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Went in BKK Hospital (C/M) for my yearly flu shot and dr recommended that I also get the shingles vaccine - not overly expensive and age 75+ so I opted to get it at the same time. No problems about 2 months ago.

The $ USD index has increased almost 10% this year. As mentioned above, at some point, it will come back down to earth and the $ will then be back to 30 or below before too long. Depends on politics, both local and the world, weather patterns wiping out many countries plans - look at China today, first they had the WUHAN virus and came up with a vaccine. But through lockdown and their vaccine, they stopped it cold there. But then the variants started - now the last that I saw, one vaccinated with the Chinese vaccines were 5 times more likely to get a bad case of the COVID variants. So then once the variants hit China, they locked down again but that became more and more widespread affecting the pipeline for other countries manufacturing processes. Now they and other countries are being hit by the violent shift of weather - today China issued a warning to 167 cities of a high heat wave and asked companies to shut down and conserve power. In addition, they reported several days ago 166 rivers in 33 counties had disappeared totally. Many well known rivers are drying up around the world, plus many lakes too are fading away. Who knows what exchange rate we will be facing in the coming months when the winter storms begin hitting the northern hemisphere and shutting down countries. Good luck to all as I have been here since the 1997 - 57 baht to a $ days but before that even I was here when it went to 20 baht per $ many years before that. If one is one the borderline for staying here based on income then good luck with that. I feel sorry for all and hope all can survive.

did mine online...got an email from CM immigration on Sunday telling me it was due the next day. So I did it on Monday and received the success immediately and then on Tuesday the new printed date for 90 days in the future. Can't beat it as it is a lot easier and quicker than before. Haven't had any problems since they went to this new system. Just remember, to use the on line you must first register and get a immigration generated password. Is simple too.