StayinThailand2much

So how would they check foreign policies in a foreign language at the airport, and I'm not talking about COEs/Thai embassies, but airport Immigration officers in a post-Covid world?

Shouldn't be a problem to attract 15 million tourists from these countries, maybe even a million rich residents for Thailand...

They will probably go for the 'easy' money from China. Some Chinese are keen to 'get their money out of China', for whatever reasons.

That's exactly what I'm worried about! Forced to sign a 100,000US$ health insurance policy (incl. Covid) with a Thai insurer, but once you need it, you find out it's not worth the paper it's written on, and you have to pay by yourself anyway.

The bottle opener or the penis?

I partly agree. That short-sighted article at the beginning of the pandemic didn't help. Every informed person knows by now that the "mutated bat virus" can't even make a bat sick. 'Things' were going on in China as early as September 2019. (I recommend watching an excellent documentary by Sky News Australia on YouTube about "What Really Happened in Wuhan").

I never did. I just pointed out that vaccines' efficacy fades over time. As for links for what I actually wrote (probably you'll call Reuters' news and "The Lancet" medical journal articles "false" too): https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/pfizerbiontech-covid-19-vaccine-effectiveness-drops-after-6-months-study-2021-10-04/ https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)02183-8/fulltext https://www.healthline.com/health-news/what-we-know-about-how-long-the-pfizer-and-moderna-covid-19-vaccines-work https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2021/08/25/vaccine-protection-wanes-within-six-months-of-second-covid-shot-study-warns-but-theyre-still-effective-against-delta/?sh=793afef35a80 https://www.euronews.com/next/2021/08/25/covid-vaccine-protection-fades-after-6-months-according-to-uk-researchers Sometimes you should try 'Mr. Google' for better information, rather than just misinterpreting members' posts and bashing them.

That's true for the first few weeks after double-vaccination. However, your protection shrinks to half or less after only half a year.

Or cancel last minute, and... "Sorry, no refunds for your hotel and tour bookings..."

I don't quite think this is how it works... You would probably have to spend at least 14 days in those 5+X countries, rather than just transiting through.

Why would anyone want to walk along these khlongs?

And neither are New Zealand, Israel, the Scandinavian countries... And how about Thai citizens, still stuck in other countries; do they still have to go through quarantine too when returning?

And Brunei? Another good example that one cannot always trust statistics. I've been to a number of ASEAN countries, but Thailand is the only one where I've seen a large number of homeless people. - Guess, for their "Multidimensional Poverty Index", they just took the GDP figure and divided it by a certain factor...

It sounds like Taliban-Afghanistan's tourism promotion...

At best, it will be called a 'misunderstanding', at worst 'defamation'...

Try upper Sukhumvit. Those Grab and 7-Eleven guys race past you on the sidewalk all the time, just 50 or 100m from the next traffic police booth...

At the same time, racing your motorbike on the sidewalk, almost running over pedestrians is still okay...

I read on Wikipedia that the series is about the social inequalities in South Korea, with players who are highly indebted. - Now, what country exemplifies these two circumstances like no other? Seriously, I'm not surprised that a few influential families, and also the cops, whose task it is to defend the riches of the top 1% in this feudal society, are getting a bit nervous...

And she is lucky not getting raped by a Somchai too, while lying there drunk.

It depends what you mean with "Asia"... Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and .... - Yes. Thailand, China, Vietnam ... - No.

What happens if you 'do not have money'?

I love red wine, esp. Australian ones. I worry, I will be drunk all the time when travelling to OZ next year... Gave up on wine in Thailand, as it is ridiculously expensive and/or undrinkable. I also drink way less beer than I used to years ago, with the strange hours that you can buy it being a major factor. Thank you, Thailand, for helping me to drink less alcohol! - I usually catch up when abroad...

For Thais (95% majority): same old, same old... Corrupt governments (military, or Thaksin clique), economy, education, infrastructure, and living conditions continue to decline. For expats and tourists: see above, plus more and more blamed (expats) for Thailand's growing problems. The nightlife is gone (having declined since early 2000s), and the attitude of girls has changed to the worse. Pollution as bad as ever. Costs of a night out now on par with Western countries.

That is Thailand's permanent problem as a destination. It's not about hospitality or returning travellers, but 'getting rich quick', and squeezing the last baht out of the first-time tourists by any means (incl. rip-offs and scams). Thailand's hay days as a Westerners' tropical paradise are long over. No wonder, TAT is more and more targeting Chinese and Indian first-time tourists who haven't heard yet about the common scams or turds in the sea...

Agree. The only reason that there's such a discussion now, is probably due to the fact that even the hi-so Thai elite have suffered income loss because of the pandemic.