'You joking?': UK woman's Thailand holiday turns to quarantine horror

[Guest Isaanlife]

10 hours ago, sandyf said:

What garbage, try sticking to facts enough misinformation around as it is.

FACTS are facts.

Do you dispute everyone that gets on a plane must have a negative test? FACT

Do you dispute the facts that even with a negative test and everyone on the airplane has a negative test, people arrive positive? FACT

 

Those are the facts.

 

[xenophon]

4 hours ago, The Hammer2021 said:

One of the the things that attracted me to Thailand  was the good service,  honestly  and lack of ripp offs  

Many, many Thais would disagree with this perception. They know that their institutions & services are completely bent. They're amused when naïve foreigners do not take measures to protect themselves or expect 'good service,  honesty  and lack of rip offs'  

[Puccini]

17 hours ago, webfact said:

A UK woman's trip to Thailand turned into a holiday nightmare after she returned a positive coronavirus test and was immediately whisked away to hotel quarantine.

 

TikTok user Megan Meeke and her partner Dyl Murray arrived in Bangkok the day before New Year's Eve, doing a PCR test on arrival.

 

"[We] were told our PCR on arrival were inconclusive then positive but no one speaks English," she said in the TikTok.

 

"We were in an ambulance [and] now have to quarantine for 10 days... what is happening?"

 

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Full story: https://nz.news.yahoo.com/you-joking-womans-thailand-holiday-turns-to-quarantine-horror-055850654.html

 

-- © Copyright yahoo! news 2022-01-04

Does this woman have a Cigna health insurance, as the last paragraph in the news article seems to suggest?

[ukrules]

17 hours ago, GinBoy2 said:

Who in their corn fed mind gets on a long haul flight to any tin pot third world country without knowing the risks that rules will change on a dime

Well by the looks of it - almost everyone ????

[zyphodb]

12 hours ago, petedk said:

I think you have hit the nail on the head here. 

The authorities publish all the rules about being tested and so on, but there is nothing about being quarantined in hotels and having to foot the bill. Likewise, if they are admitted to hospital after testing positive, but showing no symptoms, or because they sat next to a positive case on the plane, the insurance companies are not likely to pay out.

 

This should be stated clearer on the various websites.

 

It won't be long before many of these cases hit the social media and news media and people will be cancelling their trips to Thailand.

Happening as we speak I should imagine. The Thai Gov's. ability to shoot their foot off never ceases to amaze me...

[Puccini]

12 hours ago, Orinoco said:

God I hope she has a Northern accent.  

See if you can figure it out from her TikTok clips:

https://www.tiktok.com/@missmmeekex

https://www.tiktok.com/@missmmeekex/video/7048594363038928134

 Where does that accent, those glottal stops, place her?

 

[keysersoze276]

Any genuine tourist going for an actual holiday in Thailand right now (or the reat of this year, at least) is a glutton for punishment.  How much more self destructive can you get?  Loading a gun and playing Russian roulette alone?  Glad it made it to social media and national news. DO NOT COME TO THAILAND UNLESS YOU REALLY NEED TO!   

[GrandPapillon]

6 hours ago, Gandtee said:

Britain is an Island, but it's still been almost overwhelmed with infections.

you have a daily inflows of immigrants from Calais ????

[Orinoco]

2 hours ago, Puccini said:

See if you can figure it out from her TikTok clips:

https://www.tiktok.com/@missmmeekex

https://www.tiktok.com/@missmmeekex/video/7048594363038928134

 Where does that accent, those glottal stops, place her?

 

Not sure, but could be a bit embarrassing. LOL.

[Meat Pie 47]

21 hours ago, Michel PUISSANT said:

"No one speaks english"

... Lol

Come on, even in England they can speak a sort of English

[Albert Zweistein]

Not the first one and not the last one.

[ericthai]

18 hours ago, Jack West Jr said:

Stop blaming tourists . My advice to travellers : steer clear of Thailand , do NOT come unless you need to be here . E.g. my wife who will somehow has to make it back . She will be carrying a test kit , as this whole quarantine thing is starting to look like a government/hospital/hotel scam .

Is your wife Thai? If so.  it will cost her nothing. Also if people purchase the correct insurance it covers asymptomatic stays.  so where is the scam?

[Albert Zweistein]

2 hours ago, GrandPapillon said:

you have a daily inflows of immigrants from Calais ????

Right, the France are pushing them to the UK as they are p1$$ed about the after Brexit fishing rights.

[Sig]

23 hours ago, gim12 said:

she earns a living documenting her travels on the  the internet and yet she sounds completely clueless-has no cash and asks, "what is happening?"    either a complete twit or wants drama for her future  postings

or both....

[ChC1]

Two minutes reading Aseannow forum on Thailand can save you from a horrible decision to go to Thailand as a tourists during pandemic.

[Sig]

4 hours ago, Puccini said:

See if you can figure it out from her TikTok clips:

https://www.tiktok.com/@missmmeekex

https://www.tiktok.com/@missmmeekex/video/7048594363038928134

 Where does that accent, those glottal stops, place her?

 

I have no idea about accents around different parts of the U.K., but wow... I checked out a couple of videos via the link you gave (one of your links has had that video removed). The only word that came to mind was - vacuous. How on earth does anyone feel that by watching those videos, they gain anything other than amazement of the level of useless empty nonsense.

[sandyf]

11 hours ago, Isaanlife said:

FACTS are facts.

Do you dispute everyone that gets on a plane must have a negative test? FACT

Do you dispute the facts that even with a negative test and everyone on the airplane has a negative test, people arrive positive? FACT

 

Those are the facts.

 

Your words

"Can you explain how everyone gets on an aircraft with a negative test and then hours later landing in Thailand test positive?"

You obviously do not understand the fact that in people the virus can change from undetectable to detectable at any point in time.

 

Your words

"And the miraculous thing is after spending 50,000 baht the quarantine hotel actually cures your positive test?"

You obviously do not understand the fact that prices are not fixed at 50,000 baht, or the fact that hotels do not do any tests, they are carried out by the hospital that the hotel is partnered with.

It is a fact that my 15 night booking at a quarantine hotel in Pattaya cost me £836.

It is a fact that the PCR tests carried out during quarantine were certified by the Vibharam Laemchabang Hospital.

[elgenon]

On 1/3/2022 at 1:06 PM, GinBoy2 said:

I'm sorry, regardless of whether this woman makes a TikTock living out outta this stuff it's stupid.

 

Who in their corn fed mind gets on a long haul flight to any tin pot third world country without knowing the risks that rules will change on a dime, and you risk either deportation or your two week vacation holed up somewhere in quarantine.

 

No sympathy sorry to say 

I thought she had to have insurance?  A poster said theirs covers possibility of quarantine. That's the kind I want and that covers an asymptomatic positive case. Is there such a policy?

[mtls2005]

On 1/4/2022 at 4:06 AM, GinBoy2 said:

I'm sorry, regardless of whether this woman makes a TikTock living out outta this stuff it's stupid.

 

Who in their corn fed mind gets on a long haul flight to any tin pot third world country without knowing the risks that rules will change on a dime, and you risk either deportation or your two week vacation holed up somewhere in quarantine.

 

No sympathy sorry to say 

 

 

This sort of specious "argument" only holds water if you forget that the thai regime has specifically concocted "schemes" to "lure" customers to the country, while downplaying the real situation. Sure that's fine for a TAT TV ad, maybe, but not for the entire apparatus.

 

Very little mention is made about the "rules", "laws", "procedures" and potential "punishments".

 

Blaming the victim is, well, not a good look. Seems to be the go-to response for some of the AN "mob".

 

But carry on.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Felt 35]

18 hours ago, The Hammer2021 said:

Caveat emptor Caveat emptor

Si videtur, ut facile esse realis, ut verisimile est.

[Orinoco]

12 hours ago, Puccini said:

See if you can figure it out from her TikTok clips:

https://www.tiktok.com/@missmmeekex

https://www.tiktok.com/@missmmeekex/video/7048594363038928134

 Where does that accent, those glottal stops, place her?

 

Had another look, could be a slight west country accent, hiding behind her failure to talk proper posh.  LOL.

[Phulublub]

17 hours ago, Isaanlife said:

FACTS are facts.

Do you dispute everyone that gets on a plane must have a negative test? FACT

Do you dispute the facts that even with a negative test and everyone on the airplane has a negative test, people arrive positive? FACT

 

Those are the facts.

 

FACT

Everyone who contracts a virus will initially test negative for that virus.  They will continue to test negative as the virus grows until it becomes detectable - at which point they will test positive.

 

PH

[GrandPapillon]

11 hours ago, Albert Zweistein said:

Right, the France are pushing them to the UK as they are p1$$ed about the after Brexit fishing rights.

wrong again, the Brits are not paying the bills to stop and park the immigrants ????

[GrandPapillon]

4 hours ago, Orinoco said:

See if you can figure it out from her TikTok clips:

https://www.tiktok.com/@missmmeekex

https://www.tiktok.com/@missmmeekex/video/7048594363038928134

 Where does that accent, those glottal stops, place her?

 

only 2000 followers? she is not an influencer of any kind, definitely small fish and her videos are sh*t that most 12 years old can do

 

the video on her rant has been removed,

[jacko45k]

4 hours ago, Orinoco said:

Had another look, could be a slight west country accent, hiding behind her failure to talk proper posh.  LOL.

Bimboland I expect.

[kimamey]

On 1/3/2022 at 8:26 PM, Michel PUISSANT said:

"No one speaks english"

... Lol

If she's in Bangkok I'm sure there's someone who speaks English especially in a hospital. They must get English speakers all the time. I often speak to English speaking doctors in Mahasarakham

[Albert Zweistein]

55 minutes ago, GrandPapillon said:

wrong again, the Brits are not paying the bills to stop and park the immigrants ????

That's exactly why France is pushing them to the UK.

[toofarnorth]

On 1/4/2022 at 3:58 PM, Millcx said:

You should have seen Embassy and got on next flight home to U.K. …. Chances are that 2 star hotel your in with all that Kow Pat Guy you are woofing down will be charged at 5 star prices 5555555555

Who the <deleted>in coffee is this Pat Guy ?

[GrandPapillon]

2 hours ago, Albert Zweistein said:

That's exactly why France is pushing them to the UK.

they are not pushing them, they simply don't stop them moving out from France, free movement ????

[Dogmatix]

The simple solution is not to travel to Thailand, if the trip is non-essential.