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6 hours ago, CharlieH said:

Thanks for the flame but what happens in one district is not neccesarily going to happen in another as anyone who has lived here any length of time knows all too well. You were advised to contact the local amphur where you could get accurate relevant information, I would hardly call that useless info

Great. What happens in one district is not necessarily going to happen in another. That is obvious. In conclusion, you don’t know, and your advise is to contact the Amphur.

4 hours ago, CharlieH said:

Why would you be concerned about whats happening in Chiang Mai if you are going to Khon kaen ?  And yes its possible as it is in many provinces that when you arrive from out of province that you are asked to self quarantine for 14 days. That does not mean you will have to go anywhere it "self" quarantine may be required in Khon Jaen, check with Khon Kaen Amphur for clarification.

Well geez if it is happening in Chiang Mai another district, another governor, may follow suite and implement the same in Khon Kaen. Buriram is also requiring a blue sticker on your identification that will be removed if you leave the district. Upon returning you are required to go into 14 day quarantine. Source the Thaiger article last week. 

So it doesn’t take a great leap of faith to wonder if quarantine is mandatory in Chiang Mai and Buriram provinces it might be as well in Khon Kaen. Thanks for absolutely no useful information other than your opinion which is meaningless.

4 hours ago, Maestro said:

 

Where did you read this? Without a link to the source, your post is an uncorroborated rumour.

It was an article inThe Thaiger last week. 

I have a flight May 3 Phuket-Bangkok-Khon Kaen. I have read Chiang Mai police are requiring passengers arriving by air to self quarantine for 14 days at one of three hotels. Does anyone have current information on Khon Kaen Airport? As of last week there was no mandatory quarantine for arriving passengers. Specifically can I fly without getting stopped at the airport for a 14 day quarantine?

Quote below in small letters from The Thaiger  April 24, 2020 regarding Buriram health sticker requirement starting May 1. Buriram is considered a light orange district - no new Covid-19 outbreaks in the last 14 days. If districts with orange or red ratings follow Buriram then you could very easily end up being quarantined for 14 days. I want to fly from Phuket - red designation to Kohn Kaen- also designated red and am waiting to see if Khon Kaen implements the same policy as Buriram.

Buriram, one of Thailand’s major provinces in the lower northeastern region know as Issan, will soon require residents to carry a “healthy sticker” whenever they go outside. The provincial governor made the announcement yesterday and said the measure will come into effect on May 1. The sticker, to be attached to residents’ ID cards, will be required as a proof of health before entering shops, markets and public venues.

Those who have not travelled outside the province and patients who have recovered from Covid-19 infections are eligible for the stickers. Anyone returning to or entering the province will face quarantine for 14 days before they can receive the blue sticker. They will lose the sticker if they travel outside Buriram

Suing China for a zoonotic transmitted disease originating in bats is about as logical as all ocean species suing the world for irreparably polluting their habitat. I’d put my money on a porpoise or whale to make a convincing indictment against mankind.

15 minutes ago, Peter Denis said:

For info < The above is not a quote of mine.  I reacted in my post to @plumberman123 who made the above quote in his earlier message

Apologies for quoting wrong person.

5 hours ago, Peter Denis said:

take it out and buy gold, then next year when you need the visa sell the gold and deposit back, then do the same again

simple

Buying gold is speculative. You may very well be buying for a higher price than It is worth when you want to sell it. Simple as long as you know it may be worth less than when you bought it. 

10 hours ago, how241 said:

So far,  I think Thailand is doing as good a job as most other countries.  Which is surprising considering how many people put Thailand down and think of it as 'third world'...Their virus/death  #'s are low  BUT even if you multiply them by 10X or 20X,  they still would have decent numbers.  I think the high temperature and high humidity is helping to reduce the virus here

I agree that Thailand is doing a good job. The USA, the richest and technologically advanced country in the world, now leads the world in reported cases and deaths. People are still congregating in churches without masks. The CDC has finally decided mask will help mitigate the spread of Covid-19. The USA has 5 times the population of Thailand with an infection rate of 30-40 times that of Thailand. Coved-19 has hit the west and east coast of the USA the hardest. Now it is spreading inland and infecting much of middle America. Yep, can’t complain about how the Thais are handling the outbreak.

9 hours ago, Leaver said:

I am not sure what you have done when posting, but you have misquoted me.  That was not my post.  The member "baansgr" posted that.

Sorry for responding to wrong post.

On 3/29/2020 at 7:45 PM, Leaver said:

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Your 800,000 is covered by the banking guarantee. Normally I would say its safe. However Ive already withdrawn all my funds as we have never been in a situation like this. Stories abound from other countries in lock downs where ATMs are empty, banks are closed....Thinga are going to get a lot worse befoe they get better with talk of month a brat her than weeks....your decision but I prefer my money not to be in a Thai bank at present

So if “stories abound from other countries in lock down” and you don’t trust Thai banks where are you safely putting your money?

Target area ideally would be a 2-3 kilometer from Jungceylon Plaza.

I am looking for a place to wait out the Covid-19 storm. Yes, I know there are thousands of properties in Patong. I am looking for a quiet 1 month rental -studio, condo, apartment between 10K-15K month. Does anyone have a recommendation on a good place to stay? Thanks. 

8 hours ago, Silencer said:

In the USA, on the beaches, in the bars, and on the streets for an extended Spring Break, you will find university kids crammed together partying day and night up til this moment. CV won't be leaving the US anytime soon.

Yes, there will always be a section of the population that doesn’t’t follow the rules. In case you haven ‘t been reading the news 

spring break has been canceled and the airports and beaches shown on CNN this morning are empty.

8 hours ago, jak2002003 said:

I was under the impression that to kill most viruses (and the current one in the headlines) the hand sanitiser needs at lease 60 percent alcohol content.  The one they were using was just normal anti bacterial hand wash.... with a very low alcohol content.

There are hundreds of articles on the internet specifying washing your hands with soap is just as effective as using hand sanitizer. Look up recommendations on UNICEF website. If you are not going to do the research to inform yourself I wouldn’t blame others. In addition, 2 meters is the recommended distance between people in public spaces in the USA now. 

On 3/14/2020 at 11:04 AM, khunpa said:

Thailand will react once a lot of people are infected here and their hospital system breaks down, as well as their economy. Clearly there is a very good chance of this.

 

When isolated, broke and with many sick people, how will Thais react towards us foreigners here? We all know that it comes natural for Thais to blame everybody else than themselves. We can also already now see clear signs from the government, that foreigners are the ones to blame for the virus. (except of course the Chinese)

If you want to glimpse a glimpse of panic and chaos take a look at what is happening in the USA right now. The richest, most developed country on earth is in a state of complete panic. My friend told me yesterday that his wife had to look 2 days to find toilet paper in Utah. The country is led by a president that would just as soon keep all foreigners out of the country. I don’t know what you’re experiences are in thailand but you can count your blessings that you are not in the USA during a pandemic. 

Do the math to establish your break even point. If you built a house for 3 million bhat or could rent a place for place for 120,000 bhat/yr your break even point is 25 years. Meaning for years 1-25 it will cost you less to rent than buy. Plug in any numbers for rent and cost of building in your area to get a comparison. 

Of course if you plan to be with your Thai wife for the rest of your life and want to leave her the house and land then building will insure her future after you are gone. 

Magic and superstition is prevalent in every culture. Athletes are generally very superstitious- if they hit a home run they may wear the same socks, the not wash their uniform, try to duplicate every movement and gesture they believed caused them to hit the home run. The sacred Catholic rite of receiving communion is a symbolic rite -drinking the blood and body of Christ, ostensibly to imbue our spirit with Christ like qualities.

Sir James Frazier outlined the laws of sympathetic and contagion magic as follows:

If we analyze the principles of thought on which magic is based, they will probably be found to resolve themselves into two: first, that like produces like, or that an effect resembles its cause; and, second, that things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed. The former principle may be called the Law of Similarity, the latter the Law of Contact or Contagion. From the first of these principles, namely the Law of Similarity, the magician infers that he can produce any effect he desires merely by imitating it: from the second he infers that whatever he does to a material object will affect equally the person with whom the object was once in contact, whether it formed part of his body or not.^[1

^yY

You don’t have to look far to see magic and superstition is alive and well in all cultures. 

For those in doubt that belief in primitive superstition is ridiculous- doctors still don’t really understand why placebos work, but they do.

I agree that something or everything doesn’t make sense. She makes $US 1,160- 1,333 and they give her a credit card with a limit of$US 20,000.  I have a credit score of 825, generally considered excellent, and I have never been offered  $20,000 limit credit card. I don’t think the banks and the credit card companies are naive, so why would they give her just a generous limit in the first place? Something doesn’t add up.

While quarantine is considered interchangeable with cordon sanitaire -containment means keeping people in and out of a specific area, the 11 million Chinese tourists make up a huge part of the Thai tourist economy and I see screening at the airport as a more effective  solution than barring them from entering the country. By the time they had an effective vaccine for SARS, the spread of the disease was already on the decline. 

 

On 1/22/2020 at 7:47 AM, Crossy said:

  On 1/22/2020 at 3:01 AM, maprao said:

US Second passports only carry a validity of 2 years. UK ones ...dont know

USA passports are good for 10 years. If you travel a lot and run out of pages the new passport is good for 10 years from date of issue.

When I got my new passport I went to the Bangkok Bank branch where I opened the account and they updated their records- new passport number, expiration date, date issued, etc. Couldn’t update at any other branch than where I opened the account. I know I couldn’t apply for a credit card without up-dating the info, I also thought I might have  problems with immigrations, ie., proof of funds if everything at the bank was stilled linked to my old passport.