chilli42

What else do you expect from a group of autocrats like this. Perhaps they think unprovoked war is a good idea.  That human suffering is OK.  That lives ruined is just karma.  Wonder what they would think if the PLA was marching into Thailand to liberate the Chinese diaspora.

I am enjoying a week holiday in Mexico at the moment.  Normally,I would not hold up Mexico as a model country.  However, it sure is nice to travel into here with no Covid restrictions/requirements of any kind … other than those imposed by the Canadian government to fly.  Without comparing Thailand and Mexico on numbers of Covid deaths, tourism in Mexico is alive and well with all the hotels I tried to book nearly full.  Parenthetically, Thailand is FAR better tourism value than Mexico (overpriced due to its nearness to the USA)

If completely in control then remove all restrictions and end the emergency decree

It’s interesting reading the comments here that nobody mentions the needless loss of life and misery that will be visited on the people of the Ukraine for no other reason than geopolitical ambitions.  I very one will be a loser in this situation

6 hours ago, nglodnig said:

My $0.02 - I did my second test (this was in December before the new rules of booking into a hotel) in a well-known hospital in Chiang Mai. The test of course was negative.  I asked how do I notify some authority and was met with blank stares. 

 

I DID get a couple of phone calls from Thailand, don't know from whom, when I got back home but it was early morning (3am) for me so didn't answer.

 

After that, nothing. My wife also did her second test and is still in Thailand. Nearly two months later she still hasn't been arrested ???? We had lost the pink slips when we took the first test (reported here) and was not able to find out NOW I was supposed to report the second test.

 

My passport is about to expire so next time I go it will be with a new passport, and by then all this silliness should have gone.

This is the Thailand I know and love.  Rules for everything with zero interest in enforcement … unless the boss is standing right over your shoulder

The media have not been our friend through all of this.  Here they are fear mongering again to access a few more eyeballs.  What happened to responsible balanced journalism?

1 hour ago, NanaSomchai said:

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA wait for it... (grasps for more oxygen) WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

 

Now do you believe me when I've told you all several times that these visas schemes were nothing but obvious SCAMS?

 

Once again and again, what's the best visa for Thailand?

 

Visa on arrival and the 1900 baht one month extension. Back to back. Period.

And still too expensive for what you get.

4 hours ago, webfact said:

request from the Royal Academy

Well at least we know the source of the brilliant idea.

How is it that Thailand always seems to be out of step with what is going on in the rest of the world?

5 hours ago, webfact said:

The Public Health Ministry reminded the public that although the Omicron variant spread quickly, the symptoms were not more severe than the Delta variant as seen in the stable number of deaths and critical patients and that the vast majority of cases were mild or asymptomatic. 

So why not just let ‘er rip and be done with it?  Sure there will be deaths, there are deaths now.  They are trying to hold back the tide and sooner or later they are going to have to bite the bullet.  May as well do that now when the virus at large is the weakest so far.

There is not a snowballs chance in hell that I would have a child take one of these vaccines.  There are virtually no Covid deaths in this age group and the vaccine does not confer either immunity or non transmissibility benefits.

10 hours ago, NanLaew said:

I renewed my retirement extension and files a new 90-day report a week past Monday. Took about 20 minutes. The drive to and from immigration was longer.

 

YMMV

Like he said …. unnecessarily complicated.  Even the notion that they need retirement visas that have to be renewed as frequently as they do and in person is the very definition of “unnecessarily complicated”.

Well if this is the kind of advice the government is acting on it’s no wonder that the Covid policies are so pathetic.

Where to invest, a first world problem for sure.  It’s worth seriously considering real assets such as real estate or collectibles (e.g. high end watches always popular in Thailand).  I have money in gold but gold is going nowhere unless the US dollar weakens and interest rates stay low.  So it’s a maybe.  If you want to tough it out in stocks look to buy stock of companies that have a strong balance sheet and make lots of money … the day of meme stocks, SPAC’s and high growth no profit companies are over for the time being.  Oil and Financial sectors should do OK this year.  Crypto?  You will need a big brass pair to go down this road but who can say what the upside is once prices bottom.

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Naew Na said the suspect had mental health issues.

I am not trying to paint the entire population with the same brush but there is a disturbing lack of impulse control in Thailand.  The number of murders, and for the flimsiest of reasons, is rather shocking.