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If thailand is so awesome and the center of all things, why do they get si excited when a midlevel-ish celeb says somerhing positive about it. I thought the tourism ministry keeps saying how people are desparate to cum here...

I dont know if they are currently more lax, but they are certainly working much faster. I had to get my visa extension done at CW (counter N) at the end of last month. I was #50 when they began at 830am I was out by 10am

I heard from a friend that there is a bar or two in nana that are all post-ops so when they are back open, that would help narrow your friend's search...

what is the range of new cases in BKK for the past week?

and apparently a controversial one in thailand which isnt surprising considering that the health minister here is a construction guy

The problem is that thais dont consider foreigners as honored guests who contribute mightly to the thai ecomony, rather they prefer to remind us that we are "only" guests here with no rights or privilidges

"and had taken it all on the chin. " I would watch the video of that....

I am just imagining the delays that will be experienced by arriving tourists when a few international flights disgorge 500-600 people at relatively the same time. do they really think that they can handle testing all those people without having people waiting hours to be tested? and imagine all the mix-ups that will occur with whose samples are whose, plus all the false positives that will occur...

Yeah, that is so unusual in thailand

Looks like dr yoong has some serious competition for the title "dr. obvious"

For a country that considers itself and its culture so amazing, they sure do go gaga over anyone with the least bit of celebrity visiting here or the most trivial use of a cultural image.

sadly, thai culture precludes this guy's underlings from asking "ummm, boss, since we all know that thailand is the best in the world, why arent all those rich folk coming here already?"

"as his agency plans a shift to a higher quality, higher spending, family orientated sort of tourism in the future." he should ask Las Vegas how that worked out for them...

this is exactly right. they only focus on what they want, rather than consider how to establish an environment that would be naturally attractive to the sort they want

To the top docs, a single covid case is too many, because as we all know, no one dies of anything other than covid these past 2 years... in contrast, the pols have had their personal finances laid ruined by the lack of money coming up the chain from the various tourism-associated brown envelopes

to expect anything other than a clusterfxxk of a re-opening mean you havent been paying attention to anything that the government had tried to do over the last 7 years....

they have simply redefined words to mean what they want them to mean open used to mean buy your ticket, arrive, pass through immig and then go enjoy your holiday open/reopen now means that tourists can apply for/buy/be under whatever restrictions the government currently requires to come here the tourism big shots are working under the misunderstanding that people will go to any lengths/jump through any hoops to come here asap for a holiday, irrespective of what is open/available when they arrive. vaccinated people used to mean having had the full regimen of requires doses of the respective vaccine here it now means getting a single shot of anything and the new term fully vaccinated means two shots of whatever combo is available

based on conversations that I have had with many thai girls, there is stiff competition for that title

"Thailand's non-compliance stems from a failure to fully implement the 2021 Anti-Doping Code. " thai standard

"young neo travelers plan to travel from 3-4 days with the maximum budget of 5,000 baht" so neo traveller is the new term for tourists that used to be called backpackers? a rose by any other name would still stink of patchouli oil...

"The Metropolitan Police Bureau (MPB) has described the estimated 47 million baht price tag for repairs to five water cannon trucks as “reasonable”, Its all about perspective....I guess when they see the navy spending trillions for a few unneeded subs, the 47 million for the teargas-water trucks that are required to retain their power seems like a bargain.

we have been told that with the 2 vax shots you can still get infected, just not as sick so someone unvaxxed is no threat to a vaxxed person either one can get infected and pass it on only the unvaxxed should get sick

I had to show my vax doc at fitness first to go in the first time

what a difference a letter makes...

I'll bet he is sorry he shorted the brown envelopes back then I know I am