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12 hours ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

Smoking weed can cause long term mental problems , psychosis and other things 

https://drugpolicy.org/does-marijuana-negatively-impact-mental-health

10 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

The GF heard this and stated "What the hell are they thinking". "Might as well start testing at Makro, and entrance to the parks"

 

Just saw a post in a Fakebook forum by a guy saying he arrived in Chiang Mai and was told by hotel staff that he could only use the pool if he could show proof of test within the last seven days. The common folk of Thailand seem to be getting creative in coming up with ways to use the facade of public health concern to impose new restrictions on farangs. So, keep watching for something like this at your local Makro.

Yesterday the link provided did not work (as I guess many of you discovered). Today the link did lead to a page where my birthdate was correct but my arrival date was one day off. It did not ask me to correct my vaccination dates. After I corrected the information, it gave a link with instant approval of my pass.

4 hours ago, FalangTingTong said:

 I worry that Actual Tourists may try this and get so frustrated they start badmouthing Thailand which can't be good for the industry especially if it gets the attention of the media.

Hmmm....I wonder exactly how frustrating and complicated it has to get before the effect of putting off actual tourists achieves equalibrium with the amount of desire of the tourists to come and then the arrival number becomes exactly the number of us who are getting back to wives, gf's, and homes in Thailand?

I got the same email today at 01:49 Thailand time. Clicked the link and got the same message saying it was already "rectified" and could not be edited. As of 09:00 Thailand time, no follow up email or confirmed/rejected pass. The Thailand Pass is a <deleted> show.

10 hours ago, Stargeezr said:

Considering that in the USA today there is 47 million active cases of COVID and lots of Americans still

dying each day, but since there are still tons of anti vaxxers who want their freedom, more than life,

the USA has lots of vaccines available to send abroad, before the vaccines expire.

  Sadly there are still tons of anti vaxxers in Canada who need their freedoms as well.

   Lots of hospitals in the USA and some in Canada that are still cancelling operations because there

are not enough beds and staff to do operations, because of so many people with COVID are filling up the

 ICU parts of the hospitals. And that's the rest of the story.

Geezer

According to the Worldmeter chart, the U.S. currently has 9 million active cases...

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR1z0sVaC73tqFpb4l9L7-kd05gNtfv6tftjMf9py2GIVjs-fH64qxbAqiA

Actually, they really are going to start doing these fines as described...but, only after they start fining motorcycle riders for riding on the sidewalks and fining Thais (not just farangs) for not wearing helmets.

9 hours ago, Ralf001 said:

 

Thailand cars are less safe than those in other countries ?

The cars themselves are. Driven by Thai drivers on Thai roads, they aren't.

6 hours ago, fakser said:

Government does not want the proletarian to buy cars. Roads are digested already. 

About 8 years ago they had that government program to reduce interest rates for car loans and quite a lot of people did get cars at that time. This made traffic worse, esp in urban areas. I don't think it made roads safer. The key to road safety: enforcement of road safety laws. That doesn't look like it will happen any time soon in Thailand. 

4 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Really?  So when the laws are enforced what is the penalty for these offenders?   You don't really think that they are just released with no fine every time, do you? 

Right now the penalty for these risk-taking riders on dangerous roads with no enforcement is often death (as it was three times over in this case). So, I suggest something less than the death penalty so that would be an improvement. The discussion is pointless, though. Thai police will never enforce traffic laws (unless you are a farang who they expect can pay a big fine). 

5 hours ago, madmen said:

When are you travelling? They are processed by travel dates. Urgent first 

Traveling on 11/26/21. Since I hadn't gotten my pass in seven days, I re-applied. Now just got the first one and second one is in review. So, I suppose the second one will likely get approved and cancel the first (per reports of such). I'll take print-outs of both qr codes just in case.

7 hours ago, Kopitiam said:

Come to think of it, the option of Thailand proposing a 500 Baht Hospitalisation Fee for each arrival looks very attractive in this situation.  Furthermore, all visitors don't have to worry about insurance requirement for their Thailand Pass application.  Win-win for all.

I didn't think that the proposed 500 Baht fee was for that purpose.

FYI: I applied for a visa via the e-visa portal on November 5 and just got notice is was approved today. Was able to log in with no server errors (using Chrome on an iMac). 

Someone on a FB forum just posted that they contacted someone about the status of their pass and got this response...multiple people have apparently reported that their embassies have told them the same thing. So, if you apply multiple times, only your most recent one gets considered.

1 hour ago, Pepper9187 said:

You'd need to buy a fly out from Thailand within 30 days (or  is it 29 ?) after arrival so that the immigration let you go through.

 

That's literally what the Thai embassy told me yesterday on the phone and telling me that their e-visa system was broken and i will probably not get my visa on time.

 

TBH i already knew that trick but i was just surprised to hear it from the embassy.

The e-visa system is broken?

Is Thailand Pass dead? Applied November 5 and no word back yet. 

How many applications can they manually review in a day and how big is their backlog now?

Any recent reports of how many have applied and how many have been processed so we can have a sense of the size of the backlog? How many can they manually review per day? I'm worried they ended up with an ever increasing backlog that they now can't manage. I travel in a few days and no pass yet. 

I applied November 5th. Got confirmation email. Nothing since.