MikeyIdea

11 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

 

There hasn't been a proper lockdown in Thailand and fewer than 100 people have died since March 2020.  If there is ever a proper lockdown, I'll follow the rules, but while the country remains open with relatively few restrictions I will continue with my life.  I respect your decision to remain locked down though.

Be careful and pay extra attention to not infect anyone else 

2 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

 My parents died many years ago!  I'm in my 60s myself - should I lock myself down? ????

No, you should meet some other elderly, infect them and watch them die, then you should ask yourself if perhaps lockdown would have saved them

14 hours ago, brewsterbudgen said:

What doesn't he get?  He is allowed to travel over Songkran, as myself and many others will do.  

Please make sure you meet your elderly parents when you come home

56 minutes ago, Nanaplaza666 said:

Thats a good mikeyidea but you realy think they have a good contact tracing system if they don't do mass testing so not knowing everybody that's infected ?? 

I think they have proven that their contact tracing efforts, without mass testing, worked this far. It's getting really serious first 13 months after the whole western world lost control. International experts are surprised that Thailand managed to keep infection rates so low for so long.   

I went through the ASQ quarantine system last year and was impressed how good it was. It was very good.

I think they do have a good contact tracing system, I don't know if it's going to be enough with a variant that is 70% more contagious though. The hot weather will help, I don't know if that's going to be enough either. The odds are against them.

My daughters international school in Bangkok cancelled classes today. I don't know the reason but we can expect a fairly strong response and I think schools will do online classes after Songkran. We will know soon

2 hours ago, Nanaplaza666 said:

And now ?? 

The same as we have done for hundreds of years when there is a contagious disease outbreak. In the past we called in quarantine, now we call it partial or full lockdown.  Started well with entertainment venues ordered to shut in many places tomorrow, recommendation not to travel and the Transport Ministry of Thailand has ordered all departments providing public transport services to grant a full fare refund to those who wish to cancel their tickets purchased before the Songkran holiday.

Thailand is also considered very good at contract tracing and isolation of contacts, except on ThaiVisa of course. This is not the same as mass testing which Thailand does not do. Then the original strain clearly didn't like the hot weather and became less efficient at spreading. Let's hope that the UK variant is the same. No one knows. Schools in affected areas will go over to on-line teaching. My daughters international school in Bangkok abruptly cancelled tomorrow's classes, I don't know why yet. All government workers in affected areas will be ordered to work from home. The government will ball with restaurants and other non essential business to keep the outbreak under control if necessary.

It's amazing that Thailand could keep the outbreak in early December small for 4 months. Everybody else except South Korea failed so it shows how good their contract tracing effort has been. China used brute force. The UK strain is 70% more contagious so it's a totally new ball game.

They could have been even harder but hopefully this will suffice. The delayed opening will cost billions in tourist revenue if it doesn't. Europeans and Americans will come anyway but the problem is that their spending combined is smaller than China and Chinese tourists won't. Their government won't allow it. No Chinese tourists and more than 50% revenue lost. It's time to start to realise who is more important for the Thai's and the Thai economy. The Thai government does, many ThaiVisa members don't. Also, one person every 30 seconds used health care services because of covid-19 in the UK at the peak of their outbreak. The Thai government knows that Thai health care services can't cope with that kind of load. I'm glad they do.

Who knows if it'll be enough. I would have preferred all non essential business in affected areas shut down, not only entertainment venues, and limit provincial travel to essential only. I suppose we have to sit down and wait and see.

On 4/6/2021 at 5:57 PM, Nanaplaza666 said:

I geuss you are not staying in any of those two places ?? 

I have been living in Bangkok for the last 30 years.

That didn't work...

Double post

Personal experience. Small things and it doesn't go up, just stops it from going down as the value of the car drops. Bigger things and they raise the price 10% or so,could be more. Big things costing a lot: They'll just refuse to renew. Sampling a bit low obviously ????

2 hours ago, mtls2005 said:

Thais have a whole range of insults, which typically involve a parable about an animal.

Sure they do, I've been here for 30 years and I know most if not all of them. What I am saying is that the vast majority of Thai's want a punishment. Apology could suffice in many cases here.

Hmmmm, saying racict or religious insults, or overall insult someone face to face is a crime in most countries. 

Why should it not be a crime when it's done on social media? What changed? Did it become acceptable to insult people?

Thai's don't think so

Just called 1584, had to wait surprisingly long, 5 minutes ???? Would have been 5 to 10 times as long in Europe.

Stll the same. Westerners cannot book, just go there with all documents ready (2 copies), no vehicle needed if you have an international license. I asked 6:30 - 7 o'clock? and she answered - Yes, that'll be good. I'll be there just before 7 I think.

1 minute ago, ThailandRyan said:

Ensure you have all the needed paperwork and just show up and que.  Read the post I did above yours with my earlier referenced post on my trip to Chatuchak DLT.

Yes, should work fine, I also took my bike license in September and they told me that foreigners couldn't even book. 

I just wanted to check if anyone heard anything more recent before I take a day off from work.

NEW QUESTION:

Apologies for he capital letters, I don't want to open up a new thread when this one is so recent.

I have lived in Thailand for 30 years but never bothered to get a Thai driving license... Lazy, I know. Well, I need one now. I got a motorcycle license from Chatuchak in September 2020. No waiting time, just came at 7:30 and was ready at 11:00. I plan to get a Thai car license on Monday 29-March.

Do I have to book now? Or can I just show up at 7 AM?

Thanks guys

19 hours ago, Wiggy said:

Yes, but you could have contracted it after the test.

They could just as well have contracted it before they tested. There are cases world wide, some in Thailand too, where people in quarantine tests negative on day 3-4 and positive on day 10-13. Not many but there are documented cases proving that incubation period can occasionally be over a week. 

4 hours ago, jackdd said:

From what I've read here on Thaivisa: Yellow book is not accepted by the DLT in Chonburi.

Thanks. If that is correct... It sounds like DLT in Chonburi wants to play games with westerners. The yellow book is indeed legal proof of address in Thailand. 

I wonder what they would say about my blue book? Not that I want to try, I haven't been in that part of Thailand for 20 years ????

On 3/20/2021 at 12:55 PM, KhunBENQ said:

Fortunately accepted here for the last few years.

"Easy": varies widely between district offices

They are exactly the same as the blue Tabien Baan except that they are for non Thais, IDs starting with 6 or 8.

I had a yellow book for some 15 years until I got a blue one and I have never ever met anyone or even heard of anyone questioning it.  

Where did you hear of anyone refusing a yellow book? 

1 hour ago, canthai55 said:

No market for a stolen Forza - or any big bike here mostly.

Generally true but there's a market in Cambodia. I'd still use a disk lock. 

10 minutes ago, donnacha said:

So, if I understand you correctly, as residents of Thailand, but not having actually been born here, we should not share information with other expats - here on a forum established as a way for expats in Thailand to share information - about an unexpected frustration that is likely to affect other members here?

We should, instead, books flights and fly across the world, back to the countries in which we were born?

Okay, got it, thanks.

 

This is a no brainer. Of course we should respect rules as the Thai's want them if we are gusts here. What's next? Should we accept that Chinese cut lines all the time in Europe because that's what they do in China?

As I originally wrote:

50 minutes ago, MikeyIdea said:

Perhaps we should consider that the reason we are not in lockdown and are allowed to travel here is because they are stricter and better at contact tracing. 

Perhaps we should consider that the reason we are not in lockdown and are allowed to travel here is because they are stricter and better at contact tracing. 

I see nothing wrong in strict rules. If you don't like it, move back to your country and follow lock-down rules there

No, and even less after my daughter chose a Seventh Adventist International school in Bangkok. 2 things in particular:

1) The ends justify the means thinking regardless of its morality when it suits them

2) They really do think they have monopoly on moral in every single way, regardless of if it's common sense that every single religion of course also have. Hypocrisy.

Good of catholicism to invent capitalism though ????

There are 2 things to consider:

1) Either of the legitimized parents has the right to veto that a child with Thai nationality leaves the country and court will support it. This applies both to the Thai and the foreign parent.

2)  Has the father leigitimized the child or (at any time) married the mother. The father has no legal rights or obligations without legitimization and the mother doesn't even have to ask the father if not.

Everything boils down to if both the parents support it or not. It's not going to happen otherwise.