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1 hour ago, revup said:

I too bike everyday but it is a solitary activity. Until there is a curfew in place, you are not banned from going out, so I do not see a problem with getting daily exercise by walking or biking alone. After that, it will largely depend on conditions of the curfew.

I also doing 30 or so km 5 days per week. Lets see how long that lasts.

5 hours ago, bestie said:

People are advised to stay indoors apart from going to the supermarket, pharmacy or carrying out some other essential business such as banking or immigration and that social distancing should be practiced at all times.

 

I stay now indoors 99% of the time. But it's impossible to keep social distance especially if we have to go to the immigration.

I have no car so normally I have to take the minivan and motorbike taxi to drive one hour to the immigration. Last time, on the way to the immigration I counted the people which are in close contact me in the minivan. (around 30 people going in and out ONE way. ) One woman was in front sneezing and coughing.At the immigration there wasn't so much people but again we still have contact with some. So I'm ok with social distancing and to stay indoors but Im guess many people do it with the minivan, the only solution I see is to take private taxi and hope that the immigration center is not full, because it's kind of useless if you stay indoors for 3 Month and then you come with around 50- 100people on one day in contact. 

 

 

 

And how often do you go to "the immigration"?

6 hours ago, Assurancetourix said:

If we could know the motivations of the governor ....
And why foreigners and not Thai people?

If we could have read the next paragraph perhaps he would have told us!

6 hours ago, webfact said:

The governor’s request came after large numbers of foreign tourists had been seen congregating and drinking on Patong Beach in recent evenings.

See how easy that was?

1 minute ago, NanLaew said:

After all these years you still need to ask?

Not really, it was primarily a rhetorical question.

3 hours ago, HeijoshinCool said:

So he's ignorant because he does not want to be tracked for no good reason? Not only will tracking not provide any beneficial info to the Thai government, it is totalitarian.

 

 

No, he is ignorant due to the constant stream of negativity and posturing over a remark that is unlikely to affect him.

On 3/24/2020 at 1:06 PM, fredob43 said:

What part of NOW YOU DO did you not understand???

The part with misleading or absent punctuation apparently.

24 minutes ago, pontious said:

Don,t know what he said but he is correct . The ATM,S worked fine if you selected Thai language but not if you selected English.

Uh huh, and bankok bank branches were marking whole rows of machines out of order because of this fact.

16 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

He is talking about the Philippines, which has no bearing on us......Angeles City is a cesspool worse then Pattaya....

Yes im familiar, I used to wakeboard at decca, clark regularly.

Yet another who left thailand and seems unable to leave off the comparison

8 minutes ago, NanLaew said:

He's a well know forum stress monkey with friends in Angeles City (Philippines) who are born panic merchants.

as a stress monkey, he is in good company with the ape claiming its only english language thats the issue and funds dispense in Thai.

Not sure whonis worse, those spreading the disinformation or those only too willing lap it up.

3 hours ago, baansgr said:

Its started....AC had a run on ATMs 10 days ago....expect the same...no shopping without residency, no ATM working, muggings outside supermarkets, road blocks and passes required with only one per week...living in lala land it tends to go over your head...but now reality is kicking in 

What are you on about?

3 hours ago, Peterw42 said:

Maybe not blocking farang cards but it does appear to be linked to language, a poster before was saying if you leave the ATM language in Thai, it works. And the app has reverted back to Thai

And that poster should be ashamed for even suggesting that was the issue and feeding the paranoia already so latent on this board.

Another poster suggesting lazada was blocking transactions on foreign cards.

What is wrong with you people?

1 hour ago, ravip said:

"he would be worth about 1 billion people from poor countries"

 

Oooops... thats his 'worth'? Whats the formula? And you are serious? So, poor people are worthless? Is this a human who is thinking?

????

Can you not recognize when a remark is satirical?

1 hour ago, smedly said:

why are restaurants still serving sitting customers ?

 

It should be takeaway or delivery not sitting in restaurant 

 

Bars closed why restaurant stay open ??????????????

Because people actually need to eat?.

And where I live there is no sitting down going on, most are closed, takeaway is a dream.

44 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

You can only go to Laos if you get a visa from a Lao Consulate in Thailand in advance, and they will require a medical certificate for you to get one.  I'm not sure if any other borders are open for in/out border runs any more.

alas the bold part is the only fact you speak.

7 hours ago, Swiss1960 said:

I would be worried, specially about elevator surfaces... and wearing gloves while using them and pressing buttons.. a machete to keep others out of the cabin while you are using it would help securing social distancing... ???? minimum is cleansing hands immediately after leaving the cabin 

my friends condo has sanitizer dispensers mounted in lifts, lift lobbies and at all common doors.

condo and a cruise ship are different, you can leave a condo, cook in a condo.

cruise ship you are forced to mingle.

15 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

You can only go to Laos if you get a visa from a Lao Consulate in Thailand in advance, and they will require a medical certificate for you to get one.  I'm not sure if any other borders are open for in/out border runs any more.

untrue, no medical certificate required at laos consulate bangkok yesterday.

9 minutes ago, heist said:

Thanks for your kind words - It's like a cashiers receipt and was stapled to the front of my medical certificate - it showed how much I paid and what date I paid it. Not sure why it was relevant but they told me to go back to the hospital because the dates didn't match. 

thanks again

3 hours ago, heist said:

Today I went to the embassy to submit the visa application. They said it will be next day turnaround as normal - so I have no idea what the guy who said it would take 14 days was talking about.
 

There was a notice that ALL visa applications will have to have a medical certificate. This is available at the local hospital here in Savannakhet for 70 thb.
 

IMPORTANT NOTE: Please double check EVERYTHING on the medical certificate and also reciept. I didn't notice that they have written different dates on the receipt and medical certificate so had to go back to the hospital and get it changed. Another Thai came with us with the same problem. And the embassy staff said his wife works as a nurse there and they have been making a lot of mistakes. So double check everything before you leave.

 

I realize Laos has stopped issuing visas for the time being but maybe this information will be helpful to someone.

hi mate kudos for being one of the very few sources of good information.

re med cert and receipt, what receipt is this? i sopke to savannakhet on phone about 20 mins ago, they said med cert from bkk hospital was good, but must have been issued within 72 hours of application.

is it your visa receipt?

1 minute ago, Isaanbiker said:

Wow. Thanks. That sounds terrible. Best of luck. 

aye, i thought i had seen everything visa wise, this is next level

open for now to people who have a consulate issued visa - not sure about e visa - no voa issued.

currently friendship bridge at Mukdahan/Savannakhet open.

Bangkok lao consulate was issuing yesterday, not sure about today but i suspect so. 

call them, they actually answer the phone unlike savannakhet

5 minutes ago, sanemax said:

Do you have a Laos visa , as they have stopped issuing them 

yes

I was unable to make it to the border today in time to submit but did call the Thai embassy Savannakhet who said they would continue to issue non-o monday.

Re the health certificate it must be from a hospital one in bangkok is ok if issued within 72 hours.

 cert from a clinic is unacceptable.

non bs are not being issues, your own country she said, unfortunately i neglected to ask about tourist visa

i just spoke with an individual at savannakhet consulate by phone after trying for days.

they have indicated that they will be issuing non immigrant o visa monday, no non imigrant b, I neglected to ask about METV, They seemed to believe anyone with a non o should be allowed back in to thailand, but were non-committal.

requirement for non o remain unchanged save the addition of the medical certificate, however the certificate MUST be less than 72 hours old and issued by a hospital. They claim a bangkok hosputal is ok, but clinic will not do.

i was unable to get to mukdahan on time to submit today and am now travelling sunday. sigh.

Caveat: you must have a visa already to cross into laos. as of yesterday the Laos consulate in bangkok was issuing them and seemed convinced they would be accepted for the next few days for what that is worth.

3 hours ago, BritTim said:

 

For many hours, one of the few firm pieces of news was that you could no longer get a visa on arrival for Laos. While I am now unsure of the truth of this (though it was an official Lao government announcement) be aware that entering Savannakhet without a visa in advance may not be possible.

 

EDIT: Those who are able to reach Savannakhet might want to ask the consulate whether, in view of the exceptional current circumstances, they are willing to issue visas the same day so you can return before potential border closures.

Yes I spent today doing that at lao consulate bangkok.

And I doubt they will move on the same day visa thing but potential closure is the only reason I am traveling overnight to get there for friday. You are right it cant hurt to ask.

I also have a bangkok clinic issued cert of being clear of symptoms, hooefully that does the trick.

Given the amount of rejections I heard of yesterday for healt cert, im expecting it to be busy as <deleted> friday for a change.

10 minutes ago, heist said:

Yep, that was me. I called the embassy myself after lunch because I thought it didn't sound right and the embassy official said as long as I have a medical certificate and all the paperwork is good I would be able to pick up my visa on Monday - but she didn't sound 100% confident. So as usual, I've had two conflicting reports within a couple of hours.

I'm going to submit my visa application tomorrow now that I have a health certificate so I'll come back here and update then. 

i appreciate you coming back to me on this.  the strength of that im willing to roll the dice and spend the weekend in savarnakhet. fingas crossed. sigh