Olivie

2 hours ago, EricTh said:

The other flipside is that it will attract those backpackers/visa runners with hardly any money to stay longer in Thailand.

 

It's good to extend the visa exemption but make sure that they distinguish true tourists from those visa-runners who want to stay long-term in Thailand on a shoestring budget.

 

Why not reintroduce the minimum amount of cash requirement? 

Even backpackers are bringing money to the country. I dont think a backpacker would live with less than $500-$700 per month. That's still more than what 80% of thais are spending per month.

11 hours ago, statman78 said:

Singapore’s model is the way to go once everyone who wants to be vaccinated is vaccinated with an effective vaccine.  According to some experts we will not get to “herd immunity” with this virus.  Vaccines will protect us from serious infection or hospitalization.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/12/herd-immunity-is-mythical-with-the-covid-delta-variant-experts-say.html?__source=iosappshare|com.apple.UIKit.activity.Mail

 

 

 

 

That's what European countries are doing. Most Western Europe has more than 70% of adults that already got 1 jab. All is open.

The problem in Asia, they always followed the "0 case strategy'. But it does not work with the Delta variant.
Now Singapore is the first asian country to chose to "live with the virus". They seem smart, like European, and smarten than most of asian countries.

2 hours ago, webfact said:

He said this was evidenced by Google Trends; searches showed huge interest especially from prospective Japanese and Chinese buyers. 

Did someone explain him that chinese CAN NOT use Google...?
So how can he find that chinese are looking for candos on Google?

Who was the stupid one who decided that 90 cases number? And why 90 and not 100 or 50 or 200 ?
They probably think "90" will look like a calculated number, not a random "100" so they look smart...but in fact they REALLY dont know what they are doing.

Thailand, like a lot of asian countries, where the first/second waves were not that hard, did not order enough vaccine.
Europe and USA which had big and deadly firsts waves purchased a lot of vaccine.

Results: Europe and USA will have a "normal" life with much less restriction than a lot of asian countries during 2022.

1 hour ago, Kadilo said:

Wasn’t a pre requisite for opening this scheme in July that 70% of the locals had to be vaccinated first.?

How is that going to happen for those participants in July, then again for the rest in October when the target is now 70% of the population by the end of the year? 

They could vaccinate 70% of people in Phuket and only open Phuket airport for tourists.

Nothing new, we already knew that for months, right?

3.5M tourists...I mean, they are still smoking too much weed.

I was saying from the beginning that their numbers are full of BS...

In January, they had some days at 22% of positive rate...

The same government that was promoting holidays for thai people.

7 days if you are vaccinated and 10 days if you are not?

Thank you but I will wait a little bit, until we don't have to do quarantine when vaccinated.

They were 13 tourists in the first flight from Frankfurt.
TAT already announced they will spend each 1.264.000 baht per day.

An other proof that Thailand strategy is clear: No test, no case.
But when they really need to make test, they surprisingly find positive cases.

Great advertising for tourism. But until now, they did not care. The golden goose was alive.
If they knew that pollution kills much more than covid...

The really should continue their previous strategy, it was really working well: no test = no case