bradiston

What's sad about this, Chris.B?

Forgive me for saying so, but I think that's nonsense. What he says is true in my experience. I got all my vaccination availability info via either this forum, way back in May for the Sinovac, ditto for the Moderna booking, or, in the case of the AstraZaneca booster, via a chance conversation with a very nice Thai woman who happened to know there was a program of mass vaccination starting at the indoor sports stadium in Pattaya, walk in, open to all. More recently, I have noticed more info coming from central government, ie the MoPH, on government initiatives. But as for private hospitals, unless you're signed up with them, follow their FB pages, download their apps, send them regular SMS, you'd never know they even had a Vax program.

Exactly!

No, I think the hospital is right. They simply notified me that my pre-booked Moderna jab was now available if I wanted it, without reference to my jab history. But when I asked them about my previous jabs, they said the combination I would end up with, ie 2 Sinovac, 1 AstraZaneca, 1 Moderna, is not currently recommended, although another hospital has suggested a 6 month or greater gap should be ok. So I've decided to wait and see if the guidelines change, and ignore them if they don't. I can postpone the Moderna for up to 6 months. But I'll probably take it after 3. If I drop dead I'll post a note here. It does seem a bit arbitrary I agree, that hospitals where you book a booster aren't checking your jab history. Same goes for "Dr" Anutin, who recommends dumping Moderna for Pfizer and devil take the hindmost, and the hospitals your hard earned cash. It seems it's left to the patient to figure out what's best for him/her self. I quite like that approach!

I'm able to postpone my available Moderna jab until April 2022. But having had the cocktail of 2 Sinovac and 1 AstraZaneca, I wonder what Anutin's medical advice would be. The hospital in question, with regards to the 4th shot in question, says "not recommended", so perhaps the unmedically trained minister should watch his words when it comes to urging people to do something the hospital would advise against.

Slightly off topic, but I've had 3 shots already (2 x Sinovac, June and July, and 1 x AstraZaneca, October 25th) all courtesy of excellent Thai government service, and free. I booked a Moderna way back in July, as a possible booster, before finding I could get an AstraZaneca, and the hospital I booked it at has just told me I can take it on 26th November. Seems far too soon after the AZ, so I was able to postpone it. I can do so multiple times up until April 2022. There isn't much data, if any, on this rather embarrassing situation, but the people at BPK have a very responsive chat line and gave me what advice they could. They sent me a chart, and I found another from Bangkok Hospital regarding boosters up to and including a possible 4th shot. I hope the images aren't too big! I thought they might be of interest. Anyway, I've postponed until January 2022, and will continue to do so on a monthly basis until I feel ready. If you want to take issue with what looks like a greedy foreigner stealing from locals, well you know, we should take it elsewhere. Line-OA_จำนวนเข็ม-Moderna-Eng_new-scaled.webp

Amazing, isn't it. I sold a flat to my daughter earlier this year in the UK. We "completed" on May 12th, but the actual title transfer still hasn't been completed. Bank, freeholder, and Land Registry. What a complete and utter shambles, solicitors and all.

Regarding the usufruct, I believe you are correct, it terminates with one of the party's demise. Regarding access, as it happens, my daughter's land is surrounded by another owner's land. In Thai law, and I can quote chapter and verse, you have access, if so surrounded, via the shortest or most accessible route, to the nearest public road. I am also within my legal rights to construct a roadway/pathway to my house, but that's another story, and probably would involve a court. And yes, selling the house without the land, and vice versa, would seem to be fraught with problems, even if possible.

No, neither, as she was 19 at the time, if I recall. I had taken a very short lease, only 3 years, on the land, to avoid transfer taxes, and the seller and I agreed a clause whereby he would sell to my daughter at a later date. But a word of caution. A clause such as this could well be struck down in a Thai court of law. The argument being, the agreement forms part of a lease, not a sale agreement.

I "own" a house standing on my Thai daughter's land. She has the chanote to the land, I have my name on the building permit. It seems the latter is in reality meaningless in terms of ownership, although it's not been tested, by for instance my trying to sell the house. I have a usufruct agreement with her, entered on the chanote. The local IO refuse to accept the house as my address, claiming my daughter is the owner. Welcome to the real world.

This is what I find annoying about this post. Here we have 3 pages of replies, and the OP has kept total stumm over his treatment, his current condition, and how come it's been going on for 12 months. We don't know where he was treated, how much it cost or what it was even. So the whole thread turns into a scrap about the NHS, NI contributions, GPs etc etc. Is he or are we, any the wiser?

The only post in this thread worth reading.

Was this in Thailand? If here, was it expensive? My point being, if your treatment was carried out here, at affordable rates, and was (eventually) successful, why fly back to the UK? Except he's already had 18 months' treatment apparently.

According to CDC, treatment for TB doesn't seem to require 12 months. https://www.cdc.gov/tb/topic/treatment/tbdisease.htm

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There's a warning that pops up with Line if you download it try and login from a new phone. Basically, it tells you to back up your old device first. All Line chats get deleted when you set up a new device.

The beaches were busy last night, and early hours. Maybe police turning a blind eye.

Looks just like another Ferrari afficionado that went missing some years ago. Hope it's not all going to be déjà vu.

Quite obviously self defence. The geezer attacked him with a plastic bag which inadvertently got wrapped around his head in the ensuing struggle. They were trying to pull his head out when the geezer conked.

Why don't you just post the links, if you have any?

See here for details of investment in BioNTech. Fosun was the first. After, Pfizer. Then the European Investment Bank. Then the German government. No one country can claim bragging rights on the "Pfizer" vaccine. It's only referred to as that because of the global reach of the brand. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfizer–BioNTech_COVID-19_vaccinePfizer "CEO Albert Bourla said he decided against taking funding from the US government's Operation Warp Speed for the development of the vaccine "because I wanted to liberate our scientists [from] any bureaucracy that comes with having to give reports and agree how we are going to spend the money in parallel or together, etc." Pfizer did enter into an agreement with the US for the eventual distribution of the vaccine, as with other countries.[158]"

Umm, in the English language, inferior is a comparison to something superior. Except on social media, where it just means Chinese. And of course you can compare them. How else do you arrive at the conclusion it's inferior? I've had 2 Sinovac and an astra booster. I'm confident I'm as well vaccinated as anyone. Go and get your 3rd Pfizer or your 3rd Moderna. You'll be needing them after 6 months. Yes, you're probably right about the anti vax brigade in Europe and the US. Just shows how stupid the dirty foreigners are, right? Got access to any Vax they want but no, it's all part of some vast conspiracy. It's all about the money the world over.

Whose efforts?

What's your point? Impossible to compare vaccines? But that was the basis of the OP. Sinovac is vastly inferior. That's a comparison. And he goes on to assign blame for all of Thailand's woes to that one decision. Rates are sky rocketing in Europe and the US. They have never used Sinovac. What does that tell you? And, they own the production facilities AND the patents on the big 4. Not hard to supply themselves, yet what's the result? A massive FAIL! 4th wave. And it was AstraZaneca that awarded the contract to SBS, not the Thai government. The OP tied all those elements, suicide, loss of jobs etc etc, into the decision of the Thai government to use Sinovac. I simply pointed out the result was the same, if not far worse, in countries using anything but Sinovac. Your 3rd point. Yes, I've read the article in the BP regarding CP's alleged connections with the Sinovac vaccine, if that's what you're referring to. I can't put a link here for BP content, but it's easily googled, under "Sinovac shareholders CP".

1. What has this got to do with my post? I'm not a fan of these guys, and I'm not making those claims on their behalf. In your original post, which is the one I was responding to, you said, inter alia: "Choosing Sinovac as the primary vaccine was a brain dead choice and has made Thailand alot more vulnerable than it needed to be. It has no doubt cost millions of jobs, raised the suicide rate, increased homelessness, and contributed to bringing unhappiness to the people." I think this claim is unjustifiable, and I said so in my reply. On the same basis, I could claim choosing AstraZaneca or Pfizer has had exactly the same effect in the UK, the USA, or Germany. Millions of jobs lost, serious mental illness, impoverishment, homelessness, and a huge amount of unhappiness in every country in the world. There is no miracle cure. 2. Perhaps you forget the particular circumstances of the decision surrounding the government's choice of Sinovac, that's if they had a choice. SBS? Does that ring a bell? Availability? Reliable supply? Volumes? It was an emergency. Sinovac was available in quantity, and with a reliable supply. Every country is now looking at a minimum 3rd jab program, for whatever vaccine was available to them.