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On 1/11/2024 at 2:03 PM, Mike Lister said:

How old are you and are you married to a Thai? Assuming you are, it seems to me that if you are over 65 years of age and married, your allowances/deductions/exemptions will be 500,000 so there wouldn't be any tax to pay here.

yes but if a DTA says that pension can only be taxed in the other country, and that country did not take tax( for ex. because to low amount) can Thailand tax?( thzt would be against the DTA...?

8 minutes ago, Incobart said:

I have a bit a problem with generalisation, there arrive maybe every day 5000 tourists in Phuket, 1  or a a few misbehave something, meaning 4995 are good for the country, and isn't that  on any place, school, factory, concert ... that 1 or 2 do something wrong ?

you have statistics proving that?

3 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

Putins Army is putting blocking forces behind those of his at the front to keep them from retreating, and if they do they are shooting them as deserters just like in WW1 and WW2.....it's no wonder they are fleeing.

that s happening in Ukraine

see in the comments the video https://www.facebook.com/100064875510284/posts/pfbid0MA8MYd4n1e41e4dXozpCgctSZ5kLgwnWpokyQLsKoK5UqvP2ztWh1Jj9pXzHcv6Ll/

4 hours ago, zzaa09 said:

Actually, if much closer to 18% and rising.

But figures from begin of covid to now, so a big period where nobody was vaccinated( there was no vaccin...) So this vaccin is not really saving people.  

1 hour ago, James105 said:

We are a year and a half into this pandemic.  If an infected person can infect another person so easily from breathing in their vicinity of up to a metre or two, why is it that the test to see if you have covid needs to be a swab up the nose almost reaching the brain cavity and then sent to a lab for analysis?   Isn't it about time we should be able to breath or cough onto a stick, plug it into some kind of handheld machine and get an immediate result of the presence of covid?  

 

Just thinking aloud, not expecting an answer.  

Belgium company has realised this!

Cases, not hospitalisations. https://odysee.com/@corona_research:6/mccullough_itw:d?src=bigtech_unauth

7 hours ago, webfact said:

Samut Sakhon confirms another 900 COVID-19 cases

 

 

Thailand’s Samut Sakhon province has confirmed another 900 new COVID-19 cases, from proactive screening of about 3,800 workers in local factories.

 

The province’s public health department says they are considering using the factories as quarantine facilities.

 

Dr. Opas Karnkawinpong, permanent secretary at the disease control department, said that the infections across Samut Sakhon and adjacent areas are 71% Myanmar nationals, 24% Thais and 5% other nationals.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/samut-sakhon-confirms-another-900-covid-19-cases/

 

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2021-01-06

 

- Whatever you're going through, the Samaritans are here for you

- Follow Thaivisa on LINE for breaking COVID-19 updates

All asymptomatic? 

5 hours ago, radjag said:

So, what difference does that make? COVID is not particularly racist! New strains of this nasty virus are popping up all the time, all over the place, according to reports I've read. I am British by birth, but recently travelled from "dirty" USA and did my 14 days - fortunately tested negative every time and am now at home. Even with this sudden spike in cases in Thailand, I certainly feel safer here than I was in USA. Minimise travel, hunker down and wait for the arrival of vaccines.

The thing is Thai people do not have to do the pcr test before boarding....

2 hours ago, foreverlomsak said:

See where I got confused as to what you were saying

no problem, you got confused, can happen the best;-)

Bars in Resorts also closed? 

17 hours ago, foreverlomsak said:

If you look at the posters entry you will see he has linked the Thai self-isolation to foreigners entering the country and going into ASQ. That is why I responded.

Wrong, i was not!

17 hours ago, foreverlomsak said:

Wrong returning Thais are taken to state quarantine facilities for 14 days, unless they com in illegally.

I was talking about the article...not about returning Thai...

11 hours ago, webfact said:

Anyone who visited any of the locations who has since shown flu-like symptoms, fever, cough or has breathing difficulties is told to self isolate and contact the Emergency Response Centre, Infectious Disease, 2019 provinces, Chonburi. Phone 0-3811-9777.

And foreigners coming to Thailand need to do 15 nights ASQ even without symptoms and/or negative test... Thais only self-solation (alone? control) and only when symptoms... 

18 hours ago, asiacurious said:

 

 

 

Your original statement that "herd immunity could be reached by natural infection" and followed up with your rebuttal ("Not according to this article....") to Jeffr2's assertion that what you wrote is false, may leave an impression that you've cited an article that backs up your claim.  

 

I clicked the link and read the article and it does not back you up.  It does not prove herd immunity works.  Rather, the article discusses two conflicting approaches to public health policy.  One approach (which you appear to support) is to use "focused protection" until herd immunity can be reached naturally.  The other approach, which you failed to mention and is also supported by thousands of experts, "described focused protection as 'a dangerous fallacy unsupported by scientific evidence' and warned that 'uncontrolled transmission in younger people risks significant morbidity and mortality across the whole population'. (emphasis added)

 

The article you linked to concludes in this way....

 

Kuldorff and colleagues reckon a focused protection approach would lead to herd immunity some time between 3 and 6 months, after which the vulnerable could return to normal life. Walensky retorts that the herd immunity point has not been established, nor is it clear how stable this immunity would be.  [SNIP] “I am not willing to stand behind a policy that leads to 10 or 15 times more deaths”, said Walensky. She would prefer to wait for herd immunity to be conferred by a vaccine. Most experts believe the earliest this could happen would be the second half of 2021. The debate over what to do in the interim looks set to continue.

I just wanted to show that even experts does not agree..... 

On 12/23/2020 at 7:17 AM, Jeffr2 said:

Great!  Sadly, Belgium is perhaps the worst country right now with regards to the virus.  Sad times there....but best of luck in getting it under control.

Prouves that stupid lock down measures don t work..( 50% of deads was in nursery homes where we did not manage to keep the virus out, avarage age of covid dead is 83y, average age in Belgium is 82y)  but my point was when I read " Thailand do massive testing", mentionning 100K..... 

On 12/23/2020 at 10:05 AM, DavisH said:

Because you have a small country with one of the worst death rates in the world. You need it....

Agree, but when I read" massive testing" in Thailand.........

2 hours ago, Jeffr2 said:

that's been proven false.  Sweden admits herd immunity can't be achieved naturally.

Not according this article from scientifists, published by the Lancet. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30555-5/fulltext?fbclid=IwAR0qAuGQhqT96RWah_DpYXyXQHrH3VCvXHxRDP0u0OcN30UFCXlHKjPDSeA

17 hours ago, Natai Beach said:

I cancelled my New Year trip up north, lost the money on the flights, got a refund on the hire car and hadn’t booked the hotel yet. Hoping they will lockdown then I will get the flights refunded.
 

I have watched Europe and the USA all year and thought they were plain stupid for plane travel so it would also be stupid for me to do it now even though I was reluctant to cancel. I was also concerned about getting stuck up north if they locked down when I was there.
 

IMO they should lockdown over NEw Year. Most people have a week off anyway, just make them stay where they are, like they did at Songkran. That worked. There is more covid now in Thailand and the world than back then. If I was in charge I would call a two week lockdown tomorrow and then reassess. Hopefully nip it in the bud.

The problem with New Year is families and friends get crammed in together in the same car to travel. Only one has to have it, then it will spread to everyone in the car during the long drive.Then they all get out at the destination  and visit their various friends and families and it will spread further. Then they head back to work and further spread it. And all the oldies in the village will have it also. 

 

To beat covid you have to social distance, not socialise.

 

i hope I am wrong but it could really be a disaster. Stupid to risk it for a holiday. Once numbers get past a certain level it will be impossible to eliminate like they did last time, and it will just be lockdown after lockdown just trying to contain it like in Europe and failing miserably.
Better to go hard, go fast IMO. 
 

It wasn’t Prayuts idea to lockdown the first time, he was pressured into it. I hope they pressure him again but time is running out.

Apparently there are no covid deads, if low or mild symptoms, herd immunity could be reached by natural infection..

2 hours ago, Jeffr2 said:

Yup, you were right.  100,000 per month.  Why such a grump?  Be nice.

Here in small Belgium we do 30k a day! THAT is massive testing.....????

1 hour ago, Marco100 said:

Do not understand how all this cases comes in from Myanmar with no quarantine and spreads in numbers and they still make it so difficult for tourist to visit the country ?

At this point , as tourist get tested before boarding  ,  at arrival , ++ in quarantine,  why not reduce quarantine to 7 days ?

Exactly! Quarantaine with negative pcr test!!!

And those who tested negative... are they in incubation period and will they be tested again in 5 days? 

10 hours ago, pacman32 said:

Facts hmmm

Can't say for other places but 86% are asymptomatic in the UK. And the government admitted that previous numbers had been highly exaggerated. 

 

It would seem that governments can do what they want with this virus.

I don t know in Thailand, but here many people are asymptomatic and those who have symptoms have mild symptoms.. the reason that the beds are full( if.) is that the last decade nearly every govnmnt in the EU has downsized the number of  beds...while population is growing.