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To the people saying Bangkok will be undrwater in 5 10 or 15 years, im more than happy to bet that this does not happen.

Thailand the country where every year it gets confused as to why their reservoirs are over flowing during the rainy season and then come the dry season there is a water shortage! Every year now im no climate expert or water enthuasiast but perhaps a couple more reservoirs would potentially help bother annual issues that seem to happen.

The best is when they turn off the water to the poor communities but still water the golf course that's up the road!

Its 85 % theatrical!

On 11/12/2021 at 5:24 AM, BE88 said:

Northern Cyprus seems to me an excellent idea also because you don't want to buy there and anywhere, the place is cheap and beautiful, if you no like is easy change another place in Europe.  

 

Don't leave your money in a Cypriot bank account, can remember a few years back when the IMF and Central bank told them to fleece money from peoples bank account.

Your bank account savings were subject to a tax varying from 9% upto 60% depending what type of account and how much money you had in there.

The money was just taken from your account you had no jurisdiction over the money.

Interestingly this is the same all over the world, when you put put money in 'your' account you are not making a deposit, as such, rather you are actually lending the money to the bank, so its theres to do what they want with.

Of course in some developed Countries the government does cover upto about 80,000 pounds of whatever you have in your accounts.

Banks do not take deposits nor do they lend money. (Technically by law defintion)

They borrow your money and actually create money in the form of a 'loan'

7 hours ago, pseudorabies said:

Obviously Switzerland and many other countries do not have the same unconditional love and blind (misplaced?) trust of China that Mr. Anutin and others in this administration have.  The people of Thailand have been made to suffer because of his actions and inaction.  It's good to see that he's experiencing some of that as well.

Thailand does as China says, its always been the case and will continue to do so.

Just like Thailand woukd not sign the COP26 agreement, despite travelling all the way to Scotland.

'Smart City' ????

I'm not sure why flying a plane would require therapy and what a strange place to conduct it in!?

7 hours ago, BangkokReady said:

Yes.  Not wishing to be rude, but she appears to be not particularly attractive.  Older and quite fat.  I wonder how she competes with the twenty something slim and cute girls.  Must have very low prices.

 

Good luck to her though.

Having personally probably spent too much time in these sort of areas, i always found is surprising that everyone seems to get a go.

Even what you might describe as rough, will generally pick up some sort of customer at some point.

5 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

He did not have a jab that was recognized and accepted by Switzerland, does that make sense now...

Who decides how many shots to be fully vaccinated?

3 shots but must be in a certain order?

This whole thing has been 85% theater and the cracks are showing, what a mess.

On 11/10/2021 at 5:20 AM, robblok said:

I don't really care how much someone spends, but having no insurance that is a problem. (unless a big amount of savings)

 

The reason we are now have to come up with proof of insurance is because people have not been able to pay bills or did runners. You see it pop up in Thaivisa a lot. 

 

I think its because in a lot of countries in Europe there is insurance because you pay taxes. So they are not used to paying for medical insurance and then when they start is a lot of money. A lot of people from the UK also seem to think its easy to fly back when something happens and they can be treated home so no need of insurance. Unfortunately it does not always work that way.

 

Thing is by people skipping out and breaking these rules we all suffer. Because now everyone has to prove insurance. You can thank those who skipped on bills for that. 

Insurance is not going to stop someone retiring to Thailand, most people in fact almost all of the retired people will have Insurance.

Considering all the other issues that are going on in Thailand, insurance is hardly a deal breaker, when you are considering somewhere to spend the rest of your life.

Do you work as an agent for insurance or something......whats with the 'its all the people who skip payments that make it worse for the rest of us decent ones'. Give me a break please.

No ones in Hua Hin because not many people go to Hua Hin.

definitely rent first, check transport links, internet, local amenities, neighbours etc.

18 hours ago, EricTh said:

 

Did you not read there are many breakthrough cases in USA, UK and Israel? You can google for it or watch in Youtube for the evidence.

 

Vaccine doesn't prevent you from being infected, it prevents you from being hospitalized with severe illness.

 

What is important is that all the passengers were supposed to be Covid negative when boarding the place.

 

It goes to show that negative Covid cert & fully vacc cert can be bought or faked.

Interesting you immediately come to the conclusion that the certs are fake rather than some issue with the testing procedure.

What on earth does fully vaxxed mean anyway?

What's the point in travelling half way round to not sign something?

On 10/29/2021 at 4:17 PM, Chad3000 said:

Well then be a bit more particular about where you eat. But I will tell you something about that if you're that concerned about food poisoning than stay away from meat products. Fruit and vegetables really shouldn't make you ill even if the environment is a bit unsanitary.

Majority of food poisoning comes from contamination in the preparation stages and is often found on the uncooked parts of the food.

Ive watched the women in Hua hin's food hall and as they move the raw chicken to the fryer often bits of the chicken juice drip off and often land on the salad or in this case the basket of limes, which then decorate the finished dish.

You wont get food poisoning from cooked meats. I generally avoid anything that is not cooked if its in the vicinity of raw meat products

On 10/30/2021 at 6:44 AM, Xavnel said:

You CAN test as Positive on a PCR Test up to 90 days after you have had COVID-19. 

 

That would seriously ruin someone's vacation if they landed, then tested Positive. 

That's not quite true, your two posts here are hyping up the situation with sensualistic comments that just do little more than inflame the situation and posters on here.

If in the UK as an example if you test positive you just isolate for 5 - 7 days then you can go back out again into the general public. Thats it no more testing nothing.

Of course Thailand might be slightly different but the whole situation is not quite as worrysome as you make out.

On 10/30/2021 at 4:57 AM, Finlaco said:

@Ty Hareways don't forget to factor in what happens if one passenger on the flight or cabin crew test positive.

 

I assume it's quarantine for all at one's own expense depending on the T&C of of the insurance policy (if you are not the positive one).

 

Only those sat close to the positive one have to then quarantine, think about within 3 rows.

Staff unaffected and dont have to isolate

If you test positive in the UK, you then just have to isolate for 7 days.

After that you can go back out.

Do not take another covid test after the 7 days as you will more than likely test positive again due to to it still being in your system.

This is official advise from the government as some of my family have caught covid (symptoms were very mild)

Not sure if its the same in Thailand?

On 10/30/2021 at 12:57 AM, internationalism said:

the first case in phuket was only 12 passengers seating the closest to positive were also quarantined. 

Not the whole airplane and not crew.

Some of those 12 wanted to go back to their country as soon as possible. That probably was denied for them

Surely based on the controls and regulations in place at the monent the stewards on board should have isolated if they were serving the positive ones, if not why not?

19 hours ago, tomacht8 said:

Make the effort and read this through. As a vaccinated person you can fly around within the EU in almost all cases without having to do a corvit test before.

 

 

Rubbish, you cannot travel around the EU freely. Of course some countries you can move between but the countries completely freely, no.