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30 minutes ago, Mr Meeseeks said:
It would, and thank Buddha we don't live in those countries.
Sorry, are you suggesting that you like living in Thailand because discrimination is 'accepted'.
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I think the mere fact that these proposals exist - especially the one for the high end condos and PR (remember that currently PR is limited to 100 people per nationality) speaks volumes about the scale of oversupply at the more expensive end of the condo market. My suspicion is that there is a rather large property bubble starting to expand and this smacks of a desperate measure to try to shift unsold stock. I think there is a liquidity crunch.
I have read recently in Khao Sod newspaper, that given the increasing levels of household debt many Thai banks are now being far less 'forgiving' in martgage aplications for Thais seeking mortgages for 2nd or 3rd properties and this may be feeding into this move. If you put down 20% on a 10 million baht property. A 15 year mortgage works out at about 70K a month and a 20 year mort 62K. There are not a huge number of people who can afford that level of mortgage locally.
The ony place less stagnant that the new condo market, is the second hand condo / property market which has some bargins but has basically flatlined. So if you do buy a condo - You may well be stuck with it unless you sell it for probably far less than you pay for it.
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"where the traveller can make merit and pray for a partner."
In just one sweep of a pen, TAT has just written off the entire family segment of its tourist industry.
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8 hours ago, hotchilli said:
I still wear one when out and about, maybe it will stop a "one in a million" chance of stopping a Covid infection...
but it definitely stops PM2.5 and me swallowing concrete/dust particles all day long.
I don't think a mask is meant to prevent you from catching covid, but rather if you have covid it reduces the risk of you passing it on - as the mask will catch some of the water droplets if you sneeze, cough or exhale.
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On 11/23/2020 at 2:45 PM, Oldie said:
You are complaining - okay. But why don't you stop to act like everyone else? I clean my mask every evening.
I am still wearing the same one from May and it is begging for its first wash. Pongs a bit now. Still I am complying.
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2 hours ago, KarenBravo said:
Not true regarding the toxins. Just as in all mammals, toxins are treated by the liver and kidneys and the break-down products excreted.
Only water soluable toxins are treated by the liver and excreted via the kidneys - Persistant Organic Pollutants, (such as insecticides and herbicides) are fat soluable (as the farmer wouldn't want them washing off in the rain after they have been applied,), are stored in fat its a process called bioaccumulation and it was the concept which underpinned the famous book by Rachel Carson; A Silent Spring which focused on DDT.
Of more concern probably is the anti biotics and hormones that commerical famers tend to stuff into their pigs which also get partially passed on when we consume the meat.
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Whilst it is important that every country is able to secure its borders. This really is just a case of grabbing and reporting the lowest hanging fruit, while all the big, juicy important stuff that the police and immigration need to grapple with - human trafficking, organised crime etc carries on. A Cambodian lady working without a work permit; a Thai bloke fined for not reporting a migrant? - Why is this even reported news?? And the glee with which Na Naew takes in reporting this - how about the journalist at Na Naew get of their butts doa proper days work; a bit like that Cambodian lady probably was before she was arrested. They could learn alot from her.
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Clearly he has includeded the cost of quarantine in that figure.
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Steve100 where are you - Prayuts' reputation needs defending!!
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Keep pouring on the petrol lads!!
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3 hours ago, steven100 said:I disagree ... I just finished reading an article on a welfare database to help the poor within Thailand, the government was providing free electricity, free travel, food and water deliveries by the army and many other numerous projects.
madmitch, you do come out with some unbelievable statements without doing your homework.
A Taksin Shinawatra provided them all with access to medical care for 30 baht. Prior to that access to medical care was finicially out or reach for quite large parts of the population. Does that make Taksin a saint? A saint removed by a coup perhaps?
As for your statements steve - Lets give em some context eh?
"Free electricity" - if consumption is not over 800 units ; 800 - 3000 units = 50% discount and over 3000 units = 20% discount. Currently this scheme has ended.
"Free travel" - applies to 3rd class rail services only (currently ended) or using the welfare card which gives a maximum of 500 baht free travel per month after which the card holder must pay.
The army have been distributing food and water for decades - after every flood / drought / etc - it is one of their jobs.
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1 hour ago, OneMoreFarang said:You are wrong.
Prayut was one of the available bad options. There was no good option.
Lots of people want stability and not violent red mobs on the street. That is one big reason why many voted for him.
Wasn't the mob on the street at the time wearing yellow - The PDRC???
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Prayut said that he will not resign as he is not allowed to resign. Prayut was put in this position by design and those who granted him permission to take power have to agree to allow him to relinquish the power. Which I am guessing they are not willing to do...yet.
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Good to see the deflection has started already from the government. Only a couple of days ago Prayut and co were proclaiming the protestors had no support. Oh how the worm has turned. Prayut if you actually want to improve the economy. Get out!.
"I here too".. as the protestors sung last night.
As an aside I wonder if the results of the latest superpoll, as shown mcot, will make its way to tvf??
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Sorry if this has been answered in the previous pages, but who pays for the covid minder and what is the daily cost?? Just need to add that one to the already mentioned mind boggling amounts needed to enter the forbidden kingdom.
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57 minutes ago, KhunKenAP said:
Best to carry a copy of your passport, visa and arrival card. Anyone looking like a foreigner, will be stopped if not wrist band. Police State!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Right so after a visa amnesty for however many tens of thousand stranded foreigners, the arrival of plane load of wristband wearing chinese is going to cause all police to check foreigners for wristbands. Honestly???
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It is easy to see why these wristbands are required from Prayut point of view.
For the past 6 months he has been able to use Co-vid 19 to crank project fear to volume 11; create and extend a state of emergency and as a consequence people are now utterly pertrified of catching co-vid 19. Which is why Thailand has been so successful in its containment of the virus.
An unfortunate casualty of this is that the tourist dollar has dried up completly as co-vid as forced multiple countries to come up with a range of containment measures - which actually played into the hands of prayut and project fear. So now the good PM needs to find a way to dial down project fear amongst the locals, getting tourist back in to prop up a failing economy, whilst still seeming to be in control and a strong, wise and powerful PM. And constant GPS monitoring of tourist is the way to go. Basically all tourist will be clean and tracked so do not worry we are watching them all, is his message to the country.
Will tourists agree to this... I think you would find pretty much all of the western tourist will say no, asians maybe, it depends on how authoritarian their home countries are.
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I am thinking that the government's ship maybe taking on water...and the pumps have packed up.
Another couple who of big student led protests, an economy in free fall, and a public who have lost faith in the PM. Despite his bluster the PM is a worried man.
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Project fear in full swing it seems. The virus is out of control..it's an emergency...but, but we have not had any real outbreak for over 100 days?? But other countries have..
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"Fewer young people are also turning back to drugs after release aided by better testing methods"
Whilst is it commendable to have better testing methods, this is not the reason people turn to drugs, or quit drugs. Drug misuse is a symptom of deprevation, poverty and lack of opportunitiy. Its is a condition driven by socio-economic factors primarily.
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1 hour ago, miamiman123 said:
Big Joke was out of Thailand during that time .....where was he and who was he visiting? Does the initial TC mean anything to you. It’s not Take Care!
TC - That's my brother Tommy Clark's intitials - Big Joke was visiting my brother?? Tommy never mentioned that!
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Could at least post a link to the petition.
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Hate to say this but did they perhaps interview Thai children under that age of 13 to get these responses. I do not think adults gave these responses in all seriousness. Unless it was an online survey with fixed responses.
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I hope the good Dr also asks the police who were there to follow the same procedures and self quarantine for 14 days. Last thing we need is police out and about doing their duties and infecting the rest of us. I mean that is the implication the Dr. is making that people who attended the rally and the police,(all 2000 of them), did ,in their role of maintaining orderliness and security, attend the rally.
14 days sick for the rozzers to self quarantine?
BTW notice how the narrative is now shifting from 14 days self isolation to prevent covid 19, to 14 days self isolation to prevent any disease. Subtle but telling, almost like being under house arrest. Sorry to cynical for a Monday morning I know. Have a good week ya all.
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Long-stay visas proposed for foreigners who buy Bt3m condos
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Of course it allows me to discriminate against Thais on a daily basis and for them to suck it up and accept it.