cooked

Disregarding advice to repeat dose after three months, I gave two doses of Endex about 10 days apart, following 'local customs' (old lady next door). This was 6 months ago, and from literally taking 40 - 100 ticks a day off one dog, I can honestly say that I haven't found any for months now. 

Liver problems? That's two doses that they haven't received.

We have SEVEN dogs, so any single infection of just one of the dogs would have been transmitted quickly enough to the others, but not a sausage.

Gatotade has a sugarless electrolyte drink, seen on Lazada. I don't bother about a little sugar, carbs when I go running, most of it will be gone by the time I get back home.

On 9/28/2021 at 12:14 PM, cyril sneer said:

this is another thing i'm after, any trusted brands within thailand?

Himalayan salt is a scam, it contains so little of other nutrients that it hardly makes a difference.Overnight? For goodness sake, why?

Speaking as a runner, 73 years old, I never suffered heat stroke until I started running in Thailand. Solution: hydration, certainly, but electrolytes are the key. You lose a lot of salt while sweating, and if you drink water, you will sweat even more.

Nothing wrong with the old salt tablets that used to be available on building sites before it was decided that salt, and not sugar, was responsible for high blood pressure.

23 hours ago, Gottfrid said:

Ok, you might have reacted in a negative way on that specific word. Sneering at people??? Where in the world do you get that from? To me it´s a straight fact, that you do not act irresponsible to yourself nor other people by making decisions that might put you or the ones you care about in difficulties later.

In other words, I strongly believe that it is both reckless and stupid to not have a buffer for things. That a person might not have it in their home country might be because they are just to young and not had the time yet. Then you should create a solid economy and a buffer as well as small investment portfolios that can generate money on a monthly basis. As long as you do not have that security, you should not even think of relocating to a foreign country where you do not have the same benefits and protection as in your home country.

If a person is over 50 and still do not have any means, savings or buffer then that person is just plain lazy or have been reckless in life already. That just means they are going to continue making bad decisions in life, of which on is to relocate without solid ground.

At last you have the young people that find ways to work online. Something that means they can sit anywhere in the world making money. If they can see solidity in their projects or business, as well as an unlimited life span and solidity in their income. Hell yeah, they can have a blast relocating and working from a foreign country of their choice.

However, in all the cases above there is absolutely no reason to not have an insurance. If you are not fully loaded, that will say. Now, you can call this sneering, rich talk, everybody not that "lucky" or what the heck you wish. What I just stated above is pure facts. Therefore, it is no reason to complain when old or complain that you can not stay when young.

 

Actually it is darn lucky Thailand have the visa and extension rules set at the age of 50, or that people under 50 must use Elite Visa for be able to stay. There is already enough morons that use the marriage and children way to stay at low age. Not saying all, but there are many after that who lives on minimum and have a hard time to create a good life for themselves, their wife and children. Is that really something to lookup to, when a person drag innocent people with them down in a spiral of misery?

Then we have another group of oldies that comes to live here for the sex and booze. After that they complain that they can´t pay for an insurance. Really? If that ain´t reckless and stupid? What is?

What a nice, insightful post, I'm sure you feel all the better for writing that.

"Then we have another group of oldies that comes to live here for the sex and booze. After that they complain that they can´t pay for an insurance. Really? If that ain´t reckless and stupid? What is?"

Sure that would be stupid, but seeing that a life saving medical treatment can quickly go into the millions and I doubt that many of us could ever spend a fraction of that on sex and booze, I fail to see your point.

You spend a lot of time justifying your self (I still haven't got over your "I can sit on the floor to eat" along with using your rare visits to in-laws as proof that you are adapted to Thai life style). 

Maybe you aren't a sneerer after all, just a guy thatwent into culture shock and never came out of it.

Don't bother responding to me directly as I am putting you on my "extremely self important, negative character" list.

23 hours ago, Rampant Rabbit said:

youre  gonna  die either way so hey why waste  time with insurance

BRILLIANT. What an insight. 

A large part of what insurance is about is the ASSURANCE that it gives you, something less to worry about when you have an accident, watch your house burn down, get ill. 

So you get the beginnings of a potentially fatal illness which can easily be cured but you can't pay for treatment. How fatalistic are you going to be then, no matter how old you are?

18 hours ago, Gottfrid said:

So, you are sure you adapt better to Thai life? I am perfectly adapted and can deal with any situation. Sit down on the floor eating is not a problem for me. Just love to visit my wife´s grandfather and grandmother up in Bueng Khan (Nog Kai). Just waiting to can go there again, but have been little of that during Covid.

Never have a problem to use government choices as hospital for different things. Just that I do not leave my home country on a whim, and really do not know if I will be able to care for myself. That would have a possibility to put me in a position I do not wish to be. 

Therefore I made an initial post about the need of enough money of insurance when staying in a country where you have no free or discounted social benefits. That stands, and everything else you babble about is totally irrelevant. I just hope that you will not have a major problem, that lands you in a problem you can´t handle. Let´s just say that the 12k you mention is nothing. If you think that is much, you should not live abroad. 

Let´s take an example of a hospital bill of 250 000. Can you take that, or would you need an insurance? Not even that is much if you decide to move abroad. Starting talking about 12k as an example and try to make it sound like everything is ok without insurance as long as you not use private care. That´s just laughable!

Oh so you can eat sitting on the floor, wow. I started doing that as soon as I could sit up. Sorry to be rude and to babble, but your whole post seems to have the single aim of putting someone down. Many of us have problems with health insurance, I mentioned above that I had to stop when my premiums unexpectedly increased by 50%.

I have options however, that many don't (embassy would repatriate me for hospital treatment, possibly pay my bill if that looked like coming cheaper). 

You forgot to use the phrase "cheap Charlie" by the way, try to do better next time.

One solution: do you trust your wife? I watched a friend without insurance in ICU for days, dying as it turned out. It took a lot of effort to take him out of ICU.

This cost a lot of money, and it was obvious that he wasn't going to survive. Now his girlfriend has huge bills being presented to her by the hospital, which, as they aren't married, apparently she doesn't have to pay. 

BUT the hospital won't issue a death certificate, which I find very strange indeed. 

This means that the will he made can't be acted on....

There is something called a 'living will' which goes into unnecessary life support and so on. 

I'm going to get one I think.

12 hours ago, Gottfrid said:

Do not stay in a country without insurance if you do not have the money to pay. If you can´t afford insurance. Stay home!

Or get repatriation insurance if your country offers free treatment. Difficult (impossible?) after age 70.

15 minutes ago, Leveraged said:

Yep. And once you’re up in your 70’s it’ll be in the multiple hundreds of thousands per year for the same policy. 

Happened to me. I was misinformed (take the money and run) and shortly before my 70th birthday I was informed that yearly premiums were going up 50%. So I spent the money I'd saved on something else. I am now approaching 75, meaning another increase would be on the horizon, which I could not possibly pay for. 

12 hours ago, Gottfrid said:

Do not stay in a country without insurance if you do not have the money to pay. If you can´t afford insurance. Stay home!

Or get repatriation insurance if your country offers free treatment. Difficult (impossible?) after age 70.

Anybody following Chinese news will know that many "investment projects" get demolished before they are even finished (that is after 10 - 15 years standing there unfinished), so don't get too gloomy. That's the way to get rich, take the money and run.

13 hours ago, Yorkshire Tea said:

Has anyone heard from their kid's schools about the rules for these re-openings?

 

Like, what if you don't want your child vaccinated, or what happens when there is a positive case at the school?

 

Or do the schools assume all parents are sheep?

This will certainly depend on decisions made at the provincial level. You don't want your child to be vaccinated? Who cares, they will come home one day and tell you they got the shot. If you do manage to tell them you don't want them vaccinated, they'll say "fair enough, find another school".

ONE positive (that is a PCR positive result, which strictly speaking, isn't a 'case' without symptoms) will result in having the whole school euthanised.

On 9/15/2021 at 6:17 AM, fangless said:

It is not a fact.  It is an opinion!

OK, so where are the enormous sums of money going to come from? All governments are aware of this but of course are keeping quiet about it. 

While we're at it: school opening in Buriram has been postponed three times, the second time on the Sunday night at 10 pm, "no school tomorrow" and again yesterday afternoon, "not tomorrow. wait another two weeks". 

They do the same thing with school holidays also, never mind.

On 9/13/2021 at 8:27 AM, Excel said:

Another reason Boris and Rishak wanted out of the EU as one day the EU will enforce equal pension payments for all member states , quite rightly too in my opinion to ensure fairness, but too late for us in the UK now.

It is a fact that pensions and the health service will some time in the not too distant future, be radically cut back. These are huge bills that governments can't afford.

On 8/28/2021 at 4:11 PM, Chomper Higgot said:

What are these ‘alternative news sites’?

 

Name them.

Just google "Extreme Fascist hateful and racist conspiracy theory news sites".

I have many factual websites that don't censor you for wanting to discuss stuff, you could find them too.

9 hours ago, placeholder said:

You don't think there's a significant difference between your previous claim that that vaccination makes you more likely to catch covid vs. vaccination makes you more likely to catch covid than does being previously infected with covid?

True, research does seem to show that if you get covid you are better protected than if you are vaccinated. So the best way to protect yourself from getting covid is to get covid? Really? Just so long as you don't die or suffer serious long term effects from the first bout. But that's a minor consideration.

You are indignantly splitting hairs. Read my last post again, people have been saying for more than a year that these vaccines will make you more liable to catch the Cov. Just because you refuse to read alternative news sites (well, how could you, they keep getting removed) doesn't mean it isn't true.

They were lying when they said that vaccines would offer better protection against Cov than natural infection and I have no reason to believe anything they say now. 

13 hours ago, MrJ2U said:

Its good to avoid any toxic chemical.  Any residue can sleep underground and enter your water supply if you have an underground pump/well system.

Oh boy. We're all gonna die.

13 hours ago, placeholder said:

Did you actually read the article you linked to?

This is the worst case scenario cited by the article:

Authors of a CDC case study said this might mean that they were just as likely to transmit Covid-19 as the unvaccinated. Even so, they cautioned, as more people are vaccinated, it’s natural that they would also account for a larger share of Covid-19 infections and this one study was not sufficient to draw any conclusions. The incident prompted the CDC to reverse a recommendation it had issued just a few weeks earlier and once again urge the vaccinated to mask up in certain settings.

 Where does it say that the vaccines will increase your chances of contracting the virus.? Yet here is what you wrote:

It looks increasingly as if some vaccines will increase your chances of contracting the Delta variant, I am SUBMITTING to my need to be able to travel by taking the vaccines as instructed.

 

You Are getting yourself into a state of indignation, aren't you? I thought that a pro-more government, more bureaucracy news site might do it for you. The conclusions of this and other studies could be just as well be expressed differently and indeed they have been. Some medical professionals were warning of this possibility a year ago. Eventually certain people will admit that the best protection against Covid is having caught it at some point, meaning that being vaccinated makes you more liable to infection with the next variant to come along. 

On 8/25/2021 at 10:36 AM, placeholder said:

This is utterly false. Stop making things up.

This is a PS: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-21/science-can-t-keep-up-with-virus-creating-worry-for-vaccinated?utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_content=business&utm_medium=social&cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_source=twitter