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They clearly don't know the rules in Thailand or they would never dream of coming here. We're talking about people who look at a picture of a hotel / beach and then click 'book'. That's going to be the extent of their research. I can't really blame them though as what's happening in Thailand when someone tests positive is not typical of what happens almost anywhere else in the world outside of China.

Indeed an international insurer will pay up for emergency treatment. The word 'emergency' doesn't apply to the asymptomatic, and the insurance company doesn't give a <deleted> what the Thai government think. They don't need to go to hospital at all if they're asymptomatic so they won't pay and they never will, it's as simple as that and this will never change.

It's kind of hard to imagine what kind of moron goes to a zoo and then ends up beating one of the animals when it moves towards the food....

Exactly, it detects covid, who gives a <deleted> which variant it is?

Yet elsewhere around the world this is exactly what's happening. For some reason everyone is becoming infected with Omicron and by some unknown mechanism this is stopping the spread of Delta. I believe it's due to immunity between the common viruses. One thing did strike me though, Delta does appear to avoid whatever hurdle was in place during the 2020 strain spread in Thailand, we don't know if this is the case with Omicron as it did not evolve from Delta at all. Personally I suspected the high temperature and humidity combination did a lot to slow down the original covid variants during 2020, that situation only seemed to change when Delta came along in 2021. With Omicron I wonder if the temperature and humidity will again play a factor in delaying the spread of Omicron. If it does then there are some not so great scenarios that I can think of, like the tropical regions of the world becoming a human reservoir for Delta. One thing's for sure - if they don't 'allow' Omicron to spread around then it definitely won't replace Delta.

Vodka being merely ethanol (pure alcohol) with some amount of water added to bring it to the correct percentage of alcohol as dictated by the marketing department and local excise regulations, so in a way if you've ever drank any alcoholic drink you have indeed drank 'vodka'.

They've been busy buying all the food supplies available around the world for the last 2 years, funny that.

Allow 2 to 3 months for a UK renewal if you're from the UK, they haven't got a clue what they're doing over there.

That mask is to protect them from you, nothing more, they don't care. I came across something interesting on Twitter, someone in the US posted it, can't recall which state it was but he went to a sports stadium, mentioned there were 3 different lines to get in, one for the fully vaxxed who didn't require testing, one for people who already have a recent negative test and another line for on the spot testing. The guy being double vaxxed wasn't concerned but wanted a test just to be sure so he had a test, tested positive then proceeded to go to the double vaxxed line because being vaccinated he was allowed in, no problem. Makes sense right...because they only care about themselves....almost everyone, everywhere.

RIP

They came with TUI which is the rebranded Thomson holidays. As such they do cheap 'packaged holidays', the type used by people who have no idea that there's a difference between charter and scheduled flights.

Well that is inevitable I think but they will probably spend as much time as possible locking people up before the numbers overwhelm them. It could take months to get to the stage where they give up on the covid prison thing.

The thing here is that it's perfectly reasonable to expect to isolate in your hotel if you test positive because that's what all the sane countries in the world do. Thailand deserves to suffer extreme economic damage due to this policy - and it will. Only the power crazy countries who trust nobody at all to comply with any measure due to the general lawlessness of the population put people who test positive for covid in prison. China do it, Thailand does it - I'm sure there's a few others but I really don't care to spend time looking them up.

Of course they weren't - if they knew this then literally nobody would come to Thailand for a simple holiday, ever.

It doesn't matter if it's a non event, the problem is in how they handle it. They're locking people up in isolation for weeks when they 'catch' covid. Do you not see that as a bit of a problem?

This is the stage where I would have removed the cover, why didn't you simply smash it off? It clearly isn't supposed to be there..... I always check the card slot for any attachments and now due to your report I will check the slot before I use a machine. I've never found any attachments so far but it I did I would remove them. If you were to make a withdrawal and couldn't get the money or simply forgot to take the cash and walked away (this does happen occasionally) then the machine only waits a certain amount of time (not very long) before it takes the cash back into the machine, this probably differs between each ATM model depending on how they configure it.

I believe all ATMs have cameras built into them, they're often used in the case of some crime that happens nearby to the ATM.

This kind of thing happens every now and again, in which case you take out a new policy with a solvent company.

That would be the governments fault. Surely there's some kind of regulator / oversight in place ? ???? If the government are not doing their job properly then things fail...you seem like a reasonably smart guy so I know you already know this. Great failure = great misery, that's always been the way and it always will be.

My thoughts exactly!

Indeed ????

The entire system will collapse in just a few weeks time, if I had to guess and I do, and will, then I'd say by around Jan 15th everything changes.

C'est la vie, they should practice risk management with a dose of reality otherwise they deserve everything they get - all of it. If the entire industry needs to declare bankruptcy then so be it, something better and more efficient will replace the current bunch of ineffective morons.

We're still in the eye of the storm. It's coming, don't doubt it.

Bitcoin is going mainstream and some of the big investment banks are already involved. Likely front running their eventual clients by accumulating huge amounts during this year. SCB being involved is another similar sign.