How can I obtain a visa to enter Thailand from Sierra Leone without a Thai Embassy?

@Bobby *******

A great part of this particular site is sharing and discussing information.

As far the statistics are concerned there is too much information out there that still needs to be collected and processed.

You absolutely correct that Thailand is for sure on top of the medical industry pioneers of new medicine and masters of older medicine that I’m more than confident that Thailand will have their own vaccine before other “developed” countries in the world. Thailand is a lot of things but third world Thailand is not.

If the people of Phuket you sited don’t want international tourism back until they feel safe I’m more than ok with that it’s their choice.

For sure people will cheat. I saw other media reports that people from neighboring countries are sneaking back in for economic reasons. Yes people will fall through the cracks without a doubt.

I saw another member of the group predicted that a opening in February or March next year is a realistic timeframe.

All we can do is take it a day at a time, be optimistic and take care of ourselves.

@Patrick *******

, do not blow statistics out of proportion, as the anti-government media is constantly doing, and also get your timelines right. The cases of domestic violence increased when full lockdown went into affect, and the sale of alcohol was stopped. Now it is back to normal. The 22% increase in suicides may sound drastic, and suicide by itself is, but these news reports fail to give the actual numbers because that takes away from the drama. Consider the dramatic difference between say 1220 people committing suicide, instead of a normal 1000, or, because of the same reasons, 27 people commit suicide instead of the normal 22. Which is more dramatic. The second numbers, which are actual numbers, sound much better dramatically, if it is listed as 22%, instead of 5 more than last year. You also mention the business owners saying if the ban on tourists continues it might take Phuket 5 years to get back to normal, but fail to mention that not only the health department, but the people living there, do not want tourism restarted. One thing the government is using to base their decisions on opening tourism back up, and to whom, is the number of cases of this virus that are showing up in repatriated people in quarantine, and where they came from. They are also following the statistics and actual numbers collected by John Hopkins university concerning infections and deaths worldwide, and separated by each country, and region within those countries. Thailand's health, and medical research departments are some of the best in the world, and recognized as such worldwide. In this regard Thailand is not third world. They know exactly what they are doing and why. They also know, and this is a big determining factor, that given the chance, people will cheat.

@Bobby *******

that Japan city idea is daft as it would involve locking down the city domestically to allow international tourism.

Mark Price You're the one making unqualified statements, so you're in no position to be asking others to qualify their disagreement. You only need to look at the UK quarantine system to see that they're mostly basing it on what happened in the past 7 days. Why would Brits be at the back of the Thailand queue later this year or into next year simply because lots of people died from covid there back in Spring?

Mark Price The high UK death rate from earlier this year will be irrelevant. The real time situation will be all that matters.