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spidermike007

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  1. Prayuth again makes an utter fool of himself. Every time he declares nobody will be spared, if found guilty, the nation laughs in unison. And cries at the same time. At the utter indifference. 

     

    The chances of an active, high ranking policeman here being charged with a crime, prosecuted and jailed, are about the same as Thailand reopening to international tourism tomorrow.

     

    What he does not seem to understand, is that we are on to his game. He is there, to do everything in his power to do the opposite, of what he is preaching. He is there to protect every corrupt policeman, customs officer and immigration officer in the land, in addition to every bad apple in his administration and the army. You can try to pull the wool over the eyes of the public. But, after six years of the same old game, nobody is buying the nonsense. Sheer protectionism. Sheer hubris. Moving Thailand backwards, on a daily basis. 

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  2. There are millions without work right now. It is more apparent in some places than others. I know of many buninesses that have failed in Samui, Pattaya, Hua Hin and Bangkok. I hear Phuket is in real trouble. 

     

    In the provinces, it is likely a mixed bag. Some families are likely doing just fine. Other are hurting. There are enough middle class, with jobs, to keep some of the restaurants full. The malls are busy. But, are people buying? 

     

    I know car and home (and condo) sales are way down. The lower end of the rental market is down too, and I am hearing the higher end of the rental market is decimated. 

     

    The longer this shutdown of international tourism goes on, the more pain will be felt, as this administration has been doing next to nothing, to help the little guy. And one wonders how much the brilliant minds in charge, are able to help the big hotel owners, in any meaningful way. Hundreds, if not thousands of major resorts, small hotels and guest houses remain closed. 

     

    Also, exports and some manufacturing are down too. In addition you have the ongoing drought (hopefully the current storms are helping with that, though the winters are more of an issue) and the effect that is having on several crops, and the ongoing rice crisis (highest prices within Asean). So, Thailand has some serious long term issues it needs to deal with, and the cumulative effects of this crisis will be felt over time. 

  3. A small, loose, cheap safe with that amount of cash and valuables in it, is inane and reckless behavior. Why not spend 10,000 or more on a good safe, that is bolted to the floor, like many of us do? Safes are inexpensive here. 

     

    We have the same maid we have been using for years. As far as I know, she is entirely trustworthy. But, we still keep valuables locked up in a good safe, when she is around, and do the same with all workers who come into our home. Seems like a basic common sense precaution. Why create a temptation like that? Two million baht is a fortune for someone making a few hundred baht a day. 

     

    Complacency is a disease. Some simply have no perspective of their station in life, relative to the masses. 

  4. 21 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

     

    The bizarre part is, right now today, foreign tourists CAN enter the U.S. from many countries with nothing more than a recommended 14 day stay-at-home period... with no enforcement of that whatsoever AFAIK.

     

    The only travel ban countries are those that the U.S. adopted very early in the pandemic, and AFAIK, that list hasn't changed for a long time, even after the CV exploded in South and Central America and elsewhere. And the excluded countries ban below only applies to their foreign nationals, and excludes U.S. citizens and permanent resident status folks returning from those countries.

     

    https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/map-and-travel-notices.html

     

    Perhaps the U.S. is figuring, we're so BAD already, that pretty much nowhere else is going to have anything worse than what we already have among our own citizens...  But still, you'd think they wouldn't want to be voluntarily importing added new CV cases under any circumstance.  No ASQ in the U.S.

     

     

    Utter and gross mismanagement at the federal level. The US is on a sort of moronic cruise control, with regard to Covid. That will change in January, once an intelligent leader steps in. 

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  5. If they were serious, they would have been dispatched by helicopter, within two hours of this tragedy. The fact that a day or two later they are springing into action, inspires considerably less than awe. For marginal swimmers to survive in stormy seas for more that a couple of hours, is likely too much to hope for. 

     

    Raja operates very old rust buckets. Best to stick with Seatran. 

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  6. On 8/2/2020 at 9:18 PM, rabas said:

    Thank you China, more COVID-19. A recent study analysed the pandemic and concluded that air travel was a major cause of the virus spreading world wide.

     

    https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-07-reveals-cases-covid-china-based.html

     

    Amazing, since China/WHO also suggested is was not very contagious until they had to, as China was buying the world's supply of masks. The daily infection rate is about to hit 300,000 confirmed cases per day. 

     

    No question about that. And so was the administrations willingness to let both Chinese green card holders, and Americans continue to travel back and forth, after the restrictions were put into place, without any screening whatsoever. That was brainless, moronic, dangerous, reckless, bad policy, and resulted in who knows how many thousands of deaths. Therefore, the American version, and what we are seeing now, could realistically be referred to as the Covid Trump version. 

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  7. 3 hours ago, hotandsticky said:

     

     

    Millions out of work ?

     

     

    Nonsense.................. evidence to back up your statement ?

     

     

    Exclude the black economy please. Life is largely back to normal in the Boonies most people (apart from bar workers and some dependent on international tourism), the Thais have been out spending money on domestic tourism and shops are as busy as before Coronavirus. 

    International tourism made up around 15% of the total economy, if all related Industries are accounted for. Or around 6 million jobs. Most of those souls are unemployed. 

     

    You are dreaming if you think most Thais are "back to normal". Unfortunately, outside of your bubble there is a world of hurt. 

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  8. 4 hours ago, CorpusChristie said:

    Thailand began testing all people who entered from China from the middle of January 

    And even once the US imposed its ban on travel from China is early February, it continued to allow Americans and Chinese with green cards to freely travel back and forth, with no testing! Who knows how many deaths can be attributed to that one brain dead policy alone. 

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  9. 16 hours ago, Surelynot said:

    Read it was to do with being (something like) 120th in the world for the number of tests being carried out.

    And that is irrelevant. They beat it. If it was still here, people would be dropping like flies, like in the heart of Zombieland, #1. The US. 

     

    It is gone. Let it go. Hanging on to a threat of a disaster is not healthy. There will be no Zombie apocalypse in Thailand. 

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