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2 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

Don't know who your dealing with or where your advice is coming from but you are wrong. 

 

Then how come I had to go to the Australian Embassy in Bangkok and get a letter stating that I could not return to Australia because of the Australian International Borders being closed to all people because of the Covid situation and when I got that letter I returned to immigration and I was given a Covid Visa at a cost of 1900B.

6 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

Tick box 1 or 4. 

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Also what about UK folk and many others.

Been plenty of flights to UK, USA etc...

Those folk are obtaining covid extensions.

So now there are flights to Oz.

Can you obtain covid extension?

Answer YES.

NO, I cannot get a Covid extension because I can travel back to Australia. 

1 minute ago, DrJack54 said:

Can you show a source for this.... regarding reasons for covid extensions

 

I had one and the only reason I could get it was because I could not return to Australia because there were no flights because Australia had closed its borders to all international travellers both arriving and departing Australia at that time.

11 minutes ago, ChrisKC said:

There are many people on this forum (including me) in circumstances such as these tragic accidents about riders and passengers not wearing a crash helmet, but I would guess that most people DO have a helmet but don't wear it.

 

In addition, I would comment, a little apropos of a previous comment of mine here, that many people somehow cannot afford a helmet but have no problem having smart phone.

 

I understand that a motorbike is often the "family vehicle" and there is little problem about helmet wearing unless one has some sort of incident, nevertheless, it is truly irresponsible of Parents who may or not be wearing a helmet but carrying one or more small children without one. And of course it is breaking the law.

 

Yes, it's true I think, that the police are not well paid but they HAVE undertaken to accept and do the job and therefore they have responsibilities to enforce the law. They really do have the job that could make meaningful differences to the number of accidents; death and suffering in the short and medium term.

 

I am very sorry that I have seen no improvement in 19 years. Given that some people are killing themselves and others that were not even born when I first arrived in Thailand, this means a whole generation has missed out on many necessary lessons. And I fear it will continue!

 

One of the big problems though Chris is that this and all the previous governments have failed to supply the police with the vehicles (patrol cars and decent motorbikes) to get out on the roads to catch the offenders instead of waiting at some useless stationary checkpoint that everyone knows is there so they can detour around them, but saying that you still need the police to enforce the laws even at the checkpoints (no helmets, too many on a bike, no registration on both cars and bikes, no licences, etc)

2 minutes ago, seedy said:

You have not been here long then.

I agree with David, in the 10 years that I have lived in Thailand I have only ever seen people get an infringement notice at a road check point, I have never seen a highway patrol car or motorbike patrol ever pull a driver over for an infringement and I travel highway 2 in Isaan and other area roads here quite often.

12 minutes ago, David T Pike said:

I NEVER see patrol cars here. I have never seen anyone pulled over for infractions! It's Mad Max out here! The only tickets I know of are the one cameras take and are mailed! Who cares what the laws are broke if they are not enforced and prosecuted? Believe it or not there are low income farangs over here but ya don't see THEM 3 or 4 on a bike or have toddlers with them! You play ya pay! Sadly the kids have no say in this....

I have seen a few Highway Patrol Toyota Camery's but I have only ever seen them doing escort work on official van convoys and escorting other official cars and buses around. I have never seen them doing any actual law enforcement patrol work on the highways.

Once a truck that size starts to turn he loses all vision down the left hand side and because of the position of his legally placed mirror he has many blind spots that both motorbikes and cars like to venture into. There are 2 sides to a right hand drive truck, the right hand side is the overtaking side and the left hand side is the undertakers side.

3 hours ago, sniggie said:

Happened to me in the UK. Lorry turned in front of me. Got most of the speed off but not all of it.  Persuaded to get the police to pursue a case of without due care but eventually the magistrates threw the case out. The lorry driver's union provided a barrister.  Infuriating. I believed then, as I do now, that any car or lorry driver who says that they didn't see a motorbike when turning should automatically be convicted and suffer a disqualification.

 

At least the police cared. It's doubtful if the lorry driver in this case will face any consequenses.  So sad for the family concerned. Yes, some posters will question the motorcycle rider's actions. Too many passengers, probably limited maintenance (brakes) etc. but the lorry driver should have damned well looked.

Let me get this straight. You wanted the lorry driver to be automatically convicted and disqualified because his union presented a case in the court that would have shown that you were the person in the wrong and not the lorry driver. If the lorry drivers union could not present a case that cleared the driver then the judge would have convicted him but the judge must have agreed with there evidence and not yours, so it does not matter to you but if it involves a lorry the lorry driver is automatically in the wrong regardless of what really happened so now it appears that you have a bias against all lorries.

8 minutes ago, IvorBiggun2 said:

The police are well paid if they did/do their jobs. The police receive 95% of any fine that they issue. The remaining 5% goes to the Department of Land Transport. The 95% received by the police is pooled with other officers  that work back at the station. But being lazy barstools it pays them to take a bribe and split it with no one.

 

 

The police officers pay here is not great, we have 2 relatives that are police officers and their pay is not great plus any uniform or equipement they need they must pay for themselves out of their own pocket because it is not supplied by the government. There is very little equipement supplied by the government, there are a few cars and pick up trucks and some 2 seater motor bikes but everything else is supplied by the police officer himself and paid for out of his own pocket unlike the western countries where they are supplied with decent equipement and paid a decent wage and they can do a decent job of law enforcement.

Some people give their plates a very light spray of white paint so that they are not readable by the speed and red light cameras. Back when the illustrious leader was running for the leader of the country with the free democratic election the LTD announced that it would enforce the no registration and no licence laws with an increase in the fines and the mighty illustrious one told them no because it would upset the people because he was afraid that the people that supported him might turn their backs on him and he would lose the election. It was the same with the no passengers in the bake of pick-ups until it was Songkran and then the law was conveniently forgotten.

21 minutes ago, userabcd said:

Thanks.

 

Yes, dont have to show the lump sum as coming from abroad. But if enough applicants are offering this kind of information to immig it may be quite possible to give immig ideas who may start requiring it from everybody.

 

I recall a few years ago when all that tm30 business was in the news and required, the immigration officer specifically asked my wife for a copy of the tm30. Now we just routinely include a copy buried in the middle of the paperwork submisson.

I had the TM.30 business raise its head again last week when the IO asked for a new TM.30 when I was renewing my extension at Khon Kaen, lucky my wife was with me so she could do it.

I see where the error was in the money in the bank. The OP thought that it must show it coming from overseas so when his first Wise transfer did not show as an international transfer he did another transfer but the last transfer was the one that the bank listed and it showed that the money had not been seasoned for the 2 months before the application. The bank letter did not show the previous transfer. As for the marriage certificate, the original has always been needed to show the IO and the updated Kor Ror 2 papers to prove that you are still married. I have always done a new TM.30 with every new application and have never had any problems so far. Just a word of warning about Wise Transfers, there has been many caught out lately because it appears that Wise transfers do not show as international transfers anymore, there has been a lot of discussions on here about it. 

4 minutes ago, Sanookmike said:

Already expressed my concerns with the PCR test on arrival being a gamble due to false positives etc, saying that tho they do give you a list of things that you shouldn't do up to 30 mins before taking it so you don't spoil the test... Maybe he was positive before he departed. 

 

You are dead right about that because even if you show a negative result for your pre-flight test 72 hours before departure you could have been infected 2 days before the test and still give a negative result which would mean about a 6 - 7 days incubation period before the positive test on arrival. There is no test just before boarding the plane, the only test is 72 hours before and anything can happen in between that test and your arrival test 

2 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

It is very possible this person was infected back home, maybe a few days before their pre-departure Covid test.

 

 

It is possible that this man got infected the day before his pre-flight test which is 72 hours before departure and that test would give a negative result but when he arrives here possibly 5 days later he gives a positive result because of the time for incubation 

6 minutes ago, Sticky Rice Balls said:

whats the time frame between those tests?

From memory I think it was the first test at 3 days and the second test at 10 days and if both those test were negative then the patient was released. I remember being told that the reason for the long timeframe was to allow any symptoms to show and that any symptoms would show within the 10 day timeframe.

4 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

That has been resolved by allowing those that can to self isolate, at least here in Bangkok.  If they can not the government will place them in a location/facility, of course since they are Thai for the most part it is covered and they get a place to sleep and three meals a day as well as any medicines needed.

That might be how it is in Bangkok but it is not that way here where I live. But this man and his family are tourists and do not have a residence in Thailand so he cannot self isolate in his home so the only place for him is in a hospital to be monitored and his family sent into quarantine 

11 hours ago, JustAnotherHun said:

I know the word current, but you don't know what contagious means.

What you wrote about asymptomatic people taken to hospitsals is just laughable.

Sue your teachers.

6 hours ago, CG1 Blue said:

It seems to have escaped your notice that only a miniscule number of people who test positive will get any symptoms at all, let alone need any treatment. 

If I cut my knee should I be hospitalised for a couple of weeks in case I get Tetanus? 

It's insane blocking up hospitals with asymptomatic 'patients'!

You seem to forget that Thailand set up all those field hospitals and hospitels for those that gave a positive result so that they could be monitored and transferred to a hospital and treated if they showed any symptoms and if they gave 2 consecutive negative results they were released and as most of these field hospitals are now closed because of the low infection numbers anyone who gives a positive result is sent to a hospital to be monitored.

1 minute ago, JustAnotherHun said:

It seems you have no idea what you're talking about.

Worlds most contagious virus? BS!

Anayone who's infected is taken to a hospital? LoL! As long as you're tested positive but asymptomatic, you do not need any treatment and surly not in a hospital. Otherwise there would be MILLIONs of people in each country staying in a hospital. Positive but asymptomatic means quarantaine at home, nthing else.

You need to go back to school and learn to read. I said the CURRENT which is something that it appears that you cannot see and understand

4 minutes ago, Fairynuff said:

Hospitals are for sick people, if you’re not sick and forced into hospital it’s nothing more than a scam and open to serious abuse. Self isolation is a different story and there should be a way to enforce and monitor it. The successful opening of the country could screech to a halt when this gets around.

So if you show a positive test result to the current worlds most contagious virus you are not sick so you do not need to be hospitalised? So as far a concerned you must wait until a person is dying before they are taken to hospital for treatment. The people that I know who have had a positive result to this virus has been taken to hospital where they received treatment to try a minimise the affect and to try and stop it from progressing further. Which is something that they do not get when in Quarantine.

2 minutes ago, Morty T said:

Not following the logic here. If someone tests positive after landing, it would follow suit that everyone else on the plane with this person should also be quarantined. They were also exposed. 

No one knows and it has not been reported if the other passengers have been notified to get a covid check. But knowing what it is like on here there will be all the warriors screaming that the other passengers have not been notified when they do not know same as the taxi driver.

19 minutes ago, JCP108 said:

So, the Thai people who have been close to that infected farang also have to quarantine in an expensive hotel? I don't think so. This is about money. Several Thai people in my neighborhood in Bangkok have tested positive during the pandemic and all of them have simply been told to go home and self-isolated. All of them. (And, not all were asymptomatic.) None of their family members were carted off to quarantine. Exactly none.

That is right they tell the Thai's to go home and self quarantine. You seem to forget that this man and his family are not Thai's and they are not residents of Thailand so yes just tell them to go home and self quarantine when they don't have a home in Thailand.