Cherrytreeview

Perfecto.

Your lack of knowledge is stunning. US is recommending 5 day quarantine for omicron. Where do you get your ridiculous 16 days. The centre for social media science in nakhon nowhere? https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s1227-isolation-quarantine-guidance.html Makes your utterances even more laughable and irrelevant.

Your just repeating the same old nonsense. Omicron's spread cannot and could not be stopped by shutting borders. CCP can't stop it spreading internally. The logical conclusion of your own paranoia is that Thailand locks down villages and cities just like China has just lockdowned a city of 14 million people when a few cases are discovered. https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/travel/travel-bans-red-list-countries-waste-time-uk-omicron-cases-1339335 Now why don't you tell me why you think you know better than Professor Tim Spector?

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/70-of-new-covid-19-cases-in-thailand-are-delta-variant-dr-yong/ You don't get anything unfortunately. The spreading of the Alpha and Delta variants in Thailand came from a Hi So Thai gathering in Thong Lor and construction workers. What's that got to do with foreign tourists?

And i think any Thai government figures are total BS. Just like TATs or the current laughable omicron figures that defy a near vertical daily doubling in every other country in the world but in the Disney world of Thailand include a brief spike then a flattening of the curve. Thailand's Hi So's feed you whatever they want you to hear or believe. Up to you.

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/70-of-new-covid-19-cases-in-thailand-are-delta-variant-dr-yong/ Better get your facts right. Blame the Thai Hi So's, not foreign tourists. They started the Delta wave and the vast majority of those deaths. What don't you understand?

You also seem to have forgotten that the original Delta cluster was started by Hi So Thai's partying in Thong Lor in Bangkok. That basically caused a 8 month shutdown in the hospitality and entertainment sector. So you might want to also get your facts right before blaming Johnny Foreigner. Nuff said (again).

And one would have to expect you don't realise that you have a virus as continuous as measles and that air borders aren't going to stop it's spread. If tourists don't bring it in then illegals coming over the land borders will. In the UK cases are falling quickly and it is expected by April the UK government will accept covid as an endemic disease and get back to normal. The UK is expected to be the first country out of the pandemic. Of course, the reason for this is the UK's world beating vaccine procurement and deployment of boosters. Something of course that has been an abject failure of Thailand which has hardly 70% of it's population double jabbed and only 12% boosted. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/12/uk-could-be-first-country-to-emerge-from-pandemic-expert-says.html?__source=androidappshare

He'll have a job bashing this.

Simple answer for you, don't come back to the UK. You'll not be needing those Astra Zeneca jabs that UK taxes help fund either. You know the non-profit ones that where distributed globally and put in your ungrateful arm. Didn't hear you whingeing then about the UK. At least the UK uses taxes for things like furlough schemes to ensure record low unemployment. Thailand just lines the pockets of it's Hi So's and let's UK farangs feed it's citizens.

For the avoidance of any doubt about the benefits of vaccination and a heavily boosted population. The appliance of science.

You should know. Thailand has the most unequal distribution of wealth of any country in SE Asia and a disgrace of an education system. Combined with no furlough support for their citizens during the pandemic and a pitiful vaccination campaign that still hasn't 70% double jabbed and only 11% with a booster. It's going to take decades to replace 20% of tourism GDP. Thailand always goes back to lying on it's back and opening it's legs to earn a dollar. Guess that's what brought you here in the first place.

Only have to shove swabs up your nose and down your throat to get into the pub. https://www.pattayamail.com/news/no-home-covid-19-tests-allowed-to-enter-pattaya-bars-385845 If that's Thailand's new normal, they can keep it. The tourist figures over the next 9 months will back that up. How wrong many of us where when we thought that tourism's 20% of GDP would be badly missed The hi-so's couldn't care less.

Tell that rant to your heroes. They have some of the tightest restrictions in the UK. Virtue signaling and stirring the pot on a weekly basis, with contradictory and baseless restrictions. As for your "filling the pockets of big pharma", take a look at the latest data regarding unvaccinated vs vaccinated in critical care. No doubt the vaccinated had their arms filled with the vaccines of "big pharma". Just in case your visiting from a different solar system, the non profit making vaccine was the UK's AZ-Oxford vaccine. That's UK as in United Kingdom. Wonder what the 5 million dead worldwide figure would have been if we had of had a giant global covid "natural immunity" party with the delta variant.

Looks like the odds against the house are getting worse. This also may not include being unlucky and sitting next to a positive on the flight as well.

For the forum's covid deniers and anti-vaxers. More data to show the overwhelming benefits of vaccination.

Test And Go off the table for good the article says. Whilst even i wouldn't be as pessimistic as this, it really does show that the Thai authorities are likely to do anything, at anytime, in a gross overreaction to a weakened variant like omicron. 450,000 tourist arrivals in 2021, the vast majority in the last 2 months of the year on the Test-Wait-Maybe-Go-Hospital scheme. Strip out necessary returnees and it's a drop in the ocean. This Thai government is heading down the road of big brother CCP. Two years into this pandemic and it's clear as day, they couldn't care less if tourism ever returns.

People will have noticed that previous articles talk about omicron being as dangerous as the flu in a heavily boosted population. As you can see from the above boosted figure, 10%, that doesn't include Thailand. That figure could keep domestic and border restrictions in place for quite a while to come.

I appreciate all the posters who take the time and effort to publish all the daily figures. However, what the Thai government feed to the masses is a total disgrace. Anyone who knows what's going on on the ground in Pattaya, knows that these figures wouldn't even cover bar/entertainment staff that have tested positive and our self isolating. The Thai government are not only feeding their citizens lies they are sucking some knaive tourists into a covid testing incarceration trap. It's a disgrace. The unofficial figure in the UK, for a virus as contagious as measles, is 500,000 infections a day.

Dr Campbell is a retired nurse.

Fan of wee Jimmy Krankie?

Apparently, the 15thJanuary may be extended. No final decision has been taken. Only a week away but let's have a meeting about a meeting to stress more tourists out. Over on the PA forum, their bailing out left right and centre. Some are ready to go but just can't be bothered. What a holiday. - Run the Test-Wait-Maybe-Go-Hospital gambit. - Your allowed out until 9pm - Most of the bars may well be closed because the staff have tested positive for omicron.

Would think a lot of people got fed up days ago and cancelled if they were on the Thailand Pass after the 10th. Especially if they could salvage part or all of their deposits/bookings. It's not the Thailand Pass their worried about but a covid testing bingo and nothing open.

A rather crushing but, unfortunately correct, summation of Thailand's response to Covid. Seems "our friend" has taken a bit of a sabbatical from posting. Maybe the sheer weight of facts have made him throw in the towel. However, I some how doubt it. It's been nice to have fact based discussions without the constant irrelevant, unfactual and infantile interruptions.

There goes the hybrid Pattaya Tree Town "restaurant/bar/knocking shop/brown envelope" model. At a guess at least a 3 month closure. Most tourists had bailed when incarceration was brought back. Plus the great omicron hospital raffle. Here's your country of origin odds but i don't think includes the bonus ball of anyone sitting in the rows around you on the flight -