Command centre for foreign tourists set up in Phuket ahead of July reopening

[Henryford]

Is that how they check you are not sleeping with anyone but your wife.

[bougnat]

It's starting to smell like a cat sandbox, that thing!

[davidmann]

17 hours ago, pkrv said:

Big Brother is watching you - to make sure you dirty farang spend lots of money.

Total madness.  ,there are nearly no international  travel  anywhere in the world. ,and for sure who could go to country where you being watched. 

On the Plus side someone made lot money selling the equipment    ,all is normal. 

[Sydebolle]

"Command centre ......... <to> track the movements of foreign tourists".

For anybody speaking German it translates into "Kommandozentrale"; a most  bitter aftertaste of black and white origin predating 1945. What did these "security surveillance experts" in Phuket think in the first place?

Do you seriously think that any dirty farang or alien (that would be the Chinese or other Asian counterparts) voluntarily wears a bracelet?

Additional question, are those bracelets soapy-proof? 

The reliable flip-side of the coin will be, that it will not work, as usual, the screens are misused to download 18+ kind of movies and the keyboards will be soiled by chicken soup and Somtam juices ........ 

[skorp13]

They're asking tourists to come and be tracked like wild animals while 70% of what they come for is closed.  All the while vaccinated tourists are far less dangerous than your indigenous population right now LOL. Command center?? How about taking all that command center money and using it for vax distribution?

[shackleton]

There seems to be a lot of money spent here on the Phuket 

Sandbox for the expected thousands of foreign Tourists 

arriving ????

This money could and should have been put to better use 

Ie the poor with no jobs 

But Hey tourism dollar first ????

[TonBrow]

6 hours ago, KarenBravo said:

 

I think you are exaggerating...........or, you have a particularly large wart on your nose.

I don't think it's an exaggeration. I have been living in Thailand for the past twenty years, and I have noticed a big difference in the Thai attitude towards farangs since the pandemic started. For example, I moved to a new location within Thailand during this China virus outbreak, and because I am not known by the locals in this area, I can't get a hair cut. Every shop I go to will either make an excuse why they can't cut my hair or simply wave me away before I even enter the shop to inquire. I have never had this sort of experience at any time before this stupid Chinese virus was unleashed upon the world. Funny thing is they welcome the Chinese with open arms. Go figure.

[Boedog]

You just cant make this stuff up, and the scary thing is they will be really surprised when there little sandbox ends up like the cats kitty litter box, this can only end one way 

AMAZING THAILAND

[Boedog]

You just cant make this stuff up, and the scary thing is they will be really surprised when there little sandbox ends up like the cats kitty litter box, this can only end one way 

AMAZING THAILAND

[berrec]

[NoshowJones]

4 hours ago, brianthainess said:

Well that's the problem colinnneli ,yes, they do believe it sadly.

That's what a Military Academy education does for you.

[Uroller]

They don’t do well with technology so this will fail quickly????????????

[10baht]

Will real "tourists" (555) coming to play in the sandbox risk being locked down somewhere if they don't pass all their tests? or even register a false positive? Would they risk that and further quarantines in their home country once or if they made it out of forced hospitalization.  Would a real "tourists" risk getting a positive test from the many Thais in the sandbox who may have had only the ineffective Chinese vaccine or only one dose or no dose at all? And pay all those bloated hotel prices for a rainy season “vacation”?

[Burma Bill]

19 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The centre will be up and running in the coming days,

 

"Sir, Mr and Mrs.......... are about to enter a 7-11 on the Bangla Road!!"

 

[Mavideol]

Welcome to ChinThai were all your freedoms will be under supervision

[spidermike007]

Quite an impressive command center, to monitor the arrival of 250 tourists per week. 

 

I guess they do not even comprehend how big a turnoff all of their hurdles are for international tourists. 

 

The way I see it, is that the foreign tourists are taking a far higher risk by coming here, than the locals are taking by being exposed to them. So, why all the restrictions? Where is the risk, when they have not only been fully vaccinated with the best vaccines on the market (which are not even available here), and tested multiple times?

 

The hurdles, limitations, and restrictions, amount to utter sabotage of the tourism industry. At a time when they are trying to restart it. Such hubris. Such a lack of understanding. Such a TCOKU (Thailand is the center of the known universe) attitude. Humility would have been expected by now, after enduring the economic pain they have inflicted upon themselves. 

 

And to compound the "sandbox idiocy", you have to factor in what the tourists are coming to. Phuket and Samui are devastated at the moment. So, really? Is that the best you got?

 

These images are current, and are of Phuket, Samui, Bangkok and Pattaya. Appealing?

 

 

[Bangkok Barry]

3 hours ago, elgenon said:

I will need to know the address of the local jail so my family knows where to send my mail.

 

It may not arrive. I discovered a couple of years ago that my local postman couldn't be bothered to actually deliver the mail so he destroyed it. This went on for 18 months until, I guess, enough people were complaining about not receiving stuff they were expecting. As far as I know, nothing happened to him as he was close to retirement. In my native UK he would probably have been jailed.

[Bangkok Barry]

12 minutes ago, Burma Bill said:

 

"Sir, Mr and Mrs.......... are about to enter a 7-11 on the Bangla Road!!"

 

 

I'm waiting for one of those 'Hitler' videos. Could be hilarious. In fact, Thailand could offer a subject every week of the year for 'him' to rant about.

[10baht]

Come on now, y'all  are missing the point of this. They just want to track Tripadvisor  reviewer.  ????

[BestB]

5 hours ago, Somtamnication said:

Command Centre? What are they expecting, a riot?

Vaccinated foreigners infecting vaccinated thais????

[DBath]

8 hours ago, KarenBravo said:

 

I think you are exaggerating...........or, you have a particularly large wart on your nose.

It’s posts like yours that really increase my desire for a ‘thumbs-down’ or ‘dislike’ emoji.

[bluedoc]

20 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The centre will be used, along with the “Mor Prom” and “Mor Chana” apps, to track the movements of foreign tourists on Phuket, in an effort to control the spread of COVID-19. Tourists will be required to install one of the apps upon arrival. If an infection is found, the information will be sent to health investigators so tourists can seek treatment.

You muppets can’t find your own infections. Over 4,000 today and 61 deaths.

[charmonman]

19 hours ago, calbts2 said:

Please tell me is there any other country right now doing this to FULLY VACCINATED tourists?

No tourists are coming to pay for the pleasure of being spied on 24/7.

 

Quite a few countries are not allowing tourists in at all.

[irishken]

Somebody’s misses a trick here.

instead of chang muscle top being sold, it should now be “I’m fully vaccinated so f*** off”

[DefaultName]

So, a little icon on the screen for each tourist.  Click to drill down to details; name, etc, & money spent.  Look after the high spenders, sod the cheap Charlies.  Gone to room alone; deploy bar girl immediately.

[ThailandRyan]

3 hours ago, Forza2002 said:

Will Pipat (Tourism Minister) be joined by Anutin and the Czar to greet the 1st planeload of tourists on day one of Operation Sandbox. Tourists will be given garlands and tagged with their tracking devices...

And here you go, checking in and out of your hotel

[DjSilver]

Is this app also tracking Thai citizens? Since they are the one who has covid in Thailand?

[robsamui]

5 hours ago, Moti24 said:

I did read, not long ago, that Thai tourists are heading that way.  How are they going to get there!  Are they being airlifted-in, or travelling through several provinces, stopping to eat every 2 hours, collecting the virus as they go!

 

I can feel the 4th wave hovering not too far away; the foreigners can take the blame, so no problem.

 

I've just noticed the number under my name at the top - 1984!  There's an omen, if ever I saw one.

Thailand has been using the cheapy Sinovac to jap its people with. After the first shot it's 3% effective. Only a fraction of the Thai people have had 2 jabs, ie  it's 50% effective.

 

And yet they are refusing admission to incoming foreign tourists who have been jabbed with the same vaccine, as it's deemed ineffective.

 

Speaks volumes about the government's confidence in its own vaccination program, doesn't it . . . or alternatively they simply don't give a s*** about their own people.

 

 

Edited June 26, 2021 by robsamui

[off road pat]

13 hours ago, smedly said:

command center 

 

is it a foreign invasion of the unshowered dirty farang 

 

 

what on earth are they going on about 

 

maybe you should get your own #### together - how about commanding that 

 

This country is in bad need of a refit with educated compentent people 

 

 

This country has a lot of educated competent people !! but they are not well connected or not from the right families.....that's the main problem in Thailand. the wrong people on the wrong position !!

 

[Gandtee]

20 hours ago, pkrv said:

Big Brother is watching you - to make sure you dirty farang spend lots of money.

I'm waiting for someone to do a Hitler send up video of this." Mein Fuhrer. Ve haff seen aliens who haff bypassed ze check points and ze bracelets haff failed!"????