13 hours ago, fruitman said:

Even if i didnt mind to jump all the hoops, what's great about thailand now? Pattaya is closed, you need mouthmasks everywhere and you're farang so be double carefull....

 

Even the beach is closed, you can't smoke there, pools are closed, samui is empty.....

 

Why would a tourist go to thailand right now?

probably sort out my stuff( some sell some send to new winter’s destination and never comeback, retarda is retards, but that stupidity is unimaginable ????????‍♂️

12 hours ago, fruitman said:

Even if i didnt mind to jump all the hoops, what's great about thailand now? Pattaya is closed, you need mouthmasks everywhere and you're farang so be double carefull....

 

Even the beach is closed, you can't smoke there, pools are closed, samui is empty.....

 

Why would a tourist go to thailand right now?

 

Why would a tourist go to thailand right now?

 

 

Take away the "right now" part

and that's always been the question for many of us who got out when the gettin out was good.

 

And now many of our countries are helping us financially with welfare.

(I guess thats a pacifier for us to sit back and do nothing while our lives and economies are deliberately pulled into the sหitter, but i digress).

 

I for one was initially piรรed that I'd lost my freedom to travel back there,

 but if its going to be another 12-18 months before there is even any international travel..

 

where do you wanna to be?

 

In Thailand:

Begging for visas or jumping through hoops.

Dodging scams (insurance and such).

Financing women who basically treat you like cรap.

and generally being treated like a leper being tracked by the government.

 

OR

 

Go back home:

no visa issues.

less blatant scams.

You can understand whats going on around you 100%.

Where you are actually allowed to work and earn a $.

Or even collect welfare and sit it out..

 

Pretty much a no brainer.

 

Granted, the women in the west you wouldnt want to hit with a barg-pole,

but I'm thinking in this  "new normal"

its probably a much better headache free life without any of them anyways.

 

 

 

 

14 days imprisonment, solitary confinement, wrist tags, and watching your backs all the time for con men and thugs.

 

Sounds like paradise 

 

No need to go to Thailand though,

 

You can get all that for free at home by doing a little shoplifting in Marks and Spencer

Just now, KKr said:

personally, I think that many tourists will not leave their hotel room and their body temperature will be very steady, on a 36.4 C warm bath tub level, and the hearth rate hardly noticeable as they tend to sleep from 6 in the evening to 5 a.m. and the rest of the day have similar pattern, albeit with stronger hearth rate, until 3 in the afternoon when they go out for a few hours to walk or to go the beach and back to the accommodation  at nightfall.
The challenge will be to explain the higher turnover in restaurants, not to mention entertainment places.

Actually I can see great business opportunities coming up:
a) Waterproof automatic watch winders containers come to mind with precision temperature regulated water heaters.
b) Generic wristbands
if that does not work:
c) Home Party service with small number of visitors from one address. 

6 minutes ago, quake said:

maybe she will have other plans for you.

cambo, Vietnam, sure no problem. 

 

You have no idea what our plans are. Like I said, I am in no hurry to visit SE Asia in the foreseeable future. Go back to your empty bar and have a beer on me. Say hi to the bargirl if she is still there.

6 minutes ago, KKr said:

Actually I can see great business opportunities coming up:
a) Waterproof automatic watch winders containers come to mind with precision temperature regulated water heaters.
b) Generic wristbands
if that does not work:
c) Home Party service with small number of visitors from one address. 

 

I wonder if wrapping tin foil around the device will stop it sending GPS coords. What a no brainer.

Better inform the Tourists that hot showers are not possible.  Beware if the Hotel bathroom is furnished with a bathtub too, this will definitely trigger the alarm.

 

Seriously these ideas are like constant April folls day.

12 minutes ago, Dexxter said:

 

I wonder if wrapping tin foil around the device will stop it sending GPS coords. What a no brainer.

maybe it does, but then how to earn a honest buck and keep local tourism alive ?  ????????????????

Edited October 31, 20205 yr by KKr

Well they are putting up walls again, who as a tourist in there right mind would agree to this stupidity after spending so much effort and money then to be treated like a criminal.  Im shipping me and my Thai family back to the UK, even she thinks things are very bad there now, Ill go to a place without all this BS like Greece or the like... up yours Thailand... your now too buffalo...

Edited October 31, 20205 yr by mrmrmred

Amazing and 'Unappealing' Thailand !

13 hours ago, Mops59 said:

And how much will cost this wristband? How much money does the government take out of tourists pockets?

So first tourist visa, then booking trip and/or accommodation and ticket with thai travel agency, expensive Thai health insurance, pre arrival covid test, quarantine hotel and so on. Wow Thailand knows how to empty our pockets.

I suspect, a month or so ago, there was conversation along these lines:

 

Very Wealthy and Influential Person " I seem to have been overlooked in this Special Tourist Visa program. A&B are providing the quarantine facilities, C&D have the concession for medical services and testing, E has the transport, XY and Z are taking care of the Insurance. Remember how "supportive" I have been, what opportunities are there for me?"

 

Senior Government Official " Oh dear, let me see, could you by any chance source some sort of tracking device from your relatives in China?"

 

VWIP " I am sure I will come up with something, I will let you know when I have got them, normal profit margins will apply I presume?"

 

SGO " Yes, give me a call just as soon as you can, we will discuss just how influential you need to be later."

 

Friday:

VWIP " The first consignment arrive tonight"

 

SGO " Right ho, we will announce the new policy on Saturday, coming into effect on Sunday so we catch everyone unawares. How much will they cost?"

 

VWIP " Oh, let us say xxxx Baht".

 

SGO " fine, we will add on our usual %,, thanks for the brown envelopes by the way..."

55 minutes ago, Dexxter said:

 

Same here. My Thai wife can hardly wait to escape Thailand and join me in Australia. When she arrives it will be goodbye to Thailand for good. If I want a holiday in SE Asia I will go back to Cambodia or try Vietnam, not that I am in much of a hurry.

+1

No thanks I am not interested.

regular charging like  criminal ankle  tags

 

and easy to defeat with foil  like real criminals do ?

ACME wrist band corporation is offering 1 free submarine for every 250,000 wrist bands purchased.

15 hours ago, Thaiwrath said:

If they are tested negative before arrival, and after quarantine, why the <deleted> have this bizarre situation ?

The only tools in the fight against the Covid-19 ripple are these people with the ridiculous, over the top ideas ! 

because.. there are people that get covid after quarantine

The tourists are really going to flock here now

It's much easier to chop off their legs to make sure they don't move at all.

 

Since the obvious goal is to keep them away at all costs while looking like doing something.

16 hours ago, J Town said:

Wouldn't it be cheaper to tattoo an OCR symbol on their forehead?

Don't give them ideas ????

I guess it is impossible to take it off ????

5 minutes ago, nowhereman said:

I guess it is impossible to take it off ????

With the Hand you can ;D

 

If I choose to holiday next year it will be to a destination without substantial extra costs and draconian restrictions , I would wager almost all tourists will do likewise.

another crackpot idea. hope they don't buy too many wrist bands because they won't be seeing too many tourists until this silliness subsides

Finally they have the chance to force us into a gps tracking device....I'm so happy for Prayuth! a Thai also has to get what he/she wants so here it is!

 

Now all the streetvendors can easy see who they should extort and who not.

No doubt that it is a conspiracy between the union of wives and Thai police

Thailand to track tourists with digital wristbands

 

How is this different from posting on  facebook (etc) or from using a smartphone ?

 

6 minutes ago, oldhippy said:

Thailand to track tourists with digital wristbands

 

How is this different from posting on  facebook (etc) or from using a smartphone ?

Everybody can see that you are one of those foreigners that they have to fear because you may have covid. They cannot see that if you only have a tracking app on the smartphone in your pocket.

31 minutes ago, farang51 said:

Everybody can see that you are one of those foreigners that they have to fear because you may have covid. They cannot see that if you only have a tracking app on the smartphone in your pocket.

 I meant: VERY Big Brothers facebook, google etc, and smartphones know exactly where you are, what you like, what you think, what your political preferences are. You gave up your privacy by clicking I ACCEPT. Governments are only small Big Brothers in comparisson.

Covid tests, qiarantine hotels, Covid insurance and now smart watches, I guess the tourists will have to pay for. 

Another money spinner from Covid from you know who. 

 

51 minutes ago, farang51 said:

Everybody can see that you are one of those foreigners that they have to fear because you may have covid. They cannot see that if you only have a tracking app on the smartphone in your pocket.

When you go to the resorts in venezuela you also get a wristband so outside the resorts they will all overcharge you because you're rich.