chrisbangkok

20 hours ago, Drop the dead donkey said:

I just want to know where Covid actually is? As I have spent 1 complete year in the UK after 16 years abroad. During this time in the UK, I haven’t seen 1 case in my immediate circle or theirs as well. So how and where is this virus still living ?

I think it is still all BS and was from the start.

Do you live alone in a box somewhere ? All of my friends and most work colleagues have had covid and cases still occu

Poor justification for not requiring tests for Chinese visitors made under pressure from the Dictator Xi no doubt. 

Words only ,  just baseless drivel once again.

Foot shooting in full swing.

Heads for exit stage right ... you're welcome to the hoards of uncontrollable menaces who think rule breaking is a normal activity ... bon chance LOS .

5 hours ago, gearbox said:

Yes, millions dying and not reported, but you somehow found the truth, great detective work.

Thank you , January's lotto numbers also available if you're interested 

2023 , millions of Chinese dying due to zero vaccines and or poorly effective sino pharm ( unreported of course) .

Huge unrest from remaining population , threat to the chairman for life and the all important party,  invasion of Taiwan in an attempt to rescue popular partisan support .

World supply chains severely disrupted once again , World economy in more turmoil , someone somewhere hovering over a big red button.

Just saying .

Cheerful Charlie lol 

Oops , someone's forgotten someone's share ... it'll go away soon once they "correct" their share scheme .

Back to overstayers soon enough , no money in them so cheerio.

7 hours ago, roo860 said:

 The police are just as bad, they mostly accept these ridiculous excuses. 

Accept as long as accompanied by a suitable amount of folding paper. 

I'll give 2 to 1 they'll accumulate a wedge of bungs with this policy .

On 8/26/2022 at 3:16 PM, Liverpool Lou said:

Cosmetics, as the article very clearly stated.

Ahh thank you for correcting , I should know not to add any humour to these threads ????

What did she write on the wall with ? Hopefully not what it looks like .... it is Thailand so wont be an HB2 grade ????

11 hours ago, Cabradelmar said:

Supplemental COVID insurance forced on you by government mandate is for saps and suckers. Regardless, I can pay my own health care on a cash basis.

Well aren't you wonderful,  well done chum.

On 3/9/2022 at 7:25 AM, Hawaiian said:

Me, at 82 years of age, triple vaccinated, also tested positive in January.  Luckily asymptomatic.  Latest studies show that genetics determines who experiences the the most severe symptoms.

Your source of the studies please ? Interested to read more .

On 4/28/2022 at 2:01 AM, koolkarl said:

If these tourists knew how toxic the air is, no one would come here. 

 

You stuck here then ? 

On 4/28/2022 at 12:32 AM, RichardColeman said:

I actually think 5million is just about possible.

 

IF they drop Test and Go.

IF they stop this Thai pass (look how great our country is you need a pass to get in) nonsense.

IF the drop the insurance demands.

IF they open the bars and clubs.

IF they do not do yet another YOYO

And IF they do it all now, so people looking can book with confidence not wishful thinking

 

And if they stop fannying about with exchange rate manipulation of the baht.

6 hours ago, meechai said:

Against what? Nobody wants to invade Thailand.

What would the prize be?

 

Coconuts and prize winning durian fruits .... The "friends" in the North makes some shiny F35 copies and there would be some very tidy red envelopes as part of that deal methinks. 

3 hours ago, Lemsta69 said:

we won't be able to afford to live here if that happens. it'll become like Singapore, expensive dull and boring.

Absolutely right , leave things as they are please , really don't want to be living in a pseudo sterile Singapore clone of a place . 

13 minutes ago, scorecard said:

In all states of Auatralia it's recognized as a serious crime with serious penalties.

 

Plus there are many special cameras programmed to look for phones. If the camera catches you you're gone. 

 

Get caught a second time and the fine goes way up. In some states get caught a third time and you can lose your driving license. 

 

It's standard for passengers who catch taxi drivers using phone in some way to call police or taxi company and report the driver. Bus etc., drivers caught face instant loss of all driving licenses. 

This aint Australia or anywhere else for that matter which is why we love it ...leave the control and laws behind you and relax ...

9 hours ago, userabcd said:

Mobile phones should be banned from motorvehicles altogether.

And talking , radio's and music , eating , yawning , scratching ,passengers ....in fact ban all forms of motor transport just to be sure .... lol

7 hours ago, Mavideol said:

one has to wonder who and where/which pockets ALL that side boosting income goes.... with the amount of $$$$$ corruption they collect/grab it is hard to believe they are on the red, somebody is not sharing

Struggling due to bar closures , lack of gullible tourists , factory closures , less illegals border hopping etc etc .. under the table income on which they rely is drying up . They'll do what most mafia do ( they are undoubtedly  mafia) , change income streams to more lucrative things  IF they avoid the good generals desires to shut them all down.

6 hours ago, Jeff Olssson said:

I am afraid there are many cases which point to the contrary.

 

 

I really don’t know what they think or how much they know about the risks but it seems to me that these are normal families who probably think traveling to Thailand is the same as traveling in Europe nowadays.

Lets be clear on this ,in order to get here one needed Thai pass which included showing vaccination status   taking an official pcr test fit to fly 72 or less hrs before flying , full insurance , confirmed booking at Thai sh+ hotel to include another pcr test .

So no chance of probably thinking its the same as Europe ( which btw you also need lots of docs to do).

Risk you take yes but a lot to do before getting here .

She'll have insurance which will cover the quarantine .

Really a non story in my view but hey it gets people reading and the mostly ill informed commenting .

Btw i arrived back on 25th dec so do know what is needed to get here.

4 hours ago, tomazbodner said:

He could have simply gotten infected on a plane, which could have had infected transit passengers so they'd not know the source. As it would have been very early, the infection would not have picked up on initial test, but only a few days later when the viruses had an opportunity to multiply to the detectable levels.

 

With Omicron being 70x more infectious than Delta (I read this number in the news, but a bit skeptical), it should not take much for someone to get it in any closed space. As US health authorities estimate half the Earth's population would catch Omicron over the next 3 months, getting into a pressurised tube with hundreds of strangers for a day, masks off during eating and drinking, is pretty much a sure bet to catch it.

 

Now all that said - Omicron is staying in the upper respiratory system and does not move down to lungs. The whole reason why COVID became global emergency was because it moved to lungs, and caused deadly pneumonia. Now if Omicron doesn't move to lungs - how is it any different from a common cold, which is just like COVID, just it doesn't move to lungs?

Thank you for this post I feel much more relaxed about Omicron now .. thank goodness this paper allows so many expert reports from it's readership .. 

On 12/22/2021 at 8:29 AM, The Hammer2021 said:

No more than the farangs who catch covid and won't go into quarantine because they, like so many expats, think they are superior to Thais.

What a strange statement , on what do you base this knowledge sir ? Your own views of expats and Thais or any substantial data ? 

Cancel that then wave goodbye to any tourist money next 2 or 3 years etc ...