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8 hours ago, Denim said:

Looks like a s**t load of alcohol will be sold by mom and pop shops at sunrise tomorrow.. A veritable stampede with Lao Khao becoming as rare as hens eggs.

 

Within a week the place will be over run by Somchai Kapones and there will be stills in all the eucalyptus plantations. Bootleg booze smuggled in on every dirt track.

And of course a number of small grouped deaths, solely from bad bootleg booze, made by fools or scumbags, being sold to the desperate..

5 hours ago, Happyman108 said:

Can someone please remove this idiot away? ????

The Chidchob puppet, place-holder has to step in his crank enough to end up embarrassing the Buri Ram godfather personally before he gets removed. But he is getting close it seems.

3 hours ago, bangkokfrog said:

This guy is obviously looking for a promotion from his xenophobic boss. Yes, blame it on those filthy unwashed foreigners who refuse to wear masks. But wait... if the foreigners are the major spreaders, why haven't they figured more prominently among the infected? I guess we can't let logic get in the way of a good foreigner put-down story.

But it doesn’t say where these foreigners are from. China would be a good bet.
 

The Permanent Secretary has been the most clear and accurate voice for the crisis of all in gov. speaking.
 

Usually brought in as spokesman when his political appointee Minister sticks his foot in mouth yet again up to the knee.

Yes, Minister 2020

But what about people with these passports traveling within Thailand, but not having exited the country since before December?

I am concerned they will look at my passport and arbitrarily subject me to all this monitoring and tracking.

And AFTER I visit Bangkok for 36 hours, later this month, will I be subject to monitoring etc,  since it is a transmission zone worse than USA.

They are clear as mud about this...

I was with a thai friend last night who has perfect English, when this “minister” came up he looked at me, held his nose and shook his head!

No need for words, clearly the smell from Bangkok was bad enough.

23 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

The Thai TV news today, and last night, was full of reports about a certain well-known Thai leuk kreung actor who has publicly posted that he's CV positive, and apparently had quite an extended network of personal contacts. Not clear or not whether his case has been confirmed by the government or not.

 

But yesterday, in the news, some Thai public health official was talking about threatening the guy with a prosecution under the Computer Crimes Act for posting content online that could create public panic, harm to the country, etc etc...  What a bunch of <deleted>!!!!

 

Well that sounds EXACTLY like the early Chines Gov response to Wuhan breakout. The attitude that caused it to explode works wide.
 

Don’t these ministerial sorts learn from those around them? There are far, far worse things than the country losing face or tourists

Government numpties at work.

And if you fly domestically from an independant airport like Samui Airport owned by Bangkok Air, 

you are departing a country with a serious COVID-19 infestation and arriving at an AOT airport.

On arriving at Swampy, where we KNOW and immigration official is infested....

do you need this app to show you are safe from

a disease only possibly CAUGHT in Thailand?

Haven't left the country in over a year, but have to fly to Bkk. Whats the buzz?

19 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

They are not on the visa exempt or visa on arrival list. They have to apply for tourist visas that can be denied when the application is done.

Maybe Thailand does not consider people from there as being a big risk.

Or maybe they consider people there as being too RICH.

As well as USA.  The one surprise on the list is Singapore, which is heavily invested here.

Favorite fantasy line :

”...The latest announcement regarding quarantine (hopefully) puts an end to what has been a barrage of conflicting information from health officials in Thailand, which has caused widespread confusion amongst people both in the country, as well as people overseas who planned to visit...”

No more confusing ministerial announcements and pigs fly with golden wings

No surprise at all. These are folks on the margins before this. They had the gumption to go to Korea, so not wallflowers, but outward movers, and not all would be Phee Noi of course. The better educated folks would be first to leave.
 

But the number of 1100 +\- lost to government scrutiny is likely horribly low for any day. Yes they attempt to check IDs along roads for Thais moving about, but that’s mostly to stop smuggling or track escapees. Not to list your average non-criminal thai worker going where the jobs are.

Most Thais below 40 Stay registered in their home village and then leave for whatever reason motivates them. Seasonal work, regular short term job, ‘sub-Rosa work’ and the like. Not thinking it’s permanent jobs, so not reregistered there. Hence the huge migrations during holidays and around national votes.

So, if roadblock check points are not logging all national IDs into a national database to track all low income Thais, or their “registered phones” are Not triangulated by cell signals, they won’t be found easily.
 

Will Big Brother's surveillance society be 100% ‘finger on forehead’ when some politician decides he wants it. Well the control freak military trained leaders likely wish they could. They were trained a lifetime for total hierarchal control, since that’s what the military is. Old habits die hard, but society is not a military organization, nor should it ever be. 

The little folks may want to stay unfound by Big Brother or BiB. Especially if they don’t want to get locked down for two weeks. And not understanding the real medical aspects of this virus would be quite common. 

So many might want to avoid being found, since “the nail that sticks up gets hammered down”.

• Those who do not have a permanent residence or lodging in Thailand are required to show officials, upon arrival, evidence of where officials can locate them during the 14-day period.
• 
  Soooo, a TM 28 or a TM 30 and this “New Rule” is different because?  And what now qualifies as evidence?
• Anutin still wants to kick out foreigners not wearing masks? What if you do not arrive wearing a ineffective greenish mask?

48 minutes ago, Farma said:

I was surprised to see Kuwaits neighbour Saudi introduce this form on the causeway from Bahrain .yesterday. Thailand not on the list.

 

But not Thailand.

In general the fall of a government is presaged by thai university and HS students coming out in the streets en-masse regularly, and with a consistent message. It rarely, if ever, is a controllable happening for the powers that be. And most often those attempts to control it, make it worse.

The PM doesn’t seem to be a student of history, because other wise he might recognise the symptoms of his time in control ticking down. Dissolving FF was one of those bell-weather foolish moments of hubris than is typical of ‘dictators in mufti’ grasping at maintaining control when the people are indicating they are fed-up. So few ‘leaders’ recognise themselves as victims of the old adage “Absolute power corrupts absolutely.” 

What is it in the national psyche that has caused so many coups and failed governments both democratic and dictatorial? Yes a very young country, but there are other young countries with much more stable records of governance. It is baffling.

But isn’t it lovely for the healthy here with no exposure to Chinese tourists or taxi drivers who now must fear groups of Thais calling police on us for not wearing masks in public...

Or worse we must now be fearing groups of  angry Thais in masks will surround westerners without masks and corral them with sticks  brooms, shopping carts etc because they fear we are all Typhoid Mary’s.

While awaiting ‘isolation teams’ of untrained police and ambulance crews, who are getting paid by the numbers they round up...

This man needs to be hounded from office, and sent to an inactive position at Tourism Authority Of Thailand.

If all expats working in bringing business, foreign investment, purchasing, and general business deals of all

sorts into Thai business for Thailand, all suddenly said.
‘Off to Vietnam’, and/or Malaysia, 

it would be a far bigger hit than the 3-5% of their living expenses being withdrawn. 

It is not just retirees, pensioners, misfits and criminal who are expat in Thailand.

19 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

Indeed... they [the airports] should be scanning (for people with elevated temperatures) upon departure and arrival. 
 

Scanning arrivals is flawed approach, anyone infected of a dangerous illness has already spread it to others on a flight !!! 

Well it also will tell you who might have it, AND who was exposed on the plane they traveled on. It is not the best possible approach, but quarantining all air travelers, whether they can from China or not, just in case they crossed paths with someone Chinese is far too onerous an approach.

Is it any wonder at the high levels of physical violence in the population,

when these are their official role models?

So who was Potty Mouth Of The Year; the most expletives deleted in 2019!

1 hour ago, ratcatcher said:

I am quite curious as to the meaning of this word.

Closest I can come:

Wawel (Polish pronunciation: [ˈvavɛl]) is a fortified architectural complex erected over many centuries atop a limestone outcrop on the left bank of the Vistula river in Kraków, Poland, at an altitude of 228 metres above sea level. ... There are also wooden parts of the complex w

3 hours ago, Chazar said:

ah but enforcement helps and youve  had  5  years  and the easiest  opportunity with article  44  to enforce things YOU  really  want havent  you .

Well he’s controlled all political upstarts threatening his power.

Drunk drivers don’t.

Bad bus and mini-van drivers don’t.

Tourist billers don’t.

Improving general safety doesn’t.

Poor people don’t. 

 

What a high level of insecurity in this fool.

She lives in USA and has an American mate for 5 years, yet he imagines she will throw this away for a thai taxi driver she’s known for 10 minutes??? What a dummkopf!

Yes, bring him back and let him see a 30 foot cell with 100 thai men in it. 

It is noticeable that the name of the resort is never mentioned.

14 hours ago, CharlieH said:

Took you long enough to realize what we have all been feeling for months !

Nay. Years!