chessman

According to news in New Zealand, the two are brothers and their parents are millionaires.

Am going to use U-Tapao airport for first time. Have got re-entry permits at the main airports in Bangkok before - Anybody know if they offer this service at U-Tapao airport?

It’s pretty sad to read nonsense like this again and again on an expat forum. Wherever you go in the world, you’ll find plenty of smart people and plenty of people acting stupidly too… and that includes Thailand and wherever you are from.

Nahhh, everyone knows the Daily Fail always gets it right.

I’m genuinely surprised that you consider this an over-reaction. The banning of flights and closing of borders has been extremely limited. The majority of countries have targeted specific locations while they work out the severity of the newly identified strain. This seems like common sense to me. There already seems some evidence that this strain is more transimissable and more resistant to vaccines. If this is confirmed and it is also found to cause more severe covid then this is going to be a huge problem.

What measures do you think have been a complete overreaction? Sure, there have been a few dramatic headlines but I can’t see any any actual measures that would affect people in most countries.

You’re misinformed here. Florida changed the way that it counted positive tests so they’re counted from the day of the test, not the day of the positive result. Presumably they did this so people are fooled (like you seem to be) when they look at the daily figures. Fine to disagree with Thailand’s Covid measures but anybody who doesn’t see the logic in them is either grandstanding or just dumb.

Yes, I was trying to show the stupidity of the ‘but there are two valid sides’ argument. That there are plenty of things that significant numbers of people seem to believe that should be disqualifying if you want to be a teacher. As you point out, there are potentially grave practical consequences if schools and governments are not firm with this.

If Aseannow readers are not sure of the situation, I don’t think the above 5 paragraphs will help the matter. If you’re going to be critical of others for poor communication, check your own work before you publish.

a teacher who has weighed up the evidence on both sides and decided not to get vaccinated might also believe that evolution is a myth, the earth is flat and the word ‘dumb’ is spelled without a ‘b’. They shouldn’t be teaching.

Yep… and a photo like that at the very least would show that her statement that she didn’t know him at all was false.

I wouldn’t say this has no chance of happening at all but I do think you are piling worst case scenario on worst case scenario. I think schools will do very little testing… and it will become normal for people with mild symptoms to isolate at home… and private hospitals will not be forced upon teachers who clearly won’t be able to afford really high hospital bills. but maybe I am an optimist!

What makes you think they will have extensive testing at schools? In Thailand the numbers tested are really low, I think that will continue. I think schools will expect teachers to be vaccinated but there will only be testing if there is a major confirmed outbreak at the school.

The police may never be able to find out exactly what happened on that night. There is only one living witness and if his testimony is suspect then it will be difficult. The police may never find that money, it could be difficult trace a smallish amount of cash like that and there are many ways he could have spent it. The police should be able to establish if the wife knew the dead man better that her statement suggests. Unless they were exceptionally careful, there will be witnesses who saw them together and phone records. Once there is more information about that, the story will fall into place.

Yes, you are right and I didn’t word my explanation clearly enough. It seems likely to me that they have separate databases with visa information and 90 day information and that somehow (most likely computer issues) the two systems have stopped getting updates from each other.