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Data point: I paid 180 yesterday for a Thai brand. (For comparison, imported brand was 600.)

5 hours ago, JimHuaHin said:

LOL.

 

Maybe the Thai authorities will stop checking for COVID.  Thus, no problem.

 

Right! Why continue fetishistic testing for a mild respiratory illness?

7 hours ago, FRK63 said:

Today I read south Korea has introduced covid testing before boarding flights from China as there records indicate 80% of travelers have covid. 

Based on that % they'll need another 230,000 beds 

Ridiculous. Only a tiny fraction of people who test positive for covid will require hospitalization.

Some people are just addicted to the hysteria, it seems… but the sky Is. Not. Falling. 

16 hours ago, Salerno said:

If no, you don't need insurance (at this time that is of course, who knows if required in a couple of hours 555).

Prescient, you. 

2 hours ago, Dukeleto said:

if they find that you don’t have health insurance you are pointed towards the desk that has coverage at 5000% higher rates than any other normal health insurance or you are refused entry!!!

 

So the restriction has NOT been lifted

Where does it say anything about being REQUIRED to buy, or being refused entry?

4 hours ago, 2baht said:

The Chinese has not been bred out of him!

Your racial purity test is disgusting. 

Get a grip. 

15 minutes ago, Puccini said:

From the news article to which a link is given in the OP:

 

“In case that some countries require their arrivals to pass RT-PCR tests for COVID-19 before trips, such travelers will be required to have health insurance. This will benefit them if they are infected and must stay in Thailand until their recovery. Therefore, tourists should have their health insurance before visiting Thailand,” the [Thai] health minister said.

 

My question: Does China require that outbound passengers pass a Covid-19 test before travelling?

 

I read the quoted article as being about *inbound* travelers to China. The sentence about how this benefits the traveler clarifies that, at least to me. 
 

It’s actually sensible reasoning, IMO. I’m glad Thailand is not overreacting. 

1 hour ago, John Drake said:

people with just a cough and fever can overwhelm any country's medical system

There are plenty of 7-11s in Thailand to dispense paracetamol to “people with just a cough and a fever” and that’s as close to Thailand’s “medical system” as they need to get. 

For LTR visa purposes, does my income, and investment in Thailand, need to be only in my own name?

I have only joint tax returns for the past decades, and I’d like e.g. a foreigner-owned condo I buy in Bangkok to be held jointly with me and (Thai) wife. Would those still work as evidence for the LTR wealthy pensioner or wealthy global citizen application?

I’m in Thailand on a visa exemption stamp. At a branch of Bangkok Bank this morning, I asked about opening an account. I can speak Thai well enough to explain that I am American, and not here on any kind of visa.

The answer was that he would open one for me with my original passport plus some kind of “certification of the passport” from “the US embassy”. Further conversation didn’t reveal what this is with sufficient precision.

Does anyone have any insight into what this refers to, *exactly*? I was imagining maybe a notarized, signed copy of my passport? Or is there a specific kind of certification the US can create? I’ve never heard of this but I am not an expert.

Or is this just likely to be wild goose chase, and there’s no actual document that could fulfill this supposed requirement?

This might be compelling for Canadians but I doubt there’s really enough demand from Canadians to sustain this route even seasonally…
 

…Because I don’t think this will be particularly compelling for Americans. There’s still a flight connection so going via YVR doesn’t offer a sufficient time savings.
 

Plus there’s strong competition. EVA, China Airlines, JAL, ANA, Korean, Asiana, Cathay Pacific (well, whatever’s left of them), Malaysia, Singapore, others like Philippine Airlines, and some airlines going via Middle East or Europe, all with one-stops to BKK from numerous USA airports, all similar total flight times to going via YVR. (Well OK Singapore and Malaysia are a few hours longer.)

So actually the AC flight enters what looks like quite a crowded field, contrary to the warm and fuzzies in the article. 

2 hours ago, starky said:

If your asymptomatic or mild why in Christ's name would you need a bloody ACUTE respiratory infection clinic?

Kinda sums up the official mindset in Thailand about covid, doesn’t it.

16 minutes ago, Trujillo said:

"Given the virulence of Omicron, if it turns out to be as lethal as Delta, then millions more will die. That would make a difference to me."

 

We already know that it is NOT as lethal. And millions dying every year of hypertension makes a difference to you? Are you out there every day advocating in a meaningful way better diet -- no processed foods and sugary drinks? Are you protesting in a meaningful way the rape of the land for palm oil and sugar that contributes to this?

Smoking? Drugs? Alzheimer's? 

 

 

Some people just love tyranny, and covid has given them perfect cover to advocate for it. 

3 hours ago, Stargeezr said:

COVID, that makes

most people pretty sick

Nonsense. “Most people” don’t even know they have it, or have mild symptoms. 
 

The sky is not falling. 

Curious to hear people's thoughts about what happens if/when a covid incarceration occurs when a family is traveling together.

For example, a husband/wife traveling together. One or both of them tests positive in the PCR on arrival or the 6-day follow-up, or a test required to board the plane to go home from Thailand. I'm imagining that the couple is separated as they're carted off for incarceration, and will not be allowed to be in hospital together.

There are a number of variations on the theme... children separated from parents; or what happens if one person in a couple tests positive and the other doesn't, etc.

Conspicuously absent are any definitive statements about precisely what happens when someone tests positive, or someone else on the inbound plane tests positive.

Incarceration likely.

What about families during said incarceration? For example, a husband and wife traveling together... forcibly separated if one or both test positive? Children from parents? Etc.

You might investigate whether a place called Isaan Tawandaeng in Bangkok on Thanon Pattanakarn still exists. (Do not confuse with a German beer hall of similar name.)


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Going back a long way to my own experiences, I recall that having traveled to and returned from other countries (i.e. not the US or Burma, or probably Thailand in your case) can provide positive evidence to the visa-issuing US consulate, which may help because it is evidence of having a home base to return to.

I believe there are already some restrictions to gun ownership such as felony conviction and age. If I am correct then what is the reasoning behind such restrictions?

The reasoning is that contrary to the hysterical anti-gun wingnuts' talking points, the law and most Americans actually do support "reasonable restrictions," and the ones you mentioned are among them.

Well, you did kinda leave out a few key parts of the dialog:

You: Can we stop allowing blind people to drive?

Me: I could be down with that. What did you have in mind?

You: First, all car owners must admit that they and all Republicans are racist, Trump-supporting knuckle-dragging inbred redneck morons.

Me: What does that have to do with stopping blind people from driving?

You: It would be theraputic in reducing a car culture which fosters blind driving

You: Assault cars -- those with a gas tank with capacity greater than 10 gallons -- would be banned.

Me: What does that have to do with stopping blind people from driving?

You: Stop parroting Automobile Club of America talking points.

...

Me: DON'T TAKE MY CAR!

Much of the logic (illogic) is enough to make most sane people want to sit down and weep.

Imagine.... same logic.... Can we stop allowing blind people to drive? Answer: DON'T TAKE MY CAR! How would that, in any way, be a rational response?

Knife attacks kill 2 people at central Sweden Ikea store

Disarming a law abiding population is an act of enlightened social progressiveness, which creates a violence-free utopia. So how could this possibly have happened?

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Is there a comic or magazine collecting scene in Bangkok? I've seen photos of some old Mad Magazine in Thai, would be interesting to acquire. Seems like they're from 20-30 years ago, maybe around 4 editions, possibly some kind of bootleg, but definitely in Thai.

How to tap into that scene in Bangkok?

Data plans are here:

http://www.ooredoo.com.mm/en/Personal/Plans/Prepaid/Internet-Pack.aspx

Speed test hosted by Ooredoo's own server shows 5-6mbit speeds. International connectivity is variable but seems good enough for usable Facebook and gmaps. At first I was having really spotty connectivity but then I got a text that my "welcome" internet was depleted and after that things got more reliable. I think that initial period was not full 3G service.

Service is on 900 and 2100MHz bands.

I'm using a Nokia Lumia 1020.