totally thaied up

When I went to a local clinic two weeks ago for a sore throat, all the Thais separated themselves from me and gave me a wide berth. My whole family was sick with a fever, a cough, a sore throat after my brother-in-law came back from Bangkok.

I had a temperature as well and I asked to sit separate to everyone but instead, they rushed me straight in to see the doctor without waiting.

I had been only living in my village and not been to town for over a month. I was asked if I had travelled overseas and when I said no, they all breathed a sigh of relief. I just stay in my village and have been nowhere I told them. 

Two weeks later I am okay but I had to go back for antibiotics as the cold moved to my chest but it is almost totally gone now.

As far as I can see, every one is terrified. Today we went and had steamed pork at a popular spot for lunch in our village and there was not a person to be seen. We went just to get take-a-way. We got told next time they would be closed but for the next month or so they will be taking Foodpanda orders only.

Looks like in our area, people are being extra careful, ordering in from Foodpanda and just about everyone is wearing a face mask. The feeling of things has changed in the last few days I feel. Let's see what happens.

2 hours ago, ukrules said:

What cover do you have? Which company?

 

My insurance doesn't cover pandemics - they are specifically excluded in the policy.

ACS Insurance

I confirmed with my broker a few weeks ago. I have asked again this afternoon if anything has changed and I am waiting for a reply. I read my policy. Nothing about pandemics.

2 minutes ago, 4MyEgo said:

Very responsible of you and the family...kudos to you and glad to hear you are all well and recovered.

 

Note to self, lock front gate, draw blinds down, do not answer mobiles ????

 

Yeah, it was hard on the brother-in-law. He needed to work but I told him to stay home and I covered his loss from not working. His wife was sick as well and is five months pregnant and she was really crook. I am about 80% recovered but still have flem on the chest a touch. Pollution in CM is not helping at all.

28 minutes ago, 4MyEgo said:

Did they not ask you to do a blood test for COVID-19 ?

It was before all the crazy stuff from the whuflu got in the real headlines. My doctor said since I had only been in San Kampheang and no further afield, she just told me it was a ordinary virus and just to rest. Still, my brother-in-law bought this <deleted> home from Bangkok and he had been on the BTS. I stayed at home and

just didn't go out. None of my family went anywhere for two weeks. Mum who is in her 60's was pretty crook but she is fine now.

Have not been on here for ages.

My whole family got sick about three weeks ago. We all got a fever, runny nose, sore throat and a cough. Lasted about three weeks. My wife's brother went to Bangkok and bought this virus back with him. I have been to the doctor twice as this virus moved to my chest but it is better now. I got asked at the clinic if I have travelled and been to any affected Countries. I have only been at home. I was advised to stay at home for seven days and to rest as much as I can. I am okay now but would hate to get the COVID19 virus now after being sick.

End of days. My family are very devoted JWs and there end of days is slightly different to this. Why cannot everyone agree on the same thing. World's going to end, Big J comes back, everyone happy happy... 

18 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

There is nothing contradictory about believing that evolution is designed. It's just a celestial program, same as a computer program.

Only thing is, is the designer about to push the delete button on humanity because we stuffed up his planet?

Nearly my whole family believe so as they are JW's. They believe this is all coming to a end. Seem like party poppers to me. Just a new order is going to take control. Sounds like madness to me but they are not afraid of death and just think about how happy they are going to be in the future. Maybe it is a easy way to be.

Yesterday I was riding my motorcycle through the rice fields. We came to a Mango tree and we sat under it eating its fruit. Further on down the road, I saw cows and a farm that produced dragon fruits. I watched bees buzzing around the dragon fruit trees. I said to my wife, how amazing is all of this. Just about everything I see is made for us humans to consume. I felt the grass by my feet and we watched the sun set later. I really cannot believe this is all not designed somehow but the reality points to that is evolution. I wish I did have some faith in something to make me feel better about dying. It all seems just to perfect to me but that is how it is and I will never know the answers to any of this. 

1 hour ago, dcnx said:

Thailand is fun and games now for a lot of people. Wait until you’re 80+, not a citizen, and forced out because you can’t get insurance to cover you. Then you’re shown the door, thanks for playing, farang.

This year I have watched friends who are not insured in their late 70's pay out 2 million and the other a million at public hospitals, and it won't be the end of their bills. They almost are broke, but both have told me they would prefer to go home broke or dead, then to move back to England. It will be very interesting to see what transpires when they do go back to see how the system at home copes with them/if it copes with them. Yet I have an American living near me that is very sick (long term) but he has serious money and is having great medical treatment and lives in the arms of luxury. All comes down to the mighty dollar.

I am also too young yet to get a retirement visa as well. Yet I am planning my future now so I won't be in such a position. 

I think for the main stay, for the Brits and the Aussies; it is the health care. If you own your own place in OZ with the currency being in the toilet, you are ahead. If you are renting, you will be behind unless you are living in a one-horse town where the rent is cheaper.

Most of my friends in Thailand are over their mid 70s now. A few have the dollars to stay, other do not. It will be interesting to see as the years pass what everyone does, so maybe I can learn for it all.

4 minutes ago, marcusarelus said:

What do your friends do when you tell them?  Do they rush home to the nanny state?  Or do you only tell people on an anonymous forum?

Yes, I have told them outright when they have come to me asking for short term loans to pull them out the shit to go home. Problem is they cannot go home - that's the point.

Just about everyone I talk to think they are going to drop dead. Over the last two years here I have had two of my friends fall sick. One had a serious infection and the other cancer. They have both been declining slowly - like the long good-bye and, they are both nearly broke. Just to add things to the mix, a few more of my friends are using agents for the Visas as they don't make the 800K, and they have nowhere to go. At the most they make 35K a month and must have been lying for years on the income verification form. Just the curse of getting old and having no funds is going to be the fact they are going to be driven out. Do you want to put yourself in such a position where you have not even the money to go home and that a high building looks like the best option out? Not sufficient planning goes into this thinking about your old age and for many, they are not going to have the big dollars needed to retire here to end of life. I have a guaranteed pension here for life, and I am afraid it will not be adequate to see me out. My wife will have to be my care giver but who knows depending on how infirm you become during the later stages psychically or mentally, that they can they cope with it? Costs big dollars getting old. You need to think about it.

1 minute ago, GeorgeCross said:

i thought chiang mai was now the peak of efficiency now and no more 4/6am queueing?

 

reverting back to the bad old days?

The line was nowhere near the line of the old days but they are giving out only 20 or so marriage extensions a day. Maybe other days are better then some. I do not know.

I just completed this year's extension.

Was a few small changes that put a lot of people out in the morning when getting a number (and it took me two days to get a number this year as I came shortly after 8pm on the first day, and we had no numbers left). When I showed up at 6:30am, everyone was sitting on the right side of the foyer in line on the chairs (about 20 people). This year there were a lot of people after asking around doing a Marriage Extension. Nearly everyone showed on up WITHOUT there the wife with them (apart from me and a couple of others as I was warned by  agent to bring her with me). When the time came to get numbers, they got everyone to line up along the edge of the counter on the right side, and you needed to have your passport, your documents in order and YOU BOTH (the husband and wife) NEEDED TO BE PRESENT before they would give you a ticket. Many people were turned away after being told that their partner/wife/husband needed to be with them.

I got my number (I was using an agent) but I still had a six-hour wait, and people later on got turned away for the day. The man in front of me took one hour with his wife to do the extension as it was all wrong and slowed the process right down. I took no longer then 20 minutes for me, and the Immigration Officer was very pleasant. I was told that I may have to show 400K in my bank in a month's time, so I was advised not to draw upon those savings. I was told there was a massive influx over the last month of marriage extensions now getting done. In fact, a few of my friends have gotten married recently, and others that have been on retirement extensions have now decided to change to the marriage extension, so I should have seen this coming.

Just be prepared for a very long day if you do not get one of the earlier numbers and make sure you show up with your wife/partner or you will be turned away as other I saw.

31 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

It's called faith, and it's no different from believing in romantic love, which IMO is the biggest con ever. It's lust till the child is born and then the genetics kick in to keep the man hanging around. At least till the woman decides she doesn't need him any more, just his money and worldly goods.

Sooooo, if one believes in romantic love, IMO one is as gullible as the non believers think believers are.

I feel very sorry that you think like that. 

 

 

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5 minutes ago, CMNightRider said:

The Bible says, the only sin God can’t forgive is the sin of rejecting Christ.  Why reject Him any longer?  God’s promise is for you: “Whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:18). 

But we have so many different interruptions. No religion is the same and what is preached and what is believed. Most religions say the same thing  “Whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:18) yet no two religions agree on heaven or hell or of a resurrection of life after death. How can there be any truth to this all if nothing is agreed upon in the Bible via all the main religions? I thought God should have sorted all that out and not have several main religions all fighting and killing themselves over it all.  

1 minute ago, transam said:

It's all made up, and JW's are probably the daftest....Let a babe die if it needs a transfusion because a JW bloke reckons that is the "books" meaning on blood....Now come on.....

My wife needed a blood transfusion when she was 17 after a major accident. When we told them she has had a transfusion, I was looked at with disdain and that is 15 years later. I am constantly given books and they do not ever stop trying to convert me. Very hard to be a non- JW in a Witness based family.

How do you know what to believe? Most of my families are JW's and on top of that, they preach throughout most of the world. They have given so much to others over the years in there missionary work, it is astounding. You see, the big problem I see is everyone is fighting between each other saying there religion is the one true faith and with some, you just die and wait for the resurrection that is to come but for others, you die and go to heaven or hell. To me, it is all just so confusing and I hate others telling me what I must do - believe one faith and go to heaven or believe another faith and go to hell.

I wish they would get it all together. I am only one of three members in my family that are not in the faith and that is the major reason why. With other faiths fighting between each other, to me, that is not God's plan at all. Just all made up words and not much else. 

Would you really like to go to such tourist attractions with the hordes of Chinese in attendance. Nope,  not me.