Cherrytreeview

Totally agree. If the Thai health system isn't going to be overwhelmed now, it never will. Tourist area bars and meet and greet gogos are beginning to open until 11pm. It's now an exercise in control by the Thai government. Pointless exercise in starving the country of tourist income. I don't understand the grand standing by the Thai authorities.

A lot of people spend their time in multiple places during a year. That is if they can afford to do so. Where is the annual quota of days resident in Thailand to be allowed to post on aseannow? Your post is ridiculous. Many have been based abroad during covid for various reasons. If you spend 6 months normally in a country, you have a relevance to it. My opinion is as relevant as yours. Sorry.

No links as usual just insults. Nothing changes with the deniers. Game, set and match. Bye.

You seem to be getting a little worked up. You decided to quote my response to someone else. It was you who stuck your nose in and started talking about "sour cherries". Have you a factual disagreement about a point or post i made? Or do you want to just keep posting in capitals?

Many who don't live in Thailand have opinions on this forum. They have not returned because of covid, Thailand's reaction to it and the Test-Wait-Maybe-Go-Hospital roll of the dice. Do you actually have a point to make about any of my posts? What points have i made that you think are incorrect?

You don't seem to understand. I keep my assets in my home country and can travel/live where i want. It's called options and choices. Many have sold up and burned their bridges. This is a discussion forum. If you don't like an opposing view maybe you should look elsewhere. For the record, i couldn't care less if you've lived on the moon for the last 20 years. It's irrelevant.

Twisting the facts as always. You just can't accept the overwhelming benefits of vaccination and appear to be in a minority of one on this forum at the moment. https://www.factcheck.org/2021/11/scicheck-desantis-comments-social-media-posts-mislead-on-covid-19s-toll-in-florida/ The evidence of 2 jabs and a booster to stop serious illness and hospitalisation is factually overwhelming. Your tedious illogical, ill informed and plain wrong views are thankfully becoming background noise globally.

I don't and wouldn't live in Thailand. I enjoy extended visits when the rewards outweigh the risks. I enjoy many aspects of the fun to be had in Thailand and have traveled extensively in Thailand and SE Asia. Just as many Thailand expats think it's perfect, i point out that in my opinion it isn't. Satisfied?

Hope he's ok . Seems strange to be phoning people if your seriously ill. Difficult to always validate stories on an internet forum. Did he not get a booster? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59840524 88% of stopping hospitalisation. Don't know of anyone who's got seriously ill from omicron. Most boosted people get symptoms of a bad cold.

Some people think poverty robs people of their lives and livelihoods. Thailand has left large parts of their citizens in debt and poverty. No government support. It's disgusting. Thailand has failed on every available metric. Their figures are laughable but yet people still fall for them.

Unfortunately, the Thai government care about cases. Otherwise why don't they open the borders? The population depending on that 12 to 20% of GDP is just getting further and further into debt. Children not being allowed to play with each other in their playgrounds because of the authorities paranoid mindset. https://aseannow.com/topic/1248401-thai-schools-advised-to-suspend-group-activities-to-prevent-covid-19-infections/ Hysterically funny, don't you think?

https://www.aseantoday.com/2019/01/thailands-wealth-inequality-is-the-highest-in-the-world-what-does-this-mean-for-upcoming-elections/ This was before the pandemic.

No, it sounds like i'm a person who's quoting the figures. Facts. Lol. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-economy-likely-regained-steam-q4-2021-growth-seen-best-37-years-2022-01-27/ Western economies supported their businesses and citizens with economic support so that they would bounce back when the economy reopened. Guess what? They did. Thailand has the most unequal wealth distribution of SE Asia. No support for the population but you, like most Thai huggers, bang on about a country you most likely burned your bridges with years ago. Living in Nakhon Nowhere blaming everyone but themselves. I would think Thailand's Hi-so's did very well out of the pandemic. Try and accept the reality and facts. Got any links about Thailand's GDP growth? https://www.ft.com/content/d26ccd56-ebb9-43a8-b6b1-ff8361ca9876 US unemployment at 3.9% What do you think Thailand's real unemployment rate is with tourism going from 40 million to 400,000? What are the Thai authorities doing to help their citizens? A 5000 baht hand out. Laughable.

Best growth in 37 years. What part of the sentence do you not understand? Here's another link https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-economy-likely-regained-steam-q4-2021-growth-seen-best-37-years-2022-01-27/ US unemployment at 3.9%. https://www.ft.com/content/d26ccd56-ebb9-43a8-b6b1-ff8361ca9876

The ignorance on this forum is genuinely quite shocking. Here's two links to show your totally divorced from reality. https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/5709/housing/market/ https://www.theguardian.com/money/2021/nov/16/uk-rents-rising-zoopla This is the UK house price index. It rose 10% last year. UK rents rose 4.5% last year and are exceptionally strong. Can you point me to a link for 3% per annum growth? Pattaya condos have had their rents reduced for years before Covid due to oversupply. For the last 2 years they have just been empty. I genuinely don't know whether to laugh or cry at some of the posts made on this forum. Are you seriously suggesting i sell my UK properties to buy property in Thailand?

Like developing vaccines and therapeutics and donating them to third world toilets like Thailand? In case you have forgotten, Thailand didn't join Covax and couldn't be bothered spending it's foreign reserves on said vaccines. That's why it remains behind the developed world. Stop the self pity and maybe familiarise yourself with the facts.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60158934 Yeah i suppose best US growth in decades is really <deleted> up. Where's Thailand's growth coming from?

Never a truer word spoken. Lieland No 1 global beggar.

You obviously can't even bother reading this forum before posting your Thai hugging pearls of wisdom. You must have enjoyed counting the bathroom tiles for your first 14 day quarantine. ????

Your funny Harry. Always in the minority on this forum. https://thethaiger.com/hot-news/tourism/thumbs-down-for-thailands-test-go-version-2 Now the best you can do is talk about money. You've lost the argument already. You keep your worthless Thai properties, i'll stick to my UK ones. Post us a link to the Thailand property market increasing at 10% per annum. UK rental income the strongest it's ever been. Expats getting out of Thailand because the schools have been closed for a few years. Taking their kids back to the UK to get a decent education. Not only have you chained yourself to Thailand but you have flushed your money down the toilet and been brainwashed by the natives. You employed by TAT to supplement your frozen state pension. https://www.ft.com/content/fc33b109-0d7a-426d-ac64-d01a0fb89f12 Come on Harry where's the links to a booming Thai property market? Send me a PM and i'll lend you a few quid. So funny. ????

NO. I'm one of the 39,600,000 people who decided to go elsewhere. If you hadn't of chained yourself to Thailand you wouldn't have had to jump through all the ridiculous hoops to return. People just cancel or reschedule their trip while you stare at a brick wall for a fortnight. Congratulations.

I tried to explain that to one poster last week but he didn't seem to grasp the concept of domestic community spread. Think he thought johnny foreigners were the only people who could carry covid.

It's 5 or 6 day quarantine in all but name. You think people are going to get involved in stress free mingling from day 1 to day 5? At least you've been constant, as usual, in apologising for the Thai half wits. If they organised lynchings at BKK for people who fail the first test, you could most likely try to put a positive spin on it.

They won't get high spenders. Samui and Phuket won't attract your "quality" tourists. Good luck with them replacing between 12% - 20% of GDP by high spending quality tourists. That drum has been banged for decades. The tourist areas will just fall apart. Laughable suggestion. https://www.dmarge.com/2021/02/thailand-luxury-tourism-gamble.html Cancun tourism hitting record numbers while Thailand's tourism is down 99%. https://www.traveloffpath.com/cancun-receiving-record-number-of-international-visitors-despite-recent-incidents/ The marketing and business acumen brilliance of Thailand.

Nobody is interested in their Test-Wait-Maybe-Go-Hospital scheme. 40 million to 400,000 tourists says it all. Omicron has now peaked and declining rapidly in UK, US and Europe. Covid is now becoming endemic and is being accepted as such by western governments. The US just announced decade beating GDP growth and France has announced 7% growth and the best figures in 50 years. Meanwhile, Anutin lists more rules and demands to what Thailand will accept as endemic Covid. People will not travel to a country that will change rules of entry at the drop of a hat.