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How many decades has this been happening, and every year it floods it's as though the government is seeing it for the first time. 

3 minutes ago, Bill97 said:

Don’t worry, they are not after you. 
 

They already got you.

Get your muzzle on Bill.  Good boy.

3 hours ago, Trujillo said:

To me, it shows that people here are starting to think for themselves and understand that while we all support good health, wearing a mask when the coast has been clear for nine quarantine cycles isn't for health reasons. 

Which show why compulsory mask wearing isn't about protecting the public from one kind of virus at the exclusion of all others.  It's about compliance. 

When will mask wearing be rolled back.  After there are no reported cases in a country for over three months? (well, not here)  A year?  Two years?  After a vaccination?  When there are zero cases?  When all pathogens have been eradicated from the Earth? 

Wearing a mask is a sign of social conformity and probably will be for the rest of our lives.  If not a mask, then something else will take it's place.  Those with high power needs and greed have tasted the sweetness of autocratic power.  They'll never let go of that voluntarily.   So?  "Get your mask on bro'!"

I see that there will be a glut of morning glory, collard, choy sum, cucumber and chilli on the market this year.  1 kilo of each - 10 THB.  May be better to buy you own seed (they're cheap) and grow a different crop.  Then, save enough seed for next year. 

2 minutes ago, DrTuner said:

So, its D-Day. Anybody happen to know how many will be on overstay tomorrow? Thousands?

Today's "Good Guys" are tomorrow's "Bad Guys" compliments of the fickle winds of fortune and a nationalistic state with a pathological fear and hatred of all things foreign.

"You. Dirty foreigners.  You all national security risk.  Get out now!"
Signed,
Somchai Trump

9 hours ago, webfact said:

Yutthasak said that meeting the original October 1st deadline will be hard but he expected the STV to be available as soon as possible next month. 

 

Discussions are taking place with airlines and the 29 TAT offices worldwide are engaging in marketing strategies to inform potential tourists about arrangements, particularly the 14 day state quarantine they will have to undergo.

It makes me wonder if the expected response from the targeted "well-heeled, wealthy" tourist section is a bit underwhelming and suddenly they find they have to perhaps walk the timeline back as they wait for some more takers?  Just wondering...

5 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Foreigners who overstay their permission to remain in Thailand face fines and even possible jail. The authorities should be begging the tourists to stay. Free, unlimited visas, 10,000 baht hotel vouchers, and free meals. An immigration officer will come to your hotel to renew your visa, to show our appreciation, of your continued support. Half price air tickets for domestic travel. Princely treatment. Thank you so much for helping to rescue our economy and our people. Instead, what do they get? Threats of jail time. Beyond Inane. Are these nitwits even capable of learning and evolving? It would appear not. A truly regressive administration.

Their xenophobia literally blinds their ability to make sound economic decisions.  The tourists are here, long stay expats are here, they don't need to be screened for Covid, and long as they are here they contribute to the economy.  All Thailand can see is get the dirty foreigners out of the country and replace them with a handful of "well-heeled", wealthy tourists.  Talk about living in a constant state of denial as well as cognitive dissonance.  I think it was said that approximately 150,000 tourists remained in the country according to one of the last articles I read about immigration plan to 'deal with' overstays.  So, there are 150K chances to promote good-will in a troubled time among their 'guests.'  But instead they are going to go full medieval and in the process alienate a lot of otherwise good people who simply got stuck in an unfortunate situation. And as anyone who has ever worked within customer service knows, when you leave a customer with a bad impression, they in turn tell scores of 'potential' customers about their experience.  If Thailand handles this like a claw-hammer looking for nails to either pound or pull, then they'll probably succeed in decimating future tourism when those with bad experiences return home. 

All in all it's just another brink in the wall.

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Amazing Thailand: Massage parlours and spas to be used to quarantine foreign tourists

Wake me up when they say, "Amazing Thailand: Gogo Bars and Shower Massage Parlours to be used to quarantine foreign tourists."

In other news, Thai sex workers celebrate the new government approved 14 day bar-fine!
News at Sex, errr, at Six.

They could pay out of work Thais a few baht to line the streets and throw flower pedals at the feet of these very wealthy people.  <gag>

Adopt Portugal's drug policy laws and they could just about empty the prisons.  But that's no fun as I guess that they people who create the laws to throw people who use drugs like kratom and pot into jail simple enjoy subjecting other human being to needless suffering.

Applying Vorayuth Yoovidhya forensics to the scene, "stuck at 200" would actually mean that the victim was driving well within the speed limit.

8 hours ago, webfact said:

Thai police to ask Interpol for "Red Notice" on Boss: But does that mean he'll be arrested?

Easy enough to answer. 

If history is a guide then Interpol will ignore the Red Notice as they did the last time.
Why?  Interpol is for busting "little people", not billionaires and their heirs. 

On 9/23/2020 at 8:37 AM, ThailandRyan said:

Payroll clearing houses like the one that just collapsed as it funneled money through banks in the Philippines that is also being investigated.  Corruption taints the highest levels everywhere.

It does.  And yet government officials tell the public with a straight face that they can do nothing but fine the bank.  The executives who perpetrate these illegal acts within these banks and institutions are held sacrosanct and by legislative and regulatory degree and are blessed as untouchable.  So once the current crime's fine have been paid by the banks (cost of doing business) the same players will be right back at it again with other schemes because?  Bankers do not go to jail!!!
What the public should be doing is turning a very hard, cold eye on the power elites within their governments and ask why the corruption is allowed?  We know why.  They are beneficiaries.  Bankers are brought into governments as ministers and secretaries, they shape the legislation and regulations that allow these criminal acts to go forward, then they jump into the revolving door back into the banking world to capitalize on the fruits of their (corrupt) labor within government.  The beauty of it is that they make legal and acceptable the very practices that are amoral and corrupt, and if they can't make amoral business practices legal, then the pull the teeth on the justice system's ability to apply sanctions on white collar criminals and their crimes.

And here we are.  We live in a very amoral and corrupt world.  This will be swept under the rug in a news cycle and it will be back to business as usual.


 

This concept of acceptable collateral damage really needs to be revisited because the other option will simply be in the form of a mass of angry protesters influencing their state and local politicians to defund the police.  The pendulum needs to swing back toward the middle.

What is the growing season for domestically grow avocados in Thailand and when can you expect to see domestic avocados in local fresh markets - as in from what month until what month?

54 minutes ago, ezzra said:

What i want to know, had it been just a joe shmo that ran the policeman down would this saga also take 8 years to finally see the light and issue a APB on him? why did it take so many times to open and close, yes guilty, not guilty to finally come to this that he's guilty? what is wrong with the Thai police?...

If you were the heir of a Thai billionaire, you'd probably know.

Oh wow!  Another Red Notice that will be ignored by Interpol.

1 hour ago, PaoloR said:

Under the terms and conditions we sign onto with Expedia, Agoda, Booking.com etc.:

If we accept a booking and then fail to provide a room we are obliged to find equivalent or better accommodation and to pay for it. Failure to comply means difficulty in extracting funds owed by the booking sites and, or, black-listing from these sites. In reality the booking site usually steps in and finds a hotel for them and then deducts the difference from commission owed. 

Thanks for chiming in and clarifying.  Before articles such as this are published, it would help if they were vetted for accuracy and hyperbole. It would have saved a lot of grief if the headline had read,
"Krabi: Only two ASQ 'quarantine hotels' available to foreign tourists" 
The headline as it reads sounds like Krabi is shut to all foreigners.