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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).

30 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Yet the Hotels like Marriot, Aetas, SO Bangkok, and a few other large ones have been shut now here in Bangkok for most of 2020, and this year as well.  Nothing like an empty hotel with hundred's of rooms, restaurants and all staff laid off.  Why build new ones, or why build new condos, the answer is they either have money to burn in order to take a write-off or they really expect SE Asia and Thailand to grow in tourism more than it did before.  I think it will take many, many years to recover, and these locations will sit unused or still un-opened.

I know when I did long-stay at Mayfair, Bangkok - Marriott Executive Apartments (Mayfair on Langsuan) -- the hotel was Marriott but was not owned by Marriott.  It was owned by Thais (land owned by Thai, building owned by Thai) but was basically a Marriott franchisee.  I have no idea if this is done by region or specific building (i.e. one building different franchisee in Bangkok than another)... but I could see it being a bunch of different developers/franchisee investors and not the Hotel chain itself (I suspect the Hotel chain will end up making money regardless of whether a hotel is viable). 

44 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

If me & the Mrs are staying, do we get TWO keys?

 

And that is an AVERAGE of 246 keys? per hotel.    Really?

All the locations highlighted in the map were tourist areas.  I suspect this is tracking the major hotel chains / hotel chain franchisees that build the big hotels -- not your regional ones that create the small boutique hotels.   The one that use to be close to where I lived (in Canada), Chelsea hotel was 26 floors 1500+ rooms.  So lets say in an average 12 floor hotel you might have 500 rooms.

25 minutes ago, RotBenz8888 said:

Oh dear, when did the fatal mutation in the Thai gene pool happen?

 

So, are you implying that all Thais look alike? ????

3 hours ago, ezzra said:

When big country like Thailand need to ask the help a tiny country Like Bhutan, if i were a Thai, i would have buried my head in shame that we have come that far and low...

My first thought on hearing this was... thanks Bhutan... my second thought I will censor...

19 hours ago, dogfish180 said:

"Spread is slowing"....."Reach its peak soon"......... Call me thick, but if it's slowing, didn't it already peak then? ???? This guy has the mental capacity of a child.

I think for this one - you can assume he meant the acceleration of the spread is slowing down... one of the graphs that are used is a logarithmic graph. 

On 8/16/2021 at 11:25 AM, WhiteBuffaloATM said:

impossible to see all 70 million here as “priority” ! 

priorities dont work that way…….check dictionary definition…..

Of course priorities work that way.... the one that is top priority is has 1 as a priority.... the one that is 70 million on the list... has 70,000,000 as the priority... but that does not mean that 70,000,000 is not a priority... just that there are 69,999,999 who have  slightly higher priority ????

1 minute ago, steven100 said:

so are you saying it's a farang far up or a thai one .. ?     lol

If they are taking responsibility for this and trying to resolve it... (admission of loss of face)... then obviously it is not the one registering that was at fault.

On 8/14/2021 at 12:06 PM, mommysboy said:

Why would they want to check it?   Other than perhaps to confirm you are not Thai.  Think too mut!

 

 

It looks like you were the one that was wrong about the visa being validated before the reservation would be accepted by MoF.  However it looks as though some processing them may have incorrectly excluded those on a non-immigrant visa for the purposes of retirement. 

1 hour ago, Mutt Daeng said:

Me too

According to Richard Barrow, this reject for being on a retirement visa is an known issue and MoF are aware of it and working to resolve it.   I suspect some who were doing the verification got confused about permanent residency and non-immigrant visa for the purpose of retirement and invalidated it wrongly.   This does clear up the fact that I was absolutely correct about the process and that they would be validating the visa before passing it on to MoPH. 

3 minutes ago, SantiSuk said:

Just got my confirmation too. Same time same place same vax. Booked via thailandintervac.com on 5-Aug. At least I assume it is an intervac response not an expatvac 2-Aug one. Date is right, time not quite the one I selected, so will have to stay over the night before.

Well, if you get the earliest appointment -- if you are one of the people that starts camping out at 3am to get a queue number... you will only have 7 hours in the queue ????

1 hour ago, ukrules said:

But what about this ?

 

 

He is not allowed to ban it, but he has the right to correct it if it is wrong (as long as he does not use threat of penalty).

5 minutes ago, Almer said:

Is this from the Expat. Consular registration

Scroll up half way and someone posted a Tweet from Sangrat Tanee that Chiang Mai & Khon Kaen can expect to be contacted starting next week.  Since he is MoF - it would be a yes.