Thread: Rants, Stupid Shit and Coronavirus in Thailand
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01-17-22 03:51 #1786
Posts: 15925Originally Posted by Breadman [View Original Post]
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01-17-22 03:22 #1785
Posts: 3474Overseas sex destinations now only for the vaccinated
The old days are gone, there are new rules in this world if you want to find hot young women for sex. To the unvaccinated sex tourists just forget about it and stay at home, foreign governments just aren't going to listen to your arguments. They only want those who are vaccinated, they don't want anti vaxxers who might tax their hospital systems. The days of living in places such as Florida and doing 4 short trips a year so you can keep seeing your family are finished. Only those who have the money and the spare time and can take 3 months off from their home life can enjoy a long sex retreat. Unless your lucky enough to have a direct flight from your city to Thailand but even with those fights your going to have some severe hurdles to go through if your an anti vaxxer. I've got a buddy here who can 'work from home' and has so far done this here in Thailand without his company back home figuring out he's nowhere near his home. Sadly though he has to make it back home for some in person work that can't be done remotely and things might get dicey come time for his flight home.
Also gone are those old youtubers who did a massive amount of border runs to keep living in Thailand, possibly even a handful of posters here who can no longer manage this type of visa. Then there are those who choose the more riskier path. The 'not so legal' ways of getting an extension. You see them on youtube, too young to get a retirement visa but living in Thailand for years and years (CB Media for example). Flaunting the system in some way as to keep on getting their passport stamped most likely by the same visa agent and immigration officer over and over again. Sometimes its not all that much cloak and dagger types of dealings but when you enter on a tourist visa and leave 4 years later on a 'volunteer' visa there are questions. Or the guy who takes a kickboxing class once a week to 'stay in school' but he's never allowed to practice because he's twice the size of those in his class. Risks are risks, you deal with the consequences if caught.
Maybe things return to normal in two years, we will see what happens as they happen. But if your an anti vaxxer your chances of doing your short overseas sex tours might be hard to accomplish. These second and third world countries got hit pretty hard when the pandemic came along and things finally stabilized with the shipments of vaccines. And the people here are lining up for shots without question.
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01-16-22 23:16 #1784
Posts: 3337My guess is that Omicron will have mostly passed by March 1, so it's just a blip.
The killer for Thailand is that Test and Go has been shutdown for a month, and probably for another month, so there is 2 months worth of business lost. Since so many people came for the holidays, as they leave and are not replaced, Pattaya and Phuket will empty out. If Test and Go is not reinstated by April 1, the post Songkran period will be as dead as a doornail.
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01-16-22 19:25 #1783
Posts: 3474Originally Posted by HorseTrader [View Original Post]
Vacations are dead for the time being. There is no 'safe healthy vacation' that consists of flying halfway around the world to have sex with hot Asian girls anymore. Traveling to the other side of the world and enjoying yourself will for the next year or two be for the long time vacationers, those willing and able to spend months in a country. Your two week trips just won't work anymore, not with all of the testing and requirements. Unless you can fly direct from your home city to Thailand your trip starts and ends in jeopardy, so many flights are being canceled since so many employees are calling in sick.
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01-16-22 17:44 #1782
Posts: 1692It's time to cancel my travel plans
Just finished a call with a Phuket friend. Her business has 14 workers, all of them vaccinated. Today there were only 6 working, the other 8 were all home battling COVID. Of the 6 that worked today, 4 have already recovered from COVID. Only 2 of 14 have avoided COVID, so far.
The first of the recovered workers reported her illness to authorities and was then isolated in a hotel room. That was 2 weeks ago and she is now recovered and working. None of the other workers reported their illnesses. All were diagnosed using at home testing.
The published numbers of COVID cases in Thailand are not a reflection of how many cases exist. Perhaps is a reflection of how many tourists tested positive. Many Thai people simply are not reporting their illnesses.
Tourists must pass an arrival test, a day 5-6 test, and a pre-return flight test. Chances of having a healthy vacation are looking smaller and smaller.
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01-15-22 22:27 #1781
Posts: 336Thanks!
Originally Posted by Breadman [View Original Post]
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01-15-22 16:46 #1780
Posts: 1692Originally Posted by MaxBkk [View Original Post]
Regarding cost of the testing, my friend expected to pay $150 for his 24-hour test results, but the test facility asked for his insurance card and they charged him nothing.
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01-15-22 10:53 #1779
Posts: 936Originally Posted by MaxBkk [View Original Post]
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01-15-22 09:41 #1778
Posts: 324Originally Posted by Rodwint2 [View Original Post]
I don't think the standard goverment PCR test can be used for the purpose of International Travel. I may be wrong, but in the 6 or so international trips I have made over the last 6 months I paid for the expidited travel test at a cost of around $150 a pop.
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01-15-22 09:13 #1777
Posts: 3474Originally Posted by Rodwint2 [View Original Post]
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01-15-22 08:44 #1776
Posts: 336PCR Testing Problems
Originally Posted by MaxBkk [View Original Post]
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01-15-22 04:48 #1775
Posts: 324Comments from Health Minister. A Path to Test and Go restarting
Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul just announced that data coming out is confirming that Omicron is much milder than Delta. For this reason restrictions will be less than previous big waves and the various rentry schemes like Test and Go could be reintroduced sooner than we were expecting.
The most likely path to easing entry requirement is by adding Bangkok and Pattaya to the sandbox schemes in the next few weeks. Which means a 7 day hotel stay but you are free to leave and do what you want during the day.
The reintroduction of the Test and Go scheme, where you only need to stay at a hotel for 1 night, would probably be reintroduced as soon as cases start coming down in western countries. Hopefully this is not too far away.
My personal opinion is that once the Test and Go scheme is back and runs successfully for say 8 weeks, they will scrap it and allow normal entry. Probably only need ATK before flight and then just enter as per pre pandemic.
For full articles see the Bangkok Post and Thethaiger.
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01-14-22 12:22 #1774
Posts: 1056What Chinese New Year?
https://nationalpost.com/pmn/health-...es-from-jan-16
Hong Kong is stopping transit flights. Cargo planes are down to 20% of pre covid loads "because of staffing". Chinese new year is almost on us (Feb 1, Year of the Bonobo). Now if "they" block tells of millions of Chinese and others moving about / home for that, heaven help us. There were mad scenes some years ago when China was covered by snow and migrants could not make their annual pilgrimage home to their villages. And then you have tinkering with global logistics.
You have to re-arrange your priorities. There are much bigger players about than you and your LBFM desires.
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01-13-22 05:54 #1773
Posts: 1692Originally Posted by MaxBkk [View Original Post]
Thinking back about 8 months, the sandbox concept seemed to be built on the assumption that nearly everybody in the sandbox would be vaccinated and there would be near zero COVID. If I recall, there was going to be a threshold of something like 120 new COVID cases per week in Phuket, anything above that threshold could close down the sandbox. That's from an foggy old memory, which is probably valid in concept but wrong in numbers. Clearly, that concept went in the trash.
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01-13-22 01:54 #1772
Posts: 1232Originally Posted by MaxBkk [View Original Post]