djuiiy

we're supposed to believe a brit variant has got to thailand, so 12 months lockdowns, quarantine and testing have all failed, might as well have not imposed any restrictions at all. we're also not supposed to notice the timing of this, just at britain opens its borders, thailand will close its borders. No mass tourism to thailand is the plan.

>dancing is not allowed

because if you dance, the loose fragments of DNA and RNA in your bodily fluids might jiggle around to spontaneously arrange themselves like a jigsaw puzzle to form a virus, and not just any virus, thats right! The covid 19 virus! 
Those clever government ministers, they really think these things thru so we don't have to.

Certain dances are worse than others, anyone caught doing a 60bpm dubstep to 'Sweet chil 'o' mine' goes straight in the bangkok hilton
/sarc

the whole things a load a **** an we all know it

>Thai health officials skeptical about vaccine passports
I think we all know whats coming...

>be thai police force

>get paid money from local small and medium businesses

>everyone_happy.jpg

>one day decide to enforce shutdown of all small and medium businesses

>continue for a year

>all small and medium businesses go bankrupt

>"so sad! poor thai police force has no income! "
>asks for loan from general public

Since the new year the whole UK has effectively moved into 'tier 5' lockdowns, and the rule, at least how the politicians on the TV state it is, : no-one is allowed to leave the UK except for work or special reason. Whether that is enforced at the airports to the effect that 'holiday' & 'relocation' reasons for travel from UK to Thailand will be blocked, I dunno ; for the most part the brit politicians are not bothering to push their lockdown rules thru parliament to make them British Law, they seem to just dictate them and hope the police will enforce them.
Today my housemate left the UK for employment in Europe and he had to present proof of employment to board his flight.
This community could do with knowing if 'holiday' or 'relocation' will still get a traveller past British airport security checks onto a Thailand bound flight since the new year.

 

16 hours ago, ukrules said:

They're idiots, vaccination is the only way out of this mess

Eh?

For the last billion years of so, creatures have defeated infectious disease with immune systems. If vaccines were the 'only way out' of infectious disease, life would never have progressed beyound microbial single cells.
The results are in, and have been available for months, covid has less than a 0.01% mortality rate for healthy humans, including children. Let the common cold spread, just as it has done for millions of years among humans, and stop giving it new scary names ( SARS, covid 19, covid 21, corona ) = common cold. 

5 minutes ago, Scouse123 said:

Is the Fit to fly issued as part of the Covid free certificate or is it a separate entity that is needed?

Seperate.

one thing that might make things a lot easier, maybe a local GP could do both the covid test and fit for flight certificates in a single normal GP visit. I will investigate, but it will have to wait until after Christmas now. I will post here when I find out.

thanks i watched it. Lincoln lad mentions getting a visa was easy, but currently Brits don't seem to require a visa for entry. He doesn't mention anything about the fitness to fly, covid test or entry certificates that the Embassy currently state are necessary. 
Seems the goalposts have shifted, though it would be nice to believe all the rules on the embassy site are waivered if an explicit visa is obtained.
I will ask the embassy.

Is anyone here aware of a no special circumstances British National managing to get to Thailand under the current rules?
On paper its possible if all the documents listed on Thai Embassy are produced at the airports. However to acquire the covid test results, the fitness to fly, and the Certificate of Entry are time consuming, expensive, difficult, and give short windows of opportunity, meaning a lot of loose variables have to allign at the same time before a holiday in Thailand is possible.
Given also that conditions for entry to Thailand can change day to day, it is unclear if meeting this long range moving target is practical. To know that some have achieved it would be useful.

mods plz move this topic if this is not the right forum thks.

16 minutes ago, Salerno said:

@djuiiy

 

Link to the info on the Embassy website here (info and links on airlines, ASQ etc..

 

Selecting visa exempt at the start of COE aplication from Embassy in London:

 

Escape winter ????

Thanks, I will start work on this asap. 

13 minutes ago, Salerno said:

 

In that case you can come back as as you normally used to (visa-wise that is, obviously quarantine, COE, health insurance etc. still required), visa exempt is even allowed again (45 days instead of 30).

 

Check with the Thai embassy website in UK and ensure you book allowed flights. Also worth keeping an eye on UK travel restrictions to make sure any insurance will be valid.

wow, sounds good, i will investigate. Thanks. I just can't imagine at immigration control :

" what is the purpose of your visit during this world health crisis ? " 
" for a holiday "
" yeah ok, we'll let you in "

I think I need a better reason.
 

1 minute ago, Salerno said:

 

Guessing you haven't been keeping up with developments. Plenty of ways to get back in now, where are you from?

England. You are right, I've just assumed its not possible for an average person with no special circumstances to get back in. How can it be done? Thanks
 

>I'm in Thailand right now. Hotel is in Samut Prakan somewhere. 

So you must have a family permit. I am willing to do 14 days quarantine simply because my life this year has been mostly stuck in virtual prison in my bedroom on my computer. To be stuck in prison for 14 days would be a nice change of scenery. But I think I'm lacking any way of getting a permit. I don't have a family in Thailand. Could I get in for medical treatment?

17 hours ago, bermondburi said:

They just don't get it. You can give all the extra time in the world but no tourist in their right mind is going to pay through the nose to spend 15 nights of their holiday in jail. 

 

I'm in quarantine right now. It's shxx. I'm only doing it because I've got 9 weeks off work and I've not seen my family since January. I'm still pixxxd off at losing those 15 nights. 

 

I came on a 777 with Emirates. There were maybe 30 people on the whole plane. 

 

You can dress it up any way you like but quarantine = no tourists. 

Which country have you arrived in?

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March at the earliest

Several airlines have already canceled March international flights to Bangkok. But April flights are as normal. April 2021 is also more likely because it would be a year since the lockdowns started, plus April is in the second quarter of the year, March is in the first quarter. Economic planners like to work in quarters.

100% hot air.
0% action.

Thailand's been ready to open since March, but that didn't open the borders then, and it won't open the borders now.

6 hours ago, AhFarangJa said:

Especially the ones in the cabinet offices.............

>Saying the thai gov is being stupid wrt situation

No. They are behaving intelligently in accordance with the plan to bankrupt small businesses so that big businesses with savings enough to last thru this forced economic depression can take over the market. Governments have been correctly doing this periodically for thousands of years so I don't know why you or others tend to towards this ' government is stupid ' myth, other than you are <censored>

9 hours ago, Pottinger said:

Farookin' ridiculous! Three million Baht earning 0.1% in a Thai bank plus another half million doing nothing in your home country - just how anxious do they think people are?

Expect a lot more condos to come up for sale.

why is it ridiculous? It accomplishes the goal : bankruptcy of small tourist businesses so that big businesses with the savings to outlast this economic hit can takeover more of the market.
I've been saying this for 9 months.
I hope you realized that every time you moan about gov policy as ridiculous, you are pushing the gov's false narrative : that they are trying to fix the economy. You are helping them push false narrative, which keeps the public distracted and dumb.

 

8 hours ago, Kadilo said:

Let’s hope it gets read by the right people who are making some of these these ridiculous decisions and common sense will take over

Ridiculous only if you are following the media story. Sensible wrt interests of big business : starve small businesses then buy them out and take their market share.

>Ghost tower.
There's no reason to raze any one particular redundant building when the whole city is a ghost town. Raze the redundant walking street and replace it with a quiet sandy beach with palm trees.

if this scheme is real then i think they will find 1,200 tourists per month willing to pay high prices, fill in lots of paperwork and sit in prison for 2 weeks. 1,200/month is less than 0.05% of the normal influx, and there's certainly at least that percentage of immigrants desperate enough to get in.

35 minutes ago, dastakantattaka said:

Oh, Gosh, after 1 death in 100 days that old man on the photo is in panic. Look, he also points a finger to a guy who probably is infected, as if saying "that guy, he'll be the one to blame soon!"

they should lockdown the country for another 10 years, armed guards in space suits patrol every street, no one allowed out w/o a space suit.

1 hour ago, Emdog said:

"Why do we have to wear masks, social distance, lockdown when there is little to no outbreak here" is asked in all sincerity.

Astounding inability to connect the dots. Imagine if partner said "We don't need to use birth control any more because we haven't had any children to date..."

by that logic all social animals should have been wearing masks for millions of years. Odd that masks never evolved in any animal as a porous flap of skin over the breathing holes. Instead, all social animals have no obstruction breathing holes and lick or rub noses with each other to share germs.
In other words, all the social animal species that choose to not share germs go extinct. The only successful survival strategy is to share germs, keeping immune system active and updated. Herd immunity is strong.
I wonder if the thai gov are going to enforce the same stratergy wrt heart attacks, which tend to happen during physical stress : never do any exercise, because that puts stress on the heart. Also for mental health, never do any mental work, because that puts stress on the brain and might lead to a mental breakdown and suicide. Same for all your other systems/organs besides you immune system, never use them, because that puts stress on them, which might damage and destroy them, hence death.