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India, Pakistan, Bangladesh - together they'll make Wuhan look like a Sunday School picnic.

Presumably ordinary letters just pass unnoticed through the holes in the system ...

Thailand. Disaster prevention an unknown concept.

Disaster recovery a specialty.

I remember on 2 occasions in Canberra many years ago when, after long months of drought and the air filled with dust, rain fell as mud - thick & sticky. Cars outside were covered in it and you had to wash the windows carefully because there was no way you could see through the windscreen.

3 hours ago, Misterwhisper said:

The only good news in this piece is that Anutin Chanvirakul was not quoted or mentioned once.

Good work, that man. Carry on.

2 hours ago, z42 said:

I wasn't here in the Thaksin days, and people go on about how much of a free lunch it was for the Government in his day.

This lot currently are the worst i've seen in all my days from.any country. Can anyone who knows take a stroll down memory lane and say if Thaksin's were even a patch on this lot?

I wasn't around then either but it's fairly clear that, as with almost all governments everywhere, some good things were done, and some bad. Thaksin himself clearly had & has a brain however.

Can't help noticing how quickly they can do the CV test when 'tourism' is at stake. Everyone else has to wait a week or 3, by which time they could be dead but still 'unconfirmed'.

Looks as though the Thai government has been consulting with Iran on how to manage matters.

And here was I thinking that Thais are pretty good at keeping up appearances, never mind the substance.

But no, it turns out that the guy whose job it is to manage the crisis can't even make himself look good.

1 hour ago, fred110 said:

You're kidding about the gloves right? You can't get fingerprints thru gloves.

Ever heard of irony?

 I wonder if 'universal' means, you know, universal. Guess I'll find out when or if my turn comes.

If you live in the provinces it's quite easy to keep other animals at a distance.

Loving to work 20 hours in every 24 7 days a week would be a dispositional requirement, I should think.

Excellent opportunity for elderly falangs to lose weight.

For me, as a homosexual, the young man looks - as far as one can tell from the photo - quite handsome. Makes me wonder why he would want to dress up as a ridiculous pseudo-woman. He could make much more money by just being himself!

He could perhaps even be happy by just being himself ... but perhaps he thought he was, and looking ridiculous as he tottered along with a wig and high heels was his God-given destiny. Poor fool.

2 minutes ago, ozfarang said:

I used TransferWise last Friday.

 

Comm Bank using debit card to Bangkok Bank, 5 minutes. Third transfer in a month all the same.

 

Good for small transfers and a very good x-rate.

 

 

Right, so using a debit card makes the difference. I shall follow up with NAB (not that, as explained, I'm particularly fussed about it).

TW transfers from Oz are certainly not 2-minute jobs, or even 2-hours. I use them once a month and it invariably takes 1.5 days to arrive here in my BKK Bank account in Prasat, and 2 extra days if the weekend gets in the way.

I think (if I understand it correctly - and maybe I don't) it's because the Oz banking system doesn't do an immediate transfer & clearance: everything waits till after midnight to tick over in the computer. So I initiate TW transfer at 0700 ICT [1000 or 1100 eastern Oz] on Day 1, with transfer of monies from my bank to TW immediately after. TW informs me about 1700 ICT [2200-or2300 Oz] that they have received the monies but that transfer to BKK Bank will take place on Day 2. Around 0800 ICT on Day 2 I get a TW message that says the money's on its way to BKK Bank. Money arrives in my account any time from 1400 to 1600 ICT.

No complaints. Very reliable. And always shows as FTT in my bank book.

As a complete novice in these matters, I just wonder how likely it is for a healthy 35-year-old to have a 'pneumonia' that isn't in current circumstances Corona-related!?

It does seem a bit unlikely ... perhaps relating to Thailand's continuing excellent record on keeping CV cases low?