Re: Coronavirus - Thailand
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Originally Posted by
dab69
Just back from doctors office USA. I was trying to get a travel certificate to fly from USA - Seoul- BKK when the doctor said upon return from any Asian country I would have to quarantine at an outside USA army base for 14 days before being readmitted into the USA.
There goes my vacation.
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Originally Posted by
frequentfliers
We are due to travel from Ireland next week to Pattaya.It looks less likely every day now.This virus is spreading rapidly.Probably better safe than sorry.
And two quotes from the Quick questions guys - which airline to bkk - Emirates, Lufthansa. Etihad or Qatar !? topic:
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Originally Posted by
colmx
My boss has just forbidden me from travelling to Thailand next month (in fairness he also cancelled his own trip to SE Asia)
So it looks like I will be spending Songkran locked up at home chomping on Easter eggs!
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Originally Posted by
Nirish guy
You and me both perhaps - albeit my enforced jail time in the office will I fear have to be self imposed which makes it even worse! Even in the last two days business has started to suffer with various work issues now cropping up due to the virus scares. Likewise I can just feel my staffs nervousness that they may have to self isolate and what will happen re their work ( I dint mean jobs there btw I mean their work load).
All of which is starting to make it look almost impossible for me to say “oh by the way guys, see in the middle of all of this, I’m fucking off to Thailand to party for a bit - but don’t worry I’ll try not to bring anything back with me when I return”.
So yeah, I hate to admit it but your boss probably has a point :-(
I was sorry to read that three and possibly four of our members will be cancelling their proposed trips to Thailand due to the Coronavirus. I know it’s probably of no consolation, but I had to cancel last year’s trip and I have a rough idea how you are all feeling.
And, I’d like to say, don’t worry chaps, I’ll take care of all the lads you would have seen and will now miss out on. But sadly, I am barely capable of taking care of all the young men I meet! So others, far more qualified than me, will have to step into the breach. ;)
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Originally Posted by
Jellybean
I’ll take care of all the lads you would have seen and will now miss out on.. ;)
And yet strangely that doesn't seem to help at all somehow with easing our woes .....funny that eh :)
Re: Coronavirus - Thailand
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Originally Posted by
Nirish guy
So there’s three or four of us lot all fairly well decided now on pulling the plug on our Thailand trip in the next two or three weeks - and us all generally the hardcore of travels who would travel “no matter what”, so if that’s us all (having) to throw in the towel that certainly doesn’t bode well for tourism numbers to come in Thailand in general over Songkran etc perhaps ! :-(
Make that five and six on the cusp of reluctantly cancelling.
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Whilst I'm sorry for the lot of us who are thinking of not travelling or have already pulled the plug I have to say that for each person I hear that are the same boat it does hgo a little way to helping ease my own doubts and indecision as to whether I perhaps am just over reacting or not in that others obviously also feel the same way and feel that it's prudent perhaps not to travel just now - not that that helps any of us of course, but still, nice to know its NOT just me wringing me hands and wondering should I or shouldn't I ! :-(
I finally got my refund from Emirates ( minus 200 euro :-( ) for my Dub to Japan, Bangkok to Dublin flight so at least that's something. My Japan to Bkk flight is a no chance of a refund flight, likewise my Bkk hotel is already paid for and no refundable and whilst I've 'booked" with Mosiak I have't paid yet and I'm hoping that after all these years an apologetic email to the boys on the desk there may get me out of that booking hopefully. So cost wise only about £350 down so far, but money of course isn't the issue and it's the loss of the trip that's eating me more than anything else, ESPECIALLY over songkran AND as it falls at the same time as our UK Easter holidays for once meaning I was able to take longer off work too this time :-(
Hmmmm gotta go check......I wonder how busy Bali is at this time of the year ! ???? :-) lol ( which ok sort of defeats the purpose of NOT travelling I know, but somehow it feels like the lesser of two evils perhaps.)
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I don't know if this helps NIrish-guy, but many years ago my former boss, whom I shall simply refer to as ‘M’, said to me, 'Remember, you only live once Mr Bean.' To which I replied, ‘How very true, Sir.’ Well, I was young and ambitious and didn’t want to blot my copybook. :)
But seriously, if anything, with my underlying health conditions, I am more concerned about the situation back home in the UK than out here in Thailand. Every day, over breakfast and last thing at night, I listen to talk radio from London and the majority opinion from listeners across the UK would appear to be that HMG has not acted quickly enough to protect UK borders and has put the country at risk. Now, whether that is true or not, I have no way of knowing. But I do find the Government’s worst case scenario figures for deaths in the UK from Covid-19 truly frightening.
But enough of this gloomy talk, I'd like to end on a positive note, and just to cheer everyone up, here's some photos I took earlier today in Pattaya:
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Originally Posted by
Jellybean
..............many years ago my former boss, whom I shall simply refer to as ‘M’,
your Boss was called "M" and you claim to be a civil servant !??? OMG I knew it, Civil servant my ass, you worked for MI6 Secret Intelligence didn't you !?!
I can just see you now, standing there on the stage in Nice Boys with your "pistol" in your hand, shouting stand back boys, Jelly's arrived, the name is Bean, Jelly Bean, Licenced to thrill !!! lol
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I think my doctor was full of crap. The CDC website says "self-quarantine" upon returning from South Korea, etc.
Nothing about quarantine in an Army base (Guantanamo).
I think she just didn't have access to a test for cor19 for my travel document and didn't want me to travel to anywhere in Asia.
The bitch!
I am going to be real grumpy at work for a month or so.
But my friend will be impressed- I transferred my plane ticket to his BIRTHDAY!
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Well, overthere in that island in the Northsea even the minister for public health seems to have been able to catch it, apparently even on a meeting with a certain proud new father named BoJo.
As for BKK here: as to now never seen a mask in any of the palce Ive been inside to as for this forum. But yesterday in a well-known m2m msg shop, there was a bottle of that sanitizer one now sees everywhere and is even requested to use when entering certain shopping centres. But the heat now on means frequent changes in out and inside with AC fully blowing means one is prone to catch a cold with sneezing etc. as result.
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Today, I highlight two reports from BBC News, one report from The Times, two reports from the Bangkok Post and one report from MailOnline:
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Coronavirus: Trump halts travel from Europe to US
12 March 2020
US President Donald Trump has announced sweeping new travel restrictions on Europe in a bid to combat the spread of the coronavirus.
In a televised address on Wednesday, he said all travel from Europe would be suspended for the next 30 days.
But he said the "strong but necessary" restrictions would not apply to the UK, where 460 cases of the virus have now been confirmed.
There are 1,135 confirmed cases of the virus across the US, with 38 deaths.
"To keep new cases from entering our shores, we will be suspending all travel from Europe to the United States for the next 30 days," Mr Trump said . . .
For the full report see: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51846923
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Coronavirus: Italy shuts nearly all shops as WHO declares pandemic
12 March 2020
Italy is to close all shops except food stores and pharmacies in Europe's toughest lockdown yet as virus deaths and cases continue to mount.
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said bars, restaurants, hairdressers and non-essential company departments would also close. Home delivery would be allowed.
Earlier the World Health Organization (WHO) said the outbreak was a pandemic.
WHO chief Dr Tedros said cases outside China had soared 13-fold in two weeks.
He said he was "deeply concerned" by "alarming levels of inaction".
• What is a pandemic and why use the term now?
• Stock markets plunge as WHO confirms pandemic
A pandemic is defined as a disease that is spreading in multiple countries around the world at the same time . . .
For the full report see: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51845817
And from The Times:
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New ‘social distancing’ rules as Covid-19 is declared a pandemic
Chris Smyth, Whitehall Editor
Thursday March 12 2020, 12.01am GMT, The Times
Advice on how people should keep their distance from one another is to be issued by the government as the World Health Organisation declared the coronavirus outbreak to be a pandemic.
Boris Johnson will announce today that Britain is moving into the “delay” phase of fighting the virus as he chairs a Cobra emergency meeting to sign off “social-distancing” measures telling people how to stay away from others.
Advice to stay at home if you have a cough and fever even if you have not travelled, ways of “cocooning” elderly people, and suggestions about standing farther apart will all be considered. Ministers are pledging “whatever it takes” to fight the virus . . .
For the full report see: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/
And two reports from the Bangkok Post:
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Thailand cancels visa on arrival for 18 countries, visa exemptions for 3
published : 11 Mar 2020 at 15:21
updated: 11 Mar 2020 at 20:24
writer: Bangkok Post and Reuters
Thailand on Wednesday cancelled the grant of visa on arrival for 18 countries and visa exemption for three others to contain the spread of the coronavirus, Interior Minister Anupong Paojinda said.
Previously, nationals of 18 countries or territories could use their passports or travel documents to apply for Visa on Arrival (VoA) at Thai immigration checkpoints.
The 18 places are: Bulgaria, Bhutan, China (including Taiwan), Cyprus, Ethiopia, Fiji, Georgia, India, Kazakhstan, Malta, Mexico, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, and Vanuatu.
Visa exemption will be cancelled for South Korea, Italy and Hong Kong, the interior minister said . . .
For the full report see: https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand...emptions-for-3
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Six new local infections lift Covid-19 cases to 59
Airport immigration officer among new patients
published : 11 Mar 2020 at 13:18
updated: 11 Mar 2020 at 15:12
writer: Online Reporters
The Public Health Ministry on Wednesday reported six new local cases of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) infection, five Thais and one Singaporean, lifting the total number of cases to 59.
Of the six new cases, two work at Suvarnabhumi airport, Sophon Iamsirithavorn, director of the Department of Disease Control, said.
One, a 21-year-old immigration officer, fell ill on March 8, developing a fever, a runny nose and a headache. Tests at two labs showed positive for Covid-19 infection, Dr Sophon said . . .
For the full report see: https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand...19-cases-to-59
And a friend drew my attention to the following report from MailOnline, which was updated on 11 March 2020:
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How one man spread coronavirus to NINE other people on his bus in China: Scientists find the deadly virus can travel four times the 'safe' distance and linger in the air for over 30 minutes in confined places
• Scientists studied one man in China who passed the virus to 13 people in total
• On the bus, germs jumped as far as 4.5 metres to other travellers
• It lingered in the air for up to 30 mins, after the original man had got off the bus
• People who wore masks on the bus were not infected, the study found
• Coronavirus bugs also stayed on surfaces for days, especially when it was hot
• Scientists said their findings show face masks are useful protective measures
• UPDATE: The study published in a Chinese journal has since been retracted
By Vanessa Chalmers Health Reporter For Mailonline
Published: 11:07 GMT, 10 March 2020 | Updated: 11:11 GMT, 11 March 2020
For the full report see: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...eople-bus.html
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And once again, just to lighten the mood, via facebook, advice on how to self isolate at home:
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