Khao San Rd: Foreigners must take 100 baht swab tests if vax is old - ambulance on standby to take them away if positive

[Liverpool Lou]

6 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Hyperventilating posters here would be well-served to note:

 

1. The OP article says the rapid test scheme they're implementing at KSR ONLY applies for people whose most recent vaccinations are six months or more old.

 

2. The OP article indicates the testing in those circumstances is being done to Thais and foreigners alike.

And they get the authority to conduct medial tests on selected members of the public from where?   Got an anti-hyperventilating answer for that?

[ChaiyaTH]

27 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

And they get the authority to conduct medial tests on selected members of the public from where?   Got an anti-hyperventilating answer for that?

As well what is the logic behind 6 months old vaccinated only, who are they to make such [deleted] up.

[Liverpool Lou]

5 hours ago, DaLa said:

Thank you.  I spent last Friday evening  in a bar on Khaosan road.

How come?  No bars have been allowed to open yet.

[Liverpool Lou]

3 hours ago, ThailandGuy said:

Are they kidding? This is pure discrimination.  How about Thai people with older vaccines? What a country! This will definitely not help the tourism sector.

Are you kidding?  You didn't read the article?

[Bkk Brian]

4 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

How come?  No bars have been allowed to open yet.

Bars are closed in Bangkok… but not on Khao San Road

https://thethaiger.com/news/bangkok/bars-are-closed-in-bangkok-but-not-on-khao-san-road

[Liverpool Lou]

3 hours ago, flbkk said:

They don’t want forangs, 

What do you base that on?

[expat1010]

Thanks for the info. Will put Khao San on my no go list

[Liverpool Lou]

8 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Bars are closed in Bangkok… but not on Khao San Road

https://thethaiger.com/news/bangkok/bars-are-closed-in-bangkok-but-not-on-khao-san-road

Must have registered as restaurants as they "close" for alcohol sales at 9pm!

[BangkokReady]

36 minutes ago, ThailandGuy said:

Because covid infects only foreigners

Sadly, I have experienced this attitude many times, and continue to do so.

 

It wouldn't surprise me if it only gets worse once Thailand opens up fully.

[soi3eddie]

100 Baht to get into Khao San Road? I'd gladly pay 10 times that to avoid the place!

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

21 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

And they get the authority to conduct medial tests on selected members of the public from where?   Got an anti-hyperventilating answer for that?

 

1. I've lived here long enough, and seen enough, to not get hyperventilating about such things. No one's required to go to KSR, and for anyone who objects, I'm sure comparable entertainments can be found elsewhere.

 

2. My comment was aimed mainly at other posters going off the verbal deep end about how this was some kind of racist affront, when the OP article was pretty clear in indicating the same testing rules would apply to Thais and farangs alike. And that none of it would apply to anyone, unless their vaccinations were 6 months or longer in the past.

 

As to the "authority," like everything else in this country, it presumably has been blessed by the powers that be, who have regularly been enacting all kinds of different rules and regulations on all kinds of different things for quite a few years now, with few checks and balances. That's just the way it is, and the way it has been.

 

[paul1804]

Just another discriminating rule made up by some idiots who don't like Farang, what about if Thais have an older vaccine or is that OK because they are Thai. 

What a bunch of fools!

[paul1804]

2 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

1. I've lived here long enough, and seen enough, to not get hyperventilating about such things. No one's required to go to KSR, and for anyone who objects, I'm sure comparable entertainments can be found elsewhere.

 

2. My comment was aimed mainly at other posters going off the verbal deep end about how this was some kind of racist affront, when the OP article was pretty clear in indicating the same testing rules would apply to Thais and farangs alike. And that none of it would apply to anyone, unless their vaccinations were 6 months or longer in the past.

 

As to the "authority," like everything else in this country, it presumably has been blessed by the powers that be, who have regularly been enacting all kinds of different rules and regulations on all kinds of different things for quite a few years now, with few checks and balances. That's just the way it is, and the way it has been.

 

So why headline the article "Foreigners" if that's not what they really mean??? 

[Thingamabob]

8 hours ago, champers said:

It isn't just Thailand. In Austria they have announced a lockdown for anyone not vaccinated and declared that this is the least of their measures. What is next sounds like it could be really scary.

The nazis were the last govt in Austria to enact similar types of legislation.

[richard_smith237]

2 minutes ago, BangkokReady said:

4 hours ago, ThailandGuy said:

Because covid infects only foreigners

Sadly, I have experienced this attitude many times, and continue to do so.

 

It wouldn't surprise me if it only gets worse once Thailand opens up fully.

I think if we are to be objective and fair we have to recognise that while this attitude does sometimes rear its ugly head, there are also attitudes which really work in our favour. 

 

We can’t selectively outline the negatives without also recognising the positives.

 

In this case we have pages of people who have been duped by an attention-grabbing headline when the article itself highlights that the both Thai’s and Foreign visitors are being tested (as highlighted by Bangkok Barry’s quote from the main article). 

 

We’re not allowed to criticise ThaiVisa / Aseannow's news team, however, it really is disappointing how such inaccurate and inflammatory headlines are ‘re-posted’ - its more disappointing how many jump on the bus rather than read to bash away rather than recognise this is just a group of stupid people doing something stupid that they think is smart. 

 

 

54 minutes ago, Bangkok Barry said:

So many posting on this thread have missed reading this:
But the good news is that so far 500 swab tests have been done on Thais and foreign visitors and not a single one has come back posiitive. 

 

[Jingthing]

9 hours ago, Gsxrnz said:

So they're putting everybody through the rice mill on Khao San Road - Back to the Future!

Memo to self. Avoid Khaosan Road like the plague. Where is next? 

[richard_smith237]

3 minutes ago, paul1804 said:

So why headline the article "Foreigners" if that's not what they really mean??? 

We're not allowed to tell you ‘exactly why’ the headline reads foreigners if thats not what they really mean...

 

However, for decades ‘some’ media outlets have been more famous for drawing in the attention of its readers through deliberately ‘colourful’ headlines which draw the readers attention and outrage before they have had chance to read through the main body of the article which in some cases deliberately avoids or plays down key facts providing a more normal balance. 

 

This is a deliberately divisive technic used to sell news papers to the masses... these days advertising is sold based on the metric of the number of views a web-page has - articles ‘fish’ for our attention...   the headlines designed to draw us in - Its annoyingly frustrating when the headlines are so obviously misleading. 

 

 

[CG1 Blue]

1 hour ago, BostonRob2 said:

That's what they have been doing in the west. Testing everywhere, what's the big deal?

The big deal is if you test positive in Thailand you'll be whisked off in an ambulance and forced to quarantine for (insert guess of choice) days at a cost of thousands, symptoms or no symptoms. 

[BangkokReady]

17 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

there are also attitudes which really work in our favour. 

Such as?

[it is what it is]

 

why only foreigners?

[firemans35]

9 hours ago, GeorgeCross said:

so tourists only get swabbed?

 

seriously? 

 

thats going to go down well on social media ????????

 

 

 

I was just thinking the same thing. I was planning on taking a trip to Thailand but I'll wait. Is it a requirement to carry your vaccination proof with you when you go out and about? How will they know when you had your vaccination? Regardless of the requirement, I'm not going there. If I know beforehand or requirements, price etc I won't go anywhere where the requirements for foreigners are different than the Thai's.

[it is what it is]

 

it wont work if they employ the same method as previous security checkpoints; they would have checkpoints at the main entrances to KSR but nothing in place to stop you entering via one of the many small sois connected to adjacent streets...

[Boedog]

There Stupidity is endless "to install confidence" they just cant help themselves to find new ways to scam foreigners they rely on the tourist $ to survive yet come up with new ways to screw the foreigner, you have jumped through more hoops than a circus performer to enter the country and some idiot comes up with this, you will reap what you sow. Amazing Thailand 

[Mark17AA]

Normally you require the vaccine when you leave the area... Same like should be for certain establishments in lower Sukhumvit.

[it is what it is]

50 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

What do you base that on?

 

if you want to encourage tourism do you a) make visiting your country as easy and streamlined as possible, or b) make anyone entering your country battle with bureaucracy, overpriced insurance, compulsory quarantine and a badly designed online system,

[thooktong]

What if not enough dirty foreigners are found covid positive...
May be next week Ksr Association will take non contact infrared thermometer to check if a dirty foreigner???? need emergency ambulance if he has more than 37.? (After a spicy lunch????)

[VBF]

9 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

The GF heard this and stated "What the hell are they thinking". "Might as well start testing at Makro, and entrance to the parks"

 

Don't give 'em ideas!!!!!  (As several others have already said)

 

Seriously, as this is only "The traders' association at Khao San Road...."  if you're that desperate to go to KSR, just ignore them and carry on walking with an offered suggestion to "fornicate elsewhere" ????  They're not the police - what they gonna do?

 

 

[Bangkok Barry]

19 minutes ago, it is what it is said:

 

why only foreigners?

It isn't. It's a deliberately misleading headline, something that this site has excelled in over the past few months. The site has become tabloid in approach, no doubt for financial reasons. Either that, or the site needs different headline writers. Neither is good.

[ChaiyaTH]

2 minutes ago, Bangkok Barry said:

It isn't. It's a deliberately misleading headline, something that this site has excelled in over the past few months. The site has become tabloid in approach, no doubt for financial reasons. Either that, or the site needs different headline writers. Neither is good.

Wether it is for foreigners only or for foreigners and Thais, doesn't make it any bit better. Both cases it sucks. Imagine you were vaccinated back home a year ago, you then do a PCR test and all the paperwork to fly here, then you are pushed into ASQ and tested again. When you are finally released, you hit KSR, oh no you won't, first ANOTHER test again. After you wanna go to Samui, once again, another test.

[Bangkok Barry]

19 minutes ago, firemans35 said:

I was just thinking the same thing. I was planning on taking a trip to Thailand but I'll wait. Is it a requirement to carry your vaccination proof with you when you go out and about? How will they know when you had your vaccination? Regardless of the requirement, I'm not going there. If I know beforehand or requirements, price etc I won't go anywhere where the requirements for foreigners are different than the Thai's.

It isn't. Read the article and not just the misleading headline. Perhaps this site has an agenda to discourage foreigners/tourists coming to Thailand, as your post so vividly proves. Why, I have no idea, but it repeatedly writes headlines that make it appear only foreigners are being targeted.