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What actually happens to those people who get caught breaking the rules ??

19 minutes ago, creative1000 said:

@lust   A few months back we found a small center of 8 shophouses with a 20-Baht store, seamstress, cheap milk tea cafe, cheap noodle shop etc... inquired with the landlord about the remaining vacant properties, and they asked for 50,000 baht /mo. Theres no way the other shops are paying that let alone making that. No idea what they're basing the valuation on.

Your face ! 
send the wife or another Thai friend back alone.

1 minute ago, hotchilli said:

If the PM is asking the 20 richest families for a donation it already is bankrupt.

Can Thailand go bankrupt with its billions of dollars in reserve ?

The problem is that many jobs will not even exist for a long time. Obviously, businesses will not start employing people till life goes back to normal, meaning other Thais earning money ,and  tourists come back. It’s going to be a very hard slog in this country where there are no social benefits. 

I don’t want to sound mean, but I think you may have fallen into a scam. Thai men in their work rarely speak any English at all for a start. It all seems too exaggerated to me. Sorry. 

I was not scaremongering. Sorry but haven’t kept the articles, I would have thought many would have read them. 

Sorry, I don’t know what happened with my post or why it got posted thrice ! There have been quite a few articles mentioning pneumonia for three months now. At first I thought nothing of it . There is one article further up this thread.´

46 minutes ago, Thailand said:

A source would be useful.

46 minutes ago, Thailand said:

A source would be useful.

Thousands of Thais are said to be having pneumonia, I’ve personally never heard of so many outbreaks all over Thailand. Anyone else ?
Also, when these people die , it is registered as From unidentified cause .

There’s going to be a whole lot of Thais who are going to be in deep trouble financially. How long before the banks start recalling ?
Thats not counting the millions of Thailand’s poor who won’t know how to carry on. 

Thousands of Thais are said to be having pneumonia, I’ve personally never heard of so many outbreaks all over Thailand. Anyone else ?
Also, when these people die , it is registered as From unidentified cause .

On 4/14/2020 at 7:09 AM, Brunolem said:

A little caution certainly, but what about postponing the school reopening to July, when France, hundreds of times more affected than Thailand, announced yesterday that its schools will reopen in one month, on May 11th?

The schools in France will only open on the 11 th if the situation allows it to. Also, 
There were a great number of pneumonia cases being reported in January and February.

There will be no international travel until September from Europe and certainly the USA the way things look. 

There is the answer, testing is expensive, so there are no true figures of contamination. 

Since the corona virus outbreak, there has been a lot of talk in Europe about relocating certain factories back home. I think it’s a very good idea. Many big companies are moving out of China to mostly Vietnam. Even Apple are looking in to it. 

It’s a lesson for everyone in these difficult times., Be responsible. Most foreigners did not leave the country when they should have, take responsibility of your actions. Finding yourself in lockdown in a hostel may not be fun, it’s not supposed to be. Social distancing, confinement, everyone has to do their best. I know of tourists who went from Myanmar to Thailand, straight to Suvarnabhumi, queued night and day in turns to get flights home, didn’t sleep for 48 hrs, but then found flights , which they paid for again, and did not complain. Effort . lots of people want everything handed them-on a plate and then complain when it doesn’t go their way. 

I definitely think that handshake and * la bise*,  kissing on left and right cheeks, has made the virus situation worse. Spain , Italy and lots of south Europeans are kissing each other every day, all the time. I live in France, usually walking down the road you’d usually meet half a dozen people who will *faire la bise*.  Being British, I usually try to get out of this as much as I can, sometimes for ex.you go to a party or dinner and you end up having to kiss every bloody person there ! I walk in, put up my hand , and say hi everybody . No wonder that the virus spread so fast in these countries. 

On the other hand, the scientists say it’s nothing to do with heat or weather conditions, whether there is less or more contagion. What does make a difference is when it’s cold, damp , and generally bad weather ( winter) people cough and sneeze more, and viruses are spread easily. You don’t see much influenza in summer for example.

1 hour ago, natway09 said:

But why are all those private cars on the road anyway ?

Exactly !! You shouldn’t be out driving around unless you have a special delivery / doctor/ frontline worker authorization !!! Why can’t the people understand ?

A few reasons why Thailand won’t see Western tourists for a long while. Most European airlines have cancelled flights until minimum June, and then it will be reviewed. No one is going to travel far this year.

Most people will stick to their own countries to help the different businesses that have suffered greatly. Speaking with my friends and on different travel forums, lots of Travellers will give countries with a lot of Chinese a miss for a good while. I for one will be very careful where I book my long haul holiday. Another reason why tourism will not go back to normal, the world is practically in recession, people are not working. Money is not being earned, there will not be extra money to spend on expensive holidays for a good while. 

Chumphon has nice beaches.
 

Disgusting. I hope that a lot of you savvy people can find a way to put this on front page newspapers worldwide. This must be the cherry on the cake of all the most abominable things a government ever has done, anywhere !

The situation will get worse when the hospitals are saturated, which is bound to happen. Do they announce on TV/ press how many beds and ventilators they have, or have left ? How many are they testing  daily ? Unfortunately, many of the testing kits have been reported giving  false negative results ! There have been many batches of tests delivered to Europe that are faulty.  I think Thailand has to wait another 2 to 4 weeks to see the results of confinement, and the consequences of the hundreds of thousands ( millions ?) of workers leaving the cities for home, or arriving back in Thailand from overseas . Only then you will see the true figures. 

1 hour ago, saminoz said:

24 Hour lockdown is a ridiculous proposition.

They are idiots to consider it.

What about getting food and medicines?

This is a typical overreaction to their inability to enforce the simple social distancing and existing curfew.

As usual, the draconian threat of 2 years in jail for curfew breakers just makes them look as ridiculous as they really, really are!

 

Good lord, of course you won’t starve. Lockdown means only leaving home for absolute essentials, food, medicines, administration.  Food shops and chemists remain open at restricted hours. 

2 hours ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

That was useful. I assumed that my policy had expired at midnight on 01 April 2020 which was my booked return date.

 

Having (again) read through the small print of the policy I found a paragraph which states that if the original return flight is cancelled by the airline then policy cover is automatically extended until final return to the departure point.

 

Could be weeks before my airline starts flying again.

Hi, have you seen the messages posted on available flights out at the moment ? Your airline might not be flying and certainly won’t for a few months to come ! But there are other flights .