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My wife and I have Thai visas that are stamped for one year every time it is renewed either by extension or border crossing. However if we only plan to stay in Thailand one month can we buy an ongoing plane ticket to another country one month from our entry date and purchase only 1 month worth of Thai Covid insurance?

Requiring vaccinations seems reasonable to me and does have historic precedent. Requiring people to be tested on an ongoing basis into perpetuity just to enter a restaurant or a shopping mall seems impossible to implement and useless. The cost alone would far exceed the profit most businesses make and the accuracy & actual protections such tests provide is minor at best At some point Thailand will have to accept people may have covid but enough are vaccinated that it's no longer a serious threat. 

All of these schemes seem more like efforts to pass the buck on responsibility, blaming the businesses if someone catches covid and not the government for their lack of a serious vaccination effort

14 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

To apply for the certificate of entry the $100,000 covid 19 insurance has to be valid for the length of stay you get when entering the country.

If have other insurance to cover your more than 30 days you could get another policy to cover those first 30 days after your arrive to get the coverage for asymptomatic treatment. The insurance you can get here covers asymptomatic treatment. https://www.tipinsure.com/CovidRegional/product_detail

How is my length of stay determined? My wife and I have Thailand Elite visas and our stay is theoretically many years. Do I need an exit ticket to demonstrate length of stay? Otherwise we were hoping to get a one way ticket.

2 hours ago, srowndedbyh2o said:

I am currently in the U.S. and also have Blue Cross/Blue Shield coverage that can be used in Thailand.

Even if my BlueCross/BlueShield coverage is acceptable for COE, I probably will get a separate Covid-coverage from a Thai-based insurance just to cover costs if I were to test positive and be asymptomatic, or even symptomatic, as BlueCross/BlueShield will only cover hospitalization if it is deemed ‘Medically necessary’. The cost of Thai Covid insurance coverage is small compared to the cost for possibly two people spending 14 days in a hospital.

I am considering the possibility of forking out for Thai health insurance even though I have my own to avoid the loophole you mention where I am asymptomatic but hospitalized anyway which would be outside of my personal insurance coverage. Do you know if you get the Thai policy how long it needs to be effective and if I can cancel the Thai policy as soon as I am past the various quarantine/sandbox measures? At that point I would just rely on my own.

Thanks everyone I will try this.

My wife and I have USA based Blue Cross health insurance that covers us for Covid and other health afflictions worldwide. This insurance would meet the Thai requirements, but I am not sure what documentation Blue Cross would have to provide us to meet the Thai requirements and if they even would? Has anyone been able to enter Thailand with their own insurance not purchased or based in Thailand or did you just end up buying Thai insurance to get in? If you did used your non Thai insurance what document did you get that was accepted by Thai immigration?

They are going to see millions more cases no matter what. Just open up to the vaccinated and at least don't kill even more due to lack of income. Stop with all the idiot temp checks and nose swabs to asymptomatic people too.

Even if this does work the extra level of precision creates a new risk that inadequate antibodies are created so instead of saving money they are wasting it. All these flim flam ideas smack of desperation.

This is what happens when saving face is more important then saving lives.

I am in the US and have gotten 2 Pfizer doses. If we reach a point again where there are more vaccines than people who want them I am going to request this before I go back to Thailand. Assuming Thailand gets out of the lockdowns + rising caseload quagmire in the next 6 months.

I used thinkorswim for years in Thailand and never had a problem.

During lockdown all of these pontificators must have been watching Aladdin on repeat. They think they have a magic lantern they can wish upon to achieve their farcical projections. But with a total lack of accountability why not reach for beyond the sky and then just come up with a new pie in the sky statistic when the old one fails. That's much more fun than looking at the reality of failure to advance society even before Covid. Lack of investment in education + Bloated and overly complex visas and hostility to foreigners has left Thai people without the skills and opportunities to advance in the modern world. Had they invested more heavily in STEM maybe they could've actually produced some leading mRNA vaccines instead of the excuse festival that was Siam bio.

The country's economy is collapsing under the weight of their failed vaccine rollout. Recovery is a long ways off and the Baht should be falling much faster to reflect this.

9 hours ago, Ralf001 said:

looks like she has eaten to much McD's during the good time.... the other lass has a nice rack !!

Many farang would surely be there to support her if they could only get back in the country.

Calling him a fake prime minister is not fake news.

RIP dear lady. I cannot think of a worse headline for the sandtrap program.

As others have said without pictures all we can do is speculate and give you our own biases. Pics or it didn't happen.