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AussieBob18

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  1. 10 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

    What exactly are the Thai government doing to single out white tourists? 

    You want a list of the ever growing list of impositions - go look in the TV 'visas, residency and work permits'. Compare now to 10 years ago - massive changes - all negative.  You lived/visited long term in Thailand? Then yu should know. Yes it is up to them, but I am allowed to complain and express my thoughts about it.

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  2. 26 minutes ago, Odysseus123 said:

    so are  you obeying the rules and regulations of your host country or,if you have returned to your home country,its rules during this time?

    We are back here for 2 years now - waiting for pension before we return - still not sure if return will be full-time or part-time.

    Yes we are complying here - no choice - fines given and arrests are being made. All police leave has been cancelled.

  3. 3 hours ago, lks7689 said:

    The last time I replied to a post was years ago. Since I'm bored from the lockdown in my own country, let me say some <deleted> to go along with the daily doses going around here. So what have farangs, who have "invested" or wasted their time and money in Thailand prior gotta do with how Thailand dictate policies? Times has change and certainly I'm sure the countries these farangs came from has seen better days. If not, they would have zip up, admit they made the wrong judgement call and went back where they came from, why "suffer" in Thailand? For years I have invested in Thailand, then found the culture unsuitable and moved on. I could whine like many losers here do on a daily basis but I figured, what's the chances of me changing a Thai mindset so deeply rooted in greed and superficiality? People in thaivisa has been whining for decades, what has changed? You farangs know the deal in Thailand yet still you stay there, taking pot shots at Thai incompetence that you know very well will continue past the day you die. By staying you are admitting there's a part of Thailand that you still crave and can't let go. Isn't that hypocritical? 

    You should have stayed asleep.

    I dont live in Thailand at the moment - used to - but now in Aust waiting for the pension (must be here to get it).

    TV and all Forums are the opportunity for people to exchange their ideas and thoughts - that is what they are for.

    You have every right to complain about Farangs just as I do to complain about the Thai Govt and their decisions.

    And we all realise that we have nil chance of changing things - just as you have no chance changing me/us.

     

    So - do you agree with the Thai Govt's focus on Chinese/Indian/Russian tourists and their ever growing impositions against western tourists (Farangs) - especially the 'long stay' ones?

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  4. 4 hours ago, samran said:

    Aw bless - more American style name calling. Who are you trying to impress here?
    Helping out every day on the front lines in intensive care are we? 
    Anyway, more than happy for you to walk around ignoring how contagious this thing is and how it affects a certain population.  Knock yourself out - you and your mates. Chug some chloroquine while you are at it for good measure!

    Liberals - always virtue signalling, and making personal insults to those that dont agree with them.

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  5. 15 minutes ago, smutcakes said:

    Yeah sure its early days. But 10,000 + dead in New York, 20,000 Italy etc within 2 months with lockdowns. It sure seems pretty serious compared to flu.

    123K dead since December/January.  200 million is 16 million a month.  Ok lets go 100 million that is 8 million a month. OK lets go 10 million that is 800K a month. Lets go 1 million that is 80K per month.  Covid has been slowed by social isolation but surely you realise that social isolation has not reduced deaths from 16 million a month to 40K a month.  No one can be that silly - surely??

     

    Shut the world down and cause economic and social ruin and create another depression for 1 million?? NO,  10 million OK.  100 million YES !!  Wake up - they got it wrong - for the right reasons - but they got it wrong.  

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  6. 17 minutes ago, smutcakes said:

    Fail.   "In contrast, very little is known about the new coronavirus and the disease it causes, dubbed COVID-19, because it's so new. This means COVID-19 is something of a wild card in terms of how far it will spread and how many deaths it will cause."

     

    My point exactly - just like Swine Flu before it, early they over stated both the infection rates and mortality rates.  But that is understandable - they will not know the true numbers until at least a year later - same as it took that long to know that Swine Flu was the same as most flu viruses - and it is now classified as a normal seasonal flu.  Swine Flu killed about 500K people after it had run its course - the world should not be shut down for something that will kill about the same - maybe up to a million.  The early predictions were 200+ million. It was a coronavirus (like SARS/MERS) but was as contagious as the seasonal flu and it had already been spread around the world. Social isolation is not meant to stop that completely - it is to slow down the infection rate to 'flatten the curve' so medical services are not over whelmed.  Read this - all of it - I have - you and others need to as well.  https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus

    They do not know the numbers - they estimated - they will not know for at least a year (like previous pandemics).

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