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I wondered how long it would take for a "warning" statement " like this to be issued after allowing "Special" tourists in, and as in the other "Top Story" about a visiting "European" Minister  having been found to be infected. (No quarantine for him then - on his 2 day visit?)

"There is no Covid in Thailand!!!" Then why the ongoing  "State of Emergency" and the need to wear masks to prevent spreading Covid if it is not here anyway?

I do however think that it is a good idea for people with colds etc to wear masks  and my wife was wearing a mask while outdoors on a regular basis as she hates smoke of any description - either from cigarettes, faulty exhaust systems or neighbours burning rubbish - which is fairly frequently where we live!

2 hours ago, Makoshark said:

I spent one month in Rawai. It’s nice with no farang but then again farang don’t go there. Family mart open. 7 open   Restaurants open.   

 

Its up to the remaining farang to tip 2-3x more to help the locals

 

i go 4x a year.  Love the place.  Quiet 

"It’s nice with no farang but then again farang don’t go there." Bit of an obvious statement?

"Its up to the remaining farang to tip 2-3x more to help the locals" So if there are "no farang", where do the remaining ones come from?

Great attitude! And next you'll be blaming "dirty unwashed farang" for causing it all in the first place!

"It’s well known – and obvious from many comments – that a lot of people don’t read past a headline"

And also that sometimes the information within the post itself doesn't go hand in hand with the headline! 

For instance (and this is only a theoretical example) the headline may read "Health Minister blasts dirty unwashed foreigners for spreading Covid-19 by not wearing masks"

When what he actually said, (according to the "theoretical" following text was "Health Minister blasts "dirty unwashed farangs for spreading Covid-19 by not wearing masks"

But of course, he would never say that anyway - would he?

9 hours ago, Kadilo said:

They havent got a clue. One minute they are suggesting ways of attracting more tourists such as reducing the quarantine period, then next they announce this. 
 

They really are driving a nail in the already buried coffin. 

9 hours ago, Techno Viking said:

Wonder how much these are going to cost the tourist ?

I think they will be paid for by the security and health conscious affluent Government! 

8 hours ago, Thaiwrath said:

I don't know which saying is funnier on TV, "TAT predicts" or "Anutin says" ? ????????????

 

Cheers  to that!  Very difficult choice, but I think I would have to go with "TAT predicts" because they've been doing it for longer, and "Anutin says" a lot of things that don't make me laugh - they just make me angry!

Is it coincidence that this "Leading Story" is running side by side with this one? :-

"Thailand to reduce quarantine to 10 days"

"The premier will also hear their requests for government remedial measures."

He will hear but will he listen?

2 hours ago, crazykopite said:

Attention Seeker if your going to cut yourself you go for the jugular 

If you are serious - not if you're an "Attention Seeker"!

Progress eh?

Why has the length of time one has to edit one's post been drastically reduced, and what has happened to the numbering system? 

First of all the post number became very diffficult to see - now it has disappeared altogether - very frustrating when trying to refer readers to a previous post in the thread! 

7 hours ago, James HKT said:

I don’t blame them. They don’t normally open Saturdays so why should they open this one. 

In which case, why have a Visa deadline on a day when they are closed?

The deadline should have been on 30 October

"Anutin Charnvirakul, has assured the public that the government’s public health measures are effective and people can visit the island as usual."

I fear there is a "spike" coming!

6 minutes ago, connda said:

Again, media misinformation for the purposes of sowing fear as well as anti-foreigner sentiments?
A Thai national married to a French man who is a Thai-French dual citizen.  But!  For the purposes of fear-mongering she's labelled as a "French women" instead of more accurately calling her a Thai citizen with dual citizenship.  Shame!

As another poster said, if she had been a Thai national married to a Thai-Chinese dual citizen, wouild they have called her "Chinese"?

36 minutes ago, EricTh said:

Is there any update as to how she managed to come to Thailand when the borders are closed to most foreigners?

 

She is not married to any Thai people.

If she was married to "any Thai people" she'd be a polygamist!

P.S. She is not a "foreigner"

4 hours ago, wmlc said:

For anyone that thinks there is no more Covid in Thailand I have one really nice bridge for sale. Everyone is in denial because they are so desolate to get back the tourism industry. 

"desolate"? Well I suppose? ????

9 hours ago, faraday said:

I thought Anutin said she got whilst in the Hotel....?

 

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/french-woman-may-have-been-infected-while-in-bangkok-hotel-quarantine/

"Anutin said" - 'Nuff said!

6 minutes ago, transam said:

I got it as an add-on in Google Chrome...

Thanks!

1 hour ago, jerolamo said:

"COVID-19 cover" is no sense and probably not legal because of that.

If you are sick, what ever it is, an insurance will cover you, up to 100K$ (EU inssurance for tierce of Thai price cover to 300 K€), that's all.
insurance that only covers for COVID is inferior in quality to insurance that covers for any form of illness. Much lower if in addition it only covers up to $ 100K when another (which costs less) covers up to € 350K.

And an administration, in front of a trail, will pain to succeed to demonstrate something different than what is logic about: who can do the most can do the least, not the other way around.

They can not speak for  lie and said anything wrong all the time, it should not be possible and accepted so easily, you can resist a little bit.

Tell me which point you failed to understand ?

"And an administration, in front of a trail, will pain to succeed to demonstrate something different than what is logic about: who can do the most can do the least, not the other way around.

They can not speak for  lie and said anything wrong all the time, it should not be possible and accepted so easily, you can resist a little bit.

Tell me which point you failed to understand ?"

All of the above!!! ???? 

1 minute ago, transam said:

Download LT spell and grammar check, it's excellent....

Thanks Transam - how do I do that? And why has the spellcheck ceases to function on ThaiVisa? Progress I suppose!

10 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

Apparently the amount of time you have to do a edit is short. When it times out you lose the ability to edit.

Thanks Joe, I have edited posts many time before, so they must have reduced the time by a significant amount. 

Another problem I have is that the automatic spell check funcyion doesn't seem to be working either! Any advice on that one? 

(P.S. Have just tried editing this post and the option to edit is there (but for how long, I don't know!)  

Like others. I have lost the option to edit my posts. I have tried clicking on thr three dots at the top right of the page (as already suggested by a Moderator and others) but the only option s that that gives me is "Report" or "Share" Any other way to get round this? If I press "Quote" all I get is a repeat of the post I am trying to edit!