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There is a massive built up demand for all kinds of trips worldwide. If and when covid is under control Thailand and hundreds of other destinations will be flooded with visitors. Airlines, hotels, cruise ships will all experience business booms for several years until the next calamity hits.

Check the difference in price for a round of golf in Hawaii (private or public course) for a local and a tourist.

From John Hopkins An effective vaccine will protect someone who receives it by lowering the chance of getting COVID-19 if the person encounters the coronavirus.

I was a volunteer english teacher for years in a rural Thai public school...never had a hint of a problem and in fact was treated as a VIP by the entire school staff for being jai dee....just don't go out of your way to be a jerk or step on toes etc and you will be fine...I never spent ten minutes worrying about it and in fact believe if anyone had tried to cause me problems the teachers and school admin would have defended me and stood up for me.....could i have gotten in trouble? I suppose so....Could i win the powerball jack pot? I suppose so.

i'll trust john hopkins who clearly state that the vaccines LOWER the chance of getting covid 19. From John Hopkins An effective vaccine will protect someone who receives it by lowering the chance of getting COVID-19 if the person encounters the coronavirus. More important is whether the vaccine prevents serious illness, hospitalization and death. At this time, all three vaccines are highly efficacious at preventing serious illness, hospitalization and death from COVID-19. Widespread vaccination means the coronavirus will not infect as many people. This will limit spread through communities and will restrict the virus’s opportunity to continue to mutate into new variants.

repeatedly told by whom? some obscure web crackpots site or fox news?. .i'll trust john hopkins who clearly state that the vaccines LOWER the chance of getting covid 19. From John Hopkins An effective vaccine will protect someone who receives it by lowering the chance of getting COVID-19 if the person encounters the coronavirus. More important is whether the vaccine prevents serious illness, hospitalization and death. At this time, all three vaccines are highly efficacious at preventing serious illness, hospitalization and death from COVID-19. Widespread vaccination means the coronavirus will not infect as many people. This will limit spread through communities and will restrict the virus’s opportunity to continue to mutate into new variants.

Let's say two people are riding in a car....one has on a seatbelt and his side of the car has an airbag....the other person has no seatbelt and no airbag...the car is about to crash. Gee let me think would i rather be the person with the airbag and seatbelt or the totally unprotected person. Both MIGHT get seriously injured or hospitalized but the one with protection is MUCH less likely to suffer seriously or die. So as the car speeds along one person is searching on his phone for some obscure internet site saying "but yes some people with seat belts and airbags get seriously hurt or even DIE", so he concludes that he will not utilize those safety features. The other person says yes I am sure you can find a few crackpots who challenge air bag/ seatbelt safety but I will side with the FACTS that have proven over and over that your odds of a more positive outcome are to go with the FACTS. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to decide which course of action is smarter.

did noy"s sisters cousins aunt tell you that? the same one that has said the soi 7 beergarden was closing for the past 20 years?

Can you imagine all the stupid things Thai people have seen farangs do?

I always enjoyed many of his columns. For all those that don't how about you just don't read it? Problem solved.

or just get the covid shots?

To my knowledge there are no or few vaccinations for common colds....but we do have some very effective vaccinations that can greatly minimize serious illness, hospitalizations and deaths from covid....if only everyone would get the shots we would have had significantly fewer disruptions to lives, economies, healthcare systems. travel. etc....but sadly many prefer to argue ad nauseum against getting the covid vax rather than take 20 mins to get the shots.

I am in mexico right now and official rate is right at 20 pesos to usd.....

do the patong tuk tuks still try and charge hundreds of baht to go a mile or so? another great thai taxi mafia is at laem chabang cruise port where it operates at unbelievable rip off prices posted in clear view....whoever is mr big there is a very rich man..prices so outrageous that many cruise passengers just stay on the ship and miss bangkok and pattaya...obviously the TAT knows about this but does NOTHING..been going on for years

are you seriously trying to suggest that more vaccinations lead to more deaths? If anti vaxxers woud stop trying to pick and choose and interpret and promote data that they claim supports their anti vax idiocy and just go get the damn shots untold lives and hospitalizations and disruptions to economies worldwide would/could have been greatly diminished.....once and for all just go get the damn shots and be a part of the solution and not the problem,,,if your ego is so frail that you cannot admit you are and continue to be wrong just keep it a secret that you did the smart thing and got vaccinated.

crackpot idiots claiming to dispute the obvious fact that vaccinations save untold numbers of lives and hospitalizations rather than spend 20 mins to go get a shot. I

and on and on and on and on........ and yet it goes on and on page after page week after week day after day.......squabble over percentages, methods, statistics, etc....can't see the forest for the trees types who simply refuse to see what is as clear as day..... Many will spend hours scouring the internet to find some crackpot idiots claiming to dispute the obvious fact that vaccinations save untold numbers of lives and hospitalizations rather than spend 20 mins to go get a shot. It is truly stupid behavior that has and continues to prolong the covid disruption of lives and economies worldwide. Just admit you were and are wrong and go get the damn shots.

and yet it goes on and on page after page week after week day after day.......squabble over percentages, methods, statistics, etc....can't see the forest for the trees types who simply refuse to see what is as clear as day..... Many will spend hours scouring the internet to find some crackpot idiots claiming to dispute the obvious fact that vaccinations save untold numbers of lives and hospitalizations rather than spend 20 mins to go get a shot. It is truly stupid behavior that has and continues to prolong the covid disruption of lives and economies worldwide. Just admit you were and are wrong and go get the damn shots.

Many will spend hours scouring the internet to find some crackpot idiots claiming to dispute the obvious fact that vaccinations save untold numbers of lives and hospitalizations rather than spend 20 mins to go get a shot. It is truly stupid behavior that has and continues to prolong the covid disruption of lives and economies worldwide. Just admit you were and are wrong and go get the damn shots.

Go ahead and try all the BS theories on this math. Novant Health...a large USA Health care facility. The average age of a hospitalized person is 49 years old. Priest said that unvaccinated people make up 91% of hospitalizations, 92% of ICU patients, and 94% of patients on ventilators. https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/unvaccinated-patients-dominate-covid-19-hospitalizations-novant-health/C6HMWH4GRVCDJLLJC6WS4YKIBY/

The bottom line is IF IF IF everyone had taken the vaccines when they first became available along with recommended boosters hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved, hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations would have been avoided. Hospitals would not have had to turn away other sick people because they were full of the unvaxxed. Medical staff would not be stressed to the max working double shifts. Many economies around the world would have fared much better, business owners and their workers and families would have fared much better. Instead we still have millions of unvaxxed refusing to admit the simple FACT that vaccinations do a very good job in preventing hospitalizations and deaths. They continue to argue with scientists, doctors, and other experts who have spent decades studying viruses, vaccines, and treating real patients. It is beyond time for the vaccinated majority to call these morons out who continue to allow the virus to spread and mutate, hospitals to be clogged, economies crippled, travel disrupted, all because they are too pig headed to admit they are/were wrong, that all their absurd conspiracy theories are BS, and simply get the damn shots and be part of the solution and not the problem.

Red Bull, the poster boy of corruption.

As mick said: "You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes you get what you need"

It is Thais...not Thai's. Maybe we need to correct our own bad grammar/spelling and/or learn to speak fluent Thai before we go too far down the path with our Thai friends. I personally get a kick out of listening to some of the pronunciations and interpretations that Thais use.

As usual the devil is in the details; which are sparse in this announcement. If indeed a pensioner can get a 10 year visa that could positively impact a lot of average people who might be more inclined to retire or at least spend 6 or more months a year in Thailand. But what is considered an adequate pension income? In Jan 2022 the average social security in USA is $1657 a month. There are many many people who could live just fine in Thailand for that amount. Especially if they were allowed to buy into the Thai public health care system and think more with their big head than the little one.