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We don't need to. They will get it the natural way, eventually. Certianly some won't ever vaccinate. Once I had a Thai relative who was admitted to hospital with liver disease. He said he's rather die than give up drinking. He died. Nature has a way of working things out.

My concern is with Africa, whre only 1-2% have had one dose.

I read about that teacher is the US school. I think 14 or so students became infected. In terms of laws, who knows what will happen in Thailand. I did see a job abvery for a foreigner in ajarn.com that required the new teacher to be vaccinated. I have nor heard of any such rule for teachers renewing contracts here. Nothing has been mentioned about this where I work - but it seems all the Thai teachers and ancillary staff have been vaccinated - as will, it appears, most of the high school students.

I would think everyone will be exposed to the virus at some point - how your body reacts to it is another matter - some may be asymptomatic with no symptoms, then "recover", or get anything from a mild to serious illness (or death). So I guess if the virus is present, one is 'infected', but could have no symptoms or have symptoms. Perhaps the point of the article is that the virus will become endemic and not go away. It will probably mutate and future vaccines may be required.

What do you mean by "long term"? A decade, 20 years? The contents of the vaccine are destroyed in the body in less than a week or 2. Can you find any studies of similar vaccines that have shown long term effects? Why would you expect long term effects? What about this.... https://immunizebc.ca/ask-us/questions/are-there-long-term-side-effects-caused-mrna-covid-19-vaccines-how-do-we-know https://www.muhealth.org/our-stories/how-do-we-know-covid-19-vaccine-wont-have-long-term-side-effects https://www.chop.edu/news/long-term-side-effects-covid-19-vaccine

You can bet some wil refuse that as well and will demand teachers somehow teach them online which they are teaching students attending classes. I dont think it would be a PCR test, but probably an ATK saliva test.

Your child will eventually be exposed to covid. We all will be. My son is 18 and just had his second shot of Pfizer. Not many side effects on the second shot. Just a sore arm. A 12 y.o will have a fully developed immune system, so they can take a vaccine. I would try to follow the data coming out from the US. It seems they are using lower doses on kids, as can be expected. Personally, I would not send an unvaccinated child to school - we know that the vaccinated can carry and spread the virus, and due to beign vaccinated, many may have few or no symptoms, so they may spread it widely before it is detected. Hopefully, mask wearing, distancing, and possible frequent atk's in schools will limit that, but the risk is still there. And 85% of teachers will need to be vaccinated, leaving 15% unvaccinated.

We had no problem getting a test drive with the crv (they didn't have a petrol version, but you liked to have tested that also). But it was a set route for the test drive, which is a bit of a shame as I would have liked to taken it on a variety of road surfaces.

The standard tires on the current crv awd last form 60-80K kms. Mne are at 35K (3yrs old) and I can see 60K is being quite doable.

Breakthrough cases do occur - and the elderly are still highly susceptible even if they are fully vaccinated. This experiment has well over a billion participants and they are effective in reducing deaths and hospitalisations. Don't worry, you will get your immunity one way or another.

Medical consensus in the sense of those peer reviewing papers in international journals. Forget youtube.

I have a 2019 crv awd diesel. Not my wife got used to dricving it, I'm stuck driving her swift. lol The good thing about the crv is the comfort and good ride height (good for the floods). I think both the petrol and diesel will be replaced with a 1.5turbo and also a hybrid version at the next model. I like the torque fuel economy and normal 9-speed gearbox (9th gear is for +130km/h) over the petrol version, and is the main reason I got the diesel. Nothing wrong with the petrol version, but can be heavy on fuel in the city.

People can be racist, not countries. You may well find more racists per head or population in the US. In fact, Im sure you would.

Hope you told them where to stick their ATK.

Probably your school was not very strict. Where I work it was very strict - to the point of being painful (no cases for months, yet have to go throungh all the masking , social distancing business. And NO activities at all. So the kids were basically doing online what they were doign at school !

I saw a video from the US a couple of weeks ago (don't have the link, sorry) where it was suggested for the Delta varaint, at least 85% should be vaccinated. It's probably nothing to do with that information, but 85% is better than 60-70%. The other 15% can get infected to make up the numbers.

If the kids are schooled in Thailand at that time, they can do ROTC when they are in Grade 10-12. My son has done that, though the last two years were a mess due to covid. Normally, they do it one day a week, even in the morning or afternoon. It seemed to go half a year or less. After that, they have completed the requirements. Certainly public and private Thai schools have this, and I guess International schools as well.

Update...Nonthaburi Labor office now require it for WP renewal, due to a change in the management.

B- and T-cell activity will still be present upon reinfection, so there will still be some underlying protection even if antibodies wane. I really don't see years of booster shots, unless new variants arise that would require new generations of vaccines. None of the current variants seems to be able to outcompete delta, so I don't think this will be a problem just yet.

mRNA reseatch has been going on a number of years. They are hardly "brand new".

I rcommend to stay where you are for 2-3 years and build up your experience and resume. The big schools in Bkk get literally hundreds of applications - and dozens from people with 10+ years experience. The very high salaries these schools can pay attracts them. Besides, now is not the best time to come, considering the pandemic and all.

I got to push several buttons in my car at start up. One of them is turning the idlestop off. Kind of get used to doing that. I do like the brakehold though. There seems to be too many safety features in cars these days for people who cant drive...I guess lakekeep assist is good if you are drunk trying to get home lol. But I'm pretty good at using my mirrors and staying in my lane. I do like the lanewatch camera though.

Which dump is that? If youmean Thailand, why do you like here. If you don't live here, why post an asinine comment. If Chinese vaccines didn;t work, there is no way China could suppress millions of deaths that should hav occurred by now,

This video is in Thai but it looks like the idlestop can be disabled. THis is the yaris, so you may be in luck. Ask a Thai to help you.

We've been told probably mid November for in class teaching, to allow a 2 weeks post-vaccination period on some teachers second doses. Oct 15 is still school holidays. I think about Oct 26 is the start of Semester 2. But nothing is certain yet, and probably there would be only 1-2 weeks notice of schools opening.