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Everyone needs to calm the flip down. IT's not out of control yet  - not by a long shot. Give it a month. Then start to panic if the cases exceed 1000 a day.

Well - despite all the panic, we're still a far cry from most other countries who are battling thousands of cases a day and tens of thousands of deaths. When we're facing that, then we can all have a jolly good moan.

Pattaya MUST adapt to the sea change that is occurring and whilst some may lament the demise of the old sex-saturated pattaya, we must remember that those days are now over. The sex trade will never exist in Thailand the way it did before. Never.  It is just a matter of time before all the old haunts are shuttered, sold and re-purposed in order to save their owners from a certain bankruptcy if they don't.

2021 is over in terms of returning tourism and because of that, many of these sex-focussed establishments countrywide, are going to simply disappear.
Thailand is in for a very difficult time of adapting, not just because of covid, but because of an education system which is deeply flawed and skewed to actually fuel the sex trade in some ways, and certainly skewed to keep people on lower incomes and to focus on trade that benefits visitors.

Even without the sex trade, and with renovation happening to Pattaya, it will be a very long time before any major investment into  a revitalised infrastructure is made good, because Covid19 is a  long way from being over, and there are many hurdles to be overcome in terms of international travel that would support arrivals in their millions.

Thailand itself has to come to some kind of compromise with quarantine and/or vaccination policies for visitors, and we're still in the early days of confirming long term efficacy in terms of vaccination. 

With such a massive hiatus disrupting the rhythm and flow of nightlife and sextrade, I can't see how it's possible for it all to just start up again at the drop of a hat - a lot of girls will be finding new ways to survive, and accommodating and servicing 10 fat farangs a day, whilst perhaps lucrative, is not exactly the Harvard of career choices once you've had a break from it....

Actually forget the proposals by thailand and TAT-  the  real delusion is thinking there are tourists of any number at all that can afford to travel here for holidays!!! 
Additionally , the Uk is now demanding quarantine on arrival and probably will for sometime. 
In addition again,  there is still some real concern over  mutant strains and the efficacy of the vaccines to combat them. 
I’d say give it another 18 months before numbers climb up and that’s conservative. 
Realistically, probably more like 2024.  

It's all fun and games until it's not.

Why destroy what you've built?

Makes no sense.

I doubt very much if the number of infections has really decreased due to the pervasive nature of Covid19. I suspect that they've lessened testing. 

To be honest, a really good thing for Thailand would be to test as many people as possible, therefore PROVING to the rest of the world that actually living WITH Covid19 is no death sentence. Because I'm pretty sure its pervasive out there, and that even you and I have probably had it over the last 18 months.

I wonder if it's too late for Thailand's tourist trade to recover?

I mean - I'm not seeing much indication of people chomping at the bit to fly into Thailand or anywhere else, for that matter!

12 hours ago, Tropicalevo said:

Why the heck are we looking at a photograph from 2013?

Because thems were the good ol' days, laddie! Thems were the good ol' days, when the beer flowed like wine, and there was a girl in every boys bed, and spending was unfettered, the nights long and the days golden.. Interest rates were more favourable and the exchange rates even better. The baht bought bang for your buck and the buck bought booty.

Does this apply to international schools?

HOpefully it means that people can go out to their pub or bar on NYE until the clang of midnight, at which point its lights out and home James!

Many people I know are relying on NYE to make money....

Does this apply to Bangkok?

My friend is getting married this weekend with a reception happening at a certain restaurant on soi 49. Would this booze ban affect this?

Im expecting fairies to fly out of my japs-eye this weekend, before them setting up a bakery and handing out free cakes to disabled ex-pat jews who happen to be rolling by on their way to receive a Vaccine jab for Covid18.

Good. What a TREMENDOUS waste of paper.

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Hill and vale, and tree and flower,
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There IS no social distancing happening in Thailand.

Thailand's anti-covid measures only include border control by air and some land points, and masks. Thats it.

Anyone tuned into anything happening on the entertainment front in Thailand will know that there have been enormous concerts happening with no masks and no distancing - huge numbers in the tens of thousands.

Covid just isn't  here.

But....

However - if these new cases are traceable, there could well be a second wave....

It would incredible if Thailand managed to keep the cases of covid so low until a vaccine arrived....

1 hour ago, worgeordie said:

You did say you got your extension...now you want your money back, am i missing

something 

regards Worgeordie

Im assuming the OP has received their extension, but judging from the date (26th) they have not received their actual visa?

(usually issued after a 30 day extension).

However = it doesn't seem likely to me that they SHOULD receive a visa because they cannot get a visa for 5000 through an agency. It would cost quite a lot more.

If indeed this is the case, then there has obviously been seriously bad communication on both parties part, and the OP is now in a very dangerous situation and could face deportation.

At the very least OP needs to seek proper legal/immigration advice (and should not mention the agency) and find out if he can be here under the current amnesty if not, he will either have to stump up the money to get his visa the normal way  - or  - leave the country and back from whence he came.