Phuket Sandbox: All tourists to wear location tracking wristbands

[jvs]

Please all of you relax,tomorrow there will be a flip flop reaction from some one

who thinks he/she is important.

We just understood it all wrongly.

[ChipButty]

32 minutes ago, Chelseafan said:

Just so that I am clear

1. Supply proof of vaccine
2. Apply for visa
3. Complete COE registration
4. Covid insurance of at least 100,000 dollars
5. Register SHA+ hotel (which will be overpriced)
6. Arrange flight directly to Phuket (which will be overpriced)
7. PCR test 72 hours before I leave UK
8. Possible PCR test on arrival
9. Load up tracking app on phone
10. Wristband to track my every move
11. Two PCR tests during my 14 day stay on Island (at my own cost)
12. Entertainment venues closed
13. Tracked by facial recognition
14. Large fines for breaking rules (not sure what they are but will try to mindread when I get there)
15. Unable to visit other islands, (Phi Phi, Coral etc)
16. Wear mask at all times (Even when I am asleep on the beach??)
17. No alcohol on beach.
18. No alcohol with my meal
19. 10 day quarantine on arrival in UK

Or

1. Fly to Portugal.
2. Enjoy holiday
3. Fly home

 

Zanzibar is good 4 of my friends are there now and 2 of them are Thai

[madmitch]

32 minutes ago, Chelseafan said:

Just so that I am clear

1. Supply proof of vaccine
2. Apply for visa
3. Complete COE registration
4. Covid insurance of at least 100,000 dollars
5. Register SHA+ hotel (which will be overpriced)
6. Arrange flight directly to Phuket (which will be overpriced)
7. PCR test 72 hours before I leave UK
8. Possible PCR test on arrival
9. Load up tracking app on phone
10. Wristband to track my every move
11. Two PCR tests during my 14 day stay on Island (at my own cost)
12. Entertainment venues closed
13. Tracked by facial recognition
14. Large fines for breaking rules (not sure what they are but will try to mindread when I get there)
15. Unable to visit other islands, (Phi Phi, Coral etc)
16. Wear mask at all times (Even when I am asleep on the beach??)
17. No alcohol on beach.
18. No alcohol with my meal
19. 10 day quarantine on arrival in UK

Or

1. Fly to Portugal.
2. Enjoy holiday
3. Fly home

 

Very well summed up. How many items will be added to the list before the first lucky punters arrive?

[grantbkk]

Just wow! And Thais and expat are banned from the island as I understand.

[Gecko123]

That wristband's gonna be anything but a status symbol. You're not gonna be made to feel like a dog in rabies quarantine? People aren't going to be reflexively jacking up prices as soon as they spot it? Too harsh? If you say so.

[KarenBravo]

27 minutes ago, kotsak said:

 

I thought you were dead..........

[John435]

Is it waterproof? What happens if you take it off? Presumably it needs charging at some point. 

 

Will they use the data to spot people leaving the island (not that anyone would be stupid enough to wear it while they did that) or are they going to be actively looking for groups of people in unexpected places on the island and then turning up to bust up drinking, etc?

[BobinBKK]

2 hours ago, KarenBravo said:

They really don't have a clue how Westerners think, or how this tracking bracelet will be received.

I can see people arriving in Thailand and blankly refusing to wear them.

We don't like authoritarianism and this action exemplifies it.

Every notice how these Thai degenerates announce this type of offensive garbage after the fact?

[chalawaan]

Welcome to Thailand, discover the thrill of being a teetotal, sexless, authoritarian government's little tourist b!tch.

[BobinBKK]

2 hours ago, Excel said:

Considering the horror of losing face to a Thai, especially those who think they are above everybody else, I would have thought that they would have abandoned this display of stupidity to the entire world long ago.

Unfortunately, you can't "fix" stupid... The only thing we can do at this point is to stop them from breeding with each other.

[realfunster]

1 hour ago, kotsak said:

 

Goddam it you beat me to it ! As I prepared it already - here is mine ! 

[Chris.B]

Does the wristband come in other colours? ????????

[Henryford]

1 hour ago, Chelseafan said:

Just so that I am clear

1. Supply proof of vaccine
2. Apply for visa
3. Complete COE registration
4. Covid insurance of at least 100,000 dollars
5. Register SHA+ hotel (which will be overpriced)
6. Arrange flight directly to Phuket (which will be overpriced)
7. PCR test 72 hours before I leave UK
8. Possible PCR test on arrival
9. Load up tracking app on phone
10. Wristband to track my every move
11. Two PCR tests during my 14 day stay on Island (at my own cost)
12. Entertainment venues closed
13. Tracked by facial recognition
14. Large fines for breaking rules (not sure what they are but will try to mindread when I get there)
15. Unable to visit other islands, (Phi Phi, Coral etc)
16. Wear mask at all times (Even when I am asleep on the beach??)
17. No alcohol on beach.
18. No alcohol with my meal
19. 10 day quarantine on arrival in UK

Or

1. Fly to Portugal.
2. Enjoy holiday
3. Fly home

 

 

You forgot 20. If any of the tests are positive (even false postive) go straight to a prison hospital (at your expense) and relax there on a cardboard bed.

[Cake Monster]

3 hours ago, toolpush said:

I hope I can get one next time I arrive. Be great fun to put it through various torture tests like in the old Timex Watch commercials.

I would just tie the Bloody thing onto the back of a Long Haul Bus going to Nokhom Nowhere or some such place.

Track that !

[cocoonclub]

3 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

Thai people need to think before they do.

What makes you think all Thai people don’t think before they do? 

[Excel]

32 minutes ago, BobinBKK said:

Unfortunately, you can't "fix" stupid... The only thing we can do at this point is to stop them from breeding with each other.

Yes enforced chemical castration of all Thai males may prove to be the answer perhaps

[mancub]

2 hours ago, smedly said:

this really bothers me

 

Fully vaccinated foreigners getting tested 4 times within the space of 16 days and yet the Thai population who are not fully vaccinated go around freely untested and unchallenged 

 

what is wrong with these people - don't they see what they are doing 

It's their eternal conflict between xenophobia and greed for foreign money.

[BarraMarra]

Won't belong before a School in Patong is taken over and used as a holding Facility complete with shackles on the bed and a Ammo box as a Toilet.

[ikke1959]

17 minutes ago, cocoonclub said:

What makes you think all Thai people don’t think before they do? 

If you think that tourists want to come to wear a bracelet.....I don't know

[mancub]

I guess there's an alarm sounded if these things are interfered with and a band of stormtroopers will come and visit you. 

Probably discover they're not waterproof so the hotel pool and the beach will be off limits also !

[Ralf001]

Was gunna fly down from Pattaya, what do I do about a COE ?

[RichardColeman]

Pre-flight tests, COE, $100,000 insurance, test before hotel, test end hotel, limited movement, no sex and now 100% tracking wrist bands ? 

 

Oh, for heavens, who is going to do all that.

 

These people are insane.

 

[lanng khao]

1 hour ago, ChipButty said:

Zanzibar is good 4 of my friends are there now and 2 of them are Thai

Is that on soi bukaew?

[cocoonclub]

12 minutes ago, ikke1959 said:

If you think that tourists want to come to wear a bracelet.....I don't know

Where did I say that? What does it have to do with my comment?

[lanng khao]

52 minutes ago, realfunster said:

 

Goddam it you beat me to it ! As I prepared it already - here is mine ! 

Remember, once your inside your on your own ..

[lanng khao]

53 minutes ago, Chris.B said:

Does the wristband come in other colours? ????????

Don't give excel the pink one, there will be murder .

[Pattaya Spotter]

4 hours ago, clivebaxter said:

They'll be made in China so won't work for 14 days anyhow ????

Everything I've bought from China, even generic items from Lazada, have worked just fine. This may be the reason they are the number 1 exporting country in the world.

[wasabi]

I can imagine a teacher asking a class of Thai business students what would you do if you wanted to strip away everything Tourists love about Thailand and specifically Phuket and this plan being their answer.

 

But the fact this is not a satire shows why there are no legitimate business schools in Thailand.

[Mr Meeseeks]

[khunPer]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Officials said they expect approximately 129,000 foreigners to visit Phuket under the Sandbox scheme. 

 

Last week, the Pipat Ratchakitprakarn, Minister of Tourism and Sports, said that over 50 percent of foreigners who had confirmed they would visit Phuket as part of the ‘Phuket Sandbox’ scheme have now cancelled their plans.

 

The cancellations were due to the Center for Economic Situation Administration (CESA) increasing the minimum period of stay from 7 days to 14 days. 

 

This resulted in 29,700 foreigners cancelling their plans to visit Phuket, Mr Pipat said. 

I'm normally very positive, but I think the number of "129,000 foreigners to visit Phuket" is little over reality, when taking the facts into consideration, hereunder wristband and other limitations.

 

The expected visitors are supposed to come from mainly USA and Europe, as Chinese are more or less out of the question due to their 3-weeks quarantine upon return to their home-country, and the Russian vaccine is not yet approved; and with the long distance from Europe and USA the airfare is not among the cheapest. Most European people that I know wish a holiday to be a slightly better life-style than their normal life, and most Europeans have a pretty good normal life-style, so with perhaps no alcohol served to the meals, and no pub for a drink - and I'm not talking about heavy drinkers or alcoholics, nor those coming for a nightlife, which is non-existing at the moment - but rather "normal" holiday guests like couples, or families where mom and dad can relax and enjoy life a bit. There are many attractive alternatives closer to USA and Europe, and even with a lower airfare cost, that offers what Phuket might be missing, and without the guests shall feel like a criminal that serves time with a tracking device.

 

Reality showed that 50 percent of the bookings, i.e. 30,000 visitors to Phuket, didn't appreciate the tougher new rules, and cancelled. It makes me wonder how many of the remaining circa 30,000 bookings that are not coming for visiting Phuket, but just for a more pleasant 2-weeks quarantine than inside a hotel room in Bangkok...????