General Reports

[Member #4698]

It is good to be the King. Now this is what I call a self-quarantine.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-...hotel-21782942

[Crocodilexp]

If the bars stay closed for a long time, say a year or more, would thai officials use it as a way to end rampant prostitution in thailand? I've read for ages that thai wants to change its image to more family friendly.

Indeed, that seems likely.

There are conservatives who have tried to suppress the prostitution industry since early 2000's (Purachai and co), with a fair bit of success; the scene is already much smaller than it used to be. The crisis presents a perfect opportunity to kill it off completely.

Even if officials do nothing and bars reopen in a few weeks (almost impossible), for a long time there will be no customers, except for a few exceptionally brave expats. Once the first wave is over, Covid will still be around, and PFP sessions are a perfect way to get it. International travel will be depressed for a long time. Until there's a widely deployed vaccine (1-2 years away), we won't get back to normal, and it will be some new normal.

Economic significance of the prostitution industry is far smaller than it used to be, and it's about to drop into the insignificant territory, so officials aiming to suppress it will encounter little or no opposition.

There will still be a few stragglers offering sex (most likely online), but I doubt the industry as we know it stands much of a chance to rebound.

[Horatio]

If the bars stay closed for a long time, say a year or more, would thai officials use it as a way to end rampant prostitution in thailand? I've read for ages that thai wants to change its image to more family friendly.

I know no one knows the future but many here read thai politics better then I do and might be able to give an informed guess.

[LittleBigMan]

I don't read all the science behind the virus I don't think anyone has the real answer to it even the experts' everyone is just kind of winging it especially here in Thailand. It does on the surface lot of work because most of the time in produce or fruit section what does customers do touch and feel them with their hands even it is wrapped it can easily be on the wrapped? If they don't wrap and you ask the customer to use a plastic bag while picking through that bag could also be infected since the customer grabs the roller and tear a bag off. This is the same I noticed when you go into the store, they take your temperature you get some alcohol gel and rub it on your hand then you grab that shopping cart handle not giving it a second thought it is dirty too? No real answer?

[Franciscass]

Pics taken today in a supermarket. Each fruit, each vegetable wrapped in plastic. This way beaches get an nth layer of garbage, and consumers poison themselves with phtalates and bisphenols.

Seems a waste of plastic. Good intentions but either way they need to be washed.

[Paolo99]

Pics taken today in a supermarket. Each fruit, each vegetable wrapped in plastic. This way beaches get an nth layer of garbage, and consumers poison themselves with phtalates and bisphenols.

And it doesn't prevent them from being infected.

It's a big waste to do that because we are already supposed to wash these products before consuming them.

[XXL]

Pics taken today in a supermarket. Each fruit, each vegetable wrapped in plastic. This way beaches get an nth layer of garbage, and consumers poison themselves with phtalates and bisphenols.

[HorseTrader]

Google Translate does not translate the text 100% correct, so for those of you who cannot read Dutch (more than 99.9% I guess LOL) the correct translation is: "New guidelines. Make love safer than ever. ".

555.

Now it makes sense!

[Mogwai]

Gentlemen please follow the latest guidelines.

Google Translate does not translate the text 100% correct, so for those of you who cannot read Dutch (more than 99.9% I guess LOL) the correct translation is: "New guidelines. Make love safer than ever. ".

[Chacal60]

Friend in Madrid can only move between his residence, a store, or work. I'll bet the latter has now been removed from the permitted reasons for being out. He's a foreigner but carries a letter in English and Castellano from his employer that he's had to show a few times. I have no doubt it will be similar here.

Keep your passport and visa page handy!

No, they don't mean a single 24 hour curfew.

This weekend is being used as the litmus test for what happens. If people stick to the requirements (social distancing, not using restaurants as makeshift bars, not going out unless they need to, etc.) then the current guidelines remain. If people ignore / flout these guidelines then a 24 hour a day curfew will be introduced, probably for 3 weeks or a month initially.

I am guessing it would follow the UK model (only allowed out for essential shopping, minimal exercise or if they work in essential jobs). Donations to the Royal Thai Police superannuation fund will be collected from offenders, in Thailand not UK obviously!

[Chacal60]

A chick was driving from Surin to Pattaya to see me. She told me about them. Also chicks that have left Pattaya to go to their villages have told me about them.

https://thethaiger.com/coronavirus/m...tic-travel?amp

Yea, been confirmed to me by other friends as well. My Phuket gal tells me the beaches are still open, but Thaiger reports that even that window is closing.

It seems likely I will remain inside BKK, mostly inside my own flat. Time for me to let my big brain to tell my little brain to quiet down for now LOL.

[GettingFedUp]

Also, it looks like a curfew has not yet been imposed after all. But, according to this report, if one is imposed it might be a rougher one than suggested earlier; possibly a 24 hour curfew. Damn. How does that work after the 4th or 5th day? Or do they mean one 24-hour curfew? Accomplishing what?

No, they don't mean a single 24 hour curfew.

This weekend is being used as the litmus test for what happens. If people stick to the requirements (social distancing, not using restaurants as makeshift bars, not going out unless they need to, etc.) then the current guidelines remain. If people ignore / flout these guidelines then a 24 hour a day curfew will be introduced, probably for 3 weeks or a month initially.

I am guessing it would follow the UK model (only allowed out for essential shopping, minimal exercise or if they work in essential jobs). Donations to the Royal Thai Police superannuation fund will be collected from offenders, in Thailand not UK obviously!

[Mr Enternational]

Anyone have recent experience. Yesterday, today. With in country travel? A Brit who maintains a regular Twitter feed cautioned about checkpoints coming in and out of BKK, and urged us not to head off to the seaside.

I have papers, residing legally in Thailand, and a car. I want to know if I can either fly or drive out of BKk without a major headache!

I've got women in Pattaya and Phuket urging me to come see them.

A chick was driving from Surin to Pattaya to see me. She told me about them. Also chicks that have left Pattaya to go to their villages have told me about them.

https://thethaiger.com/coronavirus/m...tic-travel?amp

[Chacal60]

Anyone have recent experience. Yesterday, today. With in country travel? A Brit who maintains a regular Twitter feed cautioned about checkpoints coming in and out of BKK, and urged us not to head off to the seaside.

I have papers, residing legally in Thailand, and a car. I want to know if I can either fly or drive out of BKk without a major headache!

I've got women in Pattaya and Phuket urging me to come see them.

[Allover]

Nope, you are not wrong. Figures quoted have to be greatly understated. Figures through much of SE Asia cannot be trusted.

On other extreme we have Thailand which had reported just one Covid-19 death (when I checked). It is highly likely that not all dead persons are being tested for the virus.

Sudden deaths due to fevers in the country villages have long been common, precise cause not always known, exposure to contaminated water via an injury just one example.

So Thailand death rate due to this virus could well be greatly understated (not known). Its too expensive to test dead people. Who will pay? Old people are popping off all the time for one reason or another.

Thailand likely has little idea of true numbers of cases, whether mild or deaths or recoveries.

I KNOW the reported numbers are wrong. Two days ago an American friend living near Buriram called me. He was in the hospital with the Wuhan virus somewhere in that area. He could barely speak and I couldn't ask him a lot of questions. That same night I went online to read how many cases were in the area. The area Governor (or whatever he is called) was reporting no cases in the area. Total bullshit.