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Stoker58

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  1. “The idea is that the longer tourists can stay in Thailand, the more they will spend”. Some sound thinking at last. I can’t understand why so many people seem to hate “visa runners” and backpackers. They’re not doing any harm and not costing Thailand anything.
  2. I had to do the Thai driving test recently to renew my licence. It was appalling. They learned nothing about road safety and competence. They need a much more rigorous way of training drivers. They also need real traffic police, but everyone knows that already.
  3. Let’s pretend there really are tens of thousands of new internal cases in Thailand every day. <deleted> actual difference would it make if an occasional tourist arrived with a bad cold. None.
  4. Things have changed in the source markets, the West, Russia and China. These are outside Thailand’s control and will greatly limit any bounce back. That said, they also badly need to replace the current bureaucratic maze with a proper welcome mat for farangs bearing cash.
  5. I had to stop reading this bigoted rant after the first few paragraphs. Simplistic caricaturing of other people is no better than the people the writer imagines he is criticising. I suggest the person responsible takes a hard look at his prejudices.
  6. There is a mental health crisis, but it’s not caused by a harmless respiratory virus.
  7. Works for me. I don’t want to be sharing space with crazy vaxxers and their germ fetish.
  8. Two of my friends have just cancelled their planned holiday here in April. Who needs the risk? Thailand will learn that it’s a lot easier to kill a tourism industry than to rebuild it.
  9. Losing the facenappies would be a good first step. These were always a psychological tactic to promote fear.
  10. Strangely enough, there has been an increase in the number of road accidents and deaths in the UK and Ireland over the past year too. Many people have reported deteriorating driving standards generally. I wonder what they might have in common with Thailand.
  11. How come they all wear those parachute and wings badges? Anyone know what that’s about?
  12. A detail that many overlook is that the Thai birth rate is now 1.5, way below the 2.1 needed to maintain the population. They’re facing the same demographic problem as many western countries. They can either make it easier for relatively well off westerners to live here or their country will fill up with Burmese and Cambodians. 1.5 is drastically low.
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