Curmudgeon1

11 hours ago, Meat Pie 47 said:

well where I live you can't even get Moderna or JJ you have no option which one to choose if you under 50 you can have Phizer over 50 only AZ and I live in the west

Im guessing Canada?

Another story to distract from the failing AstraZeneca rollout... its looking like the biggest fail of this new so called democracy.

Don't they need a vaccine to vaccinate?

On 5/7/2021 at 1:19 PM, mtls2005 said:

Meh.

 

Still no agreement with Pfizer so these words are useless. Actually worse than useless as they are confusing.

 

More details by dep-govt spokesperson 
@ttraisuree
: She says 
@pfizer
 will deliver their #COVID19 vaccine “in Q4/21” (Anutin said “Q3 or Q4”) and they’ll only seek authorization with 
@fdathai
 once a deal has been reached and will talk only with the govt, private sector later.

 

 

He needs to keep quiet until he has some real news.

 

 

He just babbles to put off criticism until Astra zeneca from the royals start producing.... likely the 3rd quarter. I'm afraid thailand is destined to be one of the last to tackle this pandemic. This would be due to one man's betrayal of his role in government to trident the best interests of the people and not himself and his royal alliances 

48 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Just where will this additional money come from for the workers and then of course the employers who will now loose production days which will only increase prices of goods or commodities in order to make up for the lost time as well as a reduction in goods and services.  Does this Government understand that more time off gives the workers less money to spend, or if they are to be compensated then the employer looses money.  How is this good for the economy, or domestic tourism.  It will undoubtedly be an issue of running up credit cards and more borrowing by people to take the time off from work.  Not seeing this as a good thing.  If this is important to them then just make a 4/10 work week.  4 days worked/10 hours each day with a 3 day weekend every week, as well as the Government increasing the wages it pays.  May nt be good for folks needing to obtain services but isn't that the same as adding more holidays to stimulate tourism.

You'r looking at it too closely. This is short term, low cost benefit for the Thais to use their expendable income and help support the failing tourist industry. There is a lot of wealth in bangkok and getting them to spread it around is a win win. Imo.

Please don't respond with economics lesson 101....????

7 hours ago, sammieuk1 said:

Forget it at the 14 day quarantine stage with a myriad of boltons no one will come unless you pay for it end of story ????

I don't agree. Many long term visa holders want to return.. Many, sms...i want to leave knowing they can return, particularly property owners, and family men. 

7 hours ago, samsensam said:

Then they’d be clear to roam around the island for their third week. After 3 weeks on the island the visitors would be free to travel to other parts of Thailand.

 

how are they going to know which tourists are which? which tourists have been in thailand for more than 3 weeks? which foreigners are tourists and which foreigners are long term residents, retirees, employees? will they have police checks all over the country continually stopping and checking foreigners? it's a mad plan.

Not sure I understand your question. It is assumed that after 3weeks confined on an island not to mention the 72hr clean health bill before departure to thailand, that said tourist would be covid free like every other expat living here. Why would they need to be harassed with more testing????. Based on the science 24 days negative is outside the incubation life of the virus, as I understand

5 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

just call the US and get some true traffic accident reconstructionists who can lay it all out. I am sure the UK as well as Australia and NZ also have folks who could do it.   Stop the games.

Dont forget Canada ????

On 8/3/2020 at 10:25 AM, madmitch said:

Totally disagree with you.

 

Foreign tourism is necessary to boost the economy. What's tthe point if most of the money is going elsewhere?

Foreign tourism means chinese tourism. They'll believe Chinas lying numbers, and they'll be the only ones to qualify without quarentine

23 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

I guess we should all trust Trump.

It will go away - eventually.

In theory he will be right - eventually.

Better than running with your hair on fire

1 hour ago, innosiem said:

you only need to do a 90 day report before Aug 31st
and that is only if you have not done your usual report by now (during the amnesty)
you are not on amnesty apart from 90 day reports
so next action would be to do yearly extension as usual

(now i see why you are bitter at those who stay on ME marriage visa's) ????

 

Well that is not what it says,  its what you think it says. Which isn't helpful. The long term description uses the conjunction "and" , which in essence means all long term visa holders needing and not needing an extension must extend by Sept 26. Of course that means a separate trip to immigration with thai translator because: a) immigration didnt clarify their clarification correctly b) TV didn't translate correctly.

59 minutes ago, Phuketshrew said:

The simple solution is to draft these thugs into the army and deploy them for duty down south.

Brilliant 

Personally I think Prayut has done a decent job considering the challenge. Unlike many of the self imposed authorities who expect a country's institutional corruption to turn around in 5 years,  I feel he had started to make a small difference. Now that the election has reintroduced the politicians this will likely be reversed. In the meantime this country remains one of the safest in the world. Far from perfect, but safer than most. Imo

6 hours ago, Mama Noodle said:

Interesting to me that seemingly every day they pick up new cases from returnees from all over but little ole Thailand hasn’t had any cases in 2 months. 
 

Thailand should do widespread local testing, as well as antibody testing and report it. 

What would be the purpose? ICU bed count is what is important imo

In two months that has almost zeroed out. Now focus on the outside contageins, and keep them quarantined. Nothing changes until better treatment or vaccine.????

11 hours ago, worgeordie said:

Maybe she was used as a proxy and knows nothing about it,

if the taxman looks at her situation should be easy to see

if she has the funds to pay,once they have their claws into you

common sense goes out the window.

regards worgeordie

 

Serious? She's obviously a nominee of a company and signed off on being a/ the managing director. She is likely being held responsible for corporate tax if the company.. i'm guesting a foreigner or unscrupulous individual seduced her in becoming a nominee and director for a few baht. Just a likely thought. 

9 hours ago, jojothai said:

They have probably found that the other countries were not going to accept the ludicrous conditions that were going to be imposed for the bubble trips. Now there has to be an excuse.

If you look at the worldometers. There has not been any significant rise in cases in China or South Korea, Japan has increased a bit in the last week.

Really? 

38 minutes ago, Srikcir said:

Not clinically proven, so why purchase now? 

400,000 tablets requiring 70 tablets per person treated - comes to less than a total of 5,600 people who can be treated. Seems a bit short on stockpile for the nation.

Considering the first wave was barely 3000. Imo, it sounds about right. 

Why?