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4 hours ago, Isaan sailor said:
Since I spend most of my time in Isaan—I can tell you why so many Provinces have low vaccination rates. Up until about one week ago, these people had only SinoVac as a first shot. And up until about six weeks ago, they were offered only SinoVac for both shots. It doesn’t take a rocket scientists to understand the government tried to use up SinoVac on the Isaan people. They worried only about the "tourism provinces".
..... may I add: and other REMOTE Provinces; i.e. Mae Hong Son! I, as a falang, was excluded at all. If I would have needed the vaccine/s urgently, I had to go to the private hospitals in Chiang Mai (4 hours by car! and CM a dark red zone).
Now it's changing (I guess, after an "overwhelming" delivery of better and redundant vaccines).
Today I had a nice talk with the young and open minded director of our amphoe hospital.
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Many times I have sent the 90-day report as a normal mail to the IMO. Never have had a problem.
My experience with registered Mail from Germany: up to 6 weeks before arriving here in the North. The BKK-Airport office was the culprit. The shortest time was 2 1/2 weeks.
A normal letter from Germany delivered to our home here - between 2 and 3 weeks!
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5 hours ago, ukrules said:
You really think every country in the world ruined their economy so a couple of companies can make a few tens of billions? ????
The economic damage is well into the trillions world wide. Forbes put it at $24 Trillion back in February this year so it's far more than that.
@Ukrules; sorry this is a misunderstanding. Maybe I didn't make it clear, that my remark
[quote]I recognize only one reason: making money out of the pandemie.[/quote]
was related to Thailand. When you read the details of my comment you will recognize it.
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3 hours ago, ukrules said:Only one question remains.....Why are they doing this?
There will be a reason, we just don't know what it is yet.
I recognize only one reason: making money out of the pandemie.
One clue is the overpricing (why was the Sinovac more expensive in Thailand than in the other countries; Prayut rushed back from Bejiing in the early days of the crisis?). The other one is the style how the military leader played a role in the (delayed) ordering vaccines. And especially ordering the Chinese low quality Sinovac, ignoring all advices of the medical experts. Especially the medical experts should have been responsible for giving directions in the medical crisis, not the military slouch/es. Why had the military leadership refused to order the other recommended vaccines like Pfizer etc. ?
Therefore you can guess, there has been money diverted on special (private) bank accounts of the Thai military mafx@.
The same happens now with the overpriced SHA hotels etc. There is no logical reason, why people should pay for at least 1 night - only for receiving the test results. There are money grabbing hands in the background.
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He thought, Switzerland would be like Thailand ..... hmmm, concerning the "Hi.So" members with "specia privileges".
I have problems to stop laughing.... (about a "health" minister)
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For this military science remarks
[quote]Toward the end of his remarks, he asked people who cannot swim to learn, claiming that he has taught children how to swim. He said that, if you know how to float on water, you will never drown and people will help you, but “if you drown you will die”. He also suggested that Thai people should exercise and study two languages to survive.[/quote]
you have to study at least 10 years in the milirary highschool
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On 11/15/2021 at 9:03 AM, thaibeachlovers said:
Seems to me that AN has become a real laugh a minute forum. Every time I read it something even more ridiculous has been reported.
Never mind, we all need to laugh about something these gloomy days.
Warning:
in the future they will collect 200 Baht if you are laughing or taking photos in the Khao-San-Road.
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4 hours ago, Swiss1960 said:
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He might however find it difficult to even book a hotel room in Geneva without a Swiss Covid certificate (besides not being allowed in any other place), so he would have to sleep on the couch in the Embassy of Thailand in Bern.Sleeping on the couch?? Impossible, hmmm ..... because of the damage to the couch (look at the black coloured hairs .....)
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1 hour ago, LikeItHot said:
Could the relevant agency for the 90 day online reporting system first. I called the hotline the other day and told them I have not been able to use it since January. They said "Yeah it's a big problem". I guess we know who is the priority.
I think it's better to tell every IO-officer, that the 90-day reporting is an absolutely waste. Stop this idiotic order as soon as possible. Ask them, how many culprits did they catch because of this reporting? And most important: tell the officers, they should report this to all IO-officers in the line up.
They should feel and learn that the falangs don't like stupid and needless reports.
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Mr. Prayut, put the foot into your own arXh!
Your typical military style: the bureaucrats should do or correct something, but you don't give them any concrete details (because of ignorance and imcompetence).
You should already think in advance, before you are giving orders. But this presumes competence. Of course, a MP cannot know all, but his advisers should have this quality (to fill the holes of normal ignorance).
Yes , that is a sign of competence for "leaders" of a government to have chosen quality staff, and not minions or boot lickers. You are only a leader in an abnormal bureaucracy.
MP, look at other countries and order only what is essential to protect your country against covid (as here already mentioned):
- vaccinated 2x against covid
- PCR-test from the country of origin, because you need it already for your plane, bus, train etc. (no big time difference between leaving and arriving! in Thailand).
- do something against farangs who let their medical bills unpayed. Then we don't need to show the health insurence document. It worked all the time before your military coup and, crazily, Thailand and its medical care didn't go bankrupt.
Othwerwise, please take an injection against inco.......e).
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Prayut's thoughts don't go more than to the end of a table. In genral, it is a good idea to replace the vaccine by pills, if effective. But it has to be appoved by science if effective.
But replacing the vaccines by the pills has a lot of consequences. Can the pills against covid replace all the laws and orders concerning the necessary (double) anti-covid vaccines? I.e., if you go to the haircutter, leaving the province or the Thai country, going into the pub or a bar, reducing the distance to the neighbor sitting in a bus, train or anywhere in the publich area???
The list goes on .... and the cheating will do so, too.
Officer/police in the airport: "Where is your required vaccination document?"
Answer: "Pfizer’s Paxlovid or Merck’s Molnupiravir COVID, don't need the vaccines."
Officer: "Show me the pills!"
Answer: "Are at home".
Officer confused. Everbody can say this (unapproved). And that can (will) reduce the covid pandemie???
I guess , Prayut did not yet think about these consequences in the bureaucracy.
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Thai bureaucrazy has the foreign-friendly ???? policy just to control you, when you have to go to the toilet. 90-reporting is one example of many..
But when it would be really useful to control foreigners leaving Thailand (for whatever reason), there is a big failure.
Sleeping Thai Government - here is one idea to get payed nearly all the hospital bills of the farangs:
Build a central IT-data for all foreigners who don't pay their medical bills. The right to access to these datas should be given to all medical institutions who had unpayed (foreign) medical invoices. Therefore all the Thai medical institutions should be able to register for unpayed bills of foreigners. The datas should contain names, nationality and other important details of the culprits.
And now the big bang: all authorities at points for leaving the Thai country (airport, harbours, border controls etc.) should have access to these datas, so that they can examine, if the leaving foreigner has ever payed all his medical bills. If unpayed, foreigners should not be allowed to leave Thailand and should be taken to the ploice.
Then no government crying about unpaid bills.
(But I guess, the main reason for the government is to receive some money of those overpriced health insurences.)
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Many years ago, when I had a yearly flight to Thailand, I used EMIRATES from DUS in Germany. Stop over in Dubai. Good quality and not expensive.
Yes I've read many times that Qatar Air is excellent. My problem, it doesn't fly to DUS, but to FRA. Not so comfortable for me.
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Mr. Prayut, read the aseannow.com and you don't need any advise of your (corrupt) boot lickkers.
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13 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:
Anyone booking on the thai pass to travel very soon now is just nuts - or desperate. If you've waiting 18 months like me and many others, you're ok to wait a few more weeks or a month to wait for the desperate to iron it out, help fix it just or collapse it
We planned to go to Germany during the Northern smoky saison of the coming year. Will not happen under this idiotic conditions of the military Thai government. It's only interest is to MAKE MONEY out of this pandemie. What a shame.
We have time to wait, too.
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34 minutes ago, redwood1 said:No African, no Central or South American countries no Mexico......So what does this mean?
Perhaps ....... not earning enough money !
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3 hours ago, richthai said:
Somewhat misleading report. As of 2 days ago (28 Oct) 42% of the entire population is fully vaccinated and 17% have 1 vaccination. One month ago these figures were 30% and 17%. Each day, +1% of the population is being vaccinated putting it at the top of the world for the past 2 weeks. The rollout to 12-17 year olds is moving ahead nicely. 103M jabs have been administered thus far. Thailand has made good progress in the last two months with plans to exceed 70% by mid December.
The opening to tourists is focused primarily on the fully vaccinated.
Given how the tourism industry has been decimated, moving ahead carefully at this time seems good for the people of Thailand. It's not without some risks, but many steps have been taken.It seems you forgot something very important.
The main danger doesn't come from the (vaccinated) falangs - vaccination is a must for them - , but from the not fully inoculated people here in Thailand, more than 50%. And the reason for the very low number of vaccinated people in Thailand, Thais and foreigners as well, lies with the military leader, who didn't like to spend the budget money for this urgent vaccination.
Another reason, the Thai leader and his bootlickers first served the interests of his "friends" in special provinces, dependimng on tourists. The remote areas got fogotten, as I can confirm here in the Mae Hong Son Province.
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They say: quarantine-free, but it's not - 1 day in reality!
A typical misinformation of the military government.
Another example: They say our orders are only for your health/protection against the covid virus. The reality: many, many of their orders are made to MAKE MONEY (for the riches).
More examples:
- look at the headline of this thread: 1 day "quarantine" for the foreigners = falangs are forced to pay for the covid losses of the Thai hotel owners.
- BEFORE, quarantine-free moving was allowed only for "special" (hotels in) cities/provinces; Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Phuket, Ko Samui, Hua Hin, Pattaya without considering the reality (danger) of the covid situation. Poor provinces have been missed (sorted out).
- The falangs, including returning expats, had and have to show double covid vaccination .... ehm because of a danger for the Thai population. In reality: the danger of a covid infection doesn't and didn't come from the falangs, but from the Thais themselves. The vaccination rate in the foreign countries has been by far much, much higher than in Thailand, where the military dictator needed so much time to order the vaccines in foreign countries.
- the military leader made big mistakes in handling the covid problem. The most serious one was in April 2020 allowing the Thai people to return to their families for celebrating their songkran at home. Result: transporting the disease to the provinces and therafter back to Bangkok and the surrounding areas.
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Some people died already here in the Northern mountains. Of smoke? ....- No, because of laughing about this app.
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3 hours ago, bolt said:ANY arrivals need COVID insurance for the value of $100k.
so no matter what insurance you have, it must state COVID coverage for the sum of $100K
Thai problem:
is Unlimited Coverage more or less than $100K ???
. They didn't learn it at school or university.
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10 hours ago, ubonjoe said:But only for the first night to wait for the covid 19 test results.
..... although you had done this in your home country before leaving by plane (otherwise you cannot leave by plane)?
I repeat it again and again: the ugly ThAI military government wants to make money of the covid disaster, as much as possible. This is only one example of many. I'm sure, those hotels have to "deliver" sonme bahts in their pockets.
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When you are reading all this contradicting government "orders", then you unvoluntarily think about the future of Thailand.
I - i..e. - cannot refuse the idea: what would happen, if Thailand is forced into a war?
My ideas:
- although ruled by a military "leader", he wouldn't know how to react. Because no plan about it.
- the leader would announce an order, shut up all you minions. This is a military problem which can only resolved by us. But it will take some time.
- the leader will order all available submarines into the Mekong to defend the capital and the channels near to his house.
- the leader will call ASEAN to suppoert him, because some important generals are just not at home, but shopping with their family in Peking, Mumbay , Ney York or Paris. It will take some time to return at home. But he urgently needs them. He has already ordered a military first class plane for their returning.
- the leader will ask the parliament to take over the responsability (until the end of the war).
- the leader will promise another election - after the war.
- .............
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My favourite beer is here not available - the Czech Pilsener.
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4 hours ago, Chivas said:
Seeing as the UK has the current worst record in the world for daily infections I'm at a loss as to how we are included !
It's the Thai-money-logic !
70 foreign tourists have visited Hua Hin since reopening, two test positive for COVID-19
in Hua Hin and Cha-Am News
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Please help me.
1. Is it possible to drive from BKK to Hua Hin in a public bus, minibus or van without any restrictions?
2. Can I book a hotel or a guesthouse which is not registered under SHA or SHA+? (As every year, we plan to leave the smoky season here in the North and stay in a nice guesthouse near Thakiaep.)
Thank you in advance.