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9 hours ago, webfact said:
He advised people not to mind the sources of the vaccines they would receive.
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3 hours ago, rickthailand said:
they all infected with covid
Viral load is pehaps the biggest factor in Covid severity.
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17 minutes ago, youreavinalaff said:
To which teachers to you refer? Thai, Expat or both?
All of them.
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5 hours ago, kynikoi said:
Thai salaries haven't moved up.
Quality of teachers haven't moved up.
Starting salary of 35k is triple the national wage. Probably 2.5 times the standard bog teaching salary of around half that.
What are these teacher's bringing to the position? Prestigious uni, ability to teach, write well, public speaking talent, clear pronunciation and understanding of phonics, great vocabulary, solid grammar skills, celta?
No, just another bog standard, low motivation, no prep farang. If you live in the hills expect to make hillbilly wages. Pretty simple.
It's not triple the national wage unless you're talking about the national wage for working in a hotel making beds. Any qualified Thai (other than a public servant) working in any kind of responsible position is north of 25,000 baht these days. A receptionist working for a multi-national on the eastern seaboard gets nearly 20,000.
But your other point is absolutely correct. Teachers in Thailand are grossly underpaid and it impacts on the quality of the profession overall. It's a job of last resort.
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AUA out in the sticks were paying me almost 30,000 baht and that was 18 years ago. And with a few extra classes I was actually making more than that. It's just pathetic that teaching pay hasn't moved over the intervening years because for sure the cost of living has. And so have teaching salaries elsewhere. Go and look at rates in Vietnam or Cambodia, or China.
The pay rate in Thailand is a joke and not a basis for any long or even medium term life choice. Almost 20 years ago, after 5 years in Thailand on 24 -30,000 a month I had a hard look at reality and admitted the inescapable conclusion that if I didn't get out and make some proper money I'd finish up destitute. And to be honest, that's exactly how a few of the guys I worked with did finish up. Broke, unable to meet financial visa of health insurance requirements, the end result of a decade or two living the TEFLing life was them having to crawl back to the UK to live on social security in some DSS accommodation with the plonkies. Yes, there are good times to be had teaching in Thailand but you need to keep an eye on the post teaching door because sooner or later you will have to have to go through it. And don't forget to keep up your pension/ national insurance contributions....
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The 'acceptance' would appear to be based on text recognition software. My first CoE was rejected with only the certificate and terms uploaded as support, but when I resubmitted again (twice by mistake but with different supporting docs) I got two acceptances in quick succession!
I wouldn't sweat it. If it gets rejected you can just resubmit....
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Just looked at teaching jobs on Ajarn.com and the going rate seems to be about B40-50,000 a month. That's not much more than it was 20 years ago.
If baffles me why anyone with a tertiary education would want to work for that kind of money, especially in the frustrating and depressing environment of the Thai school system.
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1 minute ago, Mango Bob said:So where the hell do those who are 73 with heart problems go to get the vaccine. How the hell do I know where to go. this damn government does not give us any information at all. I am in Ratchaburi so what hospital or place do we go to. We have no damn information what to do. They do nothing. at all. I hate these leaders they do nothing for the people
Plans and aspirations are not the same thing. The former involve practical realities like which hospital to go to and when, and the latter just need a dream.
If I were on your shoes I'd be looking to the private sector rather than waiting for the government.
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I'm toying with the idea of getting one of those Pfizer t-shirts so I can swank it up in my quarantine room next month....
Do they even sell Sinovac shirts?
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List of minuses for people with choices.
1) climate - far, far too humid for most of the year. Can't do anything without getting in a muck sweat.
2) Air quality. Just look at a global live map. Thailand is perpetually red or orange.
These are the biggies. Then in no particular order...
3) Whatever one's interests there will always be better places on the planet to cater to them. Culture, outdoors, sport, scenery, cuisine, whatever. Thailand's way down on any list.
4) The place itself. No matter how much you're worth, as soon as you step out of your door you're in a low to mid ranking industrial country with non-existent planning regulations and a propensity for concrete. I remember once complimenting a friend in Bali on the design of his house and his reply was....yeah but you live in Thailand. They don't build houses in Thailand. They build shops and garages- and then go and live in them!' And fundamentally he was right. Aesthetically, most of Thailand is pretty horrible. It's tacky.
5) It's a military dictatorship
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This report gives no information about the study itself. The wording is also ambiguous. Before putting the boot into the virology dept at Chula it would be good to hear what the professor actually said about his results rather than reading a report about what he said. The two are not the same thing.
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2 hours ago, Danderman123 said:
"My understanding is that Farangs who test positive during quarantine are hospitalized in a real hospital, symptoms or not.".
And why not when you're paying $100 a month for mandatory Covid insurance that has to be bought from a Thai insurance company due to wording stipulations on the CoE requirements.
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3 hours ago, Aarin said:
Why not waive the quarantine now for vaccinated tourists. Why wait for October, what will be different then?
Nothing.
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1 hour ago, anchadian said:Do we have any yet?Guidance for Fully Vaccinated PeopleFor the purposes of this guidance, people are considered fully vaccinated for COVID-19 ≥2 weeks after they have received the second dose in a 2-dose series, or ≥2 weeks after they have received a single-dose vaccine.Source: CDC
I've got another activity to add to that list.
To demonstrate that the results of original and ongoing clinical trials of licensed vaccines aren't bogus, fully vaccinated people arriving in Thailand can spend north of B50,000 and 15 days in quarantine. Give 'em something to do while the bars are closed...
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9 hours ago, ukrules said:
We haven't seen a large scale outbreak in Thailand yet, it's still getting started.
Sadly, I'm inclined to agree with you. I don't know why, but it feels like any day now there's going to be another sudden upleg.
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1 hour ago, anchadian said:Thailand plans to waive mandatory quarantine for vaccinated visitors to Bangkok and top tourist destinations from October, to revive a key industry battered by COVID-19 travel curbs
So why am I going to be locked up in an ASQ hotel for 15 days next month? How is my Pfizer vaccine going to be any different in October from how it is now, other than being 4 months older and thus probably less effective?
Oh wait I forgot... I have no choice but come to Thailand and therefore can be tapped for the extra expense. But the tourists wouldn't stand for it and so their money would go elsewhere.
There's no science involved in any of this. It's about milking the cash cows.
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Three hundred baht is nothing in the general scheme of things, but a tourist is, by definition, already supporting the tourist industry and nobody likes to be chiselled out of cash however small the amount.
Cheap, tacky, and grabby - it's not a good look to be extorting money from visitors before they're even out of the airport.
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When I first visited Thailand in the 80s, it was beautiful. Quiet, clean, and uniquely different. And to experience it, you had to come here.
These days though Thailand is noisy, dirty, and no different to any other low to mid ranking industrial country.
You don't have to travel half way around the world to sit in traffic fumes across from a McDonalds while the people around you play with their phones. If they are so minded, pretty much anyone can do that at home.
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15 hours ago, papa al said:
Thai people nice to papa.
100%.
If you're happy being talked to like an infant and given the facile smile treatment, Thailand's probably a dream come true.
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13 hours ago, BenDeCosta said:
are going to have a hard time adjusting to living on 300 baht a day from a 12 hour shift at a factory in Chon Buri.
It's not 300 baht and hasn't been for a long time. And that's the problem. Thai cheap labour has priced itself out of the market and new production lines are being automated and made 'smart'. Nobody wants lines of girls putting bits into products anymore. My SiL, who worked shifts for 20 years for various Japanese technology companies, is now back on the family farm. There's no work and she's given up looking. In every new factory her old job is being done by a robot.
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Unless Thailand fixes its education system it will never progress economically beyond a low to lower mid-tier country. It's a massive ask though when the people in charge of fixing it are either corrupt or themselves ill-educated.
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If I were 'high net worth' I wouldn't choose to stay in Thailand. The atrocious air quality alone would put me off.
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Any vaccine is better than no vaccine.
(was happy when the girl with the syringe told me mine was Pfizer though...) ????
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Fears that relaxing ganja laws will result in crime explosion - but US data suggests otherwise
in Thailand News Headlines
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Chronic users of any drug are generally low performers. How many high achieving alcoholics ir junkies do you know of?