TheRealRobin

IF they do allow gay marriage, which I doubt they will. They may do as Taiwan does - only allowing marriage between people from countries in which it is legal. 

I arrive on Sunday, September 28th. I'm unvaccinated but had a 72 hour pcr test. Nobody asked for my test, not at departure or arrival in BK. Passport control was effortless and quick. In fact, it was easier than '19 as I wasn't expected to fill out an arrival card.

What is the logic behind a 12 o'clock closure time; is covid more infectious after 12?

Maybe do some research homework before you start writing. Generalisation is boring and lazy.

I've lived in Thailand for more than 4 years and I've never met anyone that cared much about being called or labeled as farang.

Also, what are all these racially charged words invented and used mostly by farangs? Most groups of people have derogatory words for groups that are different from their own, but in the west (unlike many Asian countries that I've been to) words like that are not acceptable in normal conversation. 

Your opinion of both Western society and farang in Thailand doesn't seem to be shaped by real-life experience.

3 hours ago, Dick Z said:

The non vaccinated will use up hospital resources so health care will be more difficult to get for those who are social citizens. The upside is that there will be less and less irresponsible idiots based on natural selection.

Statistically you are more likely (I think around 80+%) to die from covid if you are obese, suffer from hypertension or heart disease. So you are correct about natural selection, but it will not be based on whether you believed in the vaccine or not, it will be based on how well you've looked after your own health in the past.

3 hours ago, 2ndhomepattaya said:

Over 84% of those who have died from COVID-19 in Thailand were not vaccinated, or did not have an official record of vaccination, and 7.2% had received just one vaccine dose, according to the Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA).

The point is this. If the vaccine is effective then those that had been vaccinated have nothing to worry about. If I or anyone else want to take our chances with the virus rather than the vaccine, then that is our choice. We don't need a parent to hold our hands. If the vaccine is not effective, then why are you taking it and trying to convince others to do so? 

23 hours ago, Jeffr2 said:

Yes. It means the majority of us (soon to be in Thailand also) don't have to worry about anti vaxxers infecting us while out.

 

Quantas just initiated this as has many hotels, cruise ships, restaurants,etc. Love it.

Replace anti vaxxers with blacks, go back 40 years and you have apartheid South Africa. The white population never hated blacks. With the help of media censorship and propaganda, they were lead to believe that their lives and the livelihoods were in danger. This tactic had been used many times in the past. 'Anti vaxxers' are not selfish, dangerous, stupid or uninformed. They see the same picture as you but from a different angle. Their ideas and believe are not wrong, just different from yours. If the subject of contention changes to something else, you, your family and your friends may find yourselves on the side of the persecuted next time around. For now, you are on the same side as Verwoerd. Has it occurred to you that you are standing on the side of dishonest, power hungry governments and corrupt pharmaceutical companies, willing to turn against everyday people. Has the sum of your life experiences really brought you only this far?

11 hours ago, NanLaew said:

One needs to have an education and be able to tell the difference between a legal visa option and a scam BEFORE one can become an educator.

 

Didn't any of these 'teachers' consider why they would need 100 teachers on Koh Phangan?

I didn't see any mention that they were planning on studying to become teachers. They may wanted to study Thai language. And even if they were planning on studying to be teachers, just because a school is open and offering and education, does not mean that they were expecting to find jobs in that same Island.

If the question is whether unnecessary force is acceptable then the answer is obviously a no. But, if parents are not willing to accept that some form of physical discipline is necessary, then they could perhaps resign their jobs and attend class so that they can insure their little angels are not ruining the opportunity of the rest of the class to get an education.

Better shut down the economy!

Better lock down the cities and shut down the economy!

I think their response is totally understandable. Personally I think governments around the world over/incorrectly reacted to the virus, but it is a repeat of that reaction that they are afraid of. They are putting the massive cost and discomfort of another lockdown, over the money that tourism will bring. Hopefully this is an opportunity for Thailand to move away from their over-dependence on tourism; especially budget tourism. I am pretty certain this is how the majority of people worldwide feel.

Thailand would off-course probably open to China first as they are seen as the tourism injection that the country needs. Problem is, China's data is not what one would call "kosher" ????

"The academics said...." red flag number 1!

There seems to be a lot of evidence that suggest that most people in affected cities fall in one of the following categories. 1) Had it, were a-symptomatic and recovered 2) Had it, felt sick for a week or two and recovered and most likely immune now or 3) Got infected, had some underlying condition and did not survive.

I think most countries over-reacted and focused on the wrong stuff. Resources should be directed to quarantining the weak and elderly, and educate the larger population about preventative measures. Humans for the most part are able to fight off viruses like this. Getting people scared causes exactly what we want to prevent, namely everyone with a cough running to a hospital, and in the process over-burden the health system and get exposed to people that are really infected. 

Now that theres a lot of data available, the virus seems to be not that much worse than the flu, and certainly much less dangerous than many of the things we do as part of our daily lives. It would be interesting to know how many people died as a result of the measures we took to stop the spread.

On 5/24/2020 at 2:20 PM, Pravda said:

Millions of people lost their jobs and many in Thailand are starving and this is your big problem?

There will always be a more serious issue somewhere in the world; that does not mean one should not question something less serious. We do have the capacity to think about more than one issue at a time. Our planet may become uninhabitable at the current rate and you dare mention something less important like people losing their jobs? 

What I find most alarming is how this situation may be used now but especially in future to control and restrict human freedom. Entire cities, communities or even countries can potentially be controlled at will as a measure to prevent the spread of a virus.