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spidermike007

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  1. 20 minutes ago, Saltire said:

    This may help you.

     

    Don't buy much fruit as it's safe off the trees, but we do launder money now.

     

     

    That is one of the most bizarre videos I have ever seen. I mean everything he says is logical. But, it is such an extreme reaction to all of this. Who is actually going to do everything he suggests? It is just crazy.

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  2. He was very sick, and showing major symptoms. There is now video of him getting on the train, and he could barely walk, and was coughing on people without wearing a mask. Officials should be manning every station, and handing out free masks for public transport. He was very sick in Hua Hin, vomiting on the train. Apparently some officials inspected him, and due to a normal temperature, he was allowed to continue his travel. 

     

    So, my question is this. Why go to the extent the officials have gone, in shutting down the nations economy, and then allow this kind of inane recklessness to happen? It is public transport. Public transport by it's very nature is forced social gathering. Why not have officials taking precautions? Is this just staggering incompetence? Or just an oversight? Or is this more damage caused by the ridiculously unqualified health minister Anutin? He needs to be replaced yesterday. 

     

     

     

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  3. 21 minutes ago, dlclark97 said:

    I can't believe anyone would come here now to work in the dive industry.  Over the last 3-4 years many of Thailand's liveaboards moved to Indonesia and Malaysia.  Now even they are in the same boat (pun intended) as everyone else.  SCUBA in Thailand is just not what it used to be and it was getting harder and harder for the liveaboards to even come close to filling their boats for 4-7 day dive excursions.  Until recently many of these boats that had moved to Indonesia and Malaysia were fully booked months in advance and even had wait lists for trips that were months away.  There are organizations working in conjunction with the Thai Navy harvesting and replanting corals in the many areas that have been devasted by over fishing and from boats dropping their anchors on the coral reefs and from the polluted runoff from what are sometimes torrential rains that wash all the dirt and sewage from the tsreets into the ocean.  Pattaya once had pristine corals and abundant marine life a short ways from the shore.  Now it's a great place to dive if you like sea urchins and little else.  

    My wife and I both got out open water certification on Dark Tao. Worst diving of my life. Ten dives and never visibility better than three to four meters. I can see why the industry is dying. Andaman is far better but like you say, mostly live aboards. Indonesia diving can be stunning. Thailand is not even a pale shadow of that experience. 

     

    And many do not want to have anything to do with Dark Tao, as it's reputation is horrendous. Plus it is really overpriced. Phangan has its charms. 

  4. Again, more inane policy from an administration so incompetent it defies the imagination. They cannot even get a consistent message out. Bangkok is already "shut down". And now Taweesin says it is not shut down, nor will be be shut down. What gives here? 

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  5. 17 hours ago, Henryford said:

    Yes i find it bizarre that Thailand have shut their country down, and ruined millions of people over 9 deaths, yet are happy that 30,000 Thais are killed on the roads every year.

    Frankly, I doubt if they are happy about the road deaths, but they are doing absolutely nothing to prevent them, nor to improve the situation. All it would take is for a few thousand highway patrol cars to actually be out patrolling the highways, and handing out large citations for reckless driving, driving too slow in the fast lane, hogging the fast lane and not allowing cars to pass, cutting onto the highway directly in front of cars going at full speed, etc. Habits would change. As it exists now, there is no deterrent. 

     

    And can someone explain to me how stopping alcohol sales will save lives? I do not need to hear about the group gathering nonsense, please. 

  6. 2 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

    It isn't because you are already with your wife. It's obvious such rules are intended to suppress gatherings of non-related people in public. Sharing food as is the Asian way is definitely a major way to pass this virus. Yes it's unfortunate that restrictions often include people and activities that aren't really the needed target. But practically how would it be enforced otherwise?

    And sharing food is not a health hazard as long as minor precautions are taken. Do you really think people are sharing utensils and being that reckless at this stage? I see alot of Thais who are in a panic over this. It is possible that is exactly where the army wants them to be?

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