Glad I don't live there.

[Rockheart]

Everything is interconnected with overpopulation.

Yes overpopulation causes you to live closer and closer to Viral Research labs.

[George Pill]

Funny to say even the USA cities have traffic like these. In Thailand the traffic is like this all day long. Overpopulation is the problem and it's all over the world. Maybe the C pandemic is a good thing, but it kills mostly the old who were going to die anyway. Next pandemic this winter might produce a strong flu bug that will kill all ages with less chance of recovery. Might even originate in the mass animal food industry like chickens, pigs, and cattle. Lots of possibilities since we Americans love meat. Remember Mad Cow Disease, Foot and Mouth Disease, Trichinosis, Salmonellla, Ebola from bats, and many microbial diseases. Everything is interconnected with overpopulation.

[Manueljellison]

It's already too late to do anything about this. Too too many cars. Soon Pattaya is next? Smog was there when I left December 23. Worries me if Songkran will be like this as we near summer. Pray you didn't buy any real estate and move there.

https://pattayaone.news/en/bangkok-air-pollution/

Even I thanks that I don't live here

[George Pill]

Same for Phuket.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVeBOy9j2kA

[Rockheart]

It will come back. Even if businesses were abandoned, nobody else is going to take them over.
When tourism returns the businesses will reopen. Landlords will let the current tenants back even if they hadn't paid rent over these periods.
Pattaya already had unlimited locations and opportunities to start a bar or business before, now it will be even better after this is over.

[George Pill]

Pattaya ghost town.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UYbfopeucU

[P&G]

China might become a great destination for ladyboys mongers in the next decades. I will probably stay away from this country, but they might have enough assets to attract enough mongers to kill the Thai business without letting ordinary people (those who don't monger ladyboys) realize that this business developped discreetly.

[Rockheart]

Thais did not hate us.
They took us for granted and often treated us with disdain.
Now us walking ATMs have dried right up.

Now they will have to compete with other places to get us back.
They will have China but they don't spend money like us.

[George Pill]

https://pattayaone.news/ghost-ships-spur-fears-for-phuket-tourism-industry/

Funny I thought Thailand hates us tourists. Now look what happens when no mo money tree. Making it hard for us to get visas. Careful for what you wish for. You might just get it. Will they ever learn?

[George Pill]

Here's Hawaii's approach to screening out positive incoming tourists. Maybe Thailand should copy this plan.

https://www.staradvertiser.com/2020/...olulu-airport/

FYI, Kirk Caldwell is the Mayor and David Ige is the Guv. They are constantly being ostracized for their orders to close businesses to control the pandemic. It seems to now be working as many workers are returning to work. Didn't realize that hairdressers were also closed like the bars. Restaurants with bar are okay and that pissed off many bar owners, many who have already folded up. Hotel worker's union is always complaining how the hotels will insure the health of their workers. I say just wear the masks and goggles, clean each room fast with disinfectants AND use UV light stands in all the rooms, especially the bathroom. Personally I own a larger ccko Uv Light Sanitizer with Ozone Home Light 38W Portable 60m² with Remote Control Third Gear Timing (from Amazon.com). Now costs $65. Just $5 more than when I bought it last September. Just click the remote control to 15, 30, or 60 minutes and leave the room or you suffer retinal damage. No joke.

My local televised news sez that those who test positive will be quarantined for 2 weeks. Makes you wonder how come the C test 3 days before departure was negative. The answer is the incubation period can vary from 5 days to many weeks. How would you like to fly all the way to Thailand for almost 24 hours and then sit on your ass for another 3 hours while they run your second C test via deep nasal swab. I've done it as a pre-surgical test and requested a C antibody test as well. The first test was negative. The second was a disappointment as the antibody also came out negative. Would have loved to hear that I got the C virus from Thailand but suffered only chronic coughing. Funny when I eat chili peppers I would cough. I started coughing when I landed in Bangkok and it was so convulsive I couldn't talk to the taxi driver. When I picked me up 3 days later to take me to Pattaya he, too, was coughing that deep lung cough. I did notice a lot of tourists were coughing with me and bought out all the Strepsil cough medicine. On the return trip I again suffered spasmodic coughing on the flight. Glad I had the N95 mask with the exhaust vent, but still I have to visit the restroom to avoid spreading what I was mysteriously suffering from. After returning to Honolulu it took me a whole month to recover. Am fine now. So what happened to me last winter? It was either congestive heart failure which will give anybody that distinctive deep lung cough. OR it was the air pollution wafting down from Bangkok into Pattaya. By now I'm pretty sure the pollution is back and probably will be even worse by the time I return in Winter 2021. May be my last trip. I've pretty much done this and done that. Tired of seeing and doing the same old things.

https://www.staradvertiser.com/2020/11/06/hawaii-news/it-will-take-6-months-to-vaccinate-hawaii-residents-state-official-says/

Anyway Thailand should build a C test site at S airport geared to testing thousands each time a jumbo jet lands. Plenty right? For me I would rather not sit around for 3 hours possibly getting infected. I am very impatient and hate long lines anywhere. I may have to wait longer for the vaccination program to start. Already plans are just starting to prepare for deep refrigeration units to be build probably at Hickam AFB near HNL airport. This product is way too valuable to store at a public airport. Now that Trump is today losing Pa., Ga, and Va. which is just as totally surprising as the swing from red to blue in MN, MI, and WI. Then can we now start a plan to start educating people to start wearing masks or suffer a $5K fine. So come on Thailand build those C testing centers in those easy to get shipping containers. Hawaii plans to convert more shipping containers for mass vaccinations. The latest I've heard is the front line workers being EMC nurses, doctors, police, ambulance workers, and the ELDERLY would be the first in line. Target is still April, 2021. I would probably have to wait longer that winter 2021 as I would need to see if the party industry have re-opened the bars and all the boys and girls have been vaccinated for free. Again I refuse to sit on my ass for 3 hours. Hopefully Thailand authorities will accept written proof of two C vaccination and let me through quickly. Believe me I do miss Thailand now that I am missing this Winter vacation.

[bigmtsl]

The Thai government has gone covid crazy, like most other governments, and is using it as an excuse to bring in new rules, regulations, banning internet sites, activities etc.

I guess covid will create the glorious ‘new world order.’

[Rockheart]

In our country parents manage what their kids can access. If the kids are out of eye sight, it is hard to control them.
If the kids want to watch porn they will do it. Not like when I was a kid, you had to beg, borrow and steal to find a 8mm porn reel.
Then you had to find a projector to spool it on.

The internet providers in Thailand are already supposed to block porn but they seem to do a very poor job these days.
Since Pornhub is the biggest one out there for porn, you would think it would already be blocked.

How many Thai sex workers are using PornHub to make money right now?

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[George Pill]

Are these complainers in the minority?

https://www.pattayamail.com/thailand...plaints-332217

https://pattayaone.news/pornhub-blocked-in-thailand-again/

[P&G]

https://www.pattayamail.com/featured...-season-328774

Pattaya is a damned mess. Nobody plans anything intelligently.

It seems to often happen in October almost every year in Pattaya. However, I'd rather have been in Pattaya than in the extreme southeast of France and Italy where the storm Alex destroyed several valleys.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54417223

Here is a video of the storm in Nice. funnel clouds are very rare at this latitude.

https://www.lci.fr/meteo/video-inondations-a-nice-et-dans-les-alpes-maritimes-apres-un-violent-orage-2136472.html

Here is a "before and after" video in the valleys north and northeast of the city of Nice :

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7wmh0f

The press article by Radio Canada : https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle...-italie-france

Italian videos and press articles :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc-qX1EVT6g

https://www.3bmeteo.com/giornale-met...vizzera-394966

[Rockheart]

It's pretty hard to manage torrential downpours that happen for months on end. Bangkok used to be like Venice and have water in place of streets.
Thousands of years of building canals and water management with dams and now Bangkok is mostly dry but fills up quickly with big rains.

Instead of trying to manage the water so much, they try to live with it by making buildings out of concrete and waterproofing as much as possible.
New homes in flood plains have no basements and can actually float if necessary.

Towns with beaches have extra problems when there is lots of rain. Everywhere in Thailand gets flooded like this every year, so it is not unusual to anyone.

https://www.scmp.com/yp/discover/lifestyle/features/article/3069581/thailands-floating-homes-fight-flooding-science

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-disaster-risk-architecture-idUSKBN0M100N20150305

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