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Maybe they are not as rich as we think ? Surely the government doesn’t expect Skytrain to shoulder all the costs ?

Hi, if it helps , British trying to get back to France were controlled and stopped twice. Others were refused boarding with BA and had to go home and re book with Air France. It seems everyone, including the Brits are taking this seriously. Imagine  you pay everything and then get turned back. There’s warnings everywhere.

Truly a great man who’s done so much for the people and set a fine example . Pray he’ll be ok.

I suppose the only country that’s not doing too bad is China. 

Why only durians then ? What about Mangos ,bananas etc ? Makes no sense. Also, people usually wash their fruit and veg . Especially at the moment. 

What happens in Thailand while in ASQ? Would they send you to hospital , will your Covid insurance 100 000 us  pay for it, and once the 100 000 runs out ??

Must know that each infected person usually contaminâtes at least 3 others.

Dont Forget the negative PCR test and possible quarantine. Britain is in a very bad spot at the moment . It’s also confinement there. 

80 billion ? Monorail cost 50 billion ,which will take donkeys years,, 20 billion on drains and sewage which should have been done years ago ! Redoing Walking street before Chinese New Year which is I think the 12th February does this mean scrubbing the streets ? 
No actual redoing of the ugly second road , the dangling wires, the traffic infested polluted seafront. Pavements are dangerous. Let’s face it, Pattaya city center is an ugly shambles. I know you have to start somewhere, but you’d have to bulldoze Pattaya completely to make it attractive.  Baring the Monorail, this work and embellishments should have all been done generally over the past years . 

The government from high up down have absolutely no vision. They have not prepared themselves, they have not helped their own people, a complete failure . It will only get worse. They have been used to using tourist spending to cover up for their past monumental mistakes. Now the tap is turned off. 

16 minutes ago, Selatan said:

Good luck looking for the source of the ingredients in all the medicines that you take. 

COVID-19 exposed dependence of world, India on China for active pharma ingredients

Don't be a hypocrite! Start throwing all your medicines away!!!!!!

The difference with medicines is that every single one that reaches the Western world is checked and go through thorough testing before being allowed. Sometimes it’s so rigorous it takes years. 
 

15 hours ago, Captain Monday said:

No need to imagine.

 

https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-las-vegas-airport-climbs-wing-plane-taxiing/story?id=74704847

https://www.newson6.com/story/5fa5c2f3711b2005c43ade8b/watch:-car-chase-goes-onto-airport-runway-in-california

Well that’s strange , they were all Americans.

And what do you know, the same situation as today ! Nothing has been done to save Thailand’s beauty and treasures. On the contrary, it’s got to the point where you can hardly breathe ! Lack of regulations , city planning and respect of hygiene and people’s health , ,mass tourism, has killed the golden goose.

2 hours ago, khunkarl said:

Hmm I landed 1250 the same afternoon.. 

was it your wife doing a meet and greet ?

Can anyone imagine this happening in an advanced country ? 

Very interesting. It certainly got the girls talking. My experience . Young, I was spending 6 months a year on Phuket. My boyfriend , Thai, was very nice, educated and spoke English well. All his friends were great company, and as they loved to fish, we’d take food with us and hang out on the rocks all day, and sometimes evenings.It ended because the ex wife turned up and was very nasty. She even wrote to me threatening all sort of awful things. I cut the relationship off completely and instantly even tho he was very upset. There was no question of him moving away from Phuket and I didnt have much choice knowing what the ladies could be like. It hurt me a lot. Once everyone realized it was over , things changed. One very good male Thai friend kept trying to get me in bed , nicely not forcefully. I did not want to and I knew his wife, we fell out over this, he wasn’t friendly any more where we’d been the best pals. I managed to sort it out, and as he had a restaurant I went as often as I could and made a point of being friendly to him and talking and eventually things went back to normal. Luckily I got on well with his wife too. Other advances were made by the same crowd, which made me feel cheap, as I couldn’t help wondering what they really thought of me. Anyhow , apart from one who got too pushy it all ended well. Like everyone above , I had and still have good male friends. I moved away from Phuket after a few years , and have never had male Thai friends since, tho I get on well with the ones I know. The one feeling I get is that Thai men are a bit in awe of foreign girls so don’t behave naturally. 

33 minutes ago, ukrules said:

Supply chains have been collapsing since last summer, trade in the stores will be massively reduced and in fact the retail industry is collapsing in on itself.

 

Perhaps what you're seeing is a part of that, I expect mass retail closures this year, not all of them will make it or consider it worth spending the money to carry on.

 

That there are less staff available is a tiny visible part of what's going on.

 

If you look behind the first row of those seemingly full shelves you will often find nothing there - they're running on empty in a lot of places.

Thailand food stores will suffer greatly from the Covid pandemic due to the lack of tourists , snowbirds etc. Restaurants not working and the regular foreign tourists missing . On the the other hand, supermarkets in Europe are doing very well with one Casino manager telling me it was “ Christmas” every day ! Here, with restaurants and pubs etc all closed , people working from home, everyone is eating at home. Plus the fact when you’re stuck home you eat more. 

7 hours ago, Chelseafan said:

Whilst you may be vaccinated it's still unknown whether you could be a carrier...

Following BBC and French news , the new vaccin does not stop anyone infecting others once vaccinated. The great advantage is if you get the virus it will not be very strong and hence not life threatening thus freeing up the hospital beds. Rather like the flu vaccination really . 

He says, she says, nobody really knows , especially those not working in vaccins and epidemiology. We should all be doing our best and shut up.