50 minutes ago, Peter Denis said:

 

 

You are fully entitled to your opinion and stating that you have no objections to wearing a wrist-band.

But imo the STV tourist tracking device cannot be compared with a ClubMed 'free drinks and snacks' wristband or a Bumibol memorial wristband.  The latter are innocent free-consent devices, while the PMs suggestion was to make that STV armband-device compulsory. 

Such a 'Watch Out I Am a Recently Arrived and Possibly Dangerous Farang' device, will stigmatize the bearer and undoubtedly create fear and resentment towards them with lower-educated Thais grateful that PM is imposing measures to protect them from the Dirty Farangs.

 

Ha Ha Ha what a joke, in the current situation you think foreigners go unnoticed and blend in, as a European tourist you will spotted at 100 meters, and you think a wrist band is going to single you out for special attention. Get real!!

Funny that he did not mention at his recent speech to the world about covid and begging for a vaccine that he was about to put GPS track and trace bands on all their populaces ! Imagine the outrage of this small minded man if the world did it to thai people !

3 hours ago, YetAnother said:

just keep piling on more obstacles; then wonder why so few tourists are interested

The Chinese will come back, they will think its normal, 

16 minutes ago, 473geo said:

Ha Ha Ha what a joke, in the current situation you think foreigners go unnoticed and blend in, as a European tourist you will spotted at 100 meters, and you think a wrist band is going to single you out for special attention. Get real!!

Yes, a mandatory wrist-band will single you out from other Westerners.

And judging from the 'if you can get it wrong, you will get it wrong' posts on the Forum, there will for sure be Thais that didn't get the message right and will consider the wrist-band as a sign of an Infected Dirty Farang...

3 hours ago, colinneil said:

The cloud cuckoo land kid strikes again.????

So Prayut says any tourist must wear a GPS wrist band, ha, ha ,ha, dream on pal.

I can see Chinese tourists complying with this nonsense but not any from Western countries

I do not know why anyone would not want to come.

Private Charter plane, quarantine, piles of paperwork, 500 000 in the bank, and then a tracking device.

 

All sounds very exciting, though will bring Chinese groups no doubt

5 minutes ago, Peter Denis said:

Yes, a mandatory wrist-band will single you out from other Westerners.

And judging from the 'if you can get it wrong, you will get it wrong' posts on the Forum, there will for sure be Thais that didn't get the message right and will consider the wrist-band as a sign of an Infected Dirty Farang...

Do I recall some farang refusing a mask, from the health minister no less! do I recall members of this forum brazenly admitting to signing Mickey Mouse and giving phone number 11111111 at the entrance to stores.

 

Unfortunately you occasionally reap what other idiots sow

 

There is so much one can learn from the Thai people regarding how to to live a relatively peaceful existence in Thailand an oversight achieved by many foreigners

3 hours ago, Henryford said:

Now who else wanted minorities to wear armbands, let me think.

? Il Papa? 

1 hour ago, KhunKenAP said:

Best to carry a copy of your passport, visa and arrival card. Anyone looking like a foreigner, will be stopped if not wrist band. Police State!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This was the case in Bangkok already. Every single night I was out in Sukhumvit on the way home at Asok in the wee hours my taxi would be stopped and I would be asked to step out and searched by Police. Nearly every night they had a checkpoint there. 

 

Thong Lor of course the most corrupt cop shop in the country but completely unacceptable behaviour as they were targeting only foreigners from what I saw.

 

Never had a bother anywhere else in Bangkok and lived there over 27 years.

 

After the third or fourth time I got fed up with this nonsense so I refused to step out of the cab and told them in Thai that their behaviour was unacceptable. Even the driver agreed. They waved him on and about a month later I moved to Chonburi permanently. 

3 hours ago, Surelynot said:

OMG....................how totally ignorant of history can one person be?

 

This has horrendous overtones.

They have their own version of history here (not the same as the rest of the World)

1 hour ago, Flying Saucage said:

There are other people in the rich elite who are tired of losing billions of Baht of revenue due to the isolation of the country. But it s Prayut and Prawit who do not want tourists in the country now. They are the ones who create the hassles and keep to borders closed as much as possible. Because it is for their own financial benefit.

 

These current schemes of "reopening the country" are only made to appease the other side, to make them believe that the government cares of the tourism industry, while the real plan is to ruin the industry. There is a hidden agenda going on between Prayut, Prawit and their Chinese friends. And it's really easy to understand.

 

China uses the Covid crisis as part of their road and belt initiative. They pay currupt governments in the region to ruin their country, to make it a bargain for Chinese investors. Now in Thailand, they do not want foreign tourists here, because this would be against their plan to destroy the tourist industry here. And also, they want to keep the number of foreign observers as low as possible while they do it.

 

It's so cheap for China to buy a whole country, when they have the right friends in power there. It costs only a few million dollar and a handful of luxuary watches.

 

The wristbands are only one more hassle to reduce the number applicants for these toursts schemes. But you can bet that these Chinese investers who will be the first coming with their own private jet, will not have to wear the wristbands.

 

I can almost believe it. 

Wait till they start getting lost. Will the replacement be a tattoo inside the forearm. It worked before.

As always. a hard-on for surveillance of evil farangs.

 

Remember when the immigration started asking for your social media accounts? Post something unpalatable and the friendly monkey van will pick you up for a bit of CCP gulag entertainment, based on your GPS position.

 

Orwell would giggle.

I hope the idea will be remembered in all foreign history book as same as the tattoo of the Hitler regime. 

It just the prove of copying of fashism nazi ideas.

 

 

3 hours ago, JonnyF said:

Seriously, coming here for a holiday sounds like a humiliating test of endurance.

Perfectly in line with getting extentions based on marriage. Breznev would be jealous of the amount of bureaucracy IOs can invent ad-hoc.

4 minutes ago, Huckenfell said:

Wait till they start getting lost. Will the replacement be a tattoo inside the forearm. It worked before.

Well if it cannot be  found it when it is lost, wouldn't be much use as a tracking device.

Just now, SuwadeeS said:

I hope the idea will be remembered in all foreign history book as same as the tattoo of the Hitler regime. 

It just the prove of copying of fashism nazi ideas.

That's because the architect of Thai cultural mandates, Phibun, was an admirer of Mussolini. Fascist through and through. The legacy lives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaek_Phibunsongkhram

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Phibunsongkhram was a member of the Royal Siamese Army wing of Khana Ratsadon, the first political party in Thailand, and a leader of the Siamese revolution of 1932 transforming Thailand from an absolute monarchy to a constitutional monarchy. Phibun became the third Prime Minister of Thailand in 1938 as Commander of the Royal Siamese Army, established a de facto military dictatorship inspired by the Italian fascism of Benito Mussolini, promoted Thai nationalism and sinophobia, and allied Thailand with Imperial Japan in World War II. Phibun launched a modernization campaign known as the Thai Cultural Revolution that included a series of cultural mandates, changing the country's name from "Siam" to "Thailand", and promotion of the common Thai language.

 

Nice one bringing in covid guinea pigs for this experiment

1 hour ago, Flying Saucage said:

There are other people in the rich elite who are tired of losing billions of Baht of revenue due to the isolation of the country. But it s Prayut and Prawit who do not want tourists in the country now. They are the ones who create the hassles and keep to borders closed as much as possible. Because it is for their own financial benefit.

 

These current schemes of "reopening the country" are only made to appease the other side, to make them believe that the government cares of the tourism industry, while the real plan is to ruin the industry. There is a hidden agenda going on between Prayut, Prawit and their Chinese friends. And it's really easy to understand.

 

China uses the Covid crisis as part of their road and belt initiative. They pay currupt governments in the region to ruin their country, to make it a bargain for Chinese investors. Now in Thailand, they do not want foreign tourists here, because this would be against their plan to destroy the tourist industry here. And also, they want to keep the number of foreign observers as low as possible while they do it.

 

It's so cheap for China to buy a whole country, when they have the right friends in power there. It costs only a few million dollar and a handful of luxuary watches.

 

The wristbands are only one more hassle to reduce the number applicants for these toursts schemes. But you can bet that these Chinese investers who will be the first coming with their own private jet, will not have to wear the wristbands.

 

Bravo. You managed to put it together in one post. This is the grand masterplan happening right in front of our eyes, in real time.

Judging by the bellicose comments on this forum government must be pleased with the effect of auto filtering ????

What did he smoke or injected before the meeting?

Should not forget a burned star .

 

2 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

The Marine golf course in Sattahip has banned foreigners because of the fear of catching Covid. The people who make these rules must have pea brains as well as being xenophobic

That happened at Waterford Valley in Chiang Rai in March. Since been rescinded, but they won't be getting any of my custom.

The army course of Mae Kok was closed for a couple of months. However, it has always been open to anyone when open.

4 hours ago, webfact said:

That means all foreign tourists allowed in under the special tourist visa must wear GPS wristbands so that their movements can be closely tracked.

you pay for your expensive flight, expensive quarantine in overpriced hotel, 3.200.000 baht insurance SCAM and now wristbands ....

 

get a prison experience at high price

 

f. it dude, I hope ZERO people will agree with this

 

I don't like EMF, and here you have to wear this <deleted> on top of all the other b.....

2 hours ago, AbeNormal said:

you are correct, these devices will need a sim card to constantly upload data, they will need to be charged like a smartwatch or phone, GPS requires quite a lot of battery, add to that the GSM data connection and you are looking at something the size of a house to make it through one day, this is all total nonsense, not to mention it would need to be waterproof

All one has to do is look at how many speed cameras in Thailand are actually functioning.

3 hours ago, Dmaxdan said:

Why not go the whole hog and make all the tourists wear hazmat suits. 

Already happening (voluntarily) !

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/tourists-seen-wearing-hazmat-suits-080000150.html

Stupid is as stupid does.......

7 minutes ago, Bender Rodriguez said:

you pay for your expensive flight, expensive quarantine in overpriced hotel, 3.200.000 baht insurance SCAM and now wristbands ....

 

get a prison experience at high price

 

f. it dude, I hope ZERO people will agree with this

 

I don't like EMF, and here you have to wear this <deleted> on top of all the other b.....

They not tell yet how much farangs need pay for this ornament. Coming whit nice TAT picture on top.

I guess, it's open season. 

4 hours ago, Dmaxdan said:

Why not go the whole hog and make all the tourists wear hazmat suits. 

Some are doing that already ????

4 hours ago, darksidedog said:

They really need someone with an ounce of common sense to stop all of these ridiculous ideas before they make fools of themselves every single day.

I am not advocating violence, but were I to wake up someday to here that one bovine general had walked into the path of a high speed projectile .... I celebrate with the best coffee ever.