WizArd27

2 minutes ago, Aspaltso said:

This is a very true assessment. This is why its essential for each country to improve its own supply chains, and manufacturing again. An international takeover from 1 country is a "bad thing".

for sure we need to bring all manufacturing or as much as possible back to our own countries. Forget China they need to feel the hurt and the world should boycott them for many years and they should be held accountable to repay all the damage they have caused, period!

19 hours ago, eeworldwide said:

I agree to a point, but there are a huge number of jobs in the tourism industry that will not come back.

The domino effect of the pandemic will hit existing hotels so much that they wont recover without getting bailed out. If you think about the number of hotels there are in Thailand, it's simply not going to be possible for them to be bailed out unless there is a major stimulus package given out by the government. And even if that does happen, some hotels will not survive anyway because tourism is kinda screwed isn't it.  I mean, most countries are going to be focussing on resurrecting and supporting local economies rather than taking trips to exotic parts of the world. close to the origin of the virus.

agreed many hotels will have to close. don't see any other way around that one. Government won't do anything for businesses for sure.... as in labor laws only protects one side... until that changes that both sides are protected there will be nothing for the businesses....

don't believe it is the farang that needs to learn a lesson here, even though he was wrong and should stay in for the time requested. 

The real problem is that Thais themself are uninformed and traveling in packs and moving the virus all over the country, they need to be better informed and need to start fining them the same amount so they realize how serious it is. Completely the wrong approach to target the farang when they have thousands to millions moving about in there own country and don't care... I don't think there is that many farangs here at the moment and ones that specifically coming from abroad into Thailand. Don't think he is the one going to spread the virus to the grandparents in the north, that will be the locals. so the focus should change on the locals, DAH!