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9 hours ago, Dogmatix said:

The numbers for omicron a are simply not believable.  It must be closer to 100k cases a day like the UK experieenced at the peak. Most people are not reporting positive ATKs or not even using them. The government is not interested in testing. Mild and asymptomatic cases are continuing their work or businesses, if not entitled to sick pay.

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.

34 minutes ago, LukKrueng said:

I just find it strange that people with no relation to Thailand spend so much time on a Thailand issue forum. I travelled to many countries around the world, in some countries more than in other, I have friends in many countries, yet I'm not a member of any forum if any of those countries. 

You're entitled to your opinions, if course, they're just irrelevant here. That's my opinion. 

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.

6 minutes ago, James105 said:

Perhaps you should take up your whine with google as all I did was type in ‘California Florida covid’.   Being in the majority would have made you a nazi in 1930s Germany by the way so its not really a badge of honor or anything to be proud of.   Enjoy your echo chamber as I am done here anyway.   

No links as usual just insults.

Nothing changes with the deniers.

Game, set and match.

Bye.

10 minutes ago, jerrymahoney said:

So I do I. And to me it is irrelevant why you DON'T want to live in Thailand.

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?

1 minute ago, LukKrueng said:

Yet for someone that doesn't live here you spend a lot of time on this forum...

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?

8 minutes ago, jerrymahoney said:

Satisfied? No. I have lived in Thailand for the last 20 years because I like it here. And part of that is not vexing myself over things that I have no control. I have no impression that the place is perfect. When I no longer like the place, I will leave. But for the first 12 years here, one of the great benefits was access to reasonable health insurace which I could not obtain in the US.

 

But you can have your sour cherries if you like.

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.

19 minutes ago, Meat Pie 47 said:

just had a message from a friend who is double vaccinated and has omicron and hanging on to life

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.

31 minutes ago, Meat Pie 47 said:

count the deaths and then count Thailands

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.

1 hour ago, gearbox said:

Who cares about the cases...deaths are important. Now tell me you see from the satellite photos the crematoriums in Surat Thani are working 24 hours, city can be seen from smoke, and AIS unexpectedly lost 2 million customers ????

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?

1 hour ago, malibukid said:

means nothing. just numbers. the rich are getting richer at the expense of the middle class.  meanwhile what is left of democracy is a pale shadow of what it once was.  cult of T has ruined the country for many decades to come.  add to that the gun nuts, bad cops, anti-vaxers have a lovely lot.  sounds like your more of a quantitative person rather than a qualitative one.  numbers, lol

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.

4 hours ago, malibukid said:

means nothing. just numbers. the rich are getting richer at the expense of the middle class.  meanwhile what is left of democracy is a pale shadow of what it once was.  cult of T has ruined the country for many decades to come.  add to that the gun nuts, bad cops, anti-vaxers have a lovely lot.  sounds like your more of a quantitative person rather than a qualitative one.  numbers, lol

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.

4 hours ago, Bad boy 561 said:

Best is growth in decades? Are you delirious

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

5 minutes ago, unblocktheplanet said:

Other variants are sure to come because of rich countries' selfishness.

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.

2 hours ago, HashBrownHarry said:

Perfect, like the other 39,599,999 you won't be missed by me.

 

Thailand is my home, are you chained to your home? ridiculous hoops - it's the easiest it's been for 24 months, i can understand you must be one of the many that find uploading a couple of documents to a website too difficult - lol.

 

Why am i looking at a brick wall, did you miss the bit about quarantine no longer being required, if that's what you're referring to.

 

You must have some interest in Thailand judging by  your frequency to this forum, perhaps it's becoming to expensive for you?

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.

????

1 hour ago, HashBrownHarry said:

No, there are a few that milk this.

 

Does not need to be from a Thai company.

 

Agreed, for regular tourists it's stupid but for long term expats that travel regularly, it's not the end of the world, much easier than CoE and much better than either 7 or 14 day quarantine.

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.