5 hours ago, geriatrickid said:

As sad as the pictures are, it  is quite likely that these same people took to the streets with their "yellow shirt" protests,

You do post some rubbish.

7 hours ago, Banana7 said:

Why risk opening the borders without proper quarantines for tourists? It's silly to open them. If the borders are opened without necessary precautions, it will cause deaths, great expenses for health care, and for what?? just increase GDP temporarily by 8%. Once the virus returns and runs rampant, the GDP will be down 20-30% maybe more, because of all the dead and sick people, and new curfews and all the other restrictions we went through to become virus free.

sorry  but all of you arguments are just pulled out from nowhere. Just because you imagine something, it doesnt mean it is real! the GDP will be down 20-30% - you just made this numbers up.

Healthy people over all have no problems with covid 19. Only the - sorry- unfit persons get more unfit. So this alone does not have a big impact for the economy. You need to care for these people, but especially for this, you need a healthy economy. And you totally forget, the  negative effect of a decline of - lets say- 10% has for the health of the people.

6 millions without jobs. People are allready  starve. some thousands more suizides. 10 % is just the overall number, but fact is, the losses for the low income groups are much more severe. They normaly do not have much resources, now Millions lose nearly 100 % of their income. Realy that hard to understand? It is not just money. It means no food, no shelter for many. reduced medical care (if you are at that level, you do not care much about your health, before these people go to a clinic, even if it is for free, they accept being ill for a long time. Many go too late...

Do you realy know so little about what it means to be poor?

 

In Europe, we have thousand of new so called "cases" every day (most of them without symtoms or only mild symtoms). People who are tested positive, are just being told to stay at home, not work and to avoid contacts. No real quarantine. they are even allowed to go to buy food.The borders are mostly open. Do we die like one day flies. No. In the hospitals covid19 related deaths are rare to see.  The economies  are accelerating again. The damage done by the lockdowns are allready big enough.

 

What else you do not and need to know?

 

Believe it or not: the biggest parasites in a society are NOT the poorest ones. Some of them may live a parasite kind of live, but in the big picture, this are only crumbs of the big cake.

 

 

19 hours ago, steven100 said:

This is unacceptable, why hasn't the local mayor contacted his Bangkok counterpart and organized food and water and supplies This is concerning to me and i'm sure if the PM Khun Prayut was made aware of this he would most certainly be annoyed nothing was done, and i'm sure he would act. 

I expect we'll see follow up action later today .... imo

Water canons?

10 hours ago, steven100 said:

exactly ....   but TV farang are so stupid.  imo

My wife lived in Phuket for ten years and still has Thai friends there, anyone saying there are not poor people living on the edge in Phuket are frankly misinformed, would likely be worse for Burmese. As an example, I visited the Thai family of my wife's friend a few years back, living not that far from Soi Bangla in a community, where Westerners perhaps never go, who were very poor.

In all my years in La la land i've never seen a better opportunity to change the country for the good of all, not just those with the shiny buttons.........  Ironic eh, threatened by the guns bought with money from the people .........    Good luck to all involved, the time's right.......  

Some inflammatory posts and the replies have been removed. 

13 hours ago, NightSky said:

 

 

Are these 'sea gypsies' as you call them not human and therefore do not require food?

Good morning nightsky. Thankyou for your question.

sea gypsies is English language. I call the “chow lay” = sea people.

They need food and money. Last week at the temple Yinn give them food and money. 

And you?

 

 

11 hours ago, Banana7 said:

Because anyone who stays in a country the size of Thailand for more 2 or 3 months is really not a tourist. A tourist is a person who tours an area for pleasure or culture. If you're staying longer than 2 or 3 months, you're here for something other than to tour the country. People on amnesty have been here for about 7+ months.

 

There many reasons to stay in Thailand other than tourism. Many other types of visas are available to extend your stay for legitimate reasons. Try to be honest when stating why you want to stay.

 

I assume you made a mistake in replying to my post with another post

22 hours ago, colinneil said:

What do these people expect?

Help from a bunch of geriatric/ past their sell by date ex army wallas, more interested in buying useless Chinese subs, Stryker APCs, Ukrain tanks, than helping the people.

A very sad pathetic state of affairs, Prayut sitting in his ivory tower, immune to reality.

lankie......you forgot the 600  army vehicles from INDIA....!!!

You will never starve in Thailand people will always give you some food

All the countries which fell into the WHO/gloablist pandemic trap of a virus that kills 0.062%, the vast  majority of which are elderly and those with co-morbidities will now reap a whilwind of deaths of many many times more from starvatiion, malnutrition, poverty, suicide, stress and other problems which will arise from lockdowns, restrictions, mask wearing, hysteria and the collapse of the economy. 

On 9/19/2020 at 10:00 AM, steven100 said:

This is unacceptable, why hasn't the local mayor contacted his Bangkok counterpart and organized food and water and supplies This is concerning to me and i'm sure if the PM Khun Prayut was made aware of this he would most certainly be annoyed nothing was done, and i'm sure he would act. 

I expect we'll see follow up action later today .... imo

Does he not have eyes for himself, does he not know what is going on? 

I'm sure he has an "army" [pun intended] out watching more than what the students are doing?

Or does he only concern himself with the quashing students at the moment?

What he has to remember is everyone of these out-of-work starving people have a memory, and when marches come to their district they will join in., also when the next election comes around and votes cast for a government... guess who they won't vote to stay in power.

5 hours ago, faraday said:

You do post some rubbish.

Instead of taking pot shots because I do not support your conspiracy derived position on Covid19,  go and educate yourself on the economic and political characteristics of the island.  Start with the TVF archives.

 

If you know anything about Phuket you will know that much of the low wage staff come from off island. There are approx. 400,000 registered residents. During the hotel peak season, the number  is closer to  600,000+.  Most of these hotel & restaurant staff workers have left the island.  What's left are the locals who had jobs protected for locals, such as the transport gang and the beach thugs. 

Patong is controlled by a small number of families who own much of the tourist zone commercial real estate. It was a Suthep strong hold. The people loved Suthep and facilitated the installation of the current military based administration. People who were around in 2008 recall the aggravation and difficulties when the yellow shirts took to protesting around the tourist areas. The airport was shut down in September 2008. Not as bad as the seizures of  BKK or DMK, but tourists were terrified.  1000 noisy yellow shirts bullied there way into the provincial administration building. It didn't stop then. They  protested against former PM Yingluck too.   Here's a reminder from 2012; https://thethaiger.com/news/phuket/Phuket-yellow-shirts-bus-Bangkok-join-protest

 

So, please don't tell me that the residents of Patong have not had a hand in their present fate.  They have the government that they wanted. Let them now enjoy the benefits.

first few well feed and I bet they have no intension of selling their mobile, but it is bad for the starving that the government is not helping, very soon the subs etc. will have to go on back order