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It is as was expected....and maybe more to come. I wonder if the revenues of the New years eve activities are more than the revenues when everything was cancelled and probably less Covid cases were around, but a continious "new normal " going on

THai is a very difficult language because it is tone language. For foreigners difficult to learn as we are not used to use the different tones.. Besides that the English don't need to speak Thai. Thai is only spoken ikn THailand, while with English language you can go around the world. Thai people don't think about that and don't put any effort in learning English.. some exceptions of course. I know it because I a long time in Thailand and be honest there is no or little effort even to try to speak English, because as you say foreigners have to do a little effort to understand. I can put you in the Netherlands/France or Germany and only talk Dutch/French/German to you and you do an effort to understand, but I am sure you will give up. That is the same here.. Unfortunately Thai is only for Thailand

Of course ..... The tourist again.. Thailand want that tourists come to visit, but putting them in quarantine will damage the image much more . Better close the borders again. Of course you can test negative but in 72 hours much can happen, but take care of your guests and at least give answers and use qualified personnel to explain things instead of only Thai speaking people.. there are English speaking Thais too

What is the problem?? If the monks are not allowed to drink alcoholand they do it, it is an issue for the temple or temple organisation to solve this. No need to get the police involved.

with only 47 million people fully vaxed, the mass gatherings at New Year celebrations, the hospitals will burst, because everyone has to go to the hospital if positive...Less severe doesn't mean you will not get sick, maybe you will not die so quickly, and with a lot of people sick the whole country will be derailed..

Maybe start to check a whole year and not only Songkran and New Year.. Than people are getting used to it and with the real punishements i am sure it will work, but only 2 times a year checking is almost as much chance as winning in a lottery that you are caught

Are you serious?? 50/50 a succes??? in my soi there are several families who hardly can a meal every day. They work but don't have money. How can they use 50/50?? and that is only my soi.. How many all over Thailan d would there be? Easy to say, because there are a lot of people who travel around and use 50/50 to sleep in expensive hotels or do shopping, but they have money already

With 1551 Omicron in Thailand on the 1st of January, the hospitals will soon be overcrowded...

Unfortunately the opposition hasn't reach anything last year...The Government with its senators can cancel all what the opposition suggests. So the best thing to do is try to get new elections in 2022 to move the country forward

Covid is going to be milder, 100 million doses are a lot but the people fully vaccinated are not even 47 million, reopening is/was a disaster with all restrictions, the price of diesel as promised have exceeded the 28 THB, despite it was set aat 28THB. The poverty has risen, and also the debt of Thai people, and many more things.. So better yeah worse is almost impossible unless they keep the policy that they do now for this year too

No lockdown.. I am happy.... But what restrictions and how many??? That is almost the same as a lockdown. work from home, schools only online lessons, curfew, no alcohol, restaurants closed, quaratine for tourists, no interprovincial travel, and so on... it is almost the same but it is called different. Same as no quarantine for fully test tourists, but that is not true too, because they have stay in quarantine till the results of the test is known.

In Pattaya apparently there was a group tested and 80% had Omicron... The same in Suvarnabhumi a Thai news site there was story that mentioned that there was a lot of Omicron... But we don't read anything here...Of course they have said no lockdown after New Year, but they make so much restrictions that is seems a lock down. My partner just mentioned that in a hospital only 1 relative was allowed to visit...

Numbers are going up, although they are higher because the don't announce the ATK tests anymore.. Besides after 30th December nobody heard anything anymore about the Omicron infections.. Everything must be keep quiet and the situation I think is worse than we know

I am wondering what the problems were, only mentioned but no examples

I saw him on TV but he was lipsinging...... That for a big star????

Agh you know me????

Nobody knows what is happening in Thailand because Thailand doesn't know it itself.. That is why the rules, news, and regulations change day by by day... Even now nobody knows if Tuesday the school will open.. No there is said no lockdown after New Year, but today is the 1st and another 2 days to go before it is the 4th and nobody will know what is happening. How can foereigners who want to come on holiday know what is happening ??

OK.. but today a news story of a woman in Nakon Ratchasima, after 3 doses she has Omicron positive test and travelled with a bus on 29th December...How many did she infect already? It is in Thailand, and in the air and if we lock up everyone who is positive they can write there will be no lockdown, but than it is not necessary because everyone is in the hospital, which are overloaded or at home where nobody control them. You vcan't control something that is in the air and spread, and make you infected even without having any symptons....How do you know that you can infect someone if you don't know that you are carrying the virus???? It is only controlable if you know...

You will see if there are again 20k or 30k people positive with no symptons and all in a hospital...

A trust destination with dancing elephants???Never saw an elephant dancing and the trust... with so many changes every time, the alcohol restrictions, the vaccination problems, and so more... I don't know if we can talk about trust..

That is what needed clear rules, but in Thailand the rules can change sometimes from morning and in the afternoon different... That is why there is a lot of confusion all the time

World wide there is almost no other country that put everyone in a hospital if they test positive.. The are other solutions instead of being in a hospital with mild or no symptons. That would free a lot of beds for people who really need them and give the nurses and doctors some air... But nobody seems to understand.... If you test positive you are going to the hospital sick or not, ana a result is overworked doctors and nurses and nobody gets the treatment they need because it is too busy... The Israeli was tested negative over and over again, he only broke the rule that the did not wait for the result of the test... please inform yourself

Indeed there are not enough beds if you put everyone in the hospitals... As I wrote in earlier posts too, in the hotels there should be facilitation for infected tourists with no or only mild symptons. They don't need to stay in a hospital, so there is space free for people who are really sick. That is why I said a cut finger. Than you are not sick but you don't go to the hospital too... and the same can be done for people who can be elswhere in quaratine if they are not sick.

Isolation doesn't need to be in a hospital..Other possibilities are as good. If you are very sick you go to hospital. If cut your finger you don't need to stay in the hospital too

I partly agree with you. However if the country is open for tourist, and they have to wait for the result of their tests, than they should have at least 1 floor, which they use as a quarantine, and if people are positive and with almost no symptoms, they could stay on that floor or a another real quaratine floor. They paid for the holiday and their hotel and not for staying in a hospital. A hospital is a place where people with severe symptons should stay and not non sympton cases. That is my idea that there is money involved. Or if you don't can handle a tourist don't open the country. Just as you said that you told your family not to come now. and I agree that people should inform themselves ...but as you know Thailand can change everything, it mostly depends on who will handle the case. The Israeli is another story, but he tested many times negative, and still had a problem.