1 hour ago, Brunolem said:

Yes, but first they need to catch a 78 year old Swiss grandmother who has overstayed by 12 hours!

Yes, but THAT might take a while too - there aren't that many intelligent BMWs available yet (hint hint, time to buy more).

1 hour ago, AlexRich said:

No one will know if novel coronavirus has taken a grip in Thailand until it reaches the point where it can't be stopped ... if uncontrolled it will take around a month to become obvious to everyone. So I'd take special care to avoid crowds and shop during low traffic hours. I wouldn't be to much until the situation becomes clear.

We will know when the hospitals will not have enough beds. Then the real problems will start. It's a matter of time. I don't believe the numbers told by health ministry. I have a feeling of a cover up.

 

1 hour ago, alzack said:

Only 1 million arrived? no need to worry then, with  1% infection rate thats only   10,000 infections, no worries

And a 2% death rate so that's 200 elderly souls who meet their maker a week early.

 

Ready. steady, Oh we haven't started yet.

20 minutes ago, Thunder26 said:

I think the latest news informed us that 9 Thais had been infected so far. It is a matter of time when farangs will be having.

Agreed. So far. The article was talking about those who came in earlier in January. Mostly now gone home and the rest are beyond their incubation date.

Thailand is smart to continue to accept and welcome the Chinese.  And the Chinese will remember and appreciate Thailand’s support in the future.

10 hours ago, rooster59 said:

There are currently more than 100,000 Chinese tourists and long-stayers in Thailand, including 2,038 who came from the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, and 91,688 from Guangzhou, which is close to Wuhan,

How does that song go again: "there could be trouble ahead" 

50 minutes ago, Visarghhhh said:

Thailand is smart to continue to accept and welcome the Chinese.  And the Chinese will remember and appreciate Thailand’s support in the future.

This isn't about supporting China as a gesture of goodwill.

It's more about trying to avoid an economic crisis in the tourism sector on which the Thai economy is so dependent.

7 hours ago, Assurancetourix said:

not easy to spit everywhere  

Here is a man who is a good observer ????

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Edited February 8, 20206 yr by sanuk711
must not make fun of the Chinese..........

8 hours ago, garygooner said:

Chinese tourists will continue to be welcomed to the LOS & we all know why. Let's just hope that soon all tourists from Wuhan will be back where they belong for the time being. It took 6 months for SARS to blow over. 

 

And this will last for at least the same time. It seems that Thailand is a hole through which possibly infected Chinese can get away from China. The extent of Thai venality may mean TL becomes a major source. I hope Prayuth and Co are prepared for that because if things go the way they could go, the blowback will be significant, and could be terminal for this government. No matter who their sponsors are, they will not be happy at all to remain as such if gross incompetence is generally recognised.

At immigration they should ask how many days guests are staying and give each person two or three masks per day.

4 hours ago, Visarghhhh said:

Thailand is smart to continue to accept and welcome the Chinese.  And the Chinese will remember and appreciate Thailand’s support in the future.

Of course. They can't upset their overlords. 

I don't think the TAT are smiling - who in there right mind would come to a Country where everyone is wearing face masks, and put themselves and families at risk.

 

So one carriage of the TAT tourism gravy train has gone awry (Chinese) - and the other one has the breaks on (Indian). 

 

Some of the scenes coming out of China are of Apocalyptic proportions, with a lot of misinformation being shared to MSM, Corona is already adapting and mutating to ensure it can secure a host.  

 

Not one to scare monger and all, be safe... The Corona Tsunami has not yet hit, only a light wave so far.

 

 

Edited February 8, 20206 yr by fraggleRock

17 hours ago, tifino said:

They dilly dailies too long in enforcing the ALLforeigners get a Trackable SIMCHIP. .. SthAustralian police are currently actively tracking specific Chinese 'tourists' movements here.

 

 - it is too late to worry about privacy. 

They should implement TM 28 in South OZ then.

21 minutes ago, brianthainess said:

18 hours ago, tifino said:

They dilly dailies too long in enforcing the ALLforeigners get a Trackable SIMCHIP. .. SthAustralian police are currently actively tracking specific Chinese 'tourists' movements here.

 

 - it is too late to worry about privacy. 

They should implement TM 28 in South OZ then.

 but they don't need it - when they can simply track, on the go, the mobile phone whereabouts of unknowing tourist

Well here we are with A nut in government handing out uncovered face masks with uncovered hands holding them, while without wearing a face mask spitting anger to the press coz someone refused his offer, apparently he is the health minister, and immigration still accepting arrivals from China. What a mess they have managed to make of this situation. The only good news i heard yesterday, sort of, was, they are now checking the temp of all people taking ferries to Koh Chang.  

....and how are they checking the Chinese driving in over the northern border?  Chiang Mai is filled with cars that have Chinese plates.

21 minutes ago, Tracyb said:

....and how are they checking the Chinese driving in over the northern border?  Chiang Mai is filled with cars that have Chinese plates.

divert all their Great Walls and Lemming Geelys into the Moat! 

 

 

Muppets, you can just not make this stuff up, total lunacy by the Thais.

 

The long term potential hospitalization and medical treatment of the Thai population (and foreigners) and the impact to their society if this corona virus gets out of control in Thailand will far out way the short term Chinese tourist Baht they so desire.

 

But as usual Thais cannot see past today and envisage tomorrow's collateral damage!

 

21 hours ago, trainman34014 said:

100,000 too many and they should stop a single person further from coming.  If we end up with a major outbreak in Thailand it will be the fault of the Brainless Nerks in Government House and i just hope they are the first to be contaminated !

It won't be they're fault and they won't be the first to get it. The ones making the decisions and the ones above them are in their purified air sealed rooms not worrying about the people just their money. Now if we can change the oxygen to carbon monoxide things will get better soon

Some of the posters would have made great Nazis. Exchange Jews for Chinese and the bigotry and hatred is the same. Sick minded people. Simple minded people.

1 hour ago, emptypockets said:

Some of the posters would have made great Nazis. Exchange Jews for Chinese and the bigotry and hatred is the same. Sick minded people. Simple minded people.

they may yet still be forced to relinquish their Spratley islands military expansion dreams... and turn them all into Isolation camps for their CV sick; the ones that managed to survive just long enough to return home from their so called tourist holidays

1 hour ago, emptypockets said:

Some of the posters would have made great Nazis. Exchange Jews for Chinese and the bigotry and hatred is the same. Sick minded people. Simple minded people.

  Ooooh...another member of the "woke" crowd.  

 

  Probably "racist" for a sovereign nation to ban flights from mainland China too?  

3 hours ago, emptypockets said:

Some of the posters would have made great Nazis. Exchange Jews for Chinese and the bigotry and hatred is the same. Sick minded people. Simple minded people.

Didn't know that the Jews were persecuted because they were infected by a highly contagious virus. 

 

Thanks for the tip... 

4 hours ago, Tracyb said:

....and how are they checking the Chinese driving in over the northern border?  Chiang Mai is filled with cars that have Chinese plates.

About that, one can imagine that these Chinese cars have come to Thailand after crossing either through Burma or Laos. 

 

Isn't it fantastic that these two countries, sharing long borders and exchanges with China, have reported zero case of coronavirus? 

On 2/8/2020 at 11:21 AM, Assurancetourix said:

how many thais and farang did they infect during their stay in the land of smirk?

I repeat, silent incubation from 1 to 14 days ...

 

But other than that, everything is under 1000% control  

And now they know, from the first patient in the US, that people are infectious for a long time after they are clear of the symptoms.

Thailand is going to be hit hard.. Even Hong Kong is going down the drain now. Really smart for them to kick out farangs!

J.Crew to shut Hong Kong stores, joins big-brand exodus from Causeway Bay, world’s priciest shopping district
https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3049731/jcrew-shut-hong-kong-stores-joins-big-brand-exodus-causeway-bay-worlds

Only 3.2 million travellers visited Hong Kong in December last year, a decline of 51.3 per cent from the same period in 2018, according to latest data released by the Hong Kong Tourism Board. The number of mainland tourists arriving in Hong Kong plunged 52 per cent to 2.4 million in December, from 5.12 million a year ago. For the whole of 2019, the total number of tourist arrivals declined 14.2 per cent to 55.9 million. The number of mainland Chinese tourists fell 14.2 per cent to 43.8 million.

6 minutes ago, FinChin67 said:

Thailand is going to be hit hard.. Even Hong Kong is going down the drain now. Really smart for them to kick out farangs!

J.Crew to shut Hong Kong stores, joins big-brand exodus from Causeway Bay, world’s priciest shopping district
https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3049731/jcrew-shut-hong-kong-stores-joins-big-brand-exodus-causeway-bay-worlds

Only 3.2 million travellers visited Hong Kong in December last year, a decline of 51.3 per cent from the same period in 2018, according to latest data released by the Hong Kong Tourism Board. The number of mainland tourists arriving in Hong Kong plunged 52 per cent to 2.4 million in December, from 5.12 million a year ago. For the whole of 2019, the total number of tourist arrivals declined 14.2 per cent to 55.9 million. The number of mainland Chinese tourists fell 14.2 per cent to 43.8 million.

You do realise the drop in tourism was not due to the virus, right?

21 hours ago, BobbyL said:

Of course. They can't upset their overlords. 

 

On 2/8/2020 at 12:51 AM, garygooner said:

Chinese tourists will continue to be welcomed to the LOS & we all know why.

Because they bring money and eighty percent farangs come to find  prostitute brides for a marriage visas to live here permanently as they could neither find a bride in their home country nor could they live in their home country with their meager income.