Pedrogaz

Keep the borders closed as they are until the end of the year. Then review the situation in other countries to see if COVID has every few infections. If so, open the borders.....if it as is now with massive numbers of new infections every day, we cannot, and should not open the borders as inconvenient as quarantine is.

People made a big sacrifice in wave 1 and this sacrifice should not be thrown away for foreign tourists. Why would you let an American, British, French or Spanish person come to Thailand when they are not controlling their own virus???????

Please bring back the curfew so I can get some sleep at night. It is so noisy with these damned motorbikes with altered exhausts designed to make a Honda 50 sound like a Boeing 747.

In my experience as a frequent traveller on Rt2 Mitraparp Road, I would say that NCA drivers are a cut above the rest. They seem to travel at the speed limit and don't hog the right hand lane. Also the buses themselves are in much better condition than the average blue bus.

Could you imagine living in a country where an unqualified man with no medical or scientific background and is widely regarded as insane, makes medical policy for the nation? Why doesn't he just shut up and leave it to the scientists?

1 hour ago, Dmitry2222 said:

 

It is funny just compare these two persons.

I'm not sure what compare Navalny and Putin means. There is little comparison. Putin is a clear leader and statesman, if Machiavellian; Navalny is a bit of a nutcase who has self-conflicting opinions and holds with no political office; the West has latched onto him as being a spokesperson for the majority of the nation, which he is clearly not. There was recently a referendum about allowing Putin an extra term.....he won handily....if he had been that unpopular he would not have won.

Thailand has become the victim of its success with the virus. It cannot fully open now with high rates of virus around the world, unless it accepts that it will be carnage here.

As for me, I'm older in a rick group so I have zero wish for the tourists to return. Better keep the quarantine to deter short visit tourists...no more Chinese bus tours....but then I am not facing financial catastrophe because of it.

The cost of the economic burden of the closed borders needs to be shared much more equally. 

25 year old kids on motorcycles are the most, drunk and driving to fast at night are the main people involved in accidents. Target these people. I have racers running past my house nearly every night at predictable times. I cannot get the police to leave the station after dark. 

2 hours ago, petedk said:

 

There must be a nice little Thai community in Dubai by now.

Dubai is not a good place for drug dealers. 

1 hour ago, scubascuba3 said:

Weird that they scapegoat those with congenital disease, but the much bigger problem is drink, no helmet, no licence, speeding, how about law enforcement?

Quite simple to explain......instead of analysing data, developing, then executing a plan to reduce death on the roads (ready, aim, fire) the Thais prefer, for reasons known only to the elites, to ignore data, announce a plan, then don't enforce it. This is aka the fire, aim, ready method of doing things....preferably involving lots and lots of committees, sub-committees, meetings and press conferences to announce crackdowns, and to call Thailand a 'hub' of something. Sorry to be cynical but I've lived here for some time.

Not again. This is nothing but a junta running the country under a series of specious Emergency Decrees. I wonder if Prayut has any idea how to 'lead' instead of 'order' after his lifetime in the army. I remember the never ending use of Section 44 in his previous term.

Just reading through the comments.....it is clear too me that propagandaand scapegoating works very, very effectively on many people.

At last I read of someone being plausible and realistic.

I have gotten sick and tired of all these so-called experts (like Trump, telling us the virus is going to 'vanish in April') and acting as though they know what will happen in the future. We need more words like 'hope' instead of this stupid 'forecast' from people who are pretending to know what is going to happen. No one knows what is going to happen so how about a bit of humility from these so called experts.