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10 minutes ago, car720 said:So many children, as well as adults are murdered by these dogs in every country every year.
In this instance I agree with genocide both for the breed of dog and breed of owner.It is beyond my ken to understand the thinking that goes with this type of dog. All I can think of is that it is some sort of weakness or inferiority complex. Definitely a need to dominate others regardless of the consequences. Jai dum.
Most people I have met who own pit bulls look like they own pit bulls. I love dogs and work as a dog sitter and walker but do not understand why anyone wants a pit bull, other than as an extension of their own aggressive personality and inclinations. They give other dogs a bad name. All this talk about never leaving a child alone with dogs - I would not hesitate to leave a child alone with a golden retriever or similar natured dog. Again and again there are reports of pit bulls attacking and maiming people. It's all very well to say it's the owners fault and not the breed, but there is no doubt that pit bulls are inherently aggressive and built to cause considerable damage to a person or another animal. The majority of owners probably don't have a clue how to train their dog to not be aggressive around people. And the pit bulls I have seen in Thailand and Cambodia are among the strongest and most aggressive I have encountered. They should be banned.
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25 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:
Saw head nurse she sent me by wheelchair and porter for blood test, saw doctor he sent me for X-ray, after X-ray doctor referred me to another doctor who sent me to a ward where they put tube up bum, tube in the one eye headed monster, and a tube in my nose down into my stomach, yuck.
I was put on large bottles of iv fliud and three times a day 2 other types of smaller bottles of iv fluids.
4 injections a day put in iv lines.
For 2 days another iv line for high blood pressure stuff.
The nurses were great and got me well from a burst stomach ulcer and the infection in the small intestine which it caused.
Went home to bed rest for few days and still taking it easy until I go back on 26th Jan when they will do a ultrasound.
You got value for money, including a colonoscopy, gastroscopy and endoscopy.
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On 9/22/2021 at 1:39 PM, gearbox said:
How do you know the field hospitals are free for foreigners? Can you choose to stay in a field hospital?
I asked these questions before and never got a definitive answer.
Can tourists go to the field hospitals? Who is eligible?
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1 hour ago, richard_smith237 said:While your records and health details maybe private, in the context of this thread, Covid-19 and any other highly transmissible disease, if testing positive your health is of concern to those you may expose to the virus you are carrying.
To suggest otherwise is either in a different context to this thread and refers to non-transmissible illnesses, or it suggests a degree of careless, selfishness and disregard for anyone around you.
It could also be said that not allowing people who are asymptomatic or not particularly sick to self quarantine and force them into expensive quarantine care is totally over the top and a reason why some people might avoid providing health details if at all possible. Doesn't mean that people would not self quarantine - just means they do not want to waste their money on needless state quarantine procedures.
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2 hours ago, PoorSucker said:
Guy on Samui was forced into a quarantine hotel, cost him 120.000 baht
If for 14 days, that is about 8500B per day which is very expensive.
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2 hours ago, Kwasaki said:
Gov hospitals not expensive I've just spent 7 days in one not with covid so that may of added a bit more dunno.
12,497 baht.
What did you get for that money?
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3 hours ago, ololosha said:
Like anywhere in the world nowadays, right?)))
And checking the statistics, Thailand has ~30 cases per 100 000 while the country where I live has 250 and UK 2000, so where is safer?))))
The difference is that if I get Omricon in my own country I quarantine at home with all the usual luxuries and distractions available to me. If I contract it in Thailand, I am looking at enforced quarantine in a hotel or hospital? I can never quite keep up to date with the requirements. Cambodia has just introduced compulsory 14 day hospital care for anyone who tests positive for Omricon too.
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1 hour ago, bigupandchill said:
He likely paid off the family to their satisfaction, brought great shame to a high profile thai family and has not been able to openly travel back to his home country - his actions surely had consequences.
Surely you are not suggesting that the consequences he has 'suffered' sufficiently pay for the crime?
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3 hours ago, RichardColeman said:Ms Meeke, who documents her travels on Instagram and TikTok, has been detailing her hotel stay, admitting she's not sure how much their quarantine will cost.
Well, love, it's going to be a lot more expensive if you say anything bad about the hotel on your social media. May find the hotel bill and quarantine is the least of your problems
I wouldn't want to come to Thailand for a holiday and spend 10 days in quarantine particularly if I was asymptomatic. Nor would I want to have to pay an ambulance to take me to the quarantine hotel. If you have ever been asymptomatic to the virus and had to endure an over the top response you would understand the frustration. The simple answer is to just not go anywhere overseas for a holiday.
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1 hour ago, arick said:And what will happen to him?
How ridiculous that newsreaders have to wear a mask.
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3 hours ago, LivinLOS said:Actually USA deaths are now trending back up.. and the speed of the recent rises means your likely 2 plus weeks away from the current infections presenting in mortality figures. Omicron is milder but the infection rates are way way higher to compensate somewhat.
The other issues are more economic.. People isolating on mass means lack of staff for services, a breakdown of these can lead to all kinds of economic chaos even with a mild virus.
Lots of Americans are unvaccinated which makes a big difference to the consequences of people catching the virus. Australian case numbers are really high but over 90% in the states affected are vaccinated. High vaccine rates make a big difference to the severity of the infection.
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1 minute ago, Doctor Tom said:
In this case, if proven, he will no doubt die in Jail, so not going anywhere and you don't need a valid visa for that to happen
Can't imagine a worse punishment than being 80 in a Thai jail.
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Just another example of Thai wowserism in a different form, trying to pretend their lives are based on the best of safety concerns, the same mentality that has closed down tourism as soon as it was reopened through overreacting to a relatively mild if contagious virus variant. I would certainly not get the test. If the Thais on the board and in the condo are too stupid or blind to reality as to think another test on top of 2 already taken is necessary, just let them do their worst. Thailand is a country currently going nowhere fast.
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2 hours ago, Niteowl45 said:
The point of letting in the 200,000 that, like me, already applied (I literally got my thai pass last night) is not so much to get tourists, as much as the fact that to get the thai pass we booked flights and spent money on hotels, insurance and testing...
If at the last minute they void their thai pass, and make us lose a bunch of money in the process, it probably won't motivate us, or anybody else for that matter, to try to plan vacations over there in the future. Why would anybody go through all that again knowing that they can just deny us entry at the last minute?
As it is they are doing plenty of stupid things, imo, but at least they're honoring the thai passes they already issued. If they didn't they would lose face big time.
Having said all that, I agree that voiding those passes would have made more sense from a safety standpoint... but then again it's really a small number. Imo, honoring already issued passes is the right choice.
You are 100% right. People have to be able to book a holiday with a fair degree of certainty that the tables are not going to be turned on them. Even Australia, the most cautious country in the world, is not panicking over Omicron. Sure there are lots of cases and it's highly infectious, but hospital admissions and deaths have not been greatly affected and there is no need to lose the confidence of prospective tourists by once again changing their mind. The Thai government should make a decision and stick with it. We have to learn to live with the virus because it is not going away. If the population is vaccinated, life should be able to proceed as normal.
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I would like to believe I am not racist, and when it comes to judging people on an individual basis, I believe I am not. However, there are certain countries in which practices and behaviours exist that I consider unacceptable, and sometimes morally reprehensible. As a result, I dislike that country and by implication, perhaps many people in those countries who practice those behaviours or habits.
As a dog lover, I abhor the capture and killing on a large scale of dogs in at least 3 countries, often in a very cruel manner. The more affluent and civilised the country purports to be, the more critical I am of this practice and the government approved proliferation of these killings.
Similarly, there are several countries whose political stance against minorities and their neighbours I consider to be unacceptable.
I don't wish to be anymore specific. I am prepared to judge people from these countries on these merits, but I guess the countries themselves are not on my itinerary as places I intend to visit.
I also cannot recall a country I have visited in which its citizens didn't hold negative views of ethnic or minority groups or other countries.
It would be really nice if we could all believe that people of all creeds and colours are equal and have the same right to automatic respect. On a country's basis, my respect has to be earned. On a personal basis, I judge people as they come.
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4 hours ago, Damrongsak said:
All has to do with pricing. When I was there in the age of dinosaurs, I could have a good time for 50 Baht or less up-country. 90 Baht at one place in Bangkok, but they provided the short time room and it was in a nice part of town. That was like $4.50 at the exchange rate at that time.
These short term rooms were, I assume, to offer you temporary relief from the heat and exhaustion after devoting hours to the inspection of temples, ruins or other historical or cultural displays. Once refreshed, I imagine you moved on to the next town to avail yourself of its cultural offerings. Yes those indeed were days to be savoured by the discerning Thai tourist.
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4 hours ago, sezze said:
Well they are right . It's perfectly fine to drink alcohol , but not if you are cold and trying a drink to heat you up , since in fact it does just the opposite . Alcohol widens your veins and by that more blood goes to your skin . This makes you feel warmer , but in fact it is cooling your core temp .
Nobody said you can't do , only give the recommendation for people who do try such thing .There are people dying many times in Thailand from undercooling , and many Thais do not have the knowledge that in fact the lao khao just does the opposite .
Is that you, Dr Sarayuth Bunchaiphanichwattana?
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46 minutes ago, Bruno123 said:Why not? Does he need to spend 10k per night in order to impress you? How much do you spend per night?
For me, 3040B is an expensive hotel. Maybe not so for the hiso foreigners who have money to burn on accommodation.
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There are actually lots of very wowserish Thai people, largely among the middle class, particularly noticeable to me when I rented in the vast Lumpini apartment building complex in Rangsit where no alcohol was available at the 2 7/11 stores on site. It's not a country in which I am keen to spend time anymore.
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3 hours ago, darrenr said:
They have lost the plot ! Already done 2-3 swabs to get into Thailand, rate their going you’ll be swabbed 10 times a day, and they certainly won’t be getting my personal details off my vaccination certificate (such as full name and DOB), unless government official.
I hear Cambodia as of 15 Nov - no VOE/Thai Pass, no PCR test, no insurance ,only rapid test on arrival, Thailand May lose a lot of business to other countries with less complicated entry
Cambodia is where I am now heading. I don't trust the Thais. Lived there for 6 years and now find it conservative and puritanical as well as poorly governed. For some years now Cambodia has provided a more relaxed and friendly environment in which to stay or live than Thailand.
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20 minutes ago, Salerno said:
There are cheaper options available.
There would want to be. 6000 baht is absurd.
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11 hours ago, MarcelV said:
I teach at a very prestigious private school and we have been having online classes since May. I'm not worried about the school closing down for good. The school has been in business too long to forfeit. The fallout would be unthinkable.
You are probably at Bangkok Patana or somewhere similar which would have had an online program for all and collected fees throughout. No way such a school would fold.
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On 9/24/2021 at 4:56 PM, Russell17au said:
It took time but now in Australia if you are caught eating or drinking anything whilst you are actually driving a vehicle you are put off the road and get a hefty fine as well, because whilst eating and drinking when actually driving you do not have full control of the vehicle that you are driving, thus even drinking hot coffee and you have to hit the brakes in an emergency and that hot coffee spills in your lap and causes a split second reaction by you that has now cost the lives of an innocent father, mother and 2 young children aged 5 and 8 years
As an Australian citizen stuck in the safety cocoon in which this country envelops its citizens, I would happily be in any other country which doesn't prevent its own citizens travelling OS, or boasts the longest locked down city, the most punitive traffic fines available and the most restrictive speed limits in the world. You may value the priority placed on attempting to ensure that people's safety is the only priority in life worth pursuing, but the flip side is a dull and bland society which is currently revealing to discerning citizens just how an obsession with safety to the detriment of anything else can be stultifyingly boring and restrictive.
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13 hours ago, Pravda said:
Lets try this.
What is it with forum posters obsession with the banning of alcohol?
Generally people move to these developing countries because they are more liberal and offer more freedom than their own. Having said that with Thailand's high infection rate, the country probably should have been in a long lockdown with restaurants and bars closed. It's when alcohol is banned through shops that the ban becomes really draconian. I am sure this happened last year when Thailand locked down. I enjoy a drink at home every night and I certainly would not consider moving to a country that banned alcohol at all points of sale.
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No cover up in Dr Kratai death: Police chief says family can have complete faith in "scrupulously fair RTP"
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How does a police lance corporal afford a 'Ducati monster'?