Cabradelmar

Devil is in the details...don't get too excited.

I'm my experience, Elite visa is NOTORIOUS for giving false and inaccurate information. Their call center / member services personal seem to be uninformed on a number of very important topics. Sad really, considering how they position themselves as the path of least resistance when it comes to navigating immigration. They will give you heart palpitations if you take what they initially say as gospel

They should stop when the stop all the quarantine nonsense... Until then they should absolutely report numbers to justify and test-and-go/sandbox scheme.

Commercial pig farmers have their herds tested (and destroyed as needed) all the time... just as all chickens have salmonella, and commercial flocks are tested regularly (and destroyed when certain strains are detected). SOP. What we should be worried about are the herds and flocks that dont get proper testing regularly.

If you want to live like a Westerner you will pay Western prices. Thailand is not cheap in that regard. If you want to/can assimilate, and live more like a Thai, it can be very reasonably priced. Try before you buy; Don't set down roots too fast (some would say never); Don't lose control of your finances (to a pretty); And have an escape plan... because once you are in your 70s, they really don't want you and won't make it easy for you to stay (particularly insurance, if you think you can going to get end of like health care like you would in the West). Health is the new wealth if you want to make any retirement plan work. Just my opinions.

The results were negative ????

He should consider himself lucky... if she was playing the long con, she probably could have gotten a car and a house out of him.

It means that level 5 is on fast approach.

Given lonely old guys and foreigners propensity to over tip... I can easily see this young, pretty, slim girl (probably speaks English and flirts like a champ) stashing 100,000 baht a month in tips (without having to sell her body). Working ever night that's less than 4000 baht a night. Just look at all those green notes... she is a saver. And good on her. I've known girls making 10,000 baht a night (selling themselves) who don't have a pot to <deleted> in (unless you count a Prada bag or two).

He will be eating those words in about 8 weeks.

230,000 bodies nationwide for a population of 70 million, compared to 670,000 in the US for a population of 330 million. Might want to start with payroll...

Its fairly clear what policies pay or don't pay asymptomatic cases (at this point you'd be crazy to buy a package that dose not includes it). What's also clear is what the government is saying about how asymptomatic cases should be handled (self quarantine at home - e.g., in your SHA+ certified hotel room). Seems like the hotels are the ones trying to have it all (taking the tourist money and shuffle the asymptomatic one to hospital to open up a room to someone who will buy overpriced massages and excursion packages). I think the hotels should get no sympathy for this stunt, they wanted the SHA+ designation, deal with it, and I hope the government does not back this BS by the hotels. To be honest, I would not travel on a sandbox/test-and-go scheme anywhere in Thailand right now.

Yeah, then encourage 40 million tourist to show up and trample the landscape...

32 died of covid... ????

How, where and to what end? Closing down a few massage parlors and arresting some street walkers? Authorities the world over has tried to stop prostitute, without real results. Now if they close nana or cowboy then you know it's serious and not just a sound bite

Everyone loves Thai culture until they don't or it's inconvenient for them ???? Now we have here a bunch of foreigners saying the wai offends them in one way shape of form. Grow up. It's polite, easy to do and shows repect to elders and monks. How can that be wrong. Take the grousing here to it's logical conclusion and we would stop all forms of politeness and respect (bowing, hand shakes, tipping of the hat, etc. etc.).

So he is a fraud that faked his disappearance... Call it like it is. He went missing because he wanted too. Nothing nefarious on anyone's part but his own. Being about to stay hidden for 7 years is quite the accomplishment. Now deport him.

No. But now seeing the value even more. Shocking surprised how filthy the air we breathe really is when you see what a mask captures.

It does however keep me from taking in nasty breath or breathing in spit when people talk

Wearing mask outdoors can be a choice (given air pollution many may choose to wear), for the most part (sans night markets, etc.). Indoors not so much. Scrap the temperature checks

Casinos, marketing to "wealthy tourist" (whom have never chosen Thailand) and digital nomads ("wealthy" digital nomads no less; whatever that means) are all gimmicks of an organization out of ideas. You want similar 2019 numbers, reinstate 2019 protocols (but for the vaccinated)... End all forms of quarantine, end supplemental insurance requirements for tourist, reinstate pre-covid visa rules, and do rapid antigen testing at all boarder crossings. Globally, international arrivals are still at only 65% of pre-covid levels. It many never fully recover at this rate with omicron emerging, but if you want a larger percentage of those who do travel you need to make it easier for them, while managing the covid risk. Selfishly, I've never liked high traffic tourist areas. But for those who reley on tourism for their living, something needs to give.

I'm less skeptical of the viruses existence, and its continued evolution. However, it would appear we have currently reached our limits with regards to what vaccines can do to stop this particular pandemic. We are all frustrated (on many different levels and for different reasons). If its true that vaccines simply reduce my risk of death (vs. preventing me from getting sick), I'll probably stay on that path (but even that path has limits). Let those we don't want the vax take the other path. And we all move forward together to whatever comes next. Honestly, the best thing that can happen now is someone develops a cheap, fast and accurate detection test to try to keep us all safe(r)... but as we say in sysdev... pick two, because you can't have all three.

Seeing as SiamBank just purchased bitkub this is interesting indeed... My take is that governments will not allow crypo to fully succeed as it endangers their sovereignty. It's just not in their best interest (see China).

Uuan mak, as my Thai friends are saying. They are also clowning her "muay Thai spirit" but it was just a costume. Preference aside... (for one, I love the traditional Thai standard of beauty and the femininity, when compared to emerging Western standards)... this ernest political correctness is a bit tiring. To each their own.