5 hours ago, Stargrazer9889 said:

I think that many of the low cost airlines will be gone by the end of Summer 2020.

Geezer

But most of the planes will not be scrapped, just sold on to the highest bidder and with so many going to be up for sale they will be fire salvage, and there will still be qualified pilots and cabin crews...

Phoenix rising from the ashes.

3 minutes ago, Swiss1960 said:

You miss the point... the government is forcing thousands of Thai to stay abroad,  risk overstay, need for expensive hotels and meals,  unable to get home...

 

And furthermore.. who decides about priorities for repatriation... let's say Thai airways has to fly to 15 countries for repatriation... each country with 600 Thai wanting to get home.. worstcase a Thai citizen will have to wait 15x3 days.. equals 45 days stranded abroad by their government... 

it could be more than 15 days, because when fights resume people may still have to wait many days for a seat... 

Zak Brown: McLaren boss says F1 needs big changes to survive

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Formula 1 is "in a very fragile state" as a result of the coronavirus crisis and needs big changes to survive, McLaren boss Zak Brown says.

"This is potentially devastating to teams, and if [it is devastating] to enough teams - which doesn't have to mean more than two - then very threatening to F1 as a whole," he said.

Cost-saving plans will be discussed at a meeting of F1 bosses on Monday.

Zak went on to say the planed cut to the budget for 2021 needs to go further so will the future of F1 look something like this?

11 hours ago, ukrules said:

I hope he gets better very soon

Reluctantly I agree with you considering who we may end up with if he were to kick the bucket.

9 hours ago, champers said:

Has he gone private, I wonder?

Do the doctors and nurses treating him have proper PPE???

Coronavirus: The NHS workers wearing bin bags as protection

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52145140

8 minutes ago, baansgr said:

Can it cause Covid 19????

No. but then what are the chances of recovering from leukemia compared with COVID-19?

1 hour ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Johnson’s callous herd immunity experiment has failed.

 

Interestingly the government are predicting when the peak mortality will occur but have failed to give the associated estimate of deaths.

 

 

 

It is easy to predict with a near shutdown, it looks like the rate of deaths is starting to level off, but basically all we have done is put a tuiniqua on and if we we do not keep a tight grip on it the number will hemorrhage again. 

Total lockdown, Just wonder how it could work when most Thais living in urban and city areas live in apartment blocks or condos consisting of one room with on-suit. without a freezer and just may be have something to cook on?   

On 4/3/2020 at 7:08 AM, sapson said:

Only the six guys and the suspect socially distancing for the photo together.

Wonder how he will social distance in a cell of 80 or more particularly when a few will want to know him better?

4 hours ago, vogie said:

This is about an hospital that is the biggest in the UK and was built in a couple of weeks, 

I say again an astounding achievement by anyones standard so why would somebody try and politicise by saying it was the Gurkhas that built it. I am sure that there was quite a mixture of military personnel involved with the project, I cannot imagine the rest of the British army sitting around on sandbags playing pontoon whilst we have a national emergency going on.

Some posters on here just wait for a wonderfull achievement to happen then they try and find something trivial to undermine it with, was it really necessary to point out the crossed kukras, the Gurkhas are part of the British Army, lets hear a cheer for all the Military and stop this nit picking.

Apologies if I got it wrong but as far as I know they are still paid less and have less benefits, I know in the last 20 years things have improved but still Britain should be ashamed.

Maybe we need Andy Hall on the case...  

1 hour ago, White Christmas13 said:

Agree with you even I am not in the land of lies now I am back in the nanny state

I cancelled my surgery in the hospital I supposed to have next month.

Hospitals and nursing homes are the most pron  places to catch any virus.

It is not just the patients...

We have just lost two frontline nurses in the last 24 hrs in the UK.????

11 hours ago, Cryingdick said:

Thank the Lord he is okay. At least he gets tested unlike some others.

If there were a lord... I suppose COVID-19 is just as good as a bolt of lightning

What the UK has done is apply a turquia, at some point they will have to ease it and the bleeding will start again. 

If America want to compare itself with other countries then lets see the figures per capita

10 minutes ago, lovinglife said:

My girlfriend was at Hua Hin hospital a week ago with a friend that had a broken wrist after falling of motorbike. Was quieter than normal.

Hospital is the last place I would want to be right now, lot of reports of people catching it while in hospital.

I doubt any country has accurate figures, here in the UK they are only recording those that had tested positive and died in hospital.

If Thailand's figures are anywhere as accurate as the UK you are only 20 days behind us...

And a night curfew is not going to really reduce the upward trend in numbers, even the UK's measures is only like putting a tuiniqua on, at some point you need to let the pressure  off and it will start to bleed again. 

15 hours ago, Andrew65 said:

Some years ago the April 1st "report" was that falang over 50 were to be barred from marrying Thai ladies!????

And the chemists sold out of Imodium very fast...

Maybe the bar owners should help them out.