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1 hour ago, Zikomat said:

Why not to advertise Thailand for the long stayers (6 months+) ? This Is the only group of tourists which may agree on 2 weeks quarantine. Many of them can choose Thailand as a Covid free place. Thailand should forget about short time tourism for a long time. Those buses full of Chinese - these are the things of the past. 
 

 

Inshallah.

3 hours ago, dallen52 said:

Many of us are doing this now.

Sending the money but not allowed to return. 

Stop sending the money. Strangle them financially, if everyone did the same we would soon have a chnage of heart for cases like yours.

6 hours ago, prakhonchai nick said:

The article seems to be a bit out of date........."But she expressed some optimism that June and July would see a rise in domestic tourism." It would appear to be August now, or is she referring to next year???

No, she's waiting for the collated data to come through for June and July to her desk in order to assess the situation and trend.

8 hours ago, Hayduke said:

 

They should….

 

Rebuild - Up the quarantine period to 30 days…

 

Rebalance – By announcing a new TAT officially approved ‘Virtual Thailand’ package promotion….

 

Refresh - Transport millions of arriving tourists to their officially approved quarantine hotels….

 

Reboot - Give everyone 30 officially approved ‘Virtual Thailand’ DVDs to watch while in quarantine….

 

Rebound - After 30 days take everyone back to the airport for deportation. Count the money.

 

Can't miss.

 

 

 

Lastly, recount the money, redirect it into the respective coffers, then restart the process.

58 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

Isn't that a bit trying to promote the population of Glasgow to come holiday in Brighton ? Nuts !

What's wrong with that? Don't Glaswegians go on beach holidays? Brilliant UK summer, hot and dry, Brighton is all go, go, go. Rayong is a great destination. Plus u have day trips to drive thru Walking Srreet (a somewhat primitive way of calling a part-pedestrian zone), gawk at shuttered shops, empty beaches, deserted malls, and Bang Saen to view some great post-weekend beach rubbish tip. TAT got it right this time. 

1 hour ago, moe666 said:

A friend worked at a top notch private school in Bangkok, the filippinos taught everything and a few were paid more than many of the other teachers due to being at the school for many years. Reading the commets here people do not know a thing about what teachers can make at a private school in Thailand. My friend started at 120,000b a month this was base salary more was paid for extra work. He could make 30,000 more a month for extra classes also they were paid 40,000 a month housing allowance. This was 10 years ago. Get your facts straight before posting non-sense.

Not clear if your friend is a NNS or NS. NS, possible, although I taught in Thailand ten years ago and private schools were nowhere near 120,000 baht/month (for NS). These days I have no idea about salary levels. The old standard Thai govt school salary of 30-35k seems to have remained the same, I gather.

2 hours ago, nausea said:

I don't know, but I do know a mate of mine was lending out movies to a Filipino and he was renting them out to his mates. And I do know Filipinos who tried to exploit the Thai recruitment system. Basically, your average Filipino doesn't have two pennies to rub together. Anything that makes money.

I worked with a Filippino female teacher once and she was certainly smart and on top of her game. During an exam she was busy communicating the answers to her students. A fellow British teacher and I could barely catch up in the remaining exam time after discovering the above in handing out answers as well. It seemed it was a very non-academic, infantile competitive spirit that encroached on any credibility that the course and its final exam might have had. 

Weekly summary too long, drawn out and ultimately boring. 

Apartheid. Actually, it's what they termed "Petty Apartheid" : the little things like separate park benches.... Looks like it's alive and well here. Restaurants, buses, sports, pricing. What's next? 

4 hours ago, mrfill said:

Have you any more copies of your newspeak dictionary?

 

This is the true definition....

moot

 

 

 

adjective

1.

subject to debate, dispute, or uncertainty.

"whether the temperature rise was mainly due to the greenhouse effect was a moot point"

 

 

 

2.

having little or no practical relevance, typically because the subject is too uncertain to allow a decision.

"the whole matter is becoming increasingly moot"

 

verb

verb: moot; 3rd person present: moots; past tense: mooted; past participle: mooted; gerund or present participle: mooting

raise (a question or topic) for discussion; suggest (an idea or possibility).

"the scheme was first mooted last October"

 

Was he thinking of the moot button on a stereo, cancelling the sound?

On 7/28/2020 at 7:15 PM, 2 is 1 said:

What that kind is nothing to do whit Thailand? Farang's in Thailand do more than thai about social distancing and use mask!

And like already said how can be infected farang in Thailand if already have been here over 4 month! If so have to get that from Thai person!

Not true. Anecdotal evidence from walking around the streets and malls etc of Pattaya indicate that many, many white foreigners (I'd say about 70%) do not wear any mask whatsoever, and, when given a questioning cursory look/stare, react aggressively. They know exactly what the issue is, but they don't care. They walk straight into malls and hardware stores, not stopping for a temp check, signing in, and wearing no mask. Thai staff are reluctant to confront them. I followed one guy in, English, asked him why he wasn't wearing a mask, replied "it's at home". He was accompanied by a Thai girl. 99% of Thai customers and staff are masked. Hats off to their discipline and following their rules.

1 hour ago, hotchilli said:

Exactly, even if this is blown away as we expect Mr. Vorayuth Yoovidhya is going to find it hard to return and walk around like normal, he will be vilified everywhere he goes and with everyone he chooses to be with.

The press will hound him forever.

He might have got his name cleared but coming back here to a normal life is going to prove difficult.

If you meet him in the pub, what would you do and say to him?

1 hour ago, jerolamo said:

There is a possible infection after to be tested. Some people are living in a kind of idea where a life can be living without any risk.

Some other profit to this incredible low powered mind control panic potential problem to make business (never mind if hundred thousand of other poor ones can no more make there own business) to sale more insurance or what ever hobby they are linked with to make money.

 

What i mean is that, sure we can try to be as safe as possible, but if this idea become a psychic panic problem and push majority of people to become poor or break families and life of thousand of other good people, it becomes stupid as dangerous.

 

And this is the a factual argument to show, because actually, right now an from couple of week, it is already visible (not only in Thailand).

People who can pretend to be a little bit serious (and why not a little bit more) doesn't provide drama, but look at the facts of numbers and statistics. They don't provide any stupid pols who are manipulation and think people would be convicted by this kind of stupidity method that everybody know about now.

 

when a country produces unrealistic figures about a pandemic of an extremely volatile virus that it would be the only one (and without technological knowledge compared to other countries in the world) to contain, even though it cannot contain an incredible number of road accidents and despite the flagrant evidence of infected and uncontabilized nationals, even though it has not been able to test 0.01% of its population, but also because of the reports between infected and dead which do not correspond at all to a statistical reality of the most advanced countries and the most invested in terms of care (to such an extent that it is totally absurd), what should we think about the credibility of the announcements made?
I would even say that, in order not to judge badly, it would be necessary to say that rather than believing that it would be wanted (and therefore not to make a trial of intention), it is better to think that they do not have the capacity minimum required to measure the problem at its true value and realize what is going on ... what can be done without ruining a whole country and what is happening there too. A form of denial through ignorance.
So I think, moreover, that given their limited intellectual and technical means (alas), probably that the resulting fear is understandable and stems from a kind of logic that was ultimately predictable since it is always the case (panic and rejection of others, denial) when we are in this kind of ignorance.
We are not at home and even when we are at home ... what can we do? Bring convincing arguments to people who disdain to listen to anyone and who are surrounded only by lobbyists? They would risk, in addition, to hate us for having told them and demonstrated it ... the height of the paradox which would end up showing that we were right about their state of consciousness and their real aptitudes.
We little people can only do one thing: round back and pretend not to understand their flaws, do as all poor Thai people have known how to do for a very long time (say: "yes, yes" while smiling for, supposedly , not to lose face, but above all so as not to create problems that we cannot endure or make our loved ones endure that we protect) so that they do not get angry if, unfortunately, we reflect their image to them half a second (in addition).

 

almost everybody who open there eyes can see and then, know that (i think).

Those are quite some sentences..... You need to work on your syntax and structure your train of thought. What you have produced is a train wreck. 

4 hours ago, whaleboneman said:

I take it you don't care for Chinese folks. Do you think gas ovens would be the way to go?

Nobody ever used gas ovens. First came tge gas, by itself, tgen the cremation ovens. Just a slight historical correction - if you were referring to the Holocaust. 

2 hours ago, chocboss said:

I noticed when I lived in Surin 4 years ago the tourists were dwindling then when I moved to Hua Hin year by year the tourist were still not coming in the numbers they say, for now with the bhat so strong I think Thailand has missed the boat, 5 years + to recover if they can 

The tourists were shrinking, getting smaller? Was it something in the Surin water or food? Low door frames? 

dwindling = gradually diminishing in size, amount, or strength.

1 hour ago, kiwikeith said:

You may be right, however there are many that travel, not rich but that have enough to do a trip every now and again, the most effected by your comments will be the young, they are hardest hit by unemployment.

Then the old have had the majority of the world wide c19 deaths. 

It is hard to grasp but many countries are letting c19 run riot and don't seem to be worried.

The death toll is going down and from what I observe most cases returning to NZ, only need quarantine to recover.

This makes me think that the big boys know more than they are letting on, after all who is going to let every airliner in world the become a beer can.

I will go out on a limb and take a guess that within 6 months planes will be up and flying and this will be a past pandemic like bird flue.

 

Tourism will take a big hit like you say, but local tourism is thriving in NZ with ski resorts having 2.5 times as many visitors as b4 borders were locked, and they are fleecing like crazy.

I think the chinese will poor back into LOS before others, that's, what they want.

The china sea an example of what is going on , China has run out of industrial space, Thailand is the next best option and the government is dancing to the piper, how else can you explain how god is hated by the people but still thrives on selfies.

There may be a change in the wind, but this probably will be a reshuffle.

People will travel again soon, but with spy apps attached to their phones, economic enslavement is now worse than the 1%.

 

No doubt a different world is upon us, we have survived the madness of a financed pupett (Hitler) and others b4, we can do it again, manipulation of the world will break when KFC and the arms companies have no customers as they are all covid sick.

I think this will start to end sooner than most predict as otherwise the whole world will become armageddon.

Cheers

Kiwi Keith

What are you on, mate? I want some too. 

23 hours ago, thaiowl said:

Stopped going after I was charged Bt600 for a 5km taxi ride from the airport to Chaweng. And the whole place was a building site. Another example of uncontrolled tourism spoiling a Thai resort.

The taxi drivers can probably survive for years on all the extra rip off cash, so no problems there. Lol.

10 hours ago, The Barmbeker said:

Yeah...so nice, with the millions of jobless from the tourist sector!

But as long as you are alright, everything is hunky dory!

Yes, exactly. Everything is hunky dory for once for those that appreciate everything without buses, traffic congestion, etc. And do tell, why is there an obligation on individuals to always think of the "millions of jobless" as a priority vis-a-vis one's own life and existence?

6 hours ago, DaLa said:

Just can't wait to go to Ubon Ratchathani on October 6th.  Anyone know what's there?  And anyone know where it is?

There's a temple, some soi dogs, a 7/11, and a pub with no beer. Well worth the flight. Shouldn't be more than 199 baht return.

19 hours ago, beddhist said:

No amnesty. Why should there be ?

Do you think such a comment is of any help to the OP's enquiry? 

On 6/17/2020 at 6:52 PM, timendres said:

Have asked at least a dozen over the years, and not one understood the English.

No surprises there. Nobody understands a word. I asked at Nong Nooch Gardens in Ptya recently about "shop for tree / flower / plant". Three words. No understand. Meanwhile, the Garden Center was just around the corner. Btw, this was the information counter. Not a word of English. It is a disgrace.