86Tiger

12 minutes ago, Leveraged said:

Is the care-giver going to drag your crippled and mentally debilitated self to immigration? I got no issue with a care home or having people look after me if im out of it, but how to you do that while you're a goner? 

 

Ive never seen any type of these people in immigration in any of the hundred times ive been there. 

 

So how does it work in that case? 

I had a good friend stoke out few years back in Patts.

He was alone, no family in Thailand.  He opened his eyes but he wasn't really there anymore and needed 24/7 care. Hospital sent him to a nursing facility.  The nursing facility took care of all the visa issues for the 2 1/2 years he lived.  His brother back in US arranged his SS and military pension to go to the nursing facility.

I just left Suvarnabhumi last week.

Only person that checked anything was at check in counter of the flight.  All my docs were in english.

I will add, get there really early.  I arrived 2hr 45 minutes early and stood in line waiting to get checked in 2hr 30 minutes.  It took so long to check all passenger docs they had to delay the flight maybe 45 minutes to get all aboard.

Immigration and security was simply run thru but that doc check for all passengers is a killer.  The issue is every destination country is different so what I needed was not same as what you need for UK and so on.  Complete night mare.

YMMV

Well, the flight I was on Sunday night from Doha to BKK had 35 passengers. They can’t continue to operate with that kinda payload.  So, I would suspect less flights sooner rather than later.  
 

“5,  A new investment code that allows foreigners to own 100% of their own businesses in nearly all sectors and to own land needed for business.”

I have never understood how they can expect any one to automatically give controlling interest in an investment to a Thai person/company and believe it will be successful in attracting business investment.  

13 hours ago, buick said:

one would hope the airlines would be notified of the 'rules' and then make the passengers aware before boarding the plane (or making the reservation !).............

The poor souls kidnapped on first snatch didn't know, but hopefully word is out and every one is prepared now.

This has been my biggest fear since this entire none sense started, being taken into custody unawares at any given stop.

14 minutes ago, Surelynot said:

What on Earth does that even mean?.......there is no way Thais with minimal symptoms are going to self isolate if it means no money is coming in.

I remember reading in these very pages last year the reason Thailand numbers were so good in comparison to western countries is Thai's are obedient and would do as they were told with masks and staying home while those in west were ignoring recommendations.

38 minutes ago, ukrules said:

 

It won't all be over, lockdown or not - it's not going away any time soon regardless of what they do.

 

A 7 day lockdown will stall things a little bit for 7 days, that's it.  Nothing more.

Bingo!  Buy that man a cookie.

7 day lock down will stall things 7 days.

21 day lock down will stall things 21 days.

120 day lock down will stall things 120 days.

It is a virus loose in the general population of the world and will run its course until enough are exposed naturally or by vaccine as has every virus or disease has since the evolution of humanity.

19 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

The insurance I posted a link for is a little over 23k baht for a year. 

And it covers hospitalization for a asymptomatic case.

That is the biggest fear with this entire circus, being snatched up to hospital and not sick.  

Crazy.

3 minutes ago, MRToMRT said:

Headlines such as "Thailand suffers record daily deaths" in UK press whilst Thailand makes me do a 14 day ASQ in Bangkok if I come here mean why should other countries bother with Thailand's belly aching about their quarantine requirements.

And that my friend is the rub.  Not one single country in the world gives 2 hoots whether their citizens visit Thailand nor do they give a rats ass how difficult it is for them to travel there.

So whining about difficulty returning to home country after Thailand being as prohibitive as possible to visitors is not going to register a single squiggly on the do I care monitor.

2 hours ago, Disparate Dan said:

Last figures I could find: "In the first quarter of 2020, the tourism industry contributed around 12.91 percent to Thailand's GDP. In that same period, the total value of Thailand's GDP was around four trillion Thai baht." - https://www.statista.com/statistics/1143467/thailand-share-of-tourism-to-gdp/

Highest estimates I've ever seen show just below 20%, so even at its worst/best (depending on how you like tourists) more than 80% of GDP is NOT from tourism.

But the sector shouts loudest (and most shrilly).

To be fair, those are the "reported" numbers, most likely what is taxed or accounted for taxing purposes by the government.

The government only knows of what a receipt is generated.  After I spend time in Thailand there are many thousands of dollars spent but very few receipts.

I would offer the great majority of money spent by tourists is cash infused to the economy that is not recorded or taxed.  Matter of fact, I would guess there are untold millions if not billions of cash infused to the economy after tourists return to home country that is never reported or taxed.

So, believe the reported 20% and double it for unrecorded transactions may be a conservative estimate of total influence on the economy.

That ain't pocket change.....

So they are not going to change Thailand policy, only try convince other governments to change policy by convincing them Thailand is safe.

Got it.