8 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

This is not the Zombie apocalypse. And nine deaths nationwide do not warrant such nonsense. That is less than the daily pedestrian death toll in Bangkok. 

Get real, on the 12th of March the UK had reported 8 deaths due to COVID-19, Yesterday they reported 1,408. the UK has a similar population to Thailand and better sanitary and hygiene.   

In the meantime his Brother and Sister-in-law made a moral boosting visit to a NHS call centre where William said he would like to return to working with the Air Ambulance during the crisis.

Give it a week...

As I understand it there are no tourists left in Pattaya, so any foreigners would be long term residents but as many of them need to do the visa run is anyone surprised how easily COVID19 is spread??? 

5 hours ago, JonnyF said:

Since when were Special Advisers elected? If they were, who would elect them? Why do you suddenly require them to be elected when they've been around as long as the Ministers themselves?

 

Best wishes to Mr Cummings, I wish him a speedy recovery. The country needs great minds like his advising the PM at such a critical time.

This special advisor in jackboots has ordered (via his glove puput) that minister should fire their free thinking and intelligent advisors and replace them with morons he can control.

On 3/28/2020 at 1:38 AM, No1Farang said:

I guess there will be an announcement soon that it was a farang crane

More likely "Made in China"

1 minute ago, Andrew65 said:

Rather like Alistair Campbell????

I get where you are coming from, but Cummings certainly more ruthless...

5 hours ago, darksidedog said:

I suspect there is much wailing and gnashing of teeth going on right now at TAT who had been trying to tell us it would all start to come good again from next month. Should be easy though to now calculate tourist numbers. ZERO. Not quite sure how they will put a positive spin on that, but I am sure they will try.

I believe TAT shares a crystal ball with Donald Trump...

4 minutes ago, evadgib said:

He's in the line but isn't an heir. AFAIA the line (in order) is:

Charles, William, George,Charlotte, Louis, Harry...

HTH

(The first 3 are heirs)

Now that is splitting hairs...????

23 minutes ago, Just Weird said:

He may have withdrawn from official royal duties but he has not "officially quit the royal family", he's still an heir to the throne.

6th in line.

1 hour ago, mrfill said:

The UK has just had 10 years of austerity which has run down the Health Service to the extent that it cannot cope. And in the last 4 years we have had a lot of instability because of the brexit nonsense which has not been helpful.

The only good that come out of this would be if the non-doms and corporates get to pay a fair amount of tax or at least greater than zero. Public health has only just suddenly become ever so important to the politicians but it has been mostly hot air. We need 20000 ventilators and have 4000 - the government proudly announced today that a further 4000 have been acquired so we are 60% short. Testing is only for those in hospital showing symptoms (with notable exceptions for politicians and the rich and famous) and we hope to reach 25000/day 'within weeks'. Weeks????

Actually they have started to test NHS workers.

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Coronavirus: Testing rolled out for frontline NHS staff

Frontline hospital staff in England are starting to be tested to see whether they have coronavirus.

Workers with symptoms and those who live with people who have symptoms will be checked - starting with hundreds of critical care doctors and nurses.

Tests for A&E staff, paramedics and GPs are expected to follow, and later social care staff will be tested.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52072568

1 hour ago, White Christmas13 said:

well it might be correct in the UK but in OZ we get our pension credited in

to our bank account and yes i know what you mean

It is immaterial anyway, AFASIK anyone over the age of 70 is deemed at risk in the UK and must stay home, so they will not be able to get any money and will starve to death if COVID-19 does not get them first. 

10 minutes ago, timendres said:

Ah! I thought you were talking about here in Thailand. That is why I was surprised.

The headline: "UK coronavirus death toll under 20,000 would be 'good result' - health chief says"

1 hour ago, White Christmas13 said:

a lot of old people don't have credit or debit cards how are they going to live?

In the real world (UK), very few do not have any credit  or debit cards, they need them to draw their pensions.l

1 hour ago, timendres said:

You expect to see 20,000 dead by April 10th?

Yes, at the current rate of increase per day running at over 25% increase on the previous day. 

Yesterday was 34% increase on Friday, my modeling is based on 25%.

Actually I do not expect to see 20,000 dead in the UK by the 10th April but all that is going to happen is it slows down due to the shutdown but it will just keep going until most of us are immune to it.

Edit in:

just to note the figures I get are for the day before and now seems they only count those who were "Hospitalised" so those who die at home or on on the way to hospital are not counted.

twitter.com/DHSCgovuk/status/1243901924786790400

At the present rate we will surpass 20,000 by April 10...

Hopefully the current measures will reduce the rate of climb dramatically, but it probably will be mid week before we see the numbers of new cases drop and next weekend when see the decline of deaths per day, but the problem is how long can we keep the shut down going before more people start to break the rules.

6 minutes ago, ivor bigun said:

Actually as we had purchased stuff,the cashier asked if we wanted face masks we had a pack each of govt ones 10 baht for four . there was lots of sanitizer for sale ,

The problem in the UK is I can not buy face masks from Screwfix (or any other trade supplier), reason is that last weekend they sold out after a run by doctors and other health professionals (who need them more than us) because our Government can not supply even when they said they were, but even then most of the face masks sold by Screwfix fall short of the required standard but they are better than nothing. 

35 minutes ago, ivor bigun said:

We were just coming home on Sukhumvit here in Pattaya and popped into villa in little walk ,very rarely go there,i was surprised how empty the shelves were  of most things actually ,however the little pharmacy at the entrance did have face masks and sanitizer 

You are better off than us in the UK, can not buy face masks and sanitises, had to buy face mask off Ebay and I make my own sanitiser.

As for going to the supermarket, yesterday had to queue for half an hour to get in then queue half an hour at the checkouts to pay, and distancing myself from other people by 2 meters at all times.

Did Boris and Health Secretary Matt Hancock jump the queue also???

While tests are limited due to the Governments inaction that leaves many untested. ☹️

3 hours ago, Thaiwrath said:

Other normal workers seem to get by on less than 30,000 baht a month.

By other expenses, I think she means luxuries, i.e. latest phone, nightclubs, Thai boyfriend etc.

Probably comes from a large family back in the Isan with a sick buffalo.