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4 hours ago, Grumpy John said:

Will be interesting to see what GWM do in regard to employment numbers.  Given the questionable quality of their past products it will be interesting to see if Thai made is better made.  And the issue of price will be relevant.  The Price of MG (Mediocre Garage) products here in LOS seems on the high side given their Chinese heritage.  Who in their right mind would buy a MG pick-up when for not much more you can have proven Japanese quality. With GWM it maybe the export markets are the prime motivation to be here.  It's one way of getting around an import duty on Chinese goods. 

I don’t think they sell pick ups . 

8 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

IMO this whole farce is just more evidence that Britain should drop the "Great" as it's a has been power, and hasn't been great since they let the US kick them out of the canal.

The term Great has nothing to do with the country proclaiming itself as powerful and great.

its a historical renaming - I think when Scotland became part of the UK.

View Talay 2B has one of the nicest / large pools 

No No - not more tour groups .

Over here on the Darkside- I can see down to Jomtien- the air quality is fantastic - crystal clear .

I can once remember counting 65 tour buses on Sukhamvit- all belching out diesel fumes .

Even here in sunny Pattaya there are some very smart hotels such as the Royal cliff - promote those perhaps - no tours please ! 

Well I can just imagine - security stopping a few of my neighbours- in their Bentleys and Phantoms - dream on. 

What does gonna mean - confused .

Here is the elephant in the room - what exactly did the Thai nationals actually do - in perhaps counties like Bahrain- the Sodom & Gomorrah of the Arab world . 
 

Perhaps not too much social distancing?

So keep up the quarantining for a while .

1 hour ago, JCP108 said:

Zero Covid-19 risk in Thailand as long as you don't get near someone who came from somewhere outside of Thailand. 

Are they not in a Naval/ Army  base or quarantine hotel? So therefore kept away from the general population.

Are you sneaking into the Naval bases ? Nothing like a fellow in uniform. 

On 5/24/2020 at 5:12 PM, bkk6060 said:

OMG 2 people waiting the end of the world.

It is a convenience store.  Lose business to who?

Just about every shop, market, mall are doing the same or will be.

Food Mart is doing the same thing where I am.

Maybe some people just need to grow up and adjust to the reality of what is now and the future.

You must remember these people are very important ExPat executives - to them waiting more than a minute in queue is probably taking away their time to execute some high powered deal.

They have a rather large ego and an extraordinary sense of self importance. They will not comply with local rules - most of them consider conspiracy theories as Gospel truth .

They forget they have chosen to live in a country- where the locals perceive them as being totally unimportant 

1 hour ago, Phil McCaverty said:

Source?

Good question? Just another typical bull**** post from the web . Perhaps if it  was actually true the nurses doing 12hr shifts would all be dead by now. 
 

Why is that friends from a certain country are so totally obsessed with their human rights- surely it’s quite sensible to wear a mask - what harm does it do complying with local rules 

13 hours ago, canopy said:

Why so few? For comparison over 200 dams larger than 15MW are planned, under construction or completed in the Lower Mekong basin portions of Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos.

 

A slight exaggeration- I believe the figure is 11- unless you provide the source of your 200 figure 

If the pond looks good - a feature in the garden - you could probably have some fish ( not Koi) certainly lilies, lotus - enjoy it .

Everyone seems obsessed with the value of property- it’s not an investment-and somewhere to make your home. 
See it as that - then you will not worry. 

50 minutes ago, tribalfusion001 said:

You can't live in a bubble forever.

Actually I do - I persuaded my favourite tailor to run up one of those biohazard suits - it has sequins - with an individual oxygen supply 

Get a few strange looks .

The situation in Thailand is fine - it’s the General clinging on to ultimate control and power - we will get to December - another announcement- the emergency powers have been extended. In the meantime people like myself will still be funding and helping out at the food stations . 

23 minutes ago, villageidiotY2K said:

Research shows that Drinking leo can sanitize internal organs.  Also Fibre allows Leo lovers to frequent the loo often which leads to excreting bacteria more often

Absolutely- the has been a paper published - the effects of Som Tam , pla ra and those scary fermented crabs completely zap the virus - sadly I can’t find the reference at the moment. 

Personally I’m not quite sure why the conspiracy nutcases go on and on ad nauseam about all the figures being false - perhaps shutting down inward travel.

PS don’t start on the millions of Chinese tourists arriving from Wuhan in January- China is a vast country and believe Wuhan was closed down early on?  

1 hour ago, Guderian said:

Meanwhile India, which has been under a stricter lockdown than Thailand for a longer period, reported almost 4,000 new cases on Monday and 195 deaths. So what is Thailand doing right that India is doing wrong?

Have you ever been to India ? 

What fresh farm produce comes from the States ? I can only think of apples?
 

Good for them - Paraquat was banned in Europe in 2007! 

It’s not a bad area - traffic going down to Threppasit can be pretty awful. 
You must have a car - so make sure there is sufficient parking .

Who on earth goes on motorbike taxis ? Or even baht buses?

The water situation in Pratumnak is dire at the moment - it’s something to ask about. Reservoirs are empty- it’s a real problem- and may continue unless we get a mega rainy season. 

10 hours ago, Thunder26 said:

That was fake news from misinformed Thai ministers. The virus can stay in dead bodies for days. The virus still reproduces even after the patient's death. It reproduces in the cells of the respiratory system. If the virus can survive for a period of time on surfaces, why shouldn't it survive in a dead body? That's common sense.

That’s an interesting theory - yes the viral particles may remain in the corpse - but to carry on reproducing ! 
A virus in no way is a living organism- this one is just RNA and proteins - complex yes.- but really just a bunch of chemicals.

It has to hijack a living cell and requires requires energy and components of a living cell to copy itself- cellular function ceases if you are dead .
 

2 hours ago, Pilotman said:

£20 million won't even pay for the upgrade of the CEO's office at 4 hospitals, which is probably where it will end up.  Of course the suckers that paid out will never know what happened to it.   

The money does not go to the NHS - it goes towards a variety of charities that support NHS workers and patients . 

Also Mark at Hemingway’s , British Legion, Peter at Yupins and many bars 

All good . 

5 hours ago, Sheryl said:

 

More testing tends to lower, not raise, mortality rates because it is the mil/asymptomatic cases that are missed.

 

Mortality rates ARE low in Thailand and also in Cambodia. At least in part due to younger age of patients (reflecting younger demographic and also no outbreaks in nursing homes - which not many elderly are in any how -- which have been a key source of deaths in western countries).

 

There may be other reasons as well not yet known but certainly age plays a big part.

 

This is hardly the "beginning", first case was months back and based on travel patterns from Wuhan the virus almost certainly was here no later than late December.

 

 

@Sheryl

Do you think obesity might play a part ? Many Western countries especially the US have a very high percentage of obese people 

Just a thought 

7 hours ago, UbonThani said:

Had the flu vaccine once didnt work very well.

 

Prob just keep zinc up and wash hands.

 

Vaccines are false sense of security

Tell that to the thousands who would have died from smallpox, cervical cancer etc 

I forgot polio