, and that until the pandemic is over, it (the TAT) is without a purpose for its existence. Consequently it draws up these schemes that everyone knows are fantasy because to face reality would be too painful.
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Whereabouts were these tourists supposed to be coming from?
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16 minutes ago, Jonnapat said:
Can't find NBTHD2 on my tv. Please help.
Likewise!
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This is good news.
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46 minutes ago, ChipButty said:
....and next month July quite a few friends wanted to come do some trips have BBQ few drinks, thats all cancelled
People going back into the UK need to quarantine too now. And unlike last year when it was a bit of a joke, this year there are follow up calls, checks, etc, and fines for not complying. So that's 2 weeks to a month of restrictions surrounding the holiday at either end. And then there are the mandatory covid tests for both flights and on entry. More cost, and people jamming rods into your sinuses.
I can tell you as someone currently doing a 15 day quarantine stretch -I wouldn't go through this expensive <deleted> again even if you reversed the cost and paid it to me, never mind having to pay for the ordeal myself. Just not worth the hassle.
IMHO the insane or ignorant are the ones NOT cancelling their holidays.
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27 minutes ago, FarFlungFalang said:In trying to figure out the approximate number of people being tested daily I've assumed that each person gets tested 4 times,
I'm in quarantine and they're testing me 3 times over 15 days. Having had 2 Pfizer shots earlier this year and another test before getting on the plane, I'd posit that as expensive overkill.
Conversely, I dont mind betting that the group of street people who live on the side of the klong outside my window and who most afternoons get drunk from a communally shared ice bucket and straw (the ice being bought from the local shop house general store) will never, ever, get tested nor will they ever otherwise show up in any government Covid statistics - probably not even if they were to die from it.
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I'm 65 and I'm sure I'll feel old when I get out of this damned quarantine hotel!
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Correlation is not causation.
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They don't seem to understand that people actually need to plan holidays months in advance. And that's not possible under the present circumstances. And why would anyone come to Thailand, when it has proven itself to be one of the the most arbitrary rule-changers on the planet when it comes to matters Covid.
Just hot air...
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5 hours ago, Kasset Tak said:
Well, it's a little bit better then the COVID-19 tests... I saw one private hospital doing the test and a "COVID free" certificate for 3000 Baht ... I was quoted $2.50/test if I bought a batch of at least 500 the same test from the producer...
All Covid tests are not equal. You can't fly with the cheap ones...
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This is news?
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16 hours ago, Captain Monday said:then after one month for no reason, go back to 15, and even ban daily relaxation?
I just saw that today in my quarantine room - a little addendum at the bottom of the rules and regs to the effect that I'm not allowed to set foot out of the room (and neither will it be cleaned) for the whole duration. And the weird Stanford experiment style shift in attitude of the staff is an eye-opener too.
It's absurd. As I said to the hamzatted robot marching me downstairs this morning for a Covid test (less than 10 hours after I got off the plane)...I already had a negative test exactly 48 hours previously; I just flew in on an empty plane from a country with a Covid rate about 1/3 of Thailand's; and I've had 2 Pfizer vaccine shots..the last 2 months ago. In reality, I'm probably the least likely person to have Covid within a kilometre's radius and yet I'm being treated as if I'm a radioactive alien besieger.
If I didn't have family connections I'd never set foot in the country again.
Edit: And of course, I'm not allowed to even have myself a preprandial glass of wine to fortify me before the meal of half-cold khao-klong in a plastic bag that this 3 star hotel now serves its guests in place of proper food gets left on the floor outside for me to discover at leisure.
Two weeks of this is going to be just hellish.
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I flew in tonight on a 787-9 Dreamliner operated by one of the Middle East carriers and besides myself there was a grand total of 5, yes 5, other passengers. We were outnumbered 2 to 1 by cabin crew. It was like being Jeff Bezos or somebody, having your own private $300 million aircraft.
And the arrivals hall at Swampy was the same story. Fully staffed for us 6 passengers and another flight with not many more on it. It was like there's been some kind of apocalypse.
The tourist industry in Thailand is going to have a long hard climb back....
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Thailand Road Carnage: At scene death toll on track to match last two years
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The government doesn't give tuppence. Look at the road planning. Just up from us theyve run a new 4 lane highway along what used to be a sleepy two lane inter-village B road. People now literally step out of their houses straight onto a dual-carriageway carrying intercity traffic doing 120+kph. Going to the local shop or taking the kids to school has suddenly become a life threatening exercise for hundreds, if not thousands. Of course, the lazy, ill-planned juxtaposition of intercity traffic with village life will inevitably lead to hundreds of deaths over time. A child of 5 could predict it. But does anyone in government care? Do they ----!