AlexRich

11 hours ago, henry15 said:

I don't see many women and children. Most are young men. Those cowards  abandon there wife's and children. They let other  young men fight their wars

Said like a true gammon ... well I, and everyone else, saw plenty of children on the news reels.

Dulcet Decorum Est ... the lie that feds to the plebs.

They want them for the health professionals who are tackling the virus, to prevent them from getting the infection.

Yet they tell the man on the street that masks are useless? 

Don’t judge him by his words, judge him by his actions.
 

Woman 66% at fault, she’d have been 100% at fault if it wasn’t for the fact that the truck was driving too fast. If they had been going a bit slower they would have been able to avoid her bad driving. She will get away with it because the victims are not Thai, sadly.

I laughed at the photo of a guy in China wearing ladies panties as a mask. One positive of the novel Coronavirus and the shortage of available masks is that panty sniffers of the world are getting a free pass.

It’s spreading all over the world now, in a couple of months we will all be living a little differently, wherever we live. I read that in North Korea one of the first people to be infected sneaked out of his quarantine to visit the baths ... they shot him! Let’s hope Thailand don’t take a leaf out of Kim Jung Un’s book?

A stroke of luck that Thailand’s tourism minister is a world class researcher in epidemics and virology ... a bit of Sun and Bob’s your uncle ... have it!!

As Bill Gates wealth is greater than the entire value of all Bitcoin you can be sure he’s not an investor ... it’s a scam.

You being a Thai citizen is significant. I’d guess you could set up a Thai company and be the controlling shareholder, and buy and own land and buildings?
 

A Thai corporate lawyer would be the best advisor. 

Honeymoon is over for the junta?

It appears that an American lady on board this ship has been diagnosed with COVID 19 ... is she the only one, I wonder?

4 hours ago, Grumpy John said:

It's a screwed up system!   I understand if it's a worker the Thai family rely on for their income but a 77 year old is unlikely to be holding done a 9 to 5 job.  Part time maybe.  

It might be argued that an economic burden has been lifted from the family?

4 hours ago, Assurancetourix said:

These are even two ships that will dock in Phuket;
one from Hong Kong where everyone knows there are no Chinese : 919 people
and the other from Singapore where there is no Chinese either : 3,149 people on board

The so-called "super spreader" in Brighton, England was not Chinese? And he was never in China.

There is no way, other than extensive testing, of knowing whether people on board this ship have COVID-19.

The decision to let them dock wasn't done for humanitarian purposes, it was done because someone senior got a substantial amount of tea money.

That lot will do more damage than Pol Pot! 

On 2/8/2020 at 11:01 AM, Brunolem said:

And China is putting around 400 million people (as of yesterday) under lockdown, together with its economy, because of an average virus that officially kills much less than the run of the mill flu???

 

Journalists are parrots, paid to not think, but that doesn't mean that we are also dispensed to think...and put two and two together...

Agree, the lazy comparison to the globally established flu is tiresome and wrong headed thinking. The death rate of the flu is 0.1% ... even official numbers suggest that novel coronavirus is 2%, and I’ve seen estimates higher for Wuhan. If the virus spreas across the globe the death numbers will be at least 20 times more than the flu. As you state, you have to ask the question why China is locking down 400 million people and damaging it’s economy due to something less dangerous than the flu?

No one will know if novel coronavirus has taken a grip in Thailand until it reaches the point where it can't be stopped ... if uncontrolled it will take around a month to become obvious to everyone. So I'd take special care to avoid crowds and shop during low traffic hours. I wouldn't be to much until the situation becomes clear.