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29 minutes ago, Captain Monday said:

Passport stamps are behind the times.

 

Not in Thailand.

OK Everyone. Hurry up and get ready to wait!

I'm not planning to crawl out from under the bed till July. At some time around then I will pressure my b/f into actually checking with our local (sth Surin/Prasat) clinic & public & private hospitals. Depending on the result I will then take action as appropriate.

Till then I'm relying on his village network for information, but the only thing that travels at lightening speed there is gossip about unmentionables. Anything important travels at snail pace with superstitious attachments.

John Lynch's 'Simón Bolívar: A life'.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

I'm sure this will have been done on professional advice from a Thai university.

And we Falangs think we're badly off ...

Outcome of he day: So don't just do something, Stupid! Sit there!

Tourism realism for 5 minutes, then back to the lazy man's path to bourgeois comfort: Dreams of more tourism!

On 5/23/2021 at 1:00 PM, richard_smith237 said:

once it has confirmed that it has vaccinated >70% of its population. 

ie well into 2022

In Surin people are mostly wondering what all the fuss is about and the administration is preparing to think about preparations.

Thanks. A helpful attachment.

Mmmm, apart from yak butter, it's not obvious what Thailand might need from Mongolia. Rio Tinto has discovered that digging up gold & copper there isn't as rewarding as it might be.

No mask-wearing in the factories? No social distancing? No decent cleaning systems or hand-cleaning?

4 minutes ago, Geordieabroad said:

Who in their right mind would turn up at the airport with a positive test certificate?

I was thinking of the quick-result tests you can do at the airport ... but I guess they aren't available at many airports yet.

3 minutes ago, Geordieabroad said:

Aussie friends of mine are returning to Australia tonight on a repatriation flight, they were covid tested yesterday and have to pick up their certificates today.

A covid test within the last 72 hours is all that's required

Yes, and if you show positive, you're not allowed on the plane.

Meanwhile, actually flying in one of their aircraft is now presumably a somewhat higher risk to body & soul than with other international airlines ...

In sum, they are senior bureaucrats (not politicians, though like all good bureaucrats they need to be sensitive to the politics at both local & national levels). While they have considerable autonomy on a day-to-day basis, their job is to implement the central government's policies in their province.

Woe to he (they're all he's as far as I know) who strays too far from government policy and PRACTICE.

1 minute ago, khwaibah said:

Same in Kap Choeng.

Safe to go for next 90-day report then!