GeorgeCross

21 minutes ago, mike324 said:

When its not burning season, the air is pretty good even in the middle of Bangkok. Authorities just needs to crack down on farmers who burn the fields since it is cheaper and faster. I'm sure they all know the problem, its they can't get police to crack down on it.

and the farmers know they are up to no good they just play poor, innocent & ignorant

otherwise why all the burning at night now? 

28 minutes ago, bkk6060 said:

Yes, you are right.

But do Thais call the police on other Thais for burning?

Seems very few if any do.

they shouldn't need to, there's this thing called police work..

On 1/13/2020 at 11:50 AM, Berkshire said:

Did you know that in the US, something like 50% of all jobs 100 yrs ago was in agriculture.  Now it's less than 1%, yet that industry is much more productive now than it was then.  That's called progress.  Think Star Trek, humans will be allowed to do what they want to do instead of what they have to do.  Nevermind my own kids, it makes me wish I was young again. 

or think The Expanse where 40 billion humans scratch around for scraps whilst through a lottery the lucky 1 in 6000 are allowed to have a job..

28 minutes ago, Hayduke said:

 

All the doubters and naysayers should remember that the Generalissimo solved the Chiangmai air pollution in only seven days. Seven days! The fact that he hasn’t yet cleared the air in Bangkok probably means he’s really super busy battling wicked demons and restoring happiness to the Thai people. He’ll get around to it when he has time.

 

 

they will do the same this year.. just waiting until the last week of may to show us the magic ????

15 minutes ago, stouricks said:

So where does the air to breathe come in? 

aircon hepa filters work really well and have a nice side effect of pushing the unfiltered air back out where it came in from albeit very very slowly!

5 minutes ago, stouricks said:

He IS correct. And he is saying what you are saying, that even with the windows closed, the sh...ty air still comes in. You need a purifier in each room.

depends how sealed your house is. if its crack free with decent plastered ceilings, hepa filtered aircons, and good well fitting PVC windows/doors then not much of note is going to get in.

bathrooms leak so keep them closed, the drains connect direct to outside

i do find though that the house inside will normalise across rooms. so if my main spaces are sitting at 45mg, purified rooms will eventually end up (say overnight) at 45 if i turn the purifiers off BUT the house will not match what is outside over the same period, in fact in mine they tend to stay at what i last aired the house at so i've been at 45 for 3 days now

2 hours ago, Chrysaora said:

I'm a bit baffled.  I run an air purifier in each room.  Why would you think that keeping the windows closed would have much effect on the air particles in your home?

maybe i can help. in my house my Sndway825 is telling me its 45mg inside and 109mg outside with NO air purification and which correlates pretty well with my local station which is less than 2km away:

this is because the air outside goes up and down on the winds, the air inside stays constant to the last time i aired it out

though struggling to find sub 50mg periods to do that now 

3 hours ago, jybkk said:

What's interesting is also that a lot of commenters here seem to have a hard time understanding that there could be 2 sources for the pollution.

 

It's pretty obvious that BKK doesn't have clean mountain air the rest of the year and that the emissions from traffic NEED to be addressed.

 

But it's a baseline of around 50-60 AQI. Not great but not terrible by urban standards.

 

The crop burning is what tips it from 'not great' to 'very unhealthy'. Seeing how non urban areas themselves are past 120AQI is proof enough that even if you stopped all traffic and construction in BKK it'd still be really bad.

 

Crop burning wasn't that bad in the past. I suspect the farmers are currently struggling not than usually to make ends meet and that burning is more economical for them. 

well that and the fact that there has been massive deforestation in SE asia over the last few decades making way for more & more agriculture and the inevitable slash and burn farming so popular here.

29 minutes ago, puck2 said:

 

If Cambodia is the main culprit, then please explain me why the 2.5 p.m. over Cambodia (138) are lower than those in the central area around Bangkok and especially around Ubon Rat.(160),?! It's against the logic.

wind is blowing in the opposite direction, away from the 138 and towards bangkok and the gulf

i photocopy EVERY page of my bankbook every year.

but as it's an FTD, it only ever has one page

i'll get a new FTD next year

????

2 minutes ago, geisha said:

What does it say about a country when only the street walkers/bar girls and ladyboys speak a smattering of English ? The average knowledge of Thai students is incredibly low. I was told by Thai friends in Bangkok years ago that you could get your kids higher grades if the money was right. Similar to India.The poor people in Thailand are oppressed and have no future. I see more and more homeless families on the streets, and more drunks/drugged than ever before !  Shame.

hiso kids speak excellent english in fact many families i know of its first language even at home. as one of my friends told me when i commented on it "of course the we speak english at home, cannot conduct (international) business in thai!"

5 minutes ago, fforest1 said:

So what about retirees on a fixed pension?

they'll be retiring elsewhere 

it's all mute - within 20 years there will be no need for a workforce, AI and robots will do 80% of the work. the only industry thailand will be in will be renting cheap warehouse space for the bots to "work" in.

it's done for thailand they are way way too late. without their own original products and brands they are nothing.

back to the rice fields peoples.

12 minutes ago, URMySunshine said:

Terrible today , 160 - sore throat can't see Bang Saray from the condo for thick, clogging smoke. Numchai have oversold our purifier now got to wait till Tuesday.  I suspect stocks are running low nationwide,. This should be a national emergency. But it won't be.

same over our side of the gulf though we are reading higher than the following at my house - PM 2.5 110+

very sad, it stinks of stale smoke

thailand and eastern europe?

perfect AQI pollution match!! 

they'll feel right at home 

4 hours ago, JohnnyBKK said:

I have been advising everyone I know to stop coming here after they put me in a cell at the airport and made me buy a ticket (I had a valid visa and re-entry permit). I'm already planning to move out of this country in the next few months, just need to sell my car and some of my stuff and I'm out. And believe me, most of the people I know are very tired of Thailand now and the main thing is the immigration, second thing is the thai baht that is super high.

thank you for this report. do you mind if i ask which visa you had? i assume a non-immigrant as you had a re-entry permit? did they give you a reason for refusing entry?