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On 10/6/2020 at 1:39 AM, ChaiyaTH said:

Not sure how that would make a 2M baht investment if talking about equipment. A regular company setup with 4 employees would not be too expensive either. So you would then think, that he paid most other money left (1.5M baht at least) for some licensing? 

Maybe he was scammed by some agent but as happened a few times before in CM news, later on people get freed but no update in the news. As far I know only Thais could get such license too, also not sure wether it is allowed to grow indoors.

I was thinking the same thing, 2 mil buys a lot of plastic tanks and water pipe. Maybe a few thousand for starter seeds and research materials. ????

I was also thinking about the method, we could set up quite a few rai between the corn and rice seasons. He would get buried by competitors if the permits are ever real. I'll bet there are a few farmers in Issan that are ready to go.

18 hours ago, Mapguy said:

One of the requirements for return is a "TEMPQ."  What is that?

It is the entry process for elite visas. Same as everyone else but much slower.

The problem is that domestic travel does not add money to the system. They can rent a hotel room but they are not going to buy that new chair. International tourism adds 20% more cash to the economy, so they sell the room and the chair. It also provides much needed international currency credits to import more commodities, raw stock and products without having to leverage the baht. 

Domestic tourism sounds like something but it is just smoke.

13 minutes ago, jerolamo said:

I know many countries where nobody should have it.

They all have one thing common particular: they do not test much (and also low level about anything in relation with instruction).

Near Thailand, the world championship for this category is Lao.

Do you think they are really far to be COVID infected ? Supermen's land maybe ?

 

Can we seriously stop believing all the time in things that are impossible or very unlikely ? To believe all the time in merchants of ingenious dreams and in sellers of ties?

Be that as it may, there is almost no covid in China. You may not want to believe it but it is still true.

4 hours ago, Sharp said:

In fact, the median age at death of patients who died and tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 infection was 82 years;

 

So not so many need the vaccine !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Only vaccinate the people that know someone over 65. 

1 hour ago, HarryWho said:

The repatriated Thais don't need to have a negative Covid test as part of their paperwork.  They can use a Fit-To-Fly that doesn't include a negative Covid test.  Bizarre but true.  So, they are more likely to have it than the "clean" aliens who have been tested in the last 72 hours.

Not coming from China like this flight. Nobody should have it.

I suggest the dueling format. First person to go out of turn gets shot. It will save a lot of paperwork for SDNY.

30 minutes ago, sallecc said:

You live in China? Wow 40300thb, crazy... This was quoted from embassy or STV agency?

From the airline. In fairness, they were trying to break even on the gas. With 42 people, they didn't do it.

I should have been on that plane but was told it was sold out. Plenty of seats left. Sad for them, two less flip-flops on the ground. The disorganization of these flights is mind boggling. BTW: 40,300 for a one way ticket on a four hour flight.

22 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

BF seem pretty inexpensive to me strange he has an issue with it.

You can usually buy a girl out of a bar for a month or any extended period.  

Most will give a reduced price for longer periods.  My friend in Pattaya recently took a girl for a month just to see if she was the girl for him.  She was not but at least he found out rather then making an even longer commitment.

 

Buying the girl out of the bar is a scam. No such thing. She can stop working anytime she likes for free.

The deal is not clear, is she expected to be available 24/7 or just hang out when she is not working? It all seems weird to me.

There are plenty of more suitable candidates outside of the bar industry, that would actually care about him.

18 minutes ago, PatOngo said:

Anutin vows to have half of population jabbed

So what happens to the other 33 million people??? Spray them with Paraquat?

 

It is just a guess but he is probably referring to the high risk and high density populations that need to get vaccinated first. Clearly vaccines work best when everyone gets them but if they can vaccinate the population centers, it should make it easier to control an outbreak.

43 minutes ago, micmichd said:

Do you have problems with evolution? I don't. According to Darwin survival of the fittest means survival of those who can adapt to an ever-changing environment. 

Now that environment is a pandemic. So it's a sign of evolutionary intelligence to be able to adapt. And that's exactly what Thailand wants. 

The reason that we create vaccines is to save lives. Yes, it is a fight against the culling of infectious diseases, but we are here to talk about it because we did not die from polio, smallpox or diphtheria already.

You are in such a hurry to kill off the old and infirm among us that you might be forgetting that everyone is at risk. You may be OK with Covid, but will you be immune from the Florida Kitten flu next year? Is your idea of evolutionary intelligence to just give up and die? Go ahead, but I am going to stick around and get vaccinated as soon as I can.

2 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

Next time you see them, stop and ask where they have come from.  Many Chinese here in Bangkok now from Chiang Mai for the vegetarian festival here in Chinatown.  Have not met one yet who has not been here since at least February.  Think you may be thinking too much and believing there is a conspiracy already.

No way are they just off the plane. The ASQ rules are the same for everyone.

On 10/19/2020 at 6:44 AM, FalangJaiDee said:

can i fly to China and hang out for a month or two and then fly to BKK from the US. Getting really desperate and depressed being stuck here...

The problem would be having standing to get into China, then also having residence to apply for a Thai visa in China. You would also have to quarantine in China.

4 minutes ago, Grumpy John said:

Maybe I didn't Make myself clear.  Will the test provide a 100% accuracy in determining whether the people being tested are Positive or Negative in regard to the Wuhan China virus so those carrying the virus can be isolated.

Of course not, that is why they want multiple tests and quarantine. There is a lag time of several days between infection and positive tests but patients can still spread the virus. The short visitor program is more like mobile isolation but they are only looking at low risk countries for that.

5 hours ago, Grumpy John said:

"Thailand is in talks with China to establish a quarantine-free travel corridor by January to rescue its ailing tourism industry"  

 

This maybe a risky move!  I have been following a Vlogger called serpentza on Youtube for a few years who lived in China for 13 years and has a lot of contacts there and he is saying the Wuhan China virus is still a huge problem in China.  The CCP are not telling the truth about it!

Nope, There is no covid. Everything is open again.

On 9/19/2020 at 7:26 PM, Elik said:

One more thing to consider is the value of a fossil bike 10 years or even 5 years from now, given the rate of improvement on batteries, and the pollution issues in major cities.

In some cities in China there are zero fossil bikes. I don't know if they have been banned or taxed, but its not unreasonable to think Thailand will follow the example.

 

 

In Chinese cities, fossil bikes are banned in the daytime and there are almost none around. I am not even sure if you could buy a new one.

I have had two over the last six years in China. They were each about 15000 baht new. They work great for one rider over limited distances on flat ground. They would be great in Hua Hin or Pattaya. They only do about 30 km on a charge and do not climb hills. They will get up to about 60kmh but nowhere fast enough for open road traffic, strictly in town.

More batteries helps, my 72v has a lot more kick than the original 60v.

For the prices I have seen listed in this thread, I would be getting a 125i Click in LOS.

I am looking at a PCX for Chiang Rai.

7 hours ago, crazykopite said:

Sadly you lose them and have to start all over again I’m stuck in Thailand my wife is in the U.K. in her 10th month and has got so settled over there she does not want to come back to Thailand problem is we own a property here have cats and if I went back to the U.K. I would find it nigh impossible to get back into Thailand . My next door neighbour who is Chinese has the same problem his Chinese wife can’t get back after visiting her mother yet you have the Thai government claiming Chinese are allowed back into Thailand my neighbour tells me this is total BS as his wife has tried every Avenue to try and return.

This is opening up, they are running flights from Shanghai and Guangzhou now. The trick is to keep in touch with the consulate so you can find out when the flights are.

19 hours ago, ChipButty said:

I find that excuse a bit lame because of the Vegetarian Festival. they would have been in quarantine would they not?

150 Chinese people loose in a festival of thousands? Who would know. They would just blend in as a few tourists, nobody would care.

Nikom has one called ViewNX that works pretty well.

This plan was never going to be that attractive to normal Chinese. No time and too much hassle. They would need to be invested somehow.

You don't need to leave China to go to the beach, or skiing, or even find companionship. There is also not the huge price difference that attracts the falangs. 

So is there a link for this? I don't mind if it is for a reasonable time. I would like to see more about how it works. 

All the whining is not going to help. Each of us has a decision to make about how to address this issue and each of us will have to deal with the consequences of that decision.