@Wendy ******

30 July 2020 ?

@Roy **********

it is a 90 minute test vs 14 isolation vs not entering the country. The test will cost only B 3 k vs 14 day isolation of B 40 k to B 100 k+. For me it is like complaining about Thailands visa rules. It is their country and they make the rules. If a person do not like the rules they have choices, but please just stop complaining about everything (not you but foreigners in general). First foreigners complained that they could not enter the country, then they complained about the cost of isolation and the duration, now they are complaining about the 90 minute test.

@Brahim *****

and you want to enter a virus free country without any screening or do you prefer 14 day isolation ?

@Bri ***

I went to the bank today and had no problems. Before me was 2 foreigners.

@Will ***********

I think they will only end amnesty when international flights are readily available and land borders are open. Say for example an foreigner cant return to his/her home country I think further extensions will be given based on embassy letters. For those on amnesty open land borders will mean easy visa runs. They are pragmatic and do not want to chase people/money away when they know it will be difficult to get more tourists in. I think they will create a mini Asean bubble which will allow border/visa runs (most use Laos and Vietnam). This way they can retain "clean" tourist which pose a minimum health risk. My thoughts which is not worth much.

@Will ***********

I guess the problem is that if you are on amnesty you cannot legally convert to a visa as you do not have a visa anymore. Thus the B 14 k is for tea money.

@Thomas ****

so they must open the country to sick tourists that can reinfect the country so that the government must spend B 400 000 per patient to recover. In return the country will get maybe 20% of its normal tourists back. Yip makes sense doesnt it. Do you think normal tourists will use a mask for 18 hours at a stretch (4 hours before the flight plus 10 hour flight plus 4 hours to clear on arrival). Who are these tourist that will suddenly come to Thailand? The US employment to population ratio is now 53% that means 47% are not working. Same same in the UK and Europe.

@John *********

wrong.

@Thomas ****

then stay where you are. We do not need you here. WE KNOW THE COUNTRY IS SAFE.

@Dave ****

very simple if westerners are placed in lockdown they will know, will they not. All the spikes in China was handled the same way, lockdowns. Not one country has got a 100% accurate figures on cases and deaths. At present the best way to determine the UK and EU death rates is not the reported figures but the difference between average historical deaths vs 2020 deaths for the same period. Many people died outside of hospitals and was never tested before they were buried. As for the number of cases it is the same in China and the rest of the world nobody can tell you how many people has had the virus. Lastly why can the virus not be erradicated Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam and NZ has done it? The only problem is that most countries do not have the political will to do it and are opting out the easy way. As for it mutating to something less problamatic it is a chance. The virus mutation history however has gone the other way and for the world to rely on pure chance of a favourable mutation is short sighted. At least we agree on the vaccine as a long shot. The only way to beat the virus is with NPI's, but then the people must strictly adhere to the rules and government must have the political will to enforce these rules.