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1 minute ago, MrJ2U said:

My wife won't touch Sinovac.

 

We're booked for Moderna for October.  But I am skeptical as they've ordered so few doses.

 

There offering Pfeizer for pregnant women but I had vasectomy.

 

 

Can't you find a doctor to give you a positive pregnancy cert ????

29 minutes ago, MrJ2U said:

I agree with a lot of your points.

Congrats on being vaccinated.  I'm trying to get my wife vaccinated for a trip to the US in December.  Finding it difficult.  Only Sinovac mixed with Astra.  

 

Heres an interesting site with data all about COVID-19 below:

 

https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations?country=OWID_WRL

 

 

 

 

 

Can't you get the Sinovac and/or vaccine for now, travel to the US and get two more shots. 

You would have to get a PCR test before departure (1 - 3 days I believe), and upon arrival last I saw the CDC recommended self-quarantine for 7 days and another PCR test 3+ days after arrival (there is no differentiation between vaccinated and non is there??). 

Just now, wensiensheng said:

And only if vaccinated in Thailand?

So get some booster shots and you get your number .... win win...????

12 hours ago, connda said:

If the shoe was on the other foot, how would Thai immigration act?

There's your answer.

They would ask the mother for a contribution to their retirement fund... are you saying Denmark should do the same?

9 hours ago, coolcarer said:

No matter what I think of Prayut, at least he kicked out the convicted heroin dealer, now he needs to purge a few other top ministers including the billionaire TAT <deleted> and the Health Minister, they are both as bad as each other with their pie in the sky rants.

Yes, he kicked him out for personal reasons because he stabbed him in the back -- not for being an convicted criminal whose actions lead to people dying from their addiction.  (I doubt he was caught for the first violation).

4 minutes ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

Logical for whom?

 

For Thais it is extremely logical to keep foreigners on temporary year long visa extensions and 90-day reports. Keeps track of where they are living, easy to remove criminals, no vast numbers of extended family automatically allowed entry, cannot claim benefits or free healthcare (unless paying tax on wp), not a burden on the society and can be removed at any moment at their own expense. 

 

Another added benefit is it keeps people that don't have an interest in Thai culture, assimilating or learning the Thai language (which is the majority) well at arms length from any sort of permanence here. Just as it should be.

 

Sounds like a winner to me, wish my home country would adopt similar rules tbh.

So in your world, criminals follow the rules and report their location.... but then don't follow the rules when they are committing crimes? 

How about this, if someone who is on a non-immigrant is arrested for committing a crime (of significance)... you hold them and either take them to trial first... then incarcerate/deport them... or just deport them...

1 minute ago, Jingthing said:

Yes, it can definitely be a house of cards. 

And yet @daveAustinis saying that Vietnam is the promise land for retirees... a country without a "retirement visa"....

2 hours ago, daveAustin said:

That’s an incidental and could have happened any time if the colonial powers that be had the inclination. 
 

Most are missing the point of the op. It is—loosely, with all the bs that has unfolded of late— ‘will it continue to be attractive’ to retirees not how is your staid life going lol. I think it will still attract escapees from dictatorships (Chinese) and folk from boring western nanny states, but, pandemic aside, Thailand is/will not do enough to win them over from burgeoning Vietnam etc. Glory days are over and way less bang (excuse pun) fit your buck in all areas. 
 

Yes, Thailand was not colonized because western states had no interest in them.... unlike Philippines, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia...  So if your theory of disinterest is true, what did all those countries have that Thailand did not?

On 9/2/2021 at 6:41 AM, bkkcanuck8 said:

OK, happy to report that I (under 60) between ages 55 and 60 who registered on Aug 1st @ expatvac.consular.go.th  and did not list any of the 7 qualified 'chronic diseases' (though I do qualify for the obesity category - I did not have a medical certificate saying I was fat) have received the vaccination appointment email for an appointment at Central Plaza (via Bangkok Hospital Khon Kaen) on September 5th, 2021.  (vaccine is Pfizer).  

Received first shot of pfizer today.

OK, happy to report that I (under 60) between ages 55 and 60 who registered on Aug 1st @ expatvac.consular.go.th  and did not list any of the 7 qualified 'chronic diseases' (though I do qualify for the obesity category - I did not have a medical certificate saying I was fat) have received the vaccination appointment email for an appointment at Central Plaza (via Bangkok Hospital Khon Kaen) on September 5th, 2021.  (vaccine is Pfizer).  

19 hours ago, Eric Loh said:

Cases of hospitalisation and deaths after fully vaccinated with Pfizer reported in New Zealand and Singapore. What's your point.  

That is a totally meaningless statement, if you want to make relevant points you might want to do a comparison based on rates of hospitalization/death vs infected - comparing immunized vs non-immunized.

It is like saying there were deaths or life threatening injury by people in car accidents at 80kph who were wearing seatbelts (inference being so seatbelts provide no protection).

10 hours ago, internationalism said:

most likely just a tip of an iceberg. Investigation just started and not all will be disclosed, as all it implicates his subordinates and superiors in force.

Just one of his residencies in thailand.

Probably he is already at his another home across border in cambodia or laos

 

Yes, if you can have a police official make 43K baht and have 29 cars in his possession without a full investigation on how he did it... until video of him murdering someone is leaked... then corruption is endemic... 

The first thing they should do, is change the law to stop the clock ticking on the Statute of Limitations - so that once the arrest warrant is first issued -- if the individual leaves the country or flees arrest... the clock is paused until they turn themselves in (and return to the country if they fled).  Until they do that, I take every action they take with a grain of salt... just going through the motions.

I don't know why most people would have to horde, nor would many have the ability to store anything worth keeping.  You can horde a few bottles of oil and other cooking ingredients, probably a few cans... but most of the diet is made up vegetables, fruits, meat/seafood, rice.  There should be plenty of those around as long as there is not a catastrophic farming year.  If there is a shortage of one item, adjust and prepare from what is available.   I would think that for the most part, western countries are more at risk from supply chain disruptions... 

3 minutes ago, fredscats said:

The constructions can hopefully progress accordingly,but the occupancy seems strangely out of kinter,     if you could kindly direct me to occupacy rates?   I do know one huge hotel complex in Naklua that does boast an occupncy rate of 86%  {for one night only,in months)for bussed in Thais taking advantage of 50% off ,with futher 20% off coupons

 

Yes the 707 project is paused?  more like fallen off a cliff Id say

And I bet those Thais taking advantage of things like that are for a subset of hotels, discounted and probably mostly on weekends.  I would also be curious as to the veracity of the bragging because most hotels in the west treat that as a trade secret almost....  because letting people know gives them more negotiating power and that is something that no business really wants to get into.

On 8/17/2021 at 4:57 AM, scotty4243 said:

Also received the it can not be further processed due to lack of required visas.

I can see now that it is because the file section for passport only accepts 1 file!!!

 

Some reported that multiple files could be uploaded as long as they were all selected and uploaded together rather than selecting one file at  time (those just replace existing one).  I just opened up an app and merged the 3 photos into one larger photo because I was not aware of that at the time.

10 hours ago, tomacht8 said:

There was also a very dark time in the history of Germany, where the Nazis determined what art and literature is. How that ended is well known.

Nazis luckily also favoured 'classical physics' rather than the modern 'Jewish Physics' of the likes of Albert Einstein... that stance made the development of nuclear weapons a bit more difficult (Deutsche Physik aka Aryan Physics).