JaneM

23 minutes ago, robsamui said:

Some serious competition coming up shortly, by people who DO have a clue.
https://vietnaminsider.vn/vietnam-to-resume-commercial-flights-to-thailand/

 

Competition indeed, and it has been going on for a while. Even way before this plandemic people were moving away from Thailand to live or just go on vacation in neighbouring countries. Same sun but better service all around. Thailand is slowly digging its own grave...

More clowns, more ideas and more BS about the virus and second wave. No government has ever succeeded in stopping a virus, you can close your borders all you want.

Zweden is doing fine btw...

I think he's just being very selective about his future...

3 hours ago, TTSIssues said:

With all the hospitality staff out of work, rather than just giving them cash handouts, I wish the government would give them some other employment instead, in areas that are badly needed. For example, collecting rubbish, repairing / repainting schools and buildings, making the island look much more attractive than it currently does. 
 

the govt should also use this period to be sorting out infrastructure - build some new water collecting dams, expand and fix the sewerage systems, replace all the hanging wires and bury them underground, install a proper public transport system (a proper bus network like we have in Hong Kong for example)

 

personally I think it’s great that construction has stopped on most of the new hotels which are clearly not needed, and never were. So we have armies of construction workers out of work. For goodness sake use them, and fix the infrastructure during this once in a lifetime opportunity !

 

 

I agree, but it's asking way too much insight from those government clowns. 

4 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Again, this is a situation where nobody is attempting to get to the root of the problem. Of course, in Thai society, it is not particularly popular to look within for the source of the problem.

 

Plans, plans and more plans. They have already forgotten the massive decline in Western tourism, that has been taking place over the past TEN years.

 

Perhaps a few decades from now, they will have tourism classes at university, where they will discuss how Thailand lost the golden egg of Western tourism. Those tourists, unlike most Chinese tourists, spent anywhere from $200 a day, to over $2,000 a day. They brought real money into the country, and in exchange, were treated with utter and complete disregard, scammed, disrespected, and abused. Eventually, most said no more.

 

Thailand thought the country was something very special, and that nobody would ever say no, or find alternative places to visit. The fact is that there are countless other spots, many in this region, that offer better service, more expertise in food and beverage (especially wine service and selection at fair prices, which rich tourists demand), reasonable import duties to sustain a luxury goods market (rich tourists love to spend money while on vacation - they can't here due to punitive taxes) better training, and far better english skills. Thailand simply lost sight of the big picture, and had very little vision, with regard to big spending tourists, who need to be catered to, instead of scorned.

 

So, what happened? The Western tourists started to decline in number, and the genius minds at the TAT decided it was time to "lure" the Chinese. Then the Indians. They came. They came in droves. But, they did not spend much money. Hotels, restaurants, gift shops, jewelers, galleries, spas, massage shops, bars, go-go's and countless other businesses suffered, and will continue to suffer from this extreme myopia, on the part of the officials in charge of tourism. Oh well. Can't say they were not warned. Zero baht tourists are perhaps the majority who visit Thailand now. Sure, they spend some money in restaurants, and in 7/11. But, that is about it, for some of the super low budget Chinese tours. Not many rich Chinese are not visiting Thailand, for a dozen good reasons. They have too many other options.

 

Quantity over quality rarely works, unless you are selling one dollar items at a flea market. 

 

And all of this happened pre-Covid. Now? You assume you open back up and they will just rush back in? Educated and non ignorant minds may think otherwise. 

Spot on!

6 hours ago, Matzzon said:

That will somehow send a little bit of message.

Death sentences have never send out any message whatsoever. Crime never decreased because of it...

8 hours ago, GigsGigs said:

What about the girls though? Any evolved pay-for-play scenery in say, Athens or anywhere else in Greece?

The Greeks almost invented it...

Clowns all of them!

1 hour ago, sherwood said:

Covid, what a joke, let it run its course and see who is left standing at the end.

For anyone worried about this poxy flu Nembutal should be made freely available so as to let the world continue on its own merry way to self destruction.

What a joke.

Most people on this forum are sheep and will follow and welcome all the BS advice of the MSM/Governments they're watching all day. Unable or unwilling to do their own research, living on their knees is all they know.

You're absolutely right, covid what a joke! 

1 hour ago, IamNoone88 said:

The more the worlds knows about this virus, the less we understand. Negative tests become positive, it can seem to stay dormant for a long time, many of those that have "recovered" report troubling ongoing health challenges and may be weakened permanently, and now its not the antibodies that may present a hope for a vaccine but the T-cells .... immunity may be 6 months at best as reinfection seems possible ..... an unexplained anomaly, it is becoming more contagious .... but as yet, we do not know if any less "dangerous". It is so new and different that the long-term ramifications are at best guess work ...... one thing is for sure is that is not over and best avoided.

Dude you have to do some serious research. You're talking so much nonsense it hurts my eyes. I'll give away one clue: You can't test or produce a vaccine for a virus if you never isolated that virus. Now go on and educated yourself. Ok, I'll throw in Koch's postulate for free too, when you don't understand that term; Google it

36 minutes ago, alexlm said:

Why such a big hospital bill??

I had 2 hospital procedures under General Anesthesia and it didn't cost my insurance more than 30-35k for each one... and this was at the expensive and private (and awesome) Pattaya Bangkok Hospital.

What was the procedure? They clipped your nails?

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No proper education, lack of common sense, not sticking to the rules, police unwilling  to enforce those rules (except on farang) and blatant egoism are just a few reasons for this mess.

But the government is more concerned about keeping the borders closed for a supposed virus that killed 58 people.

Clowns all of them. 

3 hours ago, RR2020 said:

Meanwhile countries with a sensible attitude to the virus have mostly open borders and open skies.

 

Live with the virus - people die all the time.

 

50 people die on average every day on Thailands roads.......should Thais be banned worldwide from driving motorbikes and cars and lorries ?

 

UK, USA, Europe.......open skies and borders..........life is going on, economies are recovering.  

 

Cases rise but deaths continue to fall, soon everyone will see................the virus is weak, and only kills the very weak. Just like flu, pneumonia and all the other diseases there are.  Median death age worldwide is over 80 years old.

 

 

3 hours ago, RR2020 said:

Meanwhile countries with a sensible attitude to the virus have mostly open borders and open skies.

 

Live with the virus - people die all the time.

 

50 people die on average every day on Thailands roads.......should Thais be banned worldwide from driving motorbikes and cars and lorries ?

 

UK, USA, Europe.......open skies and borders..........life is going on, economies are recovering.  

 

Cases rise but deaths continue to fall, soon everyone will see................the virus is weak, and only kills the very weak. Just like flu, pneumonia and all the other diseases there are.  Median death age worldwide is over 80 years old.

 

 

I hear yah, but you're preaching to the wrong crowd here. On this forum there are mainly sheeple who believe everything the MSM says about this made up non existing virus. They don't have two brain cells on active duty to figure this out for themselves...

Clowns, all of them.

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Wants the Farang to help him out. What about helping the Farang when they need/ask for some help at immigration or any government related office. They all give you the dirty look and the finger. No thanks, I'll spend my $ on myself and my family. 

2 hours ago, naryan said:

Every Thai person I meat wants the country to open up, I do not go by these proper gander poles they are as rigid as the last election and as honest as the government! 

Absolutely my experience also. I work with many Thai and they all want the country to reopen a.s.a.p I call BS on all those polls.