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When does the Statute of Limitations run out in this case - after all it's nearly 9 years since the offence?

20 hours ago, Mavideol said:

555 ....maybe one of the many reasons to keep the BATH over valuated, it makes it easy to buy foreign vaccines   555

How do you "overvaluate a bath"? Unless it's a gold plated one? ????

1 hour ago, connda said:

I wonder how long it will take these fools to get a clue that no one is coming with the restrictions in place.
"Why farang laugh?"  ????

They really have no idea, do they?

1 hour ago, foreverlomsak said:

Marriage extensions are approved at regional level, 1 of which happens to be Bangkok, they are not all sent to Bangkok for approval, therefore there may be differing requirements re proof of funds when collecting your stamps after the consideration period.

Suggest you ask your local IO on submission what the requirements will be.

The bane of the Visa applicant's life:- "differing requirements" 

9 minutes ago, mlmcleod said:

????????????  I guess these numbers are to be expected from all of the relatives working together at TAT.  I think 30-40 thousand is about tops for this year.

Just the usual guesstimate multiplied by a hundred - standard practice for TAT

6 hours ago, Fromas said:

 

'fraid so!

 

 

I AM surprised! (that they actually announced a price before they have the goods!)

4 hours ago, ibtg68 said:

That depends on which of the “official” announcements you choose to believe. I’ve seen it previously written where registrations made on the Mor Prom app will be honored and then again I’ve seen written where the Mor Prom registrations are going to be disregarded. 

Sounds about par for the course! 

So when you find out (by accident!) the day before you are due to report for your vaccination that it has been cancelled "due to an IT problem", or because "we have no vaccine left as it is all being sent to Bangkok as they have a big problem" does it give you confidence in the fact that you have already registered, as suggested  by the  deputy Foreign Ministry spokesman Natapanu Nopakun? 

6 hours ago, crazykopite said:

It appears there is a lack of intelligence or information regarding the Covid vaccine people should be made aware that even with the required two vaccines there is no guarantee that you won’t catch it only that your immune system is in a better position to fight it having just the one vaccine does nothing and the PM needs to make that absolutely clear to the public 

I don't think there's any chance of that. His priority seems to be to get 70% of all Thais vaccinated, but by that he means with the first dose - he has already extended the time between the first and second doses by about 4 weeks, so the chances of 70% of the population being fully vaccinated in the next couple of months is nil.

7 hours ago, sqwakvfr said:

Why only in Thailand or SE Asia?  If the US Government vaccinates Americans in Thailand then what about every country in the world that Americans are in?  This list would be long and possibly there are more Americans in other countries than Thailand?  A lot of Americans are in the PI as well.  It is not what "the Government owes us or has a duty to do", most of us came to Thailand voluntarily.  I have never met any American who was forced to come to Thailand or is on asylum status.  We can leave Thailand anytime.  

 

Additionally would countries like India or possibly Brazil be higher on any potential list to vaccinate Americans?  If the pandemic poses an imminent threat to Americans then the State Department would deploy it's ultimate overseas tool:  the NEO program, Noncombatant Evacuation Operations.  If the pandemics gets really bad the US Embassy in Bangkok would offer all Americans a chance to evacuate(of course it would not be free).  In essence Americans who want to be evacuated would pack one carry on bag and meet at a designated meeting point and fly out to the US or the nearest safe country. 

 

This is issue is "DOA".  

Is the responsisbility of any Embassy not to look after its citizens in that particular country? Hence American Embassies in many countries in the world., because Americans are spread far and wide. So the American Embassy in Bangkok has a responsibility to look after its citizens in Thailand. Nobody is wanting  emergency evacuations, just vaccinations. And I would hope that the British Embassy would do the same for its citizens. Speaking personally, I have always found them helpful (when you can actually get to speak to a person) and a couple of sdays ago they sent me an email asking if I wanted to be updated on any changes to the vaccination programme here in Thailand if it affected British citizens. I haven't asked for their help in acquiring a vaccination because as yet it has not been necessary, ( I am due to get vaccinated tomorrow) so I don't know what their response would be to a rhetorical question. 

2 hours ago, connda said:

Flip-Flop, Flip-Flop
What's the story today,
Is it believable or not?
Flip-Flop, Flip-Flop

Thailand has become The Land Of Covid Story Flip-Flops.
Nobody that the top can keep their stories straight from one day to the next.  It simply inspires confidence and believability, does it not?
These government wonks need to hire a Hollywood Script Editor to maintain the continuity of their various storylines.

Good idea! "Anutin said........" Time to  move on - next fib please!

6 hours ago, khunPer said:

Last year in March they stated the fist wave was caused by the Italian variant...????

 

So what happened to it?

1 minute ago, mrfill said:

Its not for sale. It's free. And none allocated to private hospitals.

I stand corrected - I forgot about how good the NHS is!

2 hours ago, fdsa said:

I want to get vaccinated too. Does anyone know where I could purchase a Moderna or Pfizer vaccine?

The United Kingdom!

1 hour ago, bstafford214 said:

I agree as well with the inspections being done by AZ themselves. Who in Thailand is qualified to inspect? They need more information in the statement as to how they inspect. Is their AZ staff that are quality controllers in the medical field? This is AZ's process so I hope they are involved. 

Maybe Anutin is "engineering" the inspections - God forbid!

22 hours ago, bluesofa said:

I'd rather see the inspection by AstraZeneca  themselves.

Or are they directly overseeing production and QC?

Slightly off topic, but a similar scenario - remember the Koh Tao murders when the British Police were invited to help, and when they got here, they were told they were just there in  "an observer capacity"?

Maybe there are people from Astra Zeneca here in a similar capacity?

2 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

This news it akin to saying Vanilla Ice is confident we will have nuclear fusion energy within a years time. Sometimes, someone loses credibility to the extent that nothing they say can be trusted anymore. 

 

Are they so out of touch, that they are completely unaware of the sentiments of the people? Or is it just utter indifference? 

Honestly, I think the latter.

In which other country would such an unqualified "engineer" be given the job of Minister of Health"? Every statement he gives is so often reversed, or is so outrageously untrue or at the least highly improbable, that he has no credibility whatsoever. The closing line of his latest statement is typical:- 

"All the people will get vaccinated in Thailand, he reiterated."  Of course, he will refute that at some time, or say that what he meant to say was "All the people that get vaccinated will be living in Thailand" (Or something similar!)

And "Anutin insisted that from June 7th - a date becoming a D-Day in the minds of the Thai public - everyone would start to get vaccinated." 

What on earth does that mean? On June 7th every  person in the country would begin the process of having a needle stuck in their arm?

6 hours ago, statman78 said:

Wasn’t earlier this year we were being told Thailand would get 5-10 doses of Pfizer by the end of the year?  Same with J&J and Sputnik but with different quantities.  It looks like no orders have been placed for any of these.

Wasn’t earlier this year we were being told Thailand would get 5-10 doses of Pfizer by the end of the year?

Sounds about right  - just enough for The PM and Deputy PM's families!

"All the people will get vaccinated in Thailand, he reiterated."

You don't even need to look at the headline to realise who spouted that gem of exaggerated bullpoo!!!  

23 minutes ago, newnative said:

    Thailand's economy is highly dependent on international tourism.  Thailand's leaders state that no international tourists allowed until 70% of the population is vaccinated.  What 'luck are they holding on' for?   Thailand should have been making its own luck by securing as many vaccines as it could as early as it could.  

    The country needed to be vaccinated for international tourism to start up again--whether that was done early or, as it turns out, very late and still not really started.   It's almost June and even at this late date the vaccines are few, more uncertain, and vaccination is only at around 3% of the population. 

    Meanwhile, in trying to save a buck or win favor, Thailand has spent a fortune not on vaccines but in trying to financially prop up the devastated tourism industry, with little success.  And, as I said, still no large numbers of vaccines in sight at this late date.  

Or large numbers of tourists for the foreseeable future!

32 minutes ago, Fairynuff said:

Oh yes, of course, bigotry would have nothing to do with it at all.

I am not going to get into an argument about racism on a thread that is about Covid, but I am entitled to my opinion as to the number of refugees/immigrants allowed into my home country, and the fact that some of them may have been carrying/infected with Covid. 

14 minutes ago, Fairynuff said:

Exactly, so apart from wanting to have a go at refugees why bring it up?

Merely to emphasise that part of the Covid problem in the UK was caused by allowing too many people ( illegal immigrants, refugees whatever you care to call them) unchecked into the country. I have no reason to believe that the hordes of people streaming into the UK has ceased because of Covid!

Or as jesimps puts it "letting every Tom, Dick and Harry into the country, especially from the Indian sub-continent."

2 hours ago, chezy86 said:

Just eat fishermen’s friends it’s as effective as the Chinese Vaccine.

I eat them every day and I haven’t caught it so there you go proof it really works.

Yes, but they have to be the Original - these  candy striped packets are no good!

I thought it was suppose to be June 1st? Oh, just realised it's the latest quote by Anutin!