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Good luck y’all! Life in Thailand has been pretty awesome (if you don’t rely on tourist dollars) since we hit this point some months back. At this point when th

Good luck y’all! Life in Thailand has been pretty awesome (if you don’t rely on tourist dollars) since we hit this point some months back. At this point when the occasional bizarre local case does show up (and one or two have here) the government can go nuts on contact tracing and make sure it stays under control.

thisrod 6y ago
Ha ha! That's what my friends in KL and Penang were telling me in August. Just wait until the king comes home from France, and insists that his 100 or so favorite hookers skip quarantine :-( Seriously, I think that we'll have to live with one Southeast Asian country (including Australia) having an outbreak at any given time.
- howlgarnish 6y ago
  I genuinely don't understand what you're trying to say with the last sentence there. For one, the outbreaks in Indonesia and the Philippines show no sign of abating.
nickthemagicman 6y ago
Thailand never had a bad outbreak to begin with and no one knows why. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/world/asia/coronavirus-thailand-photos.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/world/asia/coronavirus-th... Also, isn't Thailand a dictatorship where if you insult the royal family verbally you can be beheaded?
- angry_octet 6y ago
  Just put in prison. With the new King there is a lot to be critical of, but for whatever reason he has held back on imprisoning people. The junta has nevertheless been quite harsh on critics of the regime.
  - nickthemagicman 6y ago
    Oh that's right 3 to 15 years of prison for criticizing the royal family....that's as fascist as it gets. Not a great model for any country to aspire to. How do we know Thailand isn't just executing anyone testing positive for Coronavirus? Would anyone report it if true with free speech laws like that? Pandemic Problem solved! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se_majest%C3%A9_in_Thailand https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se_majest%C3%A9_in_Th...
    - angry_octet 6y ago
      Well the Thais are really efficient at organising themselves and have an excellent public health and medical system. However, the notion that they can keep a secret like that is laughable. Thailand has actually reopened to Chinese tourists to some extent.
      - nickthemagicman 6y ago
        Even if they were doing a bad job you wouldn't say so to avoid going to jail.

thisrod 6y ago

Ha ha! That's what my friends in KL and Penang were telling me in August. Just wait until the king comes home from France, and insists that his 100 or so favorite hookers skip quarantine :-( Seriously, I think that we'll have to live with one Southeast Asian country (including Australia) having an outbreak at any given time.

howlgarnish 6y ago
I genuinely don't understand what you're trying to say with the last sentence there. For one, the outbreaks in Indonesia and the Philippines show no sign of abating.

nickthemagicman 6y ago

Thailand never had a bad outbreak to begin with and no one knows why. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/world/asia/coronavirus-thailand-photos.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/world/asia/coronavirus-th... Also, isn't Thailand a dictatorship where if you insult the royal family verbally you can be beheaded?

angry_octet 6y ago
Just put in prison. With the new King there is a lot to be critical of, but for whatever reason he has held back on imprisoning people. The junta has nevertheless been quite harsh on critics of the regime.
- nickthemagicman 6y ago
  Oh that's right 3 to 15 years of prison for criticizing the royal family....that's as fascist as it gets. Not a great model for any country to aspire to. How do we know Thailand isn't just executing anyone testing positive for Coronavirus? Would anyone report it if true with free speech laws like that? Pandemic Problem solved! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se_majest%C3%A9_in_Thailand https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se_majest%C3%A9_in_Th...
  - angry_octet 6y ago
    Well the Thais are really efficient at organising themselves and have an excellent public health and medical system. However, the notion that they can keep a secret like that is laughable. Thailand has actually reopened to Chinese tourists to some extent.
    - nickthemagicman 6y ago
      Even if they were doing a bad job you wouldn't say so to avoid going to jail.