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What France (and China) are doing is gaining influence. Certainly at the cost of the US and UK.
I have just sent an email to the Prime Minister via the cabinet office, you are allowed a maximum of a 1000 characters, enough to get the point across, I also informed them that the Bangkok hospital group has hospitals in 40 major cities in Thailand & reminded them that they have promised spare vaccines to poorer countries and that we should be included
I don't however expect a response, so get on yer keyboards people
Can you pls include a link to the Cabinet Office address?
Much appreciated.
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I read that Europe and maybe UK will not accept the Sinovac certificate for entry purposes.
Maybe they will accept it in due course?
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I read that Europe and probably UK will not accept Sinovac certificates for entry.
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The school I was at, you were searched every morning for knives and guns and if you didn't have any, they gave you some! Hehe.
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About ten to fifteen years ago the cost of buying gold in gold shops was normally the direct value according to the baht weight of the day, plus about 200 baht, for the shop I assume.
In those days buying and selling gold was the custom and frequent among Thai people.
Since then the cost, now attributed to the art work, has risen, to over 1000 baht.
This is just profiteering as the shops have realised that some people will pay it, but it has put the brakes on for the volume aspect of gold sales.
If you want to invest it is best to join a bullion dealer, there is one on Sukhumvit near MacDonalds, and buy in bars, or let them store it for you.
Considering the price uplift from shops, and I have never heard of one as big as 8000 baht, it is not good value to buy and sell often.
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Unfortunately there is additional bad news, and that is that as businesses close, in large numbers, there is less and less reason for tourists to come here, when eventually they are allowed to come. I have a feeling that this 'break point' may come and when it does there will be little cash around for new start ups, little desire to do so, and little that is tempting to report in social media which will bring in the droves of non existent wealthy tourists.
The places that really attract the tourists are not the very rich resorts, where people do like to stay, but the little Mum & Dad places that are personal and friendly which are there to be discovered. It takes many years of general prosperity for that 'scene' to develop in enough volume to tempt, especially by word of mouth, the ad hoc tourism sector that Thailand is used to and has not recognised and has been rather callously and roughly handled by various Govt departments. To tempt back any kind of tourism it would seem to be important to wind back the over strict visa regulations and immigration fog, and to stop the extortion of tourists, to re educate the Thai people, especially those in the hospitality industry, the captains, to concentrate on the good that the tourists do rather than the bad. There are bad tourists all over the world, but handle them kindly but firmly as in other places. And make media aware of this change in their reporting. Give all tourists a good name and thank them. When I first came here 23 years ago, I was met at Don Muang by dancing Thai girls who put a garland of orchids around my neck and smiled at me. I could not believe it. Wonderful feeling of being welcome. I hope it will come back. I believe Thailand can do it. There are so many things to change.
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Yes of course Thailand needs two submarines, very sensible and money saving strategy. Three or four would make more sense.
And I need a Shelby Cobra in metallic blue and silver.
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It seems to me that the most dangerous and awful aspect of our situation is the unemployment it has created and the poverty which is getting worse every day.
What sector of the population is worst hit by this? the working classes, the service workers, those not in Government jobs. And most of them work in the hospitality sector. Many hundreds of thousands maybe millions would be my guess. Therefore the priority of those that make the decisions should be to get this group back to work asap. That means bars and alcohol at least allowing the entertainment sector to open and get back staff into jobs, those that want to. Many see no point in opening because there are not enough customers to go around, and the locals do not have the money. But getting the low income sector back into work needs to be the number one priority now in Thailand. The danger is minimal from covid compared to the extreme poverty that is now hurting so many.
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There is a small fish, don't know its name, but in common use among Thai's, that eat the mozzie eggs.
Mosquitos apparently do not go more than 150m from their birthplace. So if you check around your home for static water, and remove it, or if too big, add those fish, you will have done at least something to help.
We have near us a pond with a statue and this is full of the small fish, and many people come with a small net to catch a few and take them to their own static water menace, like large pots with flowers.
The mosquitoes themselves do not automatically carry dengue, but can get it from sucking on a carrying human, and then transfer it to another. Another well known method of prevention is the 6pm to 6am rule of long sleeves, trousers not shorts, and spray the remaining skin that shows.
This helps. Good luck.
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The questions posed and list of options to lead Thailand back to normal are only a list of obvious answers to other questions that the Gov has to answer.
That is, their perception of the priorities they should follow to move forwards as a country with regard to society (curfew, alcohol, play areas, beaches, going to friends houses etc) and the country as an economic whole, (raising taxes from sales esp alcohol, opening businesses, tourism and international flights, quarantines, baht strength, like that.). These are separate aims that the Gov has to prioritise, along with the country as a whole in competition with surrounding countries, (let's get there before them, stay commercially competitive, not lose the workforce). These are the decisions that the Gov has to prioritise in order to think about the obvious list available to them of corrective actions, once they decide the strategic paths. The list shown is smoke only until the strategy is thought out.
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I have seen photos of 'cokacola factories' where the old glass bottles are collected, a shot of cola syrup added, and then topped up with gassed liquid and a cap hammered on. They go into the wooden crates and then are delivered locally. So, this would not apply to big stores like Lotus or Big C etc, but bars etc, probably. That might account for it?
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Lazarda has a wax paper owl or predator for this job, bit expensive tho.
Jomtien beach restoration to cost 586 million baht
in Pattaya News
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GROYNES my dear, that's the answer.
Get with some Groynes.