Over 90% of Thai people want a total ban on foreign arrivals

[bipper]

6 hours ago, Soikhaonoiken said:

Surely they don't understand the implications of banning foreigners to the country, 20% of GDP plus all the Baht given to Thai people/girls/families support for those families which is not part of GDP, which must add up 100s of millions of Baht or do the Thai people want to go back to the 1960s and make a living from the land. 

Surely they do. They are concerned about family (Thais live together cradle to grave in many instances.) They care about community they know they won't starve snd just are not as obsessed with the almighty $€£ as Westerns are. You don't understand them in their own country that's your problem not theirs.

[Surasak]

6 hours ago, mike787 said:

Alrighty, everyone begin packing, get out, and never come back you all are NOT wanted here in Thailand.  It's over, go find another place.

Ah! So, this is to be the new normal everyone is talking about?

[ExpatOne]

LOL. Survey 1,400 people who work in the tourist industry and we’ll get a poll saying 100% of Thai people want foreign arrivals to resume immediately.

[Pottinger]

6 minutes ago, bipper said:

Surely they do. They are concerned about family (Thais live together cradle to grave in many instances.) They care about community they know they won't starve snd just are not as obsessed with the almighty $€£ as Westerns are. You don't understand them in their own country that's your problem not theirs.

LOL!

[connda]

6 hours ago, Soikhaonoiken said:

Surely they don't understand the implications of banning foreigners to the country, 20% of GDP plus all the Baht given to Thai people/girls/families support for those families which is not part of GDP, which must add up 100s of millions of Baht or do the Thai people want to go back to the 1960s and make a living from the land. 

The real economic pain hasn't set in.  When it does, then maybe the tune of the song will change.  Until then? 

Now playing: Xenophobian Rhapsody
"Mama Mia!  Mama Mia!  Mama Mia Keep Them Out!!!
The COVID bug will be arriving on an airplane,
To get meee, to get meeee, to get MeEEEEEE!"

[Mikeasq60]

22 minutes ago, mstevens said:

 

One problem is that so many foreigners in Thailand only know Thais who associate with - you could also say "benefit from" - foreigners. Think bar and restaurant staff, Thais who work in businesses with a large foreign customer base, the Thai family of women who have a farang boyfriend / husband etc. These Thai people all have a reason for saying they want foreigners to be able to enter Thailand. Ask them about foreigners and they welcome us. But how representative are they of all Thais?

 

Talk with Thais who don't have anything to do with foreigners, don't live near large numbers of foreigners, don't work with foreigners, don't have foreigners in the extended family and it's a different story. These Thai people aren't anti-foreigner per se, they just don't want foreigners visiting Thailand at this time.

 

It's little different to how things are currently here in New Zealand. The vast majority of New Zealanders don't want foreigners to visit, and at this time only New Zealanders, permanent residents and the foreign partners / family of New Zealanders can enter the country. It's not that we don't like foreigners. We just don't want people visiting until the danger of coronavirus being reintroduced to our country has passed.

 

Ask my Isan Thai wife how she feels about foreigners Im American, she tells me all the time how lucky she was to meet me and I feel the same about her! Foreigners contribute greatly to Thailand its not just the bad things but many good!

[steven100]

6 hours ago, mike787 said:

Alrighty, everyone begin packing, get out, and never come back you all are NOT wanted here in Thailand.  It's over, go find another place.

I agree .... most just whinge and complain that everything is bad in Thailand so why bother letting them stay. 

[Russell17au]

No country has opened up their borders to tourism so why should Thailand do the stupid thing and allow foreigners back in to spread the virus again and not only destroy the tourism but also destroy the lives of those that take the virus home and kill there family members. Even Australia has halved its intake of its own citizens back into the country. I know a lot of expats on here would prefer for the elderly Thai people to die by their younger family members taking home this virus instead of the tourist industry closing and the bars closing. In Australia there are many industries closing because of the virus infection in those factories. Do not allow the foreigners in to the country at this point of time, no other country is open to tourists.

[Mikeasq60]

22 minutes ago, Saint Nick said:

Interesting you should say that!

I work in the tourism industry, I am not a prostitute and I am in danger of loosing my job pretty soon!

Also my girlfriend is working in the tourism industry and sheis also not a prostitute!

As aren't many of our friends,who work in the tourism industry!

And many of the people I know (most of them Thais) absolutely pitty EVERYBODY, including the prostitutes, who lost their job and are now facing super - hard times!

 

But you have Thais on here and other internet sites who write health before the economy. Do you know any of those things who say or write?

[Mikeasq60]

1 minute ago, Russell17au said:

No country has opened up their borders to tourism so why should Thailand do the stupid thing and allow foreigners back in to spread the virus again and not only destroy the tourism but also destroy the lives of those that take the virus home and kill there family members. Even Australia has halved its intake of its own citizens back into the country. I know a lot of expats on here would prefer for the elderly Thai people to die by their younger family members taking home this virus instead of the tourist industry closing and the bars closing. In Australia there are many industries closing because of the virus infection in those factories. Do not allow the foreigners in to the country at this point of time, no other country is open to tourists.

Where are all these figures for Australia and how are they being manipulated like they are in the US. People arent stupid and arent all leftist trying to destabilize the entire world, its not working!

[Huckenfell]

7 hours ago, Kadilo said:

Can’t expect anything else when they are getting totally brainwashed on a daily basis. Even some of the foreigners who are living In Thailand are spouting the same scaremongering nonsense. 

 

Maybe it’s gonna take a while to sink in the severity of the situation the country is heading for before they begin to wise up. 
 

Thaiand can not survive on its own. 
 

I can understand agree with this. I live in Queensland Aust., and don't want any people from down south coming into Queensland right now.

 

[Bob A Kneale]

6 hours ago, AlexJohanson said:

Its best to just keep you ahead down and don't question the Thai Government. 

What's that got to do with this poll?

[SuwadeeS]

I hope that this goes around all over the world!!!!!!

Let the world know, how un-welcome you are in Thailand.

There are plenty of other countries to have a nice holiday without dual pricing etc.

I hope the tourist industry will totally collaps over this fascist spirit !!!!!

 

Please, all tourists: Consider and look for another destination.

 

[hotandsticky]

6 minutes ago, SuwadeeS said:

I hope that this goes around all over the world!!!!!!

Let the world know, how un-welcome you are in Thailand.

There are plenty of other countries to have a nice holiday without dual pricing etc.

I hope the tourist industry will totally collaps over this fascist spirit !!!!!

 

Please, all tourists: Consider and look for another destination.

 

 

 

 

If you don't like it, don't come; if you are here, and don't like it, then go........................  it is a free world (-ish).

[Bob A Kneale]

4 hours ago, jojothai said:

Why target just the foreigners?

Because it was a poll that included questions regarding the entry of foreigners into the country!

Edited July 20, 2020 by Bob A Kneale

[ThailandRyan]

42 minutes ago, Burma Bill said:

Ah ha!! The Casino and Hotel brigade are on the march!!!

No bus loads of developers for the new projects, such as the under the bridge sport court, or the new archipelago for the glass bottom boats on a track so they can not sink..... 

[Arkady]

Very strange poll.  Pre-COVID 12-15% of Thai GDP was generated by foreign tourism.  If you include suppliers to the tourism industry, probably well over 10% of Thai people were dependent on tourist dollars. So, if the poll claims to have reached a representative sample, some of the respondents are in favour of unemployment and desperate financial conditions for them and their families.

[spidermike007]

This survey sounds fishy. First of all the media and certainly the government, cannot be trusted here. Second, if tourism makes up nearly 20% of the total economy, with all ancillary jobs taken into account, how could only 10% of those surveyed say they want foreigners back? 

 

Second, this hapless administration has been doing a great job of whipping the public up into a frenzy. Limited tourism, with testing could be a reliable way to provide some income to the tourism sector, which is hurting badly, and dying a slow and painful death. 

 

However, I get the fear. The world is not doing well. And we are quite safe here. I understand the fear of the Zombies. 

[ThailandRyan]

27 minutes ago, steven100 said:

I agree .... most just whinge and complain that everything is bad in Thailand so why bother letting them stay. 

Never know which side of the fence we will see the government supporter take nowaday's

[Huckenfell]

5 hours ago, Curt1591 said:

I wonder how long it took to capture an image where not one person has the mask under their chin ...

By the time i had got my emergency flight back to Australia i had become used to wearing a mask and just kept doing so. I would like a dollar for every time i was asked  "What in the hell are you using that face mask for" They just could not understand!

[davidmann]

8 hours ago, Thaiwrath said:

 94.45% are most concerned about losing their jobs,

 

Obviously, not many of the massive number of 1,459 people questioned in the poll, were from the millions who have, rather sadly, already lost their jobs.

in the 1970. thai did not like westerners. at that time we could not even buy ticket on train ,i did get train ticket. ,got thai to buy it for me ,then the other people asked the guard to have me removed ,now they got reason ,to not like westerners.  ,what about the nice chinese.   ,  welcome. , well. the saying goes if they got no rice let them eat cages.  ,that did no work out to well. for one lady        sure. most people know the saying.  ( if they got no bread let them eat cages ).  

[Mr Meeseeks]

56 minutes ago, Saint Nick said:

Interesting you should say that!

I work in the tourism industry, I am not a prostitute and I am in danger of loosing my job pretty soon!

Also my girlfriend is working in the tourism industry and sheis also not a prostitute!

As aren't many of our friends,who work in the tourism industry!

And many of the people I know (most of them Thais) absolutely pitty EVERYBODY, including the prostitutes, who lost their job and are now facing super - hard times!

 

Do you have a farang sending you money?

 

As that was what my post was about. Nothing to do with the tourism industry. 

[mstevens]

39 minutes ago, Mikeasq60 said:

Ask my Isan Thai wife how she feels about foreigners Im American, she tells me all the time how lucky she was to meet me and I feel the same about her! Foreigners contribute greatly to Thailand its not just the bad things but many good!

 

And that verifies the point I made. Any Thai with a foreign partner / who works with foreigners / benefits from foreigners most likely feels the same way as your wife - as they should. But most Thais aren't in that position, hence most Thais might not necessarily feel the same as your wife. To Thais with no foreigner connection, they see no benefit of foreigners coming in to the country but they do perceive there is a danger of the virus coming in with the foreingers, hence the poll results. I maintain that the majority of Thais are not in favour of foreigners entering the country at this time. Not sure it is quite 94%....but a majority for sure.

Edited July 20, 2020 by mstevens

[Bob A Kneale]

4 hours ago, Tarteso said:

8 hours ago, webfact said:

Over 90% of Thai people want a total ban on foreign arrivals

 

1459 !!!!!

So you think that polls should question 69,000,000+ people every time in order to get a reasonable indication?

Edited July 20, 2020 by Bob A Kneale

[CNXexpat]

I guess a Thai who doesn´t want to have foreigners in his country because he is afraid to die from covid, mounts after the answer his motorcycle and drives away without helmet and backlight.

[holy cow cm]

Ridiculous. Thais want foreigners who do not have the CV19. So Thailand better figure out a better way to have their guests to be welcome here as no one is going to quarantine for 14 days and jump their CV19 insurance hoop. I do know this... The USA is out and China should be out too from their new CV19 flare ups.

[johng]

1 minute ago, CNXexpat said:

mounts after the answer his motorcycle and drives away without helmet and backlight.

But with a facemask on of course. ????

[Mr Meeseeks]

32 minutes ago, condobrit001 said:

You are forgetting 1941 when the Japanese overran Thailand and they were forced to capitulate, effectively becoming a Japanese puppet state.

And the reason they were not punished for it or the war crimes committed on their soil? 

 

That's right, the good ol' US of A.

[ThailandRyan]

2 minutes ago, CNXexpat said:

I guess a Thai who doesn´t want to have foreigners in his country because he is afraid to die from covid, mounts after the answer his motorcycle and drives away without helmet and backlight.

while looking at his phone and having his toddler ride in the basket up front...

[RocketDog]

7 hours ago, mike787 said:

Alrighty, everyone begin packing, get out, and never come back you all are NOT wanted here in Thailand.  It's over, go find another place.

Over-reaction much? 

But please feel free to take the next flight out good sir.