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Wow, what are the odds of that happening?

Thailand - the Land of Strange Coincidences. File this along with the mysterious deaths of those Saudis in the Blue Diamond Affair.

I just love the dichotomy here between these "Smart" bus stops with all their technology and then you get on a non-aircon bus with wooden floors and wobbly ceiling fans. Pretty much a metaphor for the whole country.

As others mentioned - It's all about loss of face now this is a big story in the media. Before it was just a story for a day or two and then gone, now it's an every day story that doesn't seem to end. Keep up the pressure.

Very similar to the Praewa girl situation. Story would pop up every now and then for a day or two and then go away. Until the victim's families got a good lawyer and the press started hammering the fact the family never paid their debts. The publicity shamed the Na Ayudhya clan and they forced the family to pay. 

I just hope that Thais start boycotting this companies products, expats won't really move the needle on this. If the group's sales are down even 20% that will put a dent in their wallets. 

This sort of pressure worked before with that despicable girl who caused that fatal minivan crash, it can work again.

The same as studies showing car accidents are most likely to happen within a close proximity to home. Simply because that's where most people spend the most time.

If people spent most of their time in a popcorn factory, it's likely that would be the location for most infections. Some scientist would try to prove the causality between popcorn and the virus.

I will not shed a tear for a few of those courses in the BKK area that charge non-Thais a higher rate. Not to name names, but it sounds like scmheen malley. 

They forgot to include the fact that in a recent poll 95% of Thai people don't want foreign tourists. I guess that muddies the message.

Considering the recent poll that 95% of Thais don't want foreign tourists, I would think he should be happy with that forecast. (Sarcasm Alert!)

It's really astonishing that the government "produced" that poll, yet the country is so heavily dependent upon foreigners. Must stoke that xenophobia to prevent the masses from blaming the current government's mismanagement. 

From what I understand there is a 14-day incubation period from exposure to actually developing sickness, so it could take someone 14 days to develop illness after being exposed. Thus these tests need to be repeated to ensure that nobody exposed was infected. 

But as well all know, that will not happen. Thailand can say "All is well, get back to work" and ignore this situation. This way nobody in the military or government gets in trouble and they can continue the farce that Thailand is virus free.

Just this week the NY Times put our a story about how Thailand has succeeded without actually knowing why. It wasn't until the last two paragraphs the writer mentioned the cases of Burmese and Cambodians returning home from Thailand and testing positive. Also mentioned in the last paragraph was the abysmal rate of testing done in Thailand. Perhaps that's the so-called Secret to Thailand's Success. Don't Test, Don't tell.

Nah, nah, nah, nah, hey, hey, hey, goodbye!

8 hours ago, webfact said:

In contrast, Vietnam is on the path of high economic growth once experienced by South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia and Thailand. The Vietnamese economy has continued to expand during the virus outbreak while Thailand has suffered a sharp economic contraction.

Exactly! Finally someone speaking the truth. He might also add that Thailand's oligopoly markets retard growth, as the established companies are less likely to innovate and compete since they effectively own the market. Vietnam while still under government control in many industries, has a very healthy competitive market not ruled by very few extremely wealthy families.

The Vietnamese are some of the hardest workers with a strong desire to create wealth. Young Vietnamese have hope for the future and see a path to success, while many young Thais have given up due to the current government and the perception the game is fixed against them. Corruption, while present, is far less endemic than Thailand, and the VN government actually does punish those it catches. 

If they were to move away from a socialist repressive government, Vietnam could easily become the next South Korea or Taiwan. While Thailand will continue to spin its wheels going from ineffective government to military coup to ineffective government. 

1 hour ago, meechai said:

I fully expect Thai People to believe everything the PTB tell them but I am always surprised how many falangs have become assimilated

in the zero common sense department & parrot the ..... "yes keep Thailand locked as we are covid free" party line????

In all fairness, many of the falangs here are not the sharpest knives in the drawer. 

But the government has been using the media for months now to scare everyone into behaving and following their directives (often misguided) so that Thailand would become virus free. Now that HIS people screwed up, he wants to muzzle the media and claim it's not a big deal. 

He can't have it both ways, even though that's the typical behavior from this crowd in all their dealings.

Time for you to man up Prayut and take responsibility. The loss of face would be astonishing.

And the government tools made such a big production about the US Military visit last week with all the testing and precautions they enforced. Yet the Egyptians were left alone to go about on their own.

I hope the US General takes note of this mess and tells Thailand to pee off in the future. 

Once again the Thai Military screws things up. First the boxing match and now this fiasco.