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Well we are all familiar with the debacles, the flip-flops, the indecision and the mistakes of the government over the past fifteen months. I for one think the time has come to stop deriding efforts to gain some traction in getting the country, so dependent on tourism, open again. If that means baby steps then so be it. Yes, there are too many obstacles for most people, the cost financially, in wasted time and in stress may be prohibitive, but it's a start, and I'm all for it for the sake of those dependent on visitors for their jobs if for nothing else.
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Let's take the TAT's creative statistics a step further: if we add in assorted bed bugs, fleas, rats, geckos, monitor lizards, snakes and parasites, even allowing that some might bring their own mattresses, by the end of the year Phuket tourism will have returned to rude health.
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Stored at inappropriate temperatures? Or Chinese expectoration?
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"1,101 bookings and 13,000 rooms booked"
Thailand - Hub of Flexible Statistics
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Phase 1 clinical trials are typically about dosage range, not about efficacy and therapeutic effect, those evaluations come in Phases 2 and 3. That being so, while it is encouraging that results of Phase 1 are 'promising', it is a long and hard road through to FDA approval, and most fall at the last few hurdles.
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"One key working part of Thailand’s Sandbox scheme, has been to achieve the vaccination a baseline of over seventy percent of Phuket residents."
There's a degree of disingenuousness here, as other reports have laid bare in recent weeks: as of now nowhere near seventy percent of Phuket residents have received the two shots of the vaccine and the waiting period necessary to achieve maximum protection from the virus. In any case, the figure of seventy percent has come to be assumed as a baseline for reaching so-called herd immunity, but there is no firm evidence as yet that that is indeed the case.
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Swat Team in background - check
Vinyl Diagrams left and right foreground - check
Socially-distanced, pointing coppers - check
Token contrite farang, centre-stage and maskless - check
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It's quarantine, Jim, but not as we know it.
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Quite a turnaround from just a few weeks ago when a similar percentage wished for Thailand to remain hermetically sealed until the Second Coming of the Buddha.
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This is on the coattails of the Srivaddhanaprabha clan that owns the notorious King Power monopoly of Thai Duty Free outlets (the ones where it's almost always cheaper to buy downtown than at their airport shops). Quite how they accumulated their wealth, I couldn't possibly say.
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Laksi - hub of noodle-vendor advisers to government ministers.
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No need to worry, this is only Phuket Sandbox Experiment, Iteration #1. It is only to test the numbers of gullible, not to say dimwitted, foreigners prepared to follow the 'Guantanamo' model of tourism; there will be plenty of revised iterations along shortly.
Just wait till the rendition flights begin....
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Oh bruther.
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In thirty-four years I have never bought, always rented. My means are modest and so are my wants, and rents have always been very reasonable in Thailand. I see no point in buying, particularly with the current bunch of clowns in charge, hell-bent on running the country into the ground. If you must do it, and you have faith that a turnaround will eventually come, now or now abouts is not a bad time to buy - I see on Thai-language websites that there are an awful lot of people over-exposed to property debt at the moment, which they are unable to service having lost their jobs, and offering discounts of 10-25% to buyers and renters. Trying to pick the bottom of any market is a fraught business though.
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Story above is missing a paragraph:
"The second problem is the conflicting information about people applying for vaccinations and names missing from the list of those applying for inoculation, said Mr. Nanthachai."
And the third, unstated, problem presumably is that they have run out of vaccines.
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Single items for personal use accompanying the PAX, up to a certain value, do not attract customs duty. In fact the customs officers will barely give you a glance, unless you are doing St Vitus' Dance in front of them.
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That's the beauty of this guy - the jokes just keep on coming.
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23 minutes ago, Goldfingersamui said:
Hopefully Bangkok Airways will se some sense and reduce flight costs ?
Yes, and hopefully pigs will fly one day.
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News Flash - Dope Discovered Growing on Young People's Party Island!
Who knew?
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He needed prawns for the barbie.
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Better than stealing at an airport using a convenience, one supposes...
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Welcome all fifty-three people who qualify under this fantasy scheme.
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Someone needs to give this LP a nudge.
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Update on Thailand's vaccination programme and our response
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For what it's worth, I am posting similar messages to those here on the British Embassy Manila Facebook page, and evoking no response. Here in the Philippines we are red-zoned pretty much to all of the rest of the World. The new Phuket Sandbox scheme is not open to us because, firstly, vaccine rollout here is even slower than in Thailand, and secondly we are red-zoned as far as Thailand is concerned. The final insult is that, since last March, in order to return to the UK, with mandatory hotel quarantine, tests and airfare, the cost has been upwards of £2750 - not affordable to many retirees.