Used2LuvThailand

It's like a sad version of Lord of the Flies, where the protagonists are running a country with sub-80 IQs. Imagine being bold enough to do what this guy did, and yet be so stupid to not even know his own office had cameras in it. If it weren't so tragic, it would be hilarious. And no question this guy will walk...or fall down a flight a stairs 10 times...or 'escape'.

Analysis by anecdote. Almost every single thing you mentioned has now been shown to be false and/or ineffective. FYI, even a cursory review of the history of viral outbreaks would lead even a semi-literate person to understand that there are actually a few things that a government can't do. Eradicating an endemic, highly-contagious respiratory virus isn't one of the capabilities that any government has. Even with a very effective and safe vaccine (like with Covid), it took a worldwide campaign many decades to eradicate smallpox. Another fun virus history fact....do you know who the last person to die of smallpox was? A laboratory worker who caught it from a lab accident....oh wait...those don't happen.

https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dls/locs/2021/07-21-2021-lab-alert-Changes_CDC_RT-PCR_SARS-CoV-2_Testing_1.html The man-babies are always a day late and a dollar short. Apparently being semi-literate and without internet access ISN'T a downside for running a country of serfs.

The mentality of the Covid people is funny to watch, especially from a distance. So, for the halfwit religious extremists that run Thailand, a bar with people in it, drinking alcohol, after sundown, is a Covid hate crime. Tens of thousands of people toiling each day in crowded factories during daylight hours....no problem....????

Who cares?

From the perspective of the out of touch, religious extremists who run Thailand, the fact that 80% of the airline slots have been returned in a good thing. More room for all the billionaires' private jets.

There's a third choice....deal with the authoritarians and their apologist parrots.

Unfortunately I have to return to Thailand soon for family and business reasons. After recovering from Covid and being vaccinated, if the Thai tyrants try to force me into quarantine from a contact or asymptomatic test, I won't pay them a dime....ever. The days of Thai conmen taking money from me ended during the pandemic.

Here's an idea...if YOU don't want to go to a bar during a 'semi religious thing', then don't. If YOU don't want to drink alcohol, then don't. I've never read a single post on this forum where someone is insisting that others have to drink anything, but the forum is full of the would-be authoritarians and Covid parrots insisting on what other people have to do to assuage their own fears or sense of morality. Here's a simple solution for you; stop thinking people are looking for you to tell them what to do, or solve their problems.

Be sure to read Prof Thanavath's upcoming book, "How to run a Potemkin Village economy for kleptomaniacs" Super popular with the downtrodden serfs!

Better make a call to Siam Bioscience, big guy. It's not a pandemic unless the right people are getting their cut. ????

The Prison Warden of New Zealand hands over the chairmanship of a pointless international organization to an unelected tyrant and religious extremist....who cares. It only took a Thai company little more than a year to destroy Dean and Deluca's....wonder if they repeat that accomplishment with ASEAN? Rhetorical question because in the case of ASEAN, no one would care.

And unelected, unchecked tyrants.

The halfwits running Thailand and their soft-headed parrots actually believe the nonsense they spew forth. They actually believe that Covid is somehow spread at night, through alcohol, but NOT during the day in crowded factories. That's why one is open and the other closed. And let's not forget the scary chlorinated pools, or the surface of every object in Thailand. ????

The apologists will be along shortly to tell you how much more freedom there is in Thailand.