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2 hours ago, HappyExpat57 said:Is it cost effective to upgrade from a bar license to a restaurant license?
The first place to open on Bangla did just that as well as installing a kitchen. It was "checked" regularly by local, Phuket town and BKK authorities. Was it cost effective? No, but it did get the place moving, get staff some work and get the other places going too.
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23 minutes ago, ChipButty said:
My thoughts exactly did they bother to get one...............?
A few outlets on Bangla already had restaurant licences and one or two others made the effort of obtaining such and were first to open.
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24 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:Some very dedicated health volunteers in Thailand
A team of health volunteers from Sangkhla district spent six days and five nights of camping in the jungle to reach a remote forest, close to the Thai-Myanmar border, to inoculate 164 members of an ethnic Karen community. https://thaip.bs/NrTGmOB
https://twitter.com/ThaiPBSWorld/status/1436585184959160321
Many health workers, volunteer groups such as these and community officers that I know have not had a day off in the last three months. As they are out mixing in the community several have also chosen to isolate themselves from their families during those months.
I was kindly invited to take a look at the ongoing activities at Jungceylon vaccination centre in Phuket yesterday and they were piling in the AZ vaccine (around 2,500 for yesterday and the day before). An impressive set up.
I cannot condone the overall rollout "plan" for Thailand, but one thing is for sure, there is a huge ongoing vaccination programmme. I can question the government but I cannot question the commitment of these people.
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8 hours ago, hotchilli said:
But then they wouldn't make any money.
the SHA=hotel is a scam.
I have just finished my second sandbox. Total spent Baht 39,000 for two pleasant entries to Thailand. It cost me Baht 52,000 for one ASQ in Bangkok in December. As an aside the UK wants me to spend Baht 100,000 approx for 10 days in a box in London for quarantine. Which is the biggest rip off / scam?
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13 hours ago, Scrotobike said:
More covid in the litterbox
The point of the litterbox is???
HELP
Just finished my second sandbox tour for entry. Yes second. It is a fairly simple, pleasant way to enter Thailand
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2 hours ago, ChipButty said:
Thats good, Im told on Bangla road there are many bars open and pussy bars can you check for me please a couple of photo's wouldn't go a miss, only the wife doesn't believe me she doesn't want me driving all the way there and everything is closed
You are welcome to pop down and say hello any time. As I said earlier I am here every day. Black Horse or Blue Lotus cafe on Bangla could be a good place to start as they are in the middle
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1 hour ago, ChipButty said:
Anybody been to Patong at night?
1 hour ago, ChipButty said:Anybody been to Patong at night?
I work there. 10am to 10pm approx every day
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50 minutes ago, Cake Monster said:
It has now been reported that Phuket,s Hospitals are now full.
There is a detailed daily report in Phuket News including a breakdown on patient sickness levels . Today it states Covid bed occupancy is 78%, up from 77% yesterday
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13 minutes ago, anchadian said:
National Vaccination Rollout:
DAY 82: 915,738 <— New High
DAY 83: 258,782 <— Saturday
DAY 84: 275,188 <— Sunday
DAY 85: 817,342
DAY 86: 828,182
DAY 87: 827,462
DAY 81: 865,074
TOTAL: 34,292,537 doses since 28 February
12.7% fully vaccinated
https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1433669930830876675
Good to see Thailand pushing ahead with it's, albeit belated, vaccination campaign. I guess it is down to supply from here on in.
Also nice to see other slow starters in SE Asia, such as Philippines (a genuine logistic nightmare) also moving quickly now and just reaching around 13% fully vaxxed. In fact, they administered close to 5 million jabs between 11th and 15th August, pretty impressive.
Long may it continue.......
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2 hours ago, Nanaplaza666 said:
Ask the people that think the litterbox is working(not calling any names(Eibot) but he lives on the island so he should know right ? He can see that all the small businesses are flourishing and that the island is booming .
I also live on the island, and am a small business owner as are a number of friends. The island is most certainly not booming but thankfully, there are small signs of improvement in a number of areas. Hopefully, Covid permitting, this will continue.
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6 hours ago, hotchilli said:
The doors are open to tourism, we were all told it would be the salvation...
so what's going wrong?
The doors are open, a trickle is flowing, I wonder how it will look nearer the end of the year?
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46 minutes ago, Eibot said:Yes I'm very negative about it. Stupid Sandbox. How dare they.
I absolutely cannot deny that the hotels are getting all the money. I never realised that tourist don't go to; Local massage, eat street food, get a tattoo, get a haircut, shop at the local shops, use taxi services/tuktuks. They rather spend all the money at the hotels. I do admit that I absolutely agree with you. The solutions is to stop the sandbox all together ofcourse. That will teach those hotels and stupid locals getting money from those poor tourist. Money never trickles down, how naive of me.I also see now that I need to have a more pessimistic view on life. I just had a go at my wife and some random lady on Facebook. I have to say, it did made me feel better about myself.
The hotels also employ local staff and have a large local support and supply network
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6 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:
Passed along on another board as well.
He registered at the town public health centre who then passed the details to Patthalung general hospital
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For anybody down near Patthalung area and looking to get vaccinated, my friend from UK got his first Pfizer jab there today as part of the 240 doses sent there and donated by US. Second jab booked for 14th September. AZ was also being administered.
He is just under 60 and has no underlying illness or business interests. He registered last Thursday and got an appointment for today.
I will revert with booking details and if anything is left!
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53 minutes ago, anchadian said:National Vaccination Rollout:
DAY 61: 647,571
DAY 62: 198,527 <— Saturday
DAY 63: 191,145 <— Sunday
DAY 64: 501,330
DAY 65: 546,844
DAY 66: 570,865
DAY 67: 219,840 <— holiday
DAY 68: 683,832
DAY 69: 284,378 <— Saturday
TOTAL: 19,376,348 doses
https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1426789154646413315
Whichever way you choose to look at these numbers, vaccines appear to be being administered at decent rates. I guess that the health workers involved are doing their best with the vaccine quantity available and deserve a little praise. Thankfully, they are also being ably supported by large numbers of volunteer workers.
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4 minutes ago, keithkarmann said:Phangan 123% and Koh Tao 128% vacinated. I always thought you could not get more than 100%
As per the full original article, many non residents have also been jabbed
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I have learnt over many years not to get excited by headlines such as these, and certainly not any of TAT’s publicity grabbing, job justifying numbers. Here is my simple perspective.
The only number we have to work with is 18,000, this being approximately the number of people to date entering through the sandbox.
Other than estimated hotel costs, incidental charges and PCR tests do we know within reason how much revenue generated? NO. We can only speculate
Do we know if there is any financial gain from the project to date. NO. We have no idea how much money spent on marketing, complimentary flights and hotel stay etc. We can only guess.
Has there been any additional revenue for the local community? If we include hotel staff and hotel support businesses and services, and some smaller local outlets. YES. How much? Nobody knows.
Have there been tourists amongst the arrivals? YES, certainly a small few. Will we ever know or can we know how many? NO
No more to add.
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12 minutes ago, Scouse123 said:Yep,
But I bet they have countries near their own countries a lot CLOSER to them than Thailand that have coasts and beaches, probably cleaner too!
There is absolutely nil reason to travel here right now.
Each to his own view of course.
As far as I can see on my travels around Phuket, the beaches are typically cleaner than they have been for many years and in great shape.
I see tourists here daily so there are some who have a different perspective to you. They may have lost their marbles or need their heads examining as you posted previously. That I don't know.
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4 hours ago, Gottfrid said:Does that also mean they stop driving if a person die in traffic? Do they stop walk in stairs if someone falls down?
Ridiculous, rapes and murders happens in all countries. People just don´t stop go out eating because of that.
As a follow on from the post, and without detracting from the original sad story of the poor lady, we have a few small eating establishments in Phuket.
I see the somewhat inflamatory headline as being potentially misleading. I am not able to speak on behalf of said "tourists" that stayed at home, but am happy to provide feedback that this last weekend was one our busiest of the year so far. The outlet in Patong, in particular, was generally full to the currently allowed limits and guests were, in the main, tourist "people" made up of singles, couples, small groups and families. This observation, of course, only reports details from the outlets that I know.
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27 minutes ago, Scouse123 said:
Yeah,
and that is BAD, and encourages and pressurizes the local plod, with limited intelligence, to find a ' scapegoat '
I am not defending him, I will wait and hope the DNA is fairly done and conclusive. I just don't want an innocent man in jail and life ruined whilst the real criminal carries on regardless.
I agree with your second paragraph.
As for the local "plod", they were there, but not running the show as in the Koh Tao murder case.
Quote from Phuket News:
"Senior, experienced police investigators were immediately dispatched to the island to take command of the investigation and ensuing manhunt. The task was not left to local police until it was clear that the task was beyond their capabilities."
https://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-opinion-how-to-catch-a-killer-80972.php
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51 minutes ago, Joinaman said:but he followed all the rules as directed, vaccines, testing etc, so not really his fault that he has tested
So why will the Thai government not provide free isolation ?
Nobody in their right mind would travel here if they could, through no fault of their own, be hit with massive bills
He signed up for the rules you mention, as they are, he accepted those rules and still chose to travel. As a result of a positive test it is clearly stated in those rules you will be moved to ASQ.
There is no mention in the video of "massive" costs but it does state he covered himself well whatever that entails. "Stephanie", the much publicised unfortunate German lady who was one of the first in the sandbox project to be moved to ASQ had all her costs covered by her Emirates insurance. She was lucky.
Finally, and just an observation, I did not see or hear the gentleman in the video make any complaints about the system.
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On the subject of vaccination below is a first hand report from an ICU physician in the US. It is her view and opinion, there are no numbers but it is what she witnessed and still sees. I have friends in the US who are familiar with the hospital and thankful to the ICU ward.
It is not Thailand but certainly relates to the current Covid and vaccine situation.
(Apologies for the ads...)
https://apple.news/AFaJRQuBFTO6K3onOLmT8tw
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2 hours ago, Espanol said:
Yes, he has been jailed in forced accommodation with no options to leave.
To be fair to the authorities, he signed up for the system, knowing full well the consequences of testing positive. Yes, it was a shock to him to test positive but having contracted a highly contagious disease he does agree, as he states, that the country needs to take care by allocating him an ASQ room. Surely he could not be allowed to roam free having tested positive.
The room looks quite comfortable. He did not complain about the room and as he has business interests in Thailand I am guessing that he is not 'stuck" in Thailand as such, but planned all along to do the 14 day quarantine (SHA+ obviously) followed by a stay in Thailand. Just my guess.
The interview, for those who see or read about should serve as a reminder though.....
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7 hours ago, anchadian said:
Directed to those who are actually 'tourists' as apposed to those who are joining family. For them I doubt the restrictions will make any difference.
It appears, as usual that the announcement has ambiguities and as per Richard Barrow, a few hours ago, swimming pools in SHA+ accommodation in Phuket will be allowed to open. I have copied below from another thread and apologise for the text. I am using a small phone!
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">UPDATE: TAT Phuket has just confirmed for me that SHA+ hotels are allowed to keep their swimming pools open. However, people from outside are not allowed to use them. I’m still trying to find out if hotel restaurants are also exempt from the alcohol ban. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Thailand?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Thailand</a> <a href="https://t.co/dElBph6aab">pic.twitter.com/dElBph6aab</a></p>— Richard Barrow (@RichardBarrow) <a href="https://twitter.com/RichardBarrow/status/1422403410259709963?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 3, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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Phuket marks 229 new COVID cases, available hospital beds hits 10%
in Phuket News
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Just read on another thread (and Phuket News) that the official lockdown order was only issued just after 4pm yesterday!