11 minutes ago, Jimbo53 said:

My sister in the U.K. asked me to price 1 or 2 pool villa's in Pattaya for a group of 20 family members! For the end of 2020, I immediately told her i would not recommend Thailand to anyone,i couldn't believe she even asked me,especially as she was one of a family group of 9,that got scammed out of 47,000 baht by the Customs at Swampy in 2013...So that's  been cancelled.. 20 quality tourists that are spenders lost!

Many years ago it was LOS the Land Of Smiles...Nowadays its the Land Of Scowls.  T.I.T.

May be there is something positive in it too ... I would like to see Thailand going back 30 years in time ... much less tourists , and of a better kind ... thai people more friendly , not only thinking about the money , life was fun , now , not so much anymore ... times they are a'changin , and not for the better most of the times .

Let's hope we will survive all this ...

1 hour ago, NCC1701A said:

Revelations 18:8. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong [is] the Lord God who judgeth her.

Do you think this is the Apocalypse ...?

48 minutes ago, simtemple said:

https://youtu.be/NVHFmVccWns

Well , I looked at the video .

If , what she says , is true , that there are 90000 people already infected and that the Virus is in it's second mutation phase , there are hard times coming ...

She also says " we do not care what the government says " ... That might be the origin of the problem , as the market where the Virus originated , was selling ILLEGAL wildlife .

It is quite normal for Viruses to mutate and to become even more contagious .

New coronavirus may be much more contagious than initially thought .

... there is still much we don’t know about the virus, and some researchers suggest that it could spread more quickly than estimated. One study, based on data collected between 10 and 21 January, estimates that each person with the virus can pass it to between 3 and 5 other people. The work, by Shi Zhao at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and his colleagues suggests that the virus is much more contagious than originally thought.

Thompson’s estimate was calculated based on the assumption that the virus isn’t contagious until symptoms show – and this no longer seems to be the case. “If the virus is able to spread before symptoms show, that could certainly explain why the virus is spreading quicker that SARS,”

Right now, we don’t know the transmission efficiency for the new virus. A case was reported from China where one patient apparently infected 14 health care workers at the hospital, and it’s possible that some patients, known as super spreaders, are more infectious than others. We don’t know whether that particular patient was a super spreader or whether this reflects the fact that this virus is already very efficient at human-to-human transmission.

Until we know, we have to make the assumption that this is a virus that spreads quite efficiently, which is why there are now mandatory screenings at airports and enhanced monitoring in local hospitals here for possible cases of 2019-nCoV infection.

Will this virus mutate?

The virus has already likely mutated to acquire the capacity to “jump” from animals to humans and to be transmitted person-to-person. Since this is an RNA virus, it will continue to mutate as long as it continues to circulate in humans. Additional mutations as the virus adapts to the human host may make the virus less severe or more severe, or less or more efficient in spreading. It’s too early to tell what will happen, which is why ongoing surveillance by sequencing virus genomes is so important.

Just weeks after the disease emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan, it has already infected more than 4,500 people and killed at least 106.

Thailand, the top destination for China’s holidaymakers, forecast that Chinese tourist numbers would fall by as much as 2 million this year from 11 million in 2019.

“If they close China, we will die,” complained Teerawat Buakaw, 33, who sells clothes at a Big C store popular with Chinese tourists in Bangkok, the world’s most-visited city because of its Chinese tourist numbers.

“All the shops around here will go. What will we do?”

China’s boom in outbound tourism has created a pattern of international travel unprecedented in human history and driven the growth of businesses to serve Chinese travelers around the world. From a trickle in the 1980s, Chinese tourist numbers grew to estimates of more than 160 million in 2019.

Coronavirus may have pulled the plug.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-tourism/bali-to-bangkok-china-virus-threatens-disaster-for-tourist-hotspots-idUSKBN1ZR1BW

4 hours ago, webfact said:

has been fined B10,000 for releasing untreated wastewater into a public drain that empties into the sea

should have been at least one more 0 to the fine ...

1 hour ago, 30la said:

In this country it is no longer an exception but the rule, I know (unfortunately) no clean place!

Well , I know at least one ( island ) , but I will not tell , because I want it to stay like this ...

16 hours ago, webfact said:

Future Forward has reportedly requested the information from the Election Commission’s secretary three times but has not received any response.

Normal procedure from an autocratic government ... sad that there seems to be no way to force them to cooperate

regarding the democratic rights of a political party that has a lot of people voting for them . ( they finished 3rd in the " election " )

They do not want that the truth is known .

They do not like political activists of any kind , as this might undermine their almighty superiority ...

Another story that will cause a ' loss of face ' for Thailand .

They are so worried about this ... do they really think that nobody outside Thailand will remember this ?

NON O or NON OA visa ? No proof of insurance needed ?

Thanks for an answer ...

12 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Surachet had exposed details of a “low-quality" biometric identification system sold to the Royal Thai Police.

He was probably right saying that , but not allowed to do so ...

6 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Trump is more unhinged, and less stable than he has ever been. Impeachment has driven him positively crazy, if he was not already insane, which many of us suspect.

 

Quite the opposite will happen. The senate will make a whitewash out of this trial, and will refuse to call any witnesses or hear any new evidence. And the GOP will pay the price come November, with a historic trouncing. I expect Trump to be defeated, and I expect both the house to pick up more seats, and the majority in the senate to be handed over to the dems. And guess what? The GOP, and Trump's loyal and lockstep devotees will have only themselves to blame. 

Good comment .

I an worried about the candidates of the Dems ... they are all old , too old .

If they could find somebody younger and charismatic who has a ' vision ' about how to make things better , they would have a real chance ...

The century is still young and needs somebody who is not so close to the ' final curtain ' as a leader ...

5 hours ago, kingofthemountain said:

The only way is to ban all the

arrivals from China. but they are afraid of the financial losses

This is true .

But the financial losses will be much bigger if they let them in , ( even a person in apparently good health can transmit the virus ...) , and than there is a mayor outbreak in Thailand . NOBODY will come to visit Thailand anymore .

1 hour ago, TKDfella said:

I read yesterday that some countries are considering denying all Chinese tourist entry. Never mind Thailand will accept them.

If , ever , cases of people infected in Thailand will multiply , there will be hardly any tourists at all wanting to come to Thailand anymore ...

Or , if you were a tourist , would you take the risk ...?

Ice ... sorry , I am in no position to judge this guy , but by looking at him , I would  say that he is mentally disturbed ... please note his necklace , too ...

Finally a step in the right direction .

I use electricity provided by solar panels ( off grid ) for years ... never a problem or even an electricity bill ...