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Of course not since they may be delaying all but the Chinese vaccines. 

18 minutes ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

Maybe it's the locals you choose to associate with...or the fact many expats squeeze at baht till it cries.

Some people say that cucumbers taste better pickled 

Anyone familiar with Thai culture or who has worked in a Thai-managed company knows that Thai culture dictates that the always put on a brave face, irrespective of what is actually happening. 

When everything collapses around them, the simple solution is to then quietly disappear into the darkness, thus saving face.

These brave reports mean very little.

The below graph is probably more meaningful than any entirely flawed statistics we get from the Thais about confirmed cases.

Source: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus/country/thailand

9 hours ago, webfact said:

Out of 5,800 workers at the closed plant, 245 have tested positive, while others are still waiting to be tested or to receive test results, said the Saraburi provincial administration.

To those astute readers out there.

This should give some indication as to Thailand's testing and confirmation capacity.

They have a group of 5,800 workers at one of the country's premiere company factories.

This happened many days ago but they have still not tested and confirmed all the 5,800 workers...

What is the countries daily testing and confirmation capacity???

Does anyone know???

2 hours ago, WineOh said:

just take a walk down any soi in Bangkok and you will clearly see the devastation that has been caused by these restrictions.

 

However, what really bothered me about the previous reopening post lockdown was the amount of Pubs and restaurants that were refusing to give discounts.

 

How do you expect to get customers in when you are still charging full price for beer and food?

 

In times of crisis it should be buy 1 get 1 free all day long, and also half price on food to help stimulate growth in your sector.

 

Either that or be forced to close your doors forever.

 

Up to you.

Hi there. I completely get what you posted here. It's tricky. In countries where people are more honest, there is good will built up. I can tell you stories from other countries in the region where is more trust between locals and expats, and in those places people are happy to pay full price to help out these establishments.

This lack of willingness here, especially from us expats, is mostly because the locals have a bad reputation of trying to rip us and each other off at nearly every opportunity.

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Covid-19 will forever change the restaurant business as many eateries are forced to close.

This is really a big surprise, @sandyf. I always would have expected the domestic tourism to be perfectly fine despite a raging global pandemic. This caught me by surprise.

You, too?

3 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Its never too late but the tipping point has already come and been in my opinion.

 

Its a long haul struggle now with few vaccines and no lockdowns apart from the bubble and seal ones where they lock up all the migrants to reach herd immunity, that saves them a few dollars on vaccines for them.

 

The deaths? Do they really care that much, evidence with the road deaths implies that's a no. I agree the UK took strict lockdowns and one of the worlds fastest vaccine campaigns but then it still took months to get where it is now. Thailand with no lockdowns and minimal vaccines.........disaster.

I am tempted to strongly disagree with your last couple of sentences.

Based on so many expats in these forums, Thailand's has one of the best Covid responses in the world.

So, it's not really possible that things could be out of control in Thailand.

19 hours ago, Pravda said:

 

It's amazing how many men in Thailand never felt loved. 

 

I like britman but his stuff is getting rather boring. I would never bang a Thai woman who most likely has a history of many middle east connections and 3 for 1 Indian special. 

 

As they say... To each their own... 

The problem is that we men are wired to believe that only we can fantasize about doing nasty stuff and even do it while still being happy in a relationship. 

Women are just as nasty as we are. The 'good girl' who never worked in a bar has accidentally cheated on you, maybe just emotionally, with her work colleague. 

She has forgotten to disclose to you that she accidentally got drunk just before meeting you and gave 2 blowjobs to 2 different strangers on the same day, just because she wanted to know what it feels like to be a whore. 

Men cannot tolerate this idea, so we let ourselves play along with the fantasy that there are 'good girls'. 

It's rubbish 

3 hours ago, Andycoops said:

Or farangs returning and not following the procedure as you outlined.

Or Thais as Thailand played a key accidental role in the initial global spread by allowing all those Chinese New Year tourists to circumvent bans on inbound flights from China by allowing Chinese to transit via Thailand. 

Thailand would have been the first major country outside China to have a good spread based purely on being the MOST POPULAR tourist destination for Chinese and especially Wuhan. 

4 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

IT would cover the issues, if 70% of it went to the tourism sector and the unemployed since tourism is a dead man walking.

Or, if the massive Education budget actually achieved more than all Thais speaking Thai and knowing how to be Thai (i.e. their place in the social caste).

If Thais were truly educated, even to the standard of Malays or closer to Singaporeans or Taiwanese, they wouldn't need to rely on whoring the culture out to the world in the form of mass tourism.

Alas, the elites like things just how they are now, how they have always been.

17 minutes ago, rabas said:

From sweet victory to utter defeat in minutes!

 

Variant C.36 never made it into Thailand.

It was caught at Suvarnbhumi upon arrival from Egypt on Jan 31., 2021.

From the International GISAID database:

 

Collection date:	2021-01-31
Location:	Asia / Thailand
Pango Lineage:	C.36 (version: 2021-05-27)
Additional location information:	Travel history from Egypt and detected upon arrival at Port Health Bangkok Suvarnbhumi Airport
Gender:	Male
Patient age	33

Sure, if you believe that, you have your victory. Congrats 

23 minutes ago, DavisH said:

yes...in Egypt. it's an imported variant. Please keep up. 

Title says Thai variant