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France just letting us know they can cut us off anytime they feel like it.

If we run out of Avocados there will be riots at Waitrose. 

5 minutes ago, josephbloggs said:

These discussions always amuse me.  Places obviously change over time, and people change and their tastes change. Comments like "I remember Samui before it had electricity and it is not the same now".  No, now it has electricity and is much better and everyone who lives or visits there likes the electricity. However 40 years ago you were much younger and more adventurous and now you are grumpy.

Old people always harp back to "the good old days" no matter where they live.  It's nothing to do with the place, it is all down to the person.  Places evolve.  On Samui we got an airport, the island developed.  Turn up for the first time in your life as an 18 year old tomorrow (ignore Covid) and you would love it, from the first impression of the airport to the whole experience.  You don't like it because it is different to 1990 when YOU were very different.  For 99% of people the electricity, the airport, the running water, the underground cables, even the high end resorts, they are all good.

"It's not like it used to be" must be the most common comment on absolutely anywhere on earth!!  And again, it is the person most of then time.  "Ooooo the youth of today" is another.

I used to go to Samui when I first moved to Thailand in 1995.  Loved it.  Then got bored of it.  I went back this year for the first time in about 18 years, thought it was great.  It still had a charm.  It had supermarkets.  It had Chi and Coco Tams.  It has changed / progressed.  Deal with it or forever become the old bore in the rocking chair complaining about progress.  
 

My point really wasn't to be nostalgic. I do agree with you about that. My original point is that Samui is the worst place in Thailand

2 hours ago, Huckenfell said:

Rubbish ! there are two drive on drive off ferry companies from Samui to the mainland working hourly services. I always use Seatrans going to the mainland many times during my 12 years there.  So if you have never been there , don't post nonsense.

 

Ooh didn’t know that, I assumed everyone paddled across under their own steam. I suppose you’ll be telling me next that ferries are safe and reliable.

and as for not going, I was first there in 1990, it was quite nice then, I even went back in 2004, but didn’t like it at all.  
I suppose it just got better and better From then?

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such as controlling migrant workers' movements, conducting proactive tests on migrant workers and locking down the province,

Just another racist then after all. Viruses do not stay in one sector of society

9 minutes ago, KhaoYai said:

The new strain is only more infectious - it is also not limited to the UK. There is no evidence that anyone with the new strain remains infectious any longer than others. Given that people coming from the UK are subject to quarantine just as everyone else is - what is the justification for your statement, other than trolling?

Very true. Lots of folks speculating that it came across from Europe on a dinghy. Whatever the source, it should hopefully be covered by all current vaccines.

1 hour ago, John Drake said:

 

Right this very moment, there is a Covid outbreak in Britain, and it's being treated with an American vaccine, not a British one.  Right this very moment, there is a Covid outbreak in Thailand, and it will not be treated with any vaccine for three to four months, because Thailand placed all its bets on a British vaccine, instead of an American one. And all you can do is rant against the US.

Pfizer Biontech is the only vaccine being used in Britain currently, and all it's funding came from Germany not the USA

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-09/pfizer-vaccine-s-funding-came-from-berlin-not-washington

A real hub in action. No messing about from Singapore

Developers getting desperate to keep the gravy train rolling. How many will be bust this time next year?

53 minutes ago, webfact said:

CCSA offers incentives like visa extension to make up for 14 days lost in quarantine

 

The CCSA has also issued a new list of 56 countries and territories whose citizens do not require a visa and can live in the Kingdom for up to 30 days. The countries are: Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bahrain, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Latvia, Principality of Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritius, Monaco, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, San Marino, Singapore, Slovak Republic, Republic of Slovenia, Spain, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America, Peru, Hong Kong, and Vietnam.