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6 hours ago, cerox said:

Keep my fingers crossed about the quarantine.

Hopefully at least they wave the quarantine depending on the departing country. So for example if the Philippines opens up earlier and has no quarantine and is not on Thailands "quarantine blacklist" I could wait out there for a few weeks. Also much easier to get the covid test there. Duterte said they cannot afford more lockdown.

 

Cambodia, although so dependent on tourism, I really doubt the government will care at all. Could be closed for a long time.

Don't see how they could NOT quarantine all arrivals from Europe and US for the foreseeable future.

Hope they will requisition some hotels as quarantine facilities and let people book before they depart from Europe. Quarantined bus services of flights to the provinces should also be offered. With the collapse of tourism there is no problem to find such resources and it would generate some revenue for people who have lost most of their business. This would put the cost of a trip from Europe from about 500 Euros to five times that amount, but still better than sleeping on the floor of an unairconditionned hangar as it happened in Buriram.

People should be free to eat whatever they want. I like beef, so why should question the right of others to like dog. Now, it is probably safer to eat herbivorous animals as is limits the virus' opportunity to jump from one species to another.

45 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Many use this same argument. However, it does not hold water. Why? Because you had over a million Chinese tourists running around the country in December, and again in January, as this thing was blowing up in China. Nearly a million in February prior to the lockdown of Chinese, and an equal number of Europeans. All in close proximity. No social distancing. Mingling with Thais and others. If this thing were going to blow up, it would have blown up by now. You do not need to do massive testing. You only need to wait a week or two. If this was a cover up, they would have been outed online long ago. And the hospital lobbies, and streets would be littered with corpses. This is NOT the Zombie Apocalypse. Some seem to be hoping for that. Some seem to love the panic and uncertainty. Sorry to disappoint. The heat is devastating Covid in Thailand most other tropical countries as we speak. Brazil is the only one with over 5,000 cases, while it rages in the US and Europe. 650 cases in the past 8 days, and only 13 deaths. That is not a major outbreak. Not even close. We are quite safe here. 

Would be great if you were right. But, why on earth have they implement lockdown measure similar to those deployed in western Europe where the death toll is appalling? Maybe those who think it is propaganda are right. My wife has her own version, she reckons it killed the mobs and riots that were bound to develop earlier this year.

The part I don't like is where he says Nana plaza won't reopen..

1 minute ago, 4MyEgo said:

Where is this vaccine........................

I have the feeling that, if there were true reinfection cases, a vaccine could become even more hypothetical. 

It is known that the current "nasal swab" tests are quite unreliable. Their quality depends too much on the skill of the person taking the sample, the "quantity" of virus in a given spot varies also.

The Wuhan lockdown lasted 76 days, so add these to March 20 and you get June 4. So don't make any plans for the next couple of months. Things might be a bit different in LOFS, but if Tourism revenue may motivate to lift bans early, the lack of medical responsiveness may lead to caution. As far as I am concerned I have an appointment at Bumrungrad which I am going to shift from end of May to early July, and grab any opportunity in June to take the kids to Koh Chang.

18 hours ago, webfact said:

the number of international visitors arriving in Thailand between January and March fell by 8.54 million, or 35.3 per cent, to 15.67 million, compared to the same period last year

Well, this means that lat year Q1 visitor were 8.54 + 15.67 = 24.21 millions. Implies that Thailand welcomed close to 99 million visitors last years. Another big lie somewhere, isn't?

4 minutes ago, transam said:

At least he's got hair.....????

Macron is amazingly more sexy, but sadly he is into old women, not alpha kangaroos.

2 hours ago, ThomasThBKK said:

and i wouldn't want to be for weeks in the gov run hospitals here. 

That's what I keep telling my wife. 48 hours in a shared ward without air-conditioning and I'll be dead, COVID or not. 

There is also another restriction: to pass your Australian Citizenship on to your kids, you will have to show a certain number of years of residence. Don't remember the exact number, but it is quite reasonable, like 2 or 3 years.

To normal? Definitely not this year as far as I am concerned. My "normal life" involves 6 or 7 weeks of family holidays during March/April and in October. March/April is gone and these morons are already planning to cancel the October holidays. Normality would also involve being able to enjoy a good meal in a cosy restaurant and be able to stroll around without choking  in a stupid mask drenched in sweat. Also wonder if we will ever be able again to enjoy couple of cold beers while watching near naked nymphets undulating within smelling distance. They may just grab the opportunity to keep those decadent venues closed forever.

It is pertinent to say these jerks that they can't run their country. Why are these idiots calling people to catch COVID in some dirty office,  while the data they want to collect can be extracted from the TM 30 database through a very simple query?

16 hours ago, sezze said:

There are different strains around of Covid , 1 being more deadly then the other . Many countries in Europe seem to have the more deadly strain , since death rate Spain / Italy / France / Belgium / Netherlands / UK / ...  now around 10% . While others in Europe ( and world ) got very low death rate . I take Europe as example since all countries next to each other , and healthcare / counting / measures taken are more or less same ( yes i know , not all the same ) . Is this the case also i Thailand , idk , but i expect it is like that , otherwise the hospitals would already be overwhelmed or have deaths everywhere , even if they not counted as Covid .

Yep, and the Germans got the milder asian strain. That one is well educated it stops right at the non existent border between Germany and the rest of the European Federation (to be).

Be serious please, the only significant figures are those of the workload of emergency services. Even the number of deaths will have to reassessed and merged into the "normal" mortality figures over the next year or two.

I have seen figures of deaths in France (which I am not allow to share here), for the first quarters of 2018, 2018 2020; 2020 is higher that 2019, but nearly identical to 2018.

2 hours ago, Levanter said:

Alternatively, they are getting sick through other routes, like orally through contaminated hands. Since that route of infection leads to the gastrointestinal tract and not the respiratory tract, it may take longer to develop respiratory symptoms and they could be milder too (because it is harder for the virus to get there from the gastrointestinal tract and there’s more time for the body to mount an immune response). Obviously this is all purely my speculation without much scientIfic evidence to back it up. 

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