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17 minutes ago, Yinn said:

Please just do it. Not be stubborn. Is easy to do it. Please help each other.

can you tell the Thais in my village to do the same please?
They never wear mask.

Thanks.

Just now, Andy from Kent said:

 

Mate,  

Don't you think yer life is worth 80,000 or more?

Mate,

not if I am traveling to a destination worse hit than where I'm currently at.

Are they paying for our flights?

Last I looked they were going for 80,000 one way.

Think i'd rather stay here.

I think what is really hammering the fear home is the isolated cases of young and otherwise fit people catching it and dying.

It seems they are a very small minority but it's killing them nonetheless. 

This is what makes this virus so uncertain.

Two of my family members back in the UK have now been diagnosed with it.

Both said it's like pneumonia.

One has it worse than the other but both are now on the road to recovery.

It seems you never know how it will affect you until you get it.

That's the scary bit.

How much of what we are seeing outside is based on fear or reality? The reality of the situation is that people are dying everyday, no question. But don't people die everyday anyway? This is the first real pandemic we have suffered since the global implementation of social media, so this must be having an effect on our actions. We had H1N1 back in 2009 (which killed between 150,000 and 500,000 people, with over 1.5 million confirmed cases) but back then social media was largely confined to students and the youth who couldn't give a rats a**e whether they got it or not. Nowadays everyone is connected and programmed into the fear factory, so is this affecting our better judgement as human beings? Are we letting the fear win?

Covid-19 is a killer. It kills those who are less able to fight it off, that is the reality. 

But we must keep everything in perspective, otherwise the fear will destroy us even more than the virus itself.

I totally agree with social distancing and self isolation, as I believe this is the fastest way to get a pandemic such as this under control, but my worry is that it's going to come back again and the people will act irrationally out of fear and lose all sight of reason.

You can bet your backside even if nuclear war broke out that the immi offices would still be open as usual.

Not even the black death could close those fortresses!

what else do you expect?

The have a fetish for paperwork.

I'm sure they dream of forms every night when they go to bed.

15 minutes ago I received a call from a woman claiming to be from immigration. She said that I have been selected from a lucky draw (along with 99 other long term expats) to receive permanent residency in Thailand. She said my documents will me mailed to me shortly and I must countersign a few bits and send them back.

Shocked is an understatement! I'm sat here on my own with no furniture and this is the last thing I would think would ever happen to me.

Apparently this is a new thing they are starting to do on the 1st of April each year.

I am planning on having a drink later to celebrate.

Anyone else got the call??

My cupboards are full of the stuff.
 

But yes, living in a nanny state does bother me. I’m an adult, I should be able to freely buy a beer whenever I so desire. 

Being treated like kids at primary school. 
 

when can we go out to play miss? 

Not to be too blunt about it as I don't know your situation or your future plans, but there is nothing stopping you getting on a plane and jetting off back home without paying a single baht if that is what you wish to do, is there? They will hardly come looking for you abroad (they aren't the CSA ????) I also doubt they would come looking for you in Thailand if you wish to remain here, especially if you decide to move to another province. 

Not that I am advocating such behavior, just presuming that's what you want to do otherwise you wouldn't have asked! 

They just love these knee jerk reactions, dont they?