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not sure if they look around the world, then they see that the virus is coloring the world 'red' and countries flip from open and relax to strict measurements and lockdown due to the overloading of the medical system. there are more infected per day then in the last wave were per day.

then the action of the positive tested you also see, they not stay at the quarantine location as one reds in the Thai news as well in for example the Spain news where even a whole group of Dutch infected disappeared and Spain issued and International warrant to track them down

think the improvements are needed. And also to make the steps forward that are needed. Thais are poor educated and the root cause of that are the teachers, by setting an higher standard the teachers will drop out and replace by better teachers.

in every country we have state education even in the west. 

On 11/10/2021 at 3:48 AM, Skeptic7 said:

I entered mostly on visa exempt from USA (and Retirement extension past 5 years) nearly 150 times total during the past 29 years. Not once was I ever asked about money. Never. It may be another of their silly-stupid rules, but I never encountered it. 

You think it is stupid rule unless you know that in many western countries they still have rules in place that makes that you need to have a certain amount of cash on you. If you not have they can lock you up regardless if you are foreigner or citizen.

Old rules handy to use when they want you of the street for what ever reason and the balance on a bank account or limit on a credit credit card that not works.

There are many funny laws that your and I not are aware of and still are in place

6 hours ago, jerrymahoney said:

I have never seen a checkout option with WISE listed

 

Wise Supports debit card / credit card payment

THey not see You have used wise when one uses wise. Just another Credit or debit card payment.

Use it for a long time and when asked me this payment system works better then  other systems.

for as far as I have seen the QR codes your government personal ID is waved into the data on the QR code. 

28 minutes ago, gearbox said:

This is what is going to drive the number of tourists up....cold & covid. C&C. I think Thailand would be a far better place to spend some time in Jan/Feb in regards to cold and covid than Germany,  if they ramp up the vaccination rates.

Currently in Europe...thick fog outside, all grey. Can't wait to slip into my flip flops in Phuket next week.

vaccination just start to prevent to get ill and we have reached now that vaccination does not stop the herd immunity. Tourism, traveling and events help the spreading due to the new mutations that get a chance due to tourism, traveling and events.

3 hours ago, Skallywag said:

How does this effect tourism when you have to be vaccinated and tested before traveling and after arriving?

vaccinated people spread too as well get also in the hospital. The A.30 mutation is wandering around and bypasses the vaccin. A.30 is on of the 9 or to known mutation that are able to bypass the vaccin.

Tourism, traveling and things line events are helping the virus to travel and spread faster. 

probably they not have read the news papers of today.

The spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 variant A.30 is heavily mutated and evades vaccine-induced antibodies with high efficiency

In summary, A.30 exhibits a cell line preference not observed for other viral variants and efficiently evades neutralization by antibodies elicited by ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 or BNT162b2 vaccination. 

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41423-021-00779-5

European countries as closing border due to the rapid increasing of the new mutation that is from the UK and go even into lockdown, Many European holiday dentitions are shutting down. The hospitals are starting to redistribute the Covid patients and postpone normal planned medical care.

Despite this you can travel to Thailand. The Thais seem the be eager to have the new mutation.

not sure why the prices are going up. the reason is surely not the barrel price.

the oil prices have been over 120 to 150 USD per barrel in the past and then diesel  price was low. 

on barrel is about 159 liter (158,9872 liter) and not per liter. This makes that the changes is price per liter oil is dived by about 159.

this they make many products in the distillation process 

• Petrol about 71.92 liter
• Diesel about 34.83 liter
• other products about 22.33 liter
• Kerosine about 15.52 liter
• 'Heavy oil' about 8.71 liter
• LPG  about 7.19 liter
• Asphalt 4.92 liter

Welcome to the real world. Get over it. This normal and the way you loved showed you can not catch up when you have a small issue that makes you fall out of the routine.

Gravity, and wrong life style catch up. The fat you see you made a long time ago. Probably when you where young.

Instead of worry. Accept and ask you wife for two times massage with happy end. (Joke with respect) then both get what you want you your (extra) massage and happy ends and both get shaped.

Today people see more beautiful people in an hour then any person saw in his whole life 50 years ago.

Get over it and do things you can keep up with. That makes happy and keeps the shape mother nature had in mind.

Avoid western comfy food and sell you car. This will work

visa based on marriage with Thai nation is to prefer. ply by the rules and you can apply for the permanent residence.

this way you gain more in the long run.

the 20 years visa is based on politics and can change. permanent residence is based on law and the term and condition will not change easy.

therefore visa on taking care of Thai national is one of the best  Visa's to apply for the the visa based on marriage. both allow you to work too when you have the right work permit.

i have never had any problems with Wise Transfers. sometime they are taking longer then you expect but Wise is always on time and update you on the status.. For was far as i can tell privately and business wise we never have had any problems at all. they look well after the needed documentations as well when additional information is needed. I do recommend Wise based on the experiences I have had until today.

Acute exposure to e-cigarettes causes inflammation and pulmonary endothelial oxidative stress in nonsmoking, healthy young subjects | American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology

in short it is very unhealthy and causes many kind of health problems.

The use of electronic cigarettes (e-cig) has been growing rapidly among the US population, particularly among youth and young adults (49). This is an unsettling trend given the limited information on the effects of aerosolized components and the thermal degradation products contained in e-cig vapor. To date, there is little evidence to support the widespread perception that e-cigs are a safer alternative to tobacco cigarette smoking. Furthermore, recent evidence has demonstrated that regardless of nicotine levels, inhalation of e-cig aerosol alone has multiple adverse health impacts (48, 50, 61, 64).

8 hours ago, Scrotobike said:

Yes unless they build Holland style flood defences

Same future for Pattaya

Head for the hills!

Not sure if you have seen the news about The Netherlands, since 1992 they have huge problems to keep the water out and even made inland area that have cirkel dykes around it to enclose the up comming water due to the water the is pushed out of the ground caused by the water pressure from the sea. 

the new delta plan will not help too and the now are planning to move inward in the direction of

Germay. 

to Illustrate this is what they expect the Netherlands will look like within the next 100 years.

the nice thing is that you feel you own the land and have a document that tell you own it. all as long as the nation and its laws allow it. when laws change it can become the opposite and land you can not take with you at all like with other assets you can do this. WE have seen this happen many times around the world in the east as well in the west. 

dual pricing in the hospitals, see it as donation of the richer people to the poorer people. Many Thai doctors work also in government part of the hospital and use this to help the poor people.

1 hour ago, pixelaoffy said:

I get email from wise customer service telling me I cannot transfer Uk pounds to Thai bank  . its madness why do they say this 

you have to follow the instructions and startto tranffer a small amount first to understand the concept.

when you do you will see you can transfer direct to you thai bank account.

the will collect first the payment in your currency, then they will transfer it to you bank account.

all works easy and smooth.

try with just sending 10 GBP and you will see all works smooth

i use wise to transfer and keep the transfer always below the 1.000.000 thb. because of the account coverage incase the bank gets broke.

the website of Wise is https://wise.com. They are fast and transparent.

never click links or short links always them them yourself to be sure you get to the right website. did add screenshot of the website.

success

if Thailand not does reform the economy and changes it dependencies, Thailand wil become depending on the new order and that is demanding by money the control over Thailand.

2 hours ago, rudi49jr said:

Imagine it was your child getting sick and dying of covid. Would you still feel the same way then?

did you stop traveling? if so then you have the right to claim what you say. And in the case if not, then you are also like me one of the people who contribute to the spreiding that caused the children got sick and some of them died. all because you as well I needed to travel. and with this make super high ways for spreading.

It is all  about the numbers to make the spicies to survive. and in the first place covid is spreading due to human behavior fast around the world. 

Only when you not move around and stay in one place you help others to avoid getting it. 

I do understand what you try to say, still even then it is within the set parameters. that is the cold science behind the numbers and the perspective.

Also de aware that you not need to have underlaying illness also mismatch of genes that make you more receptive for covid or having makes one dies.

We have seen this with the black plague, Spanish Flu, Sars-1 (around 2003). 

and do not forget the killers like traffic or narcotics, or other human made product like petrol with lead additives. or the believe that non obese people are healthy people. the more you look into the 'cold' number the more fascinating pattern one sees. 

7 hours ago, murraynz said:

I live in Pattaya, and have a non O extension, or about 5 years. 

depending on the non O application you probably can apply for a permamant resident permit. 

you not need to have the property investment that as other also try to tell you allows you to stay for a set limited time and when ask me is just like the elite visa or is the elite visa wrapped up in a nice package..

he has a medical condition and then want to travel

On 8/19/2021 at 4:57 AM, bestie said:

Because of some health issues he can't take the Covid vaccine. So he's worried about to wait any longer for his trip to Thailand because he doesn't know if Thailand will let him in the near future without being vaccinated against Covid.  

planning to travel into a country that is in a covid crisis? 

sorry for the next thing this is just a 'head' case. Which head is thinking? When the little head it taken over control the big head is due to lack of blood unable to think clear. probably this is the reason need need to go?.

more countries are demanding testing or vaccination. vaccination because when you get ill it is expected that you will need less healthcare, reduces als changes of getting very ill

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SG Woman Accidentally Injected With 5 Doses of Pfizer Covid-19 Vaccine After Human Error - WORLD OF BUZZ

woman got 5 doses at once still walks around if the news is correct.

most problems are there already with people who have problems, seems as if the vaccin works as a catalysator in those cases.  

Think Thailand should accept vaccinated people the same way as other countries do if they want to have tourist start to come..

As long as they not do people think Thai vaccine is different due to Thai treat vaccinated people different. And makes the idea can not trust Thai product that are supposed to be equal to international standards.

This is why the Thai people themselves start to question.

Thailand more open will change a lot.