ArchieBunker

If you ask some, they might classify me as an "ignorant moron".

You answered your own question there, my son..... BTW everyone on here thinks I am an ignorant moron, which I am happy to wallow in my own ignorance, isnt that the WRONG flag?? St Georges Day has to do with ENGLAND and not Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland......

Mark my words the first foreigners that will be let back into Thailand-the culprits of this issues the Chinese.

What happened I missed it..............................

Sounds like my kind of schedule!! Just wish things would get back to "normal" sooner rather than later!!!!

If this thing gets worse in Thailand, and I think it will, The Mr Bean General in charge and his minions will no doubt play the "blame the dirty farang" game. Fines for no masks? Just an naked attempt to play that other cheap Thai game called, "Milk the farang!!""

You will never get over that will you old bean??

The conversation is starting as to whether the "cure" in its current form is going to worse than the disease itself. I cannot answer that question. Also if we are looking at this as a war, whats the acceptable causality rate? Should that type of question even be asked at this time? We just got our schedules for April and there is no flying to be had, well a little. I might work 4 or 5 days in April but will get pain more than that as we have a contractual minimum. The minimums are not that much to be honest but its better than nothing or a little. When i start getting down I just put throw on youtube and watch any part of a documentary about the siege of Leningrad during WW II.......talk about degradation!!!!

They have been doing this for a while now. I was in BKK just over a week ago and they had been doing it the week before that....

You know it’s strange as I have some major bone graft surgery scheduled in a couple of weeks. I actually want to have it for a couple of reasons one of which it will give me a lot of hours I can take from my sick bank. Might as week use a lot of them now. No sense saving it and it will provide me with a nice paycheck for one month at least. The way this looks, it looks like I will take yet another major pay cut that is if the furloughs DONT reach me, which is entirely possible.

Just got back to New York last night. Penn station at 700 pm is usually a hive of activity. Last night it was dead. When here in Farangland I dot go out much but I have gotten in the habit of going out once per day for food, errands etc.. I will try that today and see what happens. I will stop at the grocery store for some bits and bobs so will see how that is. Oh yeah I happened to have only 2 rolls of TP-DOH!!! I actually stuffed two rolls into my carry on back from Bangkok. Things are crazy but have a feeling it might get that much crazier........

Well, he lets his guests talk and explain. its clear that he knows enough to know that his guests know more than he if that makes sense. Thats admirable.

I dont know what you guys think of Joe Rogan. Whatever you think of him its irrelevant. he had on a guy who described himself as a "infectious disease detective". Michael Osterholm is his name. I am not even halfway through and its totally scary. He says its early days into this things and says a vaccine will NOT be quick in coming. Fatality rates still not clear with this disease. We have been totally UNprepared for something like this for years. Also the fact that we dont make many types of drugs we need in this country and have outsourced it to China and India is a huge unforced error. He hinted that there are tings we can do to fight it and mitigate the disaster but I havent gotten to that part yet.......

it’s a huge if but IF things get under control within a few months, then things can get back to some type of normal quickly. Then there a huge amount of pent up demand. at first that’s why you haven’t seen the us airlines have mass layoffs quickly. To will see layoffs and cuts but story is still being told.

That’s precisely why youget in before the bottom Yeah you get hurt in the short term but it doesn’t matter. You don’t need the money for years. Then you eventually come out smelling like a rose. I tell you my stuff is probably down half or 40% of what the Dow and / or the S&P is at the moment. But then again I won’t need too take that money out for years. Anyway I am prohibited from taking it out for another 2 years plus. I had no intention of starting to take any out anyway. having said the above things change. I am in the airline biz so all bets are off. My job should be safe as I am more than half way up the Seniority food chain. In this biz s seniority is king.