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My Australian bank sends the via normal post to my condo. My card expired mid last year, they sent me a replacement and it didn't turn up, I requested another card and the sent that and it hasn't turned up either.  I do get other mail from Australia, so it's hard to explain whats going on right now. My bank in this case is Westpac.

High does Vit C is being used  with covid patients in diffferent parts of the world, it's also used in many other diseases including cancer treatments. So perhaps the article about prevention was "fake" or misunderstood the difference between treatment measures versus a preventative one. 

If you google High  does vitamin C you'll see a lot of respected institutions with articles around high does vitamin c, but it's only part of the treatment and I think it's more about helping repair the damage covid is doing as apposed to curing or attacking covid specifically. 

I get 1000 mbps down and 200 mbps  up, 899 per month. I live in an older building on the 20th floor. 7,000 baht to run the fibre cable from the street to my room. 3BB.

Using Nord VPN I get 250mbs down and 50 mbps up when selecting Australia as my location.  Singapore is usually good to.

Kasikorn Pattaya (the avenue), Australian passport and 10,000 baht to deposit, was done in about 30 minutes, 3 weeks ago.

Try google, https://sunparadise.co.th/page_a.php?cid=71&cname=PLISSE, ROLLING, FIXED SCREENS AND SLIDING SCREEN  I'm sure there's lots of other suppliers out there.

On January 1 2020 the us dollar gold price was $1,520, today it's $1,940, yeah it's getting smashed.  It's actually consolidating above the historical all time high which was about $1,920. Golds on a long term uptrend and the real economic pain hasn't hit the US yet.  Wait until all those government cheques and Fed bailout programs slow down.

The bars that had a solid expat customer base before this will be OK and operate as normal.  As the expats and the owners are all very familiar with each other none/few of the rules will be applied.  That's the truth of it in my opinion. 

My view.

Never depend on the government for your safety.

Never depend on the other people for your safety.

The only person who is responsible for your safety is you.  Make your decisions accordingly.

A Penn State university study published in the NY Post a couple of days ago estimated over 8 million infected in the US in March. If true then there are 10's or hundreds of millions of people who have or have had this.  Not sure any amount of rules will help if this is the case.  But that would also mean the fatality rate was very low.  In Italy I recall reading the average age of the victims was 80, so probably need to try and protect different parts of the community differently.

Study link https://nypost.com/2020/06/23/over-8-7-million-covid-19-cases-in-us-went-undetected-in-march-study/

Rule 23, ignore rules 1-22 as quickly as possible. We've been locked away to long and forgotten Thai's willingness to totally disregard anything the laws and regulations stipulate.  Of the 100,000 bars and clubs, 98,000 would be almost soley for Thai patrons, there's zero chance these rules will be followed across the country. Pattaya, Phuket, Bangkok maybe a few days at best while the BIB get the cash reserves up.

I believe the only non stop flights from NZ are with Thai, a quick look for early August has Thai at 8,000 baht more than the cheapest flight and 5,000 more than Qantas via Sydney. Thai 32,000, Qantas 27,000.

I've been fined for late, 2 or 3 days.  I thought I had the option like 90 day reporting but no. On or before due day, after that you will likely be fined.

I've had more issues with DHL than all  other carriers combined. Given a choice I would use anyone but DHL. 

I really have no idea why this discussion is around beer bars, hookers whatever.  The place has been closed since mid March, 57 people died, no one in Pattaya has recorded a case in a month or more.  Meanwhile 500 meters from where I live a 1 km long line was formed at 1am with people trying to get a food handout 8 hours later at 9am. 

Let people go back to work whatever they do, when the government decides who can work, who cant work, what businesses will likely fail and which get enriched you no longer live in a free and fair society. How many millions have died to protect freedoms over the last 100 years, yet so many on this forum and other places are happy to give up that freedom for some perceived "safety" where 57 people died.   Most likely with Corona 19 and not from corona 19. 

Life has risk, deal with it.  I think so many people have been manipulated by a massive fear campaign that will likely result in years of hardship given the massive over reaction globally to this virus and governments enforcing unemployment and business closures on good people wanting to work. Over 40% of US deaths have been in nursing homes. The average age of deaths in Italy was 78 or 79.  

Be careful, make your own choices, the government doesn't give a <deleted> about you, do your research work out whats media bull whats the governments agenda (any government), what you should do given your own personal circumstances. Let people work so they don't starve not have to que like beggars for 8 hours just to get a meal in a once prosperous city.  Crazy. 

I'm inclined to think Thai life will go back to normal fairly quickly, there's only been few deaths (57) and you only need to see the road carnage to see Thais aren't to concerned with death.  Went for a haircut yesterday, sign says "No mask no service"  I said do you want me to put on my mask, they said no need.  Thats going to be how most places / small businesses operate in my opinion.

About 18 months ago Amex told  me if I had 4,000,000 baht or more in my bank account for 6 consecutive months they would issue me a card.  I'm retired. 

I'm in a 1980's built condo in Pattaya (Pratumnak).  I paid 7,000 baht to install directly into my condo, I'm on the 20th floor, it took a couple of hours and the service guys did a great job.  Actually I think 3BB said 6,000 but my Juristic person said she knew someone who would do it the next day, 7,000 baht so I went with that.  Speednet test 794/854 Mbps.   It vary's, using a VPN via Singapore or Australia I usually get anywhere between 60-150 down and about the same or slower up. 

No results for China,  errr censored, how much integrity does Google have, profits over information?

I came in last night from Australia, I have a current multiple re-entry permit,the place was empty, no ques, never seen it that slow 8:30pm. No discussion about any additional info, documents, Apps etc.  Standard procedure as per normal. 

There are a few monitoring stations set up in the passage ways as you head to immigration, only 1 had people looking at screens, a roped off area, probably for secondary questioning but no one stopped.  Arrival hall as you exit customs 20% of normal traffic, maybe less. 

As an arriving passenger, it was good.