AndrewMciver

3 minutes ago, LOS105 said:

If you go to the FCO and click on the USA it states that you must do the the 14 days quarantine on return to the UK.  click on Thailand and it does not have the same requirement listed.

 The minister in charge Grant Shapps tweeted the list himself. Doesn't include Thailand. 

Although it's fantastic news FCO advice says it's okay to travel to Thailand. Means insurance policies will be valid. 

6 minutes ago, CNXexpat said:

I don´t understand the maths. 1,000 people per day = 200 per destination. Let´s say 3 countries are on the list and they fly from 3 different airports per country to the 5 destinations. 

200 : 9 = 22,22 passengers per flight

What airline would do this? Or the ticket prices must be crazy high.

It's solely for China. Probably. 

1 minute ago, LOS105 said:

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-countries-and-territories-exempt-from-advice-against-all-but-essential-international-travel

 

BBC are wrong. 

 But they still remain on the list for a 14 day quarantine. 

Meaning you can go to Vietnam and return no problem. But if you come back from Thailand you have to do 14 days quarantine. 

Why would Vietnam make the list and not Thailand? 

17 minutes ago, PumpkinEater said:

They are going about this entry requirement for COUNTRIES all wrong.

They need to look at INDIVIDUALS...not countries.

1. Allow retirees in. With the following
2. Require a covid test prior to departure from the particular country.

note 2 million USA test positive but some 320 million people NOT.

3. Require Quarantine two weeks upon arrival with another covid test.
 

Blanket statements against countries or peoples is inappropriate.

Let me guess your a retiree.

Let the young people in. They are less effected by the virus. 

38 minutes ago, Geoffggi said:

How about the real reason being many Thai's cannot afford to travel abroad at this moment in time ..........!!!

Or visas. 

On 6/30/2020 at 6:36 AM, Yorkshire Tea said:

Will local residents be allowed off the islands?

It's a major flaw. Local's mixing with the unwashed, how would they then return to the mainland ?

What sort of business? 

Have China even said they will allow their citizens to leave ?

Disgraceful if true. True kick in the face to the world. 

They're lucky they got 3 months of peak season in this year to massage the figures. 

58 minutes ago, Boomer6969 said:

"Letting tourists in" would negate all the efforts made by the Thai people over the past 3 months. I sincerely hope that the government will see that tourism in Thailand as we have known it will not come back any time soon, and that they very little control over this situation. But this should be an opportunity to get rid of of all the cheap, dodgy and sleazy components of the inglorious past. And to do so, without a major uprising,  they'll have to come up with a plan to assist and re-train several million people.

If i was in Thailand now, i would think the exact same way. It's a uptopia rite there now. No virus, no Chinese tourists, and a superstar in tourist areas where there are no tourists.

Unfortunately the economy will mean they will have no choice but to open. The economy will shrink, and all those shiny new helicopters, military stock they love to buy won't be able to bough (oh and any health spending, education, social service they spend on). And not to mention the huge loss of jobs.

Let's hope they can open up in a safe way. The last thing anyone wants is Thailand to open back up to mass tourism and let the virus run rife in Thailand. 

If Thailand is rife with the Virus it won't so appealling. 

8 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Being an elderly person can say ......... not in this life.

You want a vaccine, you take it, no need to force one on me, I'll take my chances.

 

The odd thing about pro-vaccination people.

If you're confident the vaccine works, and does no harm, why do you insist on me having it too?

 

If you are an 80 + year old, with some pre exisiting conditions, and you refuse the vaccine on the ground in 20 years time you may develop abnormal pubic growth, or an extra toe then so be it. Don't think anyone will be forced. 

1 hour ago, thaibeachlovers said:

No way I'm getting something injected into me till it's been proven to be safe by millions of other people getting it first without side effects.

Rushed medications tend to be unsafe medications.

It would be given to elderly, and to those vulnerable to the virus - the benefits to loss of a vaccine with possible untold long term side effects would be worth it for the elderly. 

47 minutes ago, ozz1 said:

Letting tourists in would be a good start  thai  locals are traveling a little bit  but with the unemployment there wont be many and with thai baht being high it's not going to be good for Thailand  tourism 

Does every single topic have to include a moan about by how high the Baht is ?

3 hours ago, sezze said:

Herd immunity doesn't work . Already is known that you only got antibodies for 2-3 months . 

Not true. Research is still ongoing on the matter. But the most conclusive research has suggested once you develop antibodies you won't get the virus again. Unless that is the virus mutates differently. Of course you get those big headlines saying you can still catch the virus again. I'll be interested to know of any known cases of someone catching the virus twice (not the nonsense media nonsense about the guy from China catching it twice, when it turned out he hadn't fully recovered in the first place). 

Most of the vaccines being developed, are using the mantra to create antibodies in your system. 

2 hours ago, Trillian said:

No silly boy! The EU isn't going to let Americans in, do you think they'll round up the ones who are already there and deport them! This is about nationals in their home country who are potentially contagious, an attack of contagion, it's not an attack on nationalities.

You have to remember immigration works both ways. There will be an elite in Thailand, business people, middle class who will want to travel to the EU, America (eventually) be it business or pleasure.

Country that relies close to 30% on tourism (direct and indirectly in the chain) this is awful news. 

18 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:

You can thank the humid weather and Thais having good vitamin D levels due to being exposed to the sun, which makes me wonder, has anyone taken down the statistics of those who were exposed to CV-19, e.g. male 50 years old, white from BKK, or male 50 years old brown skin from Issan ?

 

That's my take on it, besides I can't wait for Anutin to take his first jab when Thailand produces it's first cocktail, I mean vaccine, I hope it's a BIG one.......and it goes in his rear end !

Good weather and Vitamin D isn't helping Indians. 

It will take years and decades, books written how Thailand escaped this pandemic. One thing for sure is the government did <deleted> all. 

CHINA. CHINA. CHINA. CHINA.

Pathetic. They nearly wrecked Thailand. Allowed tourists from Wuhan to flow into Thailand, when they knew it was a dangerous epidmenic, along with failure of local government to try and cover it up. Yet they are lusted after.

If they are allowed back in on mass, that's me done with Thailand. Just no way. 

22 hours ago, CanadaSam said:

 

I believe the Maldives have beaten just about everybody, as tourism is fully open for business, with no restrictions at all!

 They did a 'Thailand' and planned to get all complicated by vetting tourists, quarantines, testing, restrictions, restrictions, and more restrictions - till they realised no one was coming. Then they saw all the loans the government has borrowed to pay for island restorations and saw an economic collapse. So they opened up. 

Maldives actually would a decent place to vacation - isolated private villas.