ThreeEyedRaven

Given the incubation period, it is the numbers about a week from now that are going to be all important. The 100 or so a day being picked up now will probably lead to an exponential rise of hundreds or thousands daily, at which point we will be in serious trouble.

9 minutes ago, webfact said:

Thais returning from Bangkok and surrounding provinces (known as Phuttamonthon) must observe a 14 day quarantine when going to Buriram or they too will be fined 20,000 baht. 

And the people who have left Bangkok to go home are responsible enough to self quarantine themselves are they? I will believe that they will all get a 20,000 fine, when they go out having fun, rather than 500 and a wai, when I see it.

I think there are more flip flops by the authorities than can be found on the feet of the population.

55 minutes ago, Nong Khai Man said:

So it is Correct then............You Can't get the Virus from Thai Banknotes ???

I suspect you haven't been keeping up with the news. Our beloved and revered health minister has told Thailand (and the world, the idiot), that us foreigners are a dirty bunch of unhygienic scum. All Thais know we are so rich we use the already rusty brown 10 Pound notes as bog roll of course. Because the damn things are plastic now though, a quick rinse and shake off the drips and Voila, our money must be treated as suspicious and designed to infect. Thai money of course is generally paper and hence used to clean things up far less, and is unlikely to be reusable, hence not a problem. To very small minds anyway.

I wonder if TAT are still trying to stick to their suggestion that tourists will only drop by 6 million in the year?

WOW! Maybe Thailand truly is changing. This sort of thing used to be standard business operations. I recall a few years back a report by the UN calling the RTP the most organised criminal gang on the planet.

13 minutes ago, webfact said:

He thought that other hotels in Pattaya would also be affected but would cope with the cancellation of Songkran and other large events.

With that statement coming less than ten days after a local hotel I used to eat at regularly for years having closed down, I would like to buy half an ounce of whatever he has been smoking please.

Well I reckon you brought this information to the right place, because there are some serious masturbators to be found on TVF.

Yes. Only in Thailand could this happen. There are a lot of people on the roads who seem brain dead, but this one wins the prize.

1 hour ago, rooster59 said:

Daily News said the accident occurred when the car swerved to avoid a motorcycle and hit the family on another bike traveling in the opposite lane.

It never ceases to amaze me that these people can't recognise reckless driving, and driving with undue care and attention, which it seriously seems to be the case here, and immediately charge the drivers with it. He obviously wasn't paying attention or he wouldn't have needed to suddenly swerve and wasn't looking at what was coming the opposite way, or he wouldn't have pulled into the wrong lane and wiped three people out.

19 minutes ago, webfact said:

But he said that it was a public space and people could not be stopped from throwing water at each other.

And I strongly suspect that despite their best efforts it will be a war zone out there, pretty much as usual. Thais and crazy tourists won't let a little thing like the threat of death slow them down when they want their water madness fun.

I did have a laugh though when I noted the suggestion to not throw water, but to give gifts to monks instead! Gotta keep the economy ticking.

10 minutes ago, TeaMonkey said:

The quarantine requirements seem to have already been withdrawn. Usual shambles. 

Indeed. The idiots supposedly running the show should enter the Olympic gymnastic events, as the back-flips they can pull make the average world class gymnast look ordinary. It's the Thai knee jerk thing that they say something seriously stupid, then pull it back as soon as they get criticized. Same reason laws to protect lives on the roads get pulled in hours, if not days, as they are unpopular and a Thai Government can't be unpopular now can it?

6 minutes ago, TopDeadSenter said:

That is your opinion. I would argue that the impeachment process started with the Bidens corruption overseas in Ukraine and involved his son Hunter landing a job he was unqualified for, but only got it through and because of his father Joe. Trump then rightly started investigating it, and that appalling video "son of a bleep he got fired" came out then it was a lot of backpedaling and clumsy attempts to claim Biden was exonerated and cleared (false).

Maybe you should take off your partisan glasses and read the article in full, especially the line "No evidence has been given to back up the accusation." Claiming corruption by the Bidens is a fact, when it has no evidence to back it up is simply slander, a gutter level tactic used by your revered leader continuously.

9 hours ago, Just1Voice said:

I showed this to my Thai wife,  She had NO sympathy for them.

I understand how she feels. It would be almost as easy to drum up sympathy for Vlad the Impaler, a man with a similar level of compassion and humanity as many of the taxi drivers.

25 minutes ago, webfact said:

77kaoded said this was done to inspire confidence among tourists. 

 

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but what tourists? Maybe they hadn't noticed that the overwhelming majority of them have gone.

Rubbish, filth and maggots everywhere, but the "real trash" left town a week earlier by the sound of it.

22 minutes ago, UbonThani said:

 https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/media-bias-left-study/

And a check for credibility on what you are quoting, shows a strong right wing bias, and tendency to "publish misleading reports and omit reporting of information that may damage conservative causes." Are we somehow supposed to trust a site giving their views of left bias, when they themselves have a decidedly right bias? Checking facts on what you are reading goes a long way towards helping you not read, or believe the wrong stuff.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/investors-business-daily/

Sarcasm alert on.

Well, the farang should have known better. Everyone knows you are not allowed to be more successful than Thai run bars, so by the bar owner next doors unquestionably sound logic, he had it coming.