Derek B

If you book two internal flights within Thailand and you need to do a stop over for one night in Bangkok as a result is that permitted with out going into quarantine?

19 hours ago, kevin612 said:

Just close the borders until summer, Thailand will be fine.

Only provided the "herd" can cross provincial lines and head to the beach or hills.

18 hours ago, thecyclist said:

How about professional lasses from escort services on urgent house calls? 

I have noticed a few new girls whilst out & about with that will do look about them as if they have had to relocate from sin city but have not fully given up on their trade.

So can you travel and cross provincial borders outwith the curfew times?

For example can you fly from Chiang Mai to DMK, take a hotel for one night and then the next day fly from DMK to Ubon Ratchathani ?

11 hours ago, HashBrownHarry said:

I noticed this where i live yesterday as well, i beleive the same, everyone heading 'up north'.

Where they will all be together in 14 quarantine 

23 hours ago, Captain_Bob said:

Ready set go... 10 days ???? 

Looks like hoarding to me...........people could die of thirst man. Is that Dr Kildare your watching?

With the industrial might of Germany & the USA you would think they could internally divert resources to make their own masks.

Anyway we must not forget that the really urgent medical care needs should be satisfied first. The rest of us can make do with a Tee shirt.

I see many examples of Thais with a sense of purpose making there own masks - probably the same the world over now - no one waiting for Gov to supply. 

PS. Does USA still have import tax on 3M masks made in China?

On 4/7/2020 at 10:48 AM, Iron Tongue said:

3M sells only through distributors, not directly so they do not control planeloads of equipment going anywhere except to distribution warehouses.  

 

Distributors take the product and "distribute" to where they have buyers.  They definitely can turn one shipment from Germany towards the US for more money.  They definitely would divert shipments for money.

 

The US customer only knows they just bought a planeload of masks, not that they took masks away from the Germans.

 

That's what's been going on.

 

 

 

 

But apparently the Germans know.....................anyway COVID-19 is showing that most countries need to be more self sufficient in many respects this will not be the last pandemic and the next one might require something more than a 3M mask and hand gel.

5 hours ago, dinsdale said:

It's a bit behind but ok.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Thailand#March

Don't worry about the March bit. It's updated somewhat.

Good link.............must be a full time job updating & fact checking.

On 4/7/2020 at 12:15 PM, hydraides said:

That's because they are testing hardly anyone. How many thai's can splash out on 5000 baht test?

 

That's a whole month salary compensation from the government

More like 10,500 to 12,000 if you go private with Bangkok Hospital quoted on a flyer.

What is the projected curve for Thailand looking like?

Presumably it will peak 21 days after Songkran now that most of the possibly infected Thais have returned from overseas.

On 4/2/2020 at 2:06 PM, jossthaifarang said:

Hang those boys out to dry, bloody idiots.. Send the ladies my way, couple of tasty looking morcels in there.

Weren't they nicked too....?

21 hours ago, ChipButty said:

Dont be giving them ideas

Ha Ha - You mean like stopping the burning and removing polluting trucks & buses from the roads - anyway an ex military guy at the helm is probably not the worst scenario right now 

Up to them - leave them alone they will be okay. Heaps of other people have had their plans for 2020 trashed too.

2 hours ago, jlwilliamsjr18 said:

Somethings wrong here, if the borders are closed, why are so many flights coming in?

https://suvarnabhumi.airportthai.co.th/en/flights

Empty + cargo coming to take people home I guess.

2 hours ago, Dazinoz said:

This was a snapshot of aircraft in the air over china this morning from flightradar24. Just a few.

Looks like a lot to me.

2 hours ago, Puchaiyank said:

What is a girl...or ladyboy to do?

 

Servicing tourists has been many Thais occupation for most of their adult lives.

 

What now?  What to do?

Service Thais ?

3 hours ago, Logosone said:

Interesting how foreigners and Thais are treated differently. They say Thais are next, but this case of Nanny Sweetie, where a woman went to work in SKorea illegally and then went partying ignoring all self-quarantine shows she got off with a slap on the wrist. She just had to apologise.

 

Fair enough, she was not infected with Covid19, but the same applied to this foreigner. The foreigner pays a 20000 baht fine, the Thai lady does not.

 

https://www.chiangmaicitylife.com/citynews/general/woman-who-partied-on-return-from-korea-apologises-to-public/

Maybe the Chiang Mai Governor is too busy fighting fires in the hills which is also a serious health issue.

8 hours ago, darksidedog said:

The "Buriram Healthy Passport" application showed his movements.

Who needs it? Where do you get it?

3 hours ago, Canuck1966 said:

WOW!

Coronavirus can survive on a surface for 17 days, says the CDC after traces were found in cabins on infected cruise ship Diamond Princess more than two weeks after passengers left

Now that is a game changer if correct.............

7 hours ago, sanuk711 said:

Its getting bad now.................

The Germans have started to put their towels on hospital beds................................

 

Best one so far...........

23 hours ago, Peter Denis said:

Am I missing something? 

Two months of at least 800K on your thai bank-book BEFORE application date.

That's correct if you apply for your very first extension of your Non Imm O - retirement Visa.

But OP is talking about 'another 1 year extension'.

And in that case he would have to show that during the full 12 months previous to his application, he kept 800K in his account during the first 3 months, 400K in the next 7 months, and 800K in the last 2 months.

That is what my agent has told me too except I need a one year full bank statement from Bangkok Bank which takes 5 days as it has to come from Head Office in Bangkok.

6 hours ago, KeeTua said:

"He then went to Pattaya for a night where he rented a car."

 

The 20K fine might be less painful than having to explain to the wife why he spent a night in Pattaya.

Thats why he never got out of the car !!!

18 hours ago, Toany said:

Money comes before anything else to the government.

If the tourists have a long memory, they will never returm

And they do - so do the Chinese have long memories.

4 hours ago, Misterwhisper said:

Of course. No Thai would ever infect another Thai.

 

I cannot even begin to describe how disgusting I find this official xenophobic finger-pointing at "foreigners". 

I think it reads those Thais returning from overseas areas of infection