SteveK

6 minutes ago, Aussie Col said:

The longer Thailand leaves it to open up the harder it will be to get back tourists as they will find somewhere else to go where their tourist dollars go further

Bang on. And the longer they leave it, the more die hard Thailand fans will start discovering the Philippines (where girls speak English and actually have boobs), Cambodia (where you can get a very good beer for 15 baht) and Vietnam, which has insanely hot girls and is cheaper than Thailand.

They are shooting themselves in the foot - the guys who have alway gone to Thailand are now going to go somewhere else, whilst the high-class tourists they dream of will continue to go to Antigua, Bora Bora and Tuscany. Leaving Thailand bankrupt.

The Thai Baht works like this. Keep it astronomically high for a few years so that the elite can buy their properties in New York, Paris and London. Then let it drop, and the elite sell off their assets, netting billions. Sounds insane, but when it's your uncle making the decisions you'd be a fool to not capitalise on it. 

Yinn wake up. If you think that Thailand has used its superior intellect, organisational abilities, openness and sheer brainpower to "control" this virus then you need to go back to school. They either aren't testing, aren't reporting, or are *severely* suppressing the numbers. Probably all of the above. I don't believe any of the Thai numbers.

Dishonesty is a way of life here. 

Frankly it's amazing that western countries believe the stupid figures put out by Thailand about coronavirus.

This guy epitomises for me many of the things that are currently wrong with this country.

I've been to Koh Tao many times and always enjoyed it. But my wife point blank refuses to go there. What is the problem?

What stresses you in Thailand?

Fat, bald ex-pats using broken English on a forum pretending to be a Thai girl. 

Then making all the classic spelling and grammatical errors that a poorly-educated Brit would make and hoping nobody would notice. 

Critical thinking, forward-planning and situational analysis are things that Thais simply cannot comprehend. Do they want tourism back or don't they? Do they hate western tourists or don't they? If they want westerners' money then why are they keeping a racist moron in the government? They don't know what they are doing.

They just use various committees and subcommittees to keep putting out complete and utter garbage and misinformation in the hope that people will think they are doing something. They are not! They must understand that most people in the world are probably more intelligent and educated and don't just swallow complete and utter rubbish like the Thais do.

35 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

Covid free or not tested ? 

What's the difference? It seems that most consumers of mass media are not able to understand that countries with low rates of coronavirus are simply the ones who haven't been testing or have been using fake test kits.

2 minutes ago, baansgr said:

Who is he?

A washed-up singer/musician accused of abusing underage girls, possessing child pornography, also accused of multiple counts of aggravated sexual abuse, kidnapping, forced labour and god knows what else.

10 minutes ago, YetAnother said:

boil it down; they arent smart enough and largely incapable of making well-thought-out decisions

Don't say that. This government is very smart, well-educated, generous and loves the Thai people passionately. They've just had a bit of bad luck. Could happen to anyone.

6 minutes ago, Seik said:

The one thing I'm learning from Thai people is to stop stressing over BS. I'm sometimes stressed about my visa situation which I try to turn into excitement for what the future brings. ???? 

Your visa situation is the one thing you should stress about, unless of course you don't mind being forced to purchase an overpriced one-way ticket back to your home country, and being seperated from all your belongings, friends and partner here, possibly for a very long time.

Lying.

1 hour ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

Let's just have it out now to decide who's gonna be top dog in the Pacific for the rest of the century. I'll put the US and its allies (most of the world) up against the Chinese and her allies, North Korea and Cambodia, any day.

China has the bigger army, but can't help but think that they'd get flattened by the USA.

It seems that people are just getting thicker and thicker.....