Phuket Sandbox open; TAT awards “Amazing Dodgems” moniker

[StevieWonders]

The whole idea of the Sandbox scheme is instead of quarantining in one hotel room, Phuket becomes a quarantine island and you can travel anywhere on it.

If only goji were not a Bookburner, he could’ve made a context-appropriate response to the hapless Blueskytoday.

[StevieWonders]

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[StevieWonders]

12 of the tourists more closely quarantined because someone else in their tour party tested positive have asked to fly home - https://www.thephuketnews.com/sandbo...home-80618.php

[Dodger]

Phuket Sandbox turns into Venus Fly Trap.

You can only blame the fly's.

[cdnmatt]

Phuket Sandbox turns into Venus Fly Trap.

You can only blame the fly's.

Look at that Stevie, he doesn't have you on ignore afterall.

[StevieWonders]

Look at that Stevie, he doesn't have you on ignore afterall.

I’m not sure what you are referring to. And Amazing Dodgems still doesn’t know that the plural of “fly” is “flies”. “fly’s” is the possessive of the singular “fly” or alternatively the abbreviation of “fly is”. Either way, he still playing to his strengths - writing nonsense.

[christianpfc]

There are health insurances that pay when you are positive but asymptomatic, but is there an insurance that pays when you are quarantined or hospitalized because someone else on your flight is positive?

This incident is more bad press for Thailand. They have little to lose health-wise from one or two positive arrivals, but a lot to lose in reputation and tourist numbers later.

[StevieWonders]

There are health insurances that pay when you are positive but asymptomatic, but is there an insurance that pays when you are quarantined or hospitalized because someone else on your flight is positive?

This incident is more bad press for Thailand. They have little to lose health-wise from one or two positive arrivals, but a lot to lose in reputation and tourist numbers later.

As the news story clearly states, they were all members of the same tour group. It is not all the passengers on the same flight. Some insurance policies provide for “family members”; I’m guessing that it would have to be a tour group specific policy to cover this specific situation.

[Dodger]

The Phuket Sandtrap was destined to fail from the start.

No vaccine - no REAL reopening...not anywhere.

The rest of 2021 will be spent waiting for an effective vaccine distribution - while the Delta variant sweeps across the Kingdom claiming its victims.

Not good news at all - but a reality that people have no choice but to accept.

Standing back and waving flags for these TAT Sandbox Schemes, at a time when the lives of so many people are at stake, is short-sighted and self-serving to put it mildly.

[Manforallseasons]

These sandbox schemes are just that “schemes’ that will be washed away like sandcastles by a rising tide of Covid infections.