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6 hours ago, VYCM said:

Many Thais also, not just foreigners.

the new breed of world-wide hapless, poor, abandoned, homeless people

so exciting again...muua muua

2 hours ago, Kaopad999 said:

I think it should start from 8pm. I'm not really sure if 10pm is going to make a huge amount of difference now that bars and other nighttime entertainment has been closed. But time will tell. 

thinking about a sanitized life up-country it should start 12noon: This is when all the cowboys get drunk watching their cock-fights and else...and, not to forget: one drinking vessel for 12 people...

went to Khorat Immi today for renewing my annual: they do a phantastic job there, check everyone's papers in an outside sheltered area with clear distancing. Once through, you get your paper bunch back with a waiting no.  Move to an outside shaded waiting area and only go inside once your no. is called. Inside = 5 officers with 5 distanced chairs (i.e. theoret. total of customers not exceeding 5 in that wide room). I was out and done after 45 min. = hope they will stick to this procedere after Covid!

On 3/30/2020 at 2:05 PM, Brunolem said:

But are you representative of the average Thai citizen? 

the "average Thai citizen" esp. up-country hasn't seen a doctor for ages, because 

a) she/he wants to save money  

b) she/he knows better

so they buy all their medical supplies otc and administer to/by themselves (sometimes asking relatives or a priest for proper application...)

47 minutes ago, steven100 said:

how do you work out a stimulus for 1000 hookers

just donate to all the sick buffaloes in their families and thus "lease the animals"...

4 hours ago, Tayaout said:

In some article I read they say less than 5 years and over 70 must stay home. 

 

Som Nam na

"older than 70: strongly advised to stay home"

the "deadly Italian strain" surely developed in the Prato area in northern Italy with a Chinese community of over 60000 (!), so it is a Chinese sub of the deadly Chinese Wuhan virus Covid-19; nothing much Italian about that strain... 

12 hours ago, DaRoadrunner said:

Anutin's strong point is obviously not mathematics. We have a pandemic and this is the best man they could find for the job?

but his company was involved in building Suvarnabhumi AP...

22 minutes ago, glennb6 said:

Remember Purachai back in the taxin days? Anutin must be trying to out-do him.

 

If the govt declares the bars in Pattaya must shut down, stick a fork in it and say goodnight. Property prices will crash, businesses will close and throw people out of work, and crime will increase. Maybe half the locals can take up rice farming again...

 

I can't believe this is even being considered an option. Govt MIGHT be able to pull this off for a few days or a couple weeks, but if it's longer or indefinite, forget about it.

"...and crime will increaseand crime will increase"

hmm, most probably nothing left to be pinched = not interesting anymore for gangs, touts, governmental and local figures

2 hours ago, billd766 said:

I am 75 and live in a small village in rural Khampaeng Phet.

 

The big village is 6km away and fairly normal but I have a hospital appointment in KPP 65km away. The furthest I have been since Xmas is KPP and locally everything seems pretty much normal though I see fewer people around and rarely anyone wearing a face mask apart from the ladies working in 7/11.

 

I am mostly self isolated anyway, so do I need to go into a headlong panic mode yet?

don't forget even small villages have seasonal workers going berry-picking in Europe, illegal Thais in Korea, construction workers in BKK and the inevitable local girl working bars in Pattaya...

4 hours ago, spiekerjozef said:

He should apologise for being a health minister who knows nothing about health.

 

I give him 2 days and he will be removed from office and probably end up in some massage parlour.

"end up in some massage parlour" ... as an evergreen customer or as a nurse / doctor?

19 hours ago, Phuketshrew said:

And there we have it. I "arrived" in Thailand 6 times last year. I would imagine there are many more that do the same. The "tourist" numbers that they constantly spout are nonsense. Why don't they just count those entering on tourist visas as tourists? Surely that would give them a more accurate number?

why should "they" (TAT i.a.) do this? they just build a smoke screen as gigantic as possible for multiple reasons (politics, commercial gains, entertainment industry etc.). This country is all about "hot air", just let them puff away...

" lists of drivers who are accident risks in every village and subdistrict "

opens the path for eager local croonies to wilfully play with names (guys whom they - at the same time - don't like...)

" Police suspect that the driver .... had been unfamiliar with the road"

this normally happens to Thai drivers only...I suspect the gentleman behind the wheel was simply too old to steer a sedan like this

4 minutes ago, ThaiBunny said:

Works well for me - I use half a tablet and it's fine. However a friend of mine complains that it doesn't work for him - although he's had a kidney transplant and is on immuno-suppressant drugs so that may be the explanation. It's not "Thailand's answer to Viagra" however; it's the whole world's generic version of Viagra, whose patent has now expired

and it seems to be a controlled production process: Hopefully a lot safer than the "sidewalk copycats" from India etc.

" Sidegra is made under extremely hygienic conditions by The Government Pharmaceutical organisation Thailand , it is prescribed by all Thai hospitals and Impotence specialists in Thailand , it comes in blister packs of four that is date stamped and with serial number"

12 hours ago, ta158 said:

Second recent shooting like this, but I think in thai news it said it was a mistake/accident 

Thai news might take their standard wording "break failure on an unknown road in heavy rain, bad visibility"

On 12/24/2019 at 9:03 PM, maprao said:

I haven't had a "real" western Christmas in over 20 years. Never really missed it until the last few years..Guess it age and nostalgia creeping up on me 

same to me; btw I am too old already for nostalgia (= forgot...)

any further price increase for any of that copy-cat Western junk food will help Thai people to improve their health - and nobody really needs Starbucks and Amazon coffees and the like

not on a visa but on new passport: went to Khorat Immi. on Tuesday with old and newly issued passports plus TM 6 plus Embassy letter to Immi that "please move visa to new pp".  No queue, the checker girl told me to get all pages of old, photo page of new pp plus TM6 copied: Volunteer helped me, copied all stuff in a jiffy at no charge. Back to Immi again, nice chat with officer while she stamped away the afternoon. Out after 45min - splendid Khorat experience, nice people

1 hour ago, Emdog said:

More than once I've had to do a walk around of low cables over sidewalks as a pedestrian, thinking of 2nd road Jomtien. And then there is the broken concrete post about 2/3s up, near Family Mart & SCB bank on beach road. Only thing holding it up (and pulling it down) are the 100s of wires. TIT

 recommended: change to the other side of the street

2 hours ago, Destiny1990 said:

I mostly encounter these shopping Chinese at the 7/11.

don't forget that 7/11 in TH is regarded as being a hi-so outlet: highest prices for the smallest packaging units

19 hours ago, Curt1591 said:

We are in very good standing with the local moto mafia

some people really have specific friends ...