Mr Meeseeks

Just now, edwardandtubs said:

Vaccinated people are going to come of course. Do you think a healthy vaccinated young person from the UK gives a damn about 2,000 cases?

Hardly anyone will travel here for a good few years. 

Young people? It's going to be much more expensive to travel from now on and young people don't have that disposable income any more. Certainly not during a global recession.

We won't see mass air travel for a while yet either. 

10 minutes ago, connda said:

Cherry Picking "essential services" based on politics, not any science or rationale. 

What do you expect from buffoons with an average IQ of 80?

They are chucking darts at the board now to see which ones stick. 

18 minutes ago, internationalism said:

The PM went even further, by defending the transport minister cristal club visits and threatening media not to publice anything about ministers and civil servants.

They are answerable to no-one, and completely entrenched.

19 minutes ago, internationalism said:

both him, and the prime minister, just holed up when the 3rd wave stroke.

The PM went even further, by defending the transport minister cristal club visits and threatening media not to publice anything about ministers and civil servants.

It was the PM who was making all major health policies, not anutin. 

To sail through the incoming crisis after songkran, Anutin tried to publicly blame prayuth - instead he was completely moved aside and prayuth nominated himself the guru.

Now at the helm is a thicko with 68k grey cells, who can't read properly names of vaccines, yet it's exactly him who is deciding which one to buy.

Doesn't look bright for thailand, going deeper into dark feudal ages.

The third wave will last till autumn, with the african and after the indian mutations riding through thai towns, with tens dead every day 

 

 

Looks like it is shaping up to be the perfect storm. 

10 minutes ago, cardinalblue said:

Why should I be able to play golf in CM 1 hour drive within province but not play golf 45 min drive to Lamphun....these artificial boundaries are not common sense....group provinces together so size is involved as many people travel back and forth for commerce every day with adjacent provinces...

 

open the restaurants with common sense....many noodle shops and small outdoor restaurants are being killed b/c they are not allowed their continual flow of 2-4 customers at any one time....safe distancing and masks are fine for the majority of these restaurants..

 

larger indoor restaurants should be capped at a number given sq meter dimensions and safe distances...need to apply common sense to restaurants...large seafood type restaurants or hotel dining might not work within safety criteria...you just don’t close everything down b/c clusters and gatherings are creating infections not spaces where you have 1-4 customers wanting to eat...

 

yet we can go into rimping or Tops and there are 30 people running around....craziness

Feudal lords are responsible for their own clan territories here.

22 minutes ago, NorthernRyland said:

Thailand should do nation wide T cell tests to determine how may Thais even CAN get infected and have bad outcomes. So far despite multiple outbreaks they haven't even gotten within 10% of the road fatalities (which they live with year after year) so it's entirely likely that their immune systems are familiar with these SARS family corona viruses.

They are only testing limited numbers mate, nothing special about Thai immune systems in fact HIV was, and still is to an extent, rampant here. 

21 hours ago, LazySlipper said:

Hmmm I really wonder about how badly Thais are into debt right now. Back home when there is an economical crisis the first indicator that things aren't going so well is I can see cars going up for sale at a decent price... and the housing market sees a sudden boom in available hoses and it becomes a buyer's market. Here... nothing works as predicted and I guess that if things weren't going well and there would be a boom in housing and cars for sale that the prices would actually go up rather than down...

 

Been here nearly 2o years and it still is a mystery the way Thais think...

 

Go figure...????

I think the government has ordered the banks to cease all repossessions on loan defaults, so the can will just get kicked further down the road. 

37 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

The problem is that the numbers quoted are just for Bangkok, and don’t represent all tests, probably just their random sampling.

 

The numbers for Klang Toey are just that, a sampling of one specific area, and those numbers cannot be extrapolated nationwide.

 

The most important number is the positivity rate for the 28,000 tests, less than 4%. This means there are pockets of infection, but they are not widespread, in Bangkok. Of course, the numbers could be wrong.....

You sound like a politician dodging the issue.

3 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

So ....... to go from Pattaya to BKK airport, I need a Covid test? Who is going to check me?

Dunno but here is the infographic. 

3 hours ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

I'd characterize it as "pro-Thai." It's not always about foreigners, as much as many like to think.

Chonburi has just announced that any expats travelling to other provinces need to get COVID-19 tested.

Doesn't apply to Thais as far as I am aware. 

27 minutes ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

Par for the course throughout the ????

Top whataboutery there mate. 

There is no tourism. 

10 minutes ago, Brunolem said:

To quarantine vaccinated people for 14 days shows how much confidence in the vaccines the government has...

You cannot guarantee that a vaccinated person isn't carrying the virus and won't transmit it to others, hence the quarantine. 

Back to 14 days and I can see a total ban on arrivals if this wave gets out of hand.

59 minutes ago, Excel said:

Shopping malls will  be opened because they are almost all owned by you know who, who gifts the other you know who to ensure the pseudo monopolistic conditions and favoured trading status continues.

Which is why they were targeted in 2010.

Malls have to be open because they have banks, dentists, clinics and other necessary services in them, for people that actually live here and are not just on holiday.