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That ll likely be the reason. Holidays, offices closed. I came in on a Thailand Pass. Means all this: (a) insurance - I bought from a company not based in Thailand (b) a PCR before take off, and (c) a hotel stay - another PCR on arrival, and one night in a gov-approved hotel (at the time, now one or two weeks). The hotel fee also includes picking you up in a taxi from airport and three meals a day brought to your door. I stayed at an Ibis Styles and it was fine, gave me time to laze and adjust.*Fill in a form online beforehand to get approval, ie your Pass. The form seems daunting, but the pattern is simple, for each information they want: (i) there's a request for a document eg your health insurance; (ii) you answer with the doc ID ; and (iii) you upload a jpeg scan of the relevant page from the doc eg the page showing your insurance covid.*All doc.s checked through at airport. Then your taxi is waiting for you. You are whisked off to the hotel. You are given a bit of time to settle in and unpack. Then you go to another room for the PCR.Chill out in your room and wait for the result. They've added on x days and another test, with omicron. *"Negative" and all Thailand is at your feet. Although it's changed with omicron, I reckon next month Feb22 it'll be back to this. Buy your tickets when you can get them cheap. "Jack's Flights" are good. Allow 10 working days for the Pass, I would think that's OK. Best of luck everybody. Everything will be OK for high season '24. Omicron and the pandemic over this year, probably next month, because the vaccine. Then two years to clear up the mess. Back to the new-normal at, what, 80% of the old numbers?

Rimping over the iron bridge sells food within its expiry date

Not selling , renting, they rent

"Class" is about the job you do or did. It says something about your income, education and your interests. So it is useful for marketing purposes. For example, if you run a newspaper of some sort that gets its income from advertisers, you'd like to know what "class" your readers are because then you can focus your marketing on companies making products or offering services that will benefit your readers.

Extraordinary coincidence - public think the same as Prayut.

Hopefully this will be understood and foreigners will be thanked for visiting despite contagion in the country and not accused of bringing it in.

What is so sad is that year after year the problem of man made airborne pollution in N Thailand and surrounding countries, continues, unabated. The people are ignored. Their health counts for nothing. How can this be?

Make me laugh. Migration is a major challenge for the next 30 years and much of it is for climate reasons, so not economic and still less political. Now we read here there's money to be made from attempts to understand and manage the change. Surprise. As it is a global challenge, causes and effects that do not respe t man-made borders and legal systems, it requires that nations collaborate through supra national bodies, such as ASEAN. This is already the future in Northern Thailand. The govt can take the lead and position itself at the front of ASEAN on what is actually not a complicated problem. It is a few farmers vs. the health of millions. So, great to see the initiative, now move into solutions mode and surprise us some more.

He ll be pretty lonely without his kid brother, now and for the rest of his life.

Rhat is about what I would guess. We don't see the detail of the calculations. But one thi g: those returning fathers and businessmen will have returned, and what's left? A handful of tourists. What is important is for the govt to publish its detailed policies and plans. For example, it wants to restrict tourism to the very rich, they will be few in number, but they'll spend a lot, and not interested in s*x tourism. So, what is the govt doing to find work for six or seven million? Before shutting down an important sector of the economy, its best to have already started another . No?

Sometimes new inspiration or a change of leadership lead to new policies. Instead of closing down a successful sector of the economy, try first to create a new and promising sector. For example, in 1979, Deng Xiaoping visited America to meet Pres. Clinton. He was the People's Republic of China chairman from December 1978 to November 1989. He had seen Japan, S Korea and Taiwan becoming immensely rich and wanted to know more. China was at that time following the Russian USSR ideology. What he observed was that those three countries were making very high quality goods, at competitive prices, and the huge and wealthy American Middle class was buying them. So he got China to start doing the same thing - he completely reoriented the economy from agriculture to production for export. The rest, as they say, is history. Now, of course, there is an even bigger and wealthier middle class. And it is not in America. It's in China. What does the Chinese middle class want? Well, Thailand could find out and get manufacturing. Or it could stick with mass tourism. Up to the PM.

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How to Get from North Thailand to Bali , to avoid the smokey season? Any help much appreciated.

That's why a lot of this seems nonsensical. Makes the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Smog from burning crops kills more than covid.