Bob A Kneale

3 hours ago, Dumbastheycome said:

4 hours ago, Bob A Kneale said:

What makes you say that the Embassy-organised condo was not an approved quarantine location for a Diplomat?  He was refused entry by the condo management based on other residents' subjective Covid fears, not by Thai authorities.

If it was a  quarantine location the other residents would be there subjected to  same conditions and have no grounds  for objection, or not? Is it for an Embassy to over rule the specified regulatory requirements of a host Nation by assumed  virtue of Diplomatic Immunity?

 

"If it was a  quarantine location the other residents would be there subjected to  same conditions and have no grounds  for objection, or not?"

No, the other residents were not being quarantined!   It's a condo building, not a commune, the envoy would have been confined to his own condo which, according to the prevailing regulations, was approved for diplomatic use.   The condo management's capitulation to the demands of every other occupier in the building just made sense.

"Is it for an Embassy to over rule the specified regulatory requirements of a host Nation by assumed  virtue of Diplomatic Immunity?"

No, it's not but the Embassy was not over-ruling anything, neither was it asserting diplomatic immunity.  There were/are special arrangements for quarantine locations for returning diplomats agreed to by the government.

48 minutes ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

Well said. +1

Hear, hear.

1 hour ago, Rancid said:

Personally I think we are kept in fear so we accept compulsory vaccination as the only escape. As an aside, under Nuremberg War Crime laws compulsory vaccination would be considered a war crime...look it up.

So where has it been announced that Covid-19 vaccinations will be compulsory?

"...under Nuremberg War Crime laws compulsory vaccination would be considered a war crime..."

Good grief...

That's nonsense.  The Nuremberg Code is not law in any country and it relates to medical experiments.

1 hour ago, Tarteso said:

Nonsenses;

 

N = population size

e =  margen Of error (as decimal)

z = confidence level (as z score)

p = porcentaje value (as decimal)

????????

I agree, nonsenses [sic].

1 hour ago, Older and Wiser said:

I'm sure that a poll of 0.002% of the population will be truly representative of the views of the population, not.

Funny how so many people don't understand the concept of polls.

1 hour ago, digger70 said:

What about Thai Returns ? Treat all people same ,Quarantine and fit to travel Docs. 

That's what is happening!

1 hour ago, Xaos said:

1400 out of 70mil 

Just shows how stupid they are. 

Thats like 0.029% responders 

No, it's not, like [sic].  If 1400+ were polled and 1400+ responded, that's a 100% response.  It was a (representative) poll, not a referendum of the population. 

"Just shows how stupid they are"....no, it doesn't.

2 hours ago, jerolamo said:

2 hours ago, Bob A Kneale said:

Tourism is not the main contributor to GDP for Thailand and no one is "banishing tourism/foreigners" [sic].  It was an opinion poll, that's all.

no, a propaganda.

We don't have real questions and they only ask to 1450 people.

No, it was a poll.  It wasn't "a propaganda" [sic] published by the government.

Questions were quoted in the linked article, they're there if you want to see them.  Polls always ask relatively few people but they are considered to be representative of the population, that's why they're polls, not referendums.

2 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

how could only 10% of those surveyed say they want foreigners back? 

Where did you get that figure from?  It sure wasn't part of the poll.

3 hours ago, JusticeGB said:

there must be at least 15% unemployment in Thailand. The figures put out by the Government are nonsense.

What statistics do you base that (guess) on?

3 hours ago, Dukeleto said:

8 hours ago, meechai said:

Over 90% of 1459 Thai people polled want a total ban on foreign arrivals

 

Fixed your sensationalism for you ????

Over 90% of the 0,000000208% of Thai people polled wanted a total ban on foreign arrivals.

 

There you go. Fine tuned it for you to add even more dramatic effect and perspective.

Shame about your maths, Dukeleto, bit over the top with the zeros there.

3 hours ago, pennine said:

Is 0.002% of the population statistically significant?

Of course it isn't (no one claimed that .002% was) but accepted methods of extrapolation do make it significant...as far as polls go.

3 hours ago, mitos said:

In Pattaya 5 tourbuses Chinese (they look like Chinese?!) with accompanying the police at Beach Rd are visiting last week. 

So? 

Would you be posting that if the tour buses had western passengers?

3 hours ago, bodga said:

10 hours ago, webfact said:

The poll gauged the opinions of 1,459 people,

and the other 68million many in the  tourism industry said?

Extrapolation, look it up, then look up "poll".

3 hours ago, Mikeasq60 said:

how old are you, twenty something I assume. what life experience do uni students have other than from a leftist lecturer

What have Thai university students' "life experiences" got to do with this?  Students weren't being polled.

3 hours ago, tomauasia said:

I dont even read it. By the way who is paying for these polls ? Merely Prayut gov fake news geared to rid Thailand of white people.

"Merely Prayut gov fake news geared to rid Thailand of white people".

Really?  How would you know that if you didn't read it?

By the way, it was the results of a poll, not a news item, fake or otherwise.

3 hours ago, Diddl said:

What sort of a headline is that?  it says in the newspaper article "33.43% want a total ban on foreign arrivals" and not 90%.  I call this hate-speech and propaganda on the part of whoever wrote the title of the article. 

Different responses to different questions, it's not that hard to understand, if you read it.  Nothing to do with "hate speech" or propaganda.

3 hours ago, Tarteso said:

As someone wrote; this poll was done in a university, where obviously the students do not depend on tourism
this is not a poll of "random people" but a specific group type.

And that person "wrote" wrongly, it wasn't polled in a university, it was conducted by a university.  To use your own words, maybe you can learn something new today.You haven’t idea what are you talking [sic].

3 hours ago, innosiem said:

this poll was done in a university, where obviously the students do not depend on tourism
this is not a poll of "random people" but a specific group type

"...this poll was done in a university...this is not a poll of "random people" but a specific group type"

Where did you get that information from?  It was done by a university, not in, a university; big difference.

4 hours ago, Miami007 said:

Aside from tourism, who will buy all the condos in BKK, Phuket, Pattaya?

Next step.. who will build any new condos or houses? 

How many foreign companies will start manufacturing in Thailand

 

All this money will disappear... back to the rice fields and farms for the majority of the population. 

The rich will be fine and come and go, the middle class will disappear. Seems like a great plan!

It isn't a plan, it was a poll.

4 hours ago, raccos21 said:

Sound like North Korea to me!

You need to (a) read the article again and (b) read up about North Korea.

4 hours ago, kensawadee said:

Total BS............. 90% of the 'unemployed' and hotel and tour operators want foreigners to arrive.... and the sooner the better....

FAKE NEWS...........

It's not claiming to be "news", it's just an article about an opinion poll!

4 hours ago, dogfish180 said:

90% of 1,459 answering a loaded question, is NOT 90% of Thai people <deleted>!!! What garbage reporting. ????

Garbage reporting?  Perhaps it was garbage reading?

This is what was actually reported in the first paragraph...

"Over 90% of respondents to a recent opinion poll fear the prospect of the second wave of COVID-19 infections and they want a complete ban on foreign arrivals in Thailand..."

4 hours ago, 5633572526 said:

How such pitifully small poll sampling’s can be reported as the will of the people is beyond stupid 

It wasn't reported as "the will of the people"...

"Over 90% of respondents to a recent opinion poll fear the prospect of the second wave of COVID-19 infections and they want a complete ban on foreign arrivals in Thailand..."

4 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

4 hours ago, Oldie said:

This is correct. Many posters here live in tourist areas and if some bars stay closed they think that Thailand is destroyed. Perhaps for some them... The majority of Thais has other priorities. 

Have you done a poll to enforce your belief that many posters on TV live in Tourist areas.  I think you need to check a little bit closer.  Many of us either live in Bangkok or are spread out in the provinces.  There are also many that are from overseas that live here with there families, but are currently locked out.  Some insight is needed before a statement can be made suck as what was made by lumping us all in as tourist living expats, and bar visitors.....

I think you need to check [his comment] a little bit closer!  He said "many", he was not "lumping us all in as tourist living expats, and bar visitors".  He was spot on.