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Province: Surin

Date: 26 Aug 2021

Location: Surindra Rajabhat University

Age: 72    Condition: Healthy

How registered: expatvac

Vac received: Yes 1st jab

Type: Pfizer

Having registered 1 August with expatvac & nothing heard since, I was rung out of the blue yesterday by Prasat Hospital to go to Rajaphat Uni today at 1100.

As a well-trained Oz former bureaucrat I got there 20 minutes early with everything a Thai bureaucrat could possible demand: b/f with camera, p/p, d/l, WHO vax booklet, proof of address and clean undies (As my mother would have said: You never know ... ).

Was a bit disordered - overwhelmed by numbers of people (mostly Thais getting their SV or AZ) and the Thai specialty in complex administration tottering on the edge of chaotic. But all done with smiles and helpfulness and really no cause for complaint. The actual jab was over and done in about 7.3 seconds and I didn't even know it had been done. Was out after 90 minutes.

No bad effects since though my usual 65-minute post-prandial snooze was some 2 hours and a very deep sleep.

2nd jab confirmed for 3 weeks (16 Sept).

On 8/15/2021 at 11:27 AM, travelalone said:

I phoned them on Friday, and they confirmed me that they will vaccinate on sat Sat 21 Aug special for foreigners. They expect that the invitations will be send on Wednesday 18 Aug.
It is almost certain that everyone who has registered will receive an invitation. Fingers crossed

What phone number did you call them on?

Having had my first Pfizer shot this morning via expatvac here in Surin, with 2nd shot in 3 weeks, I would like now to cancel my registration for Pfizer on 12 Sept at Bangkok Hospital Khon Kaen. I don't want to hold a slot there that I now won't use and someone else can use.

My google map gives me 043-042-888, but you may have something better or more direct?  Cheers

From the description you'ld expect a AAA rating ...

Expatvac has arrived in Surin. Got the call this afternoon for a jab tomorrow at 1100 at Surin Rajabhat University.

14 minutes ago, bubblegum said:

Just got a call, tomorrow 11.00 Phizer at Surin Uni.

Me too.

Good news for Surin (and for me). I registered with expatvac on 1 August and till now had heard nothing. I had managed to attach both photos but the visa one was, I discovered later, for a renewal that finished in 2018! Oh well, so I wasn't sure whether to expect anything or not and had meantime registered with BKK Hospital in Khon Kaen for 12 September.

B/F just received phonecall from Rajabhat University in Muaeng Surin (all in good English ironically): I'm to report for Pfizer jab tomorrow at 1100. So that's a 30-minute drive from here (instead of 4 hours to KK).

Assuming all goes well tomorrow and the 2nd jab is scheduled, I will then cancel the KK appointment. Will report tomorrow (assuming I'm still alive & healthy). Cheers

2 minutes ago, drgoon said:

And look where they are at present. Covid is hardly anywhere near manageable

My point entirely.

1 hour ago, EricTh said:

It's too early to open next month. The daily new cases are still high and vaccination percentage is still low at around 8 % fully vaccinated.

 

Thailand didn't learn its lessons in the third and fourth waves.

 

By way of comparison, Australia - an island-continent with mostly non-porous borders - is currently at 31% fully vaxed. They are now having the debate whether to open up fully when they reach 70% or 80% fully vaxed.

Yesterday's Nouvel Obs (24 Aug 2021) says that the Haute Authorité de Santé (HAS - France's FDA) now recommends the following:

- 2 doses of J&J because 1 shot is insufficiently effective against Delta

- more generally, all over-65s should have 3 shots of whatever takes their fancy.

My BP was low till I was in my 50s, when it started to creep up to middle range, where it stays now at age 72.

But reading this thread may have deleterious results ...

34 minutes ago, cclub75 said:

Meanwhile... no one is wondering... China used its vaccine a lot on the domestic level (hundreds of millions of doses)... But how strange... the terrible Delta virus... doesn't seem able to spread overthere...

 

3 or 5 cases in megalopolis like Beijing... the first one... in six months !

Source : https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/29/china/nanjing-china-covid-outbreak-intl-hnk/index.html

 

... But then nothing.

 

Despites the fact (everybody say it worldwide) that this variant is extremely contagious.

 

And even islands like Australia and New Zealand with extreme mesures are defeated by the virus. It can spread anyway.

 

But not in China.

 

How lucky they are.

 

Must be the air. The water they drink, perhaps combined with Sinovac.. Strange chimical reaction that protects the population ? ????

Just better than other countries at hiding their caseload.

1 minute ago, malthebluff said:

Got acknowledgement email that I'm successfully regestered on 1st august and to wait for email for appointment then nothing I'm in surat thani age over 60

Same here Surin.

Signs of movement.

9 minutes ago, chrisjinla said:

I got a text at 5PM today telling me my appointment is 100KM away tomorrow morning...

 

I registered on August 3rd

What province?

2 hours ago, steven100 said:

The Taliban just won the lottery  ......          how the heck would anyone ever let the enemy have all this  !!

 

more than 2,000 armored vehicles, many new,  including U.S. Humvees

40 aircraft potentially including UH-60 Black Hawks, scout attack helicopters

100's of ScanEagle military drones

600,000 infantry weapons including M16 assault rifles, 162,000 pieces of communication equipment, and 16,000 night-vision goggle devices,  boxes and boxes of ammunition. 

small arms seized by the insurgents such as machine guns, mortars, howitzers.

 

I think the Chinese are planning on winning the lottery too. They need only 2 or 3 samples of each piece of kit ...

2 hours ago, placnx said:

There was a Thai woman, tourist, going around Afghanistan, so she was trapped in Herat when the city was surrounded. It is very far from Kabul, but only 120 km from the border with Iran at Islam Qala, which was controlled by the Taliban. After Herat fell, some people fled to the border, so maybe she got out then.

Pretty exciting place to be a tourist! even at the best of times.

I've been through Xinjiang province in China, and Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and Russia, and the most dangerous place was the Moscow railway station ...

I'm hoping to be driving on 12 September from south Surin to Khon Kaen (300kms/600 round trip) for my first shot (Pfizer).

Never been to KK before. Does that count?

 The French variant on the slightly peculiar Usofan concept of 'freedom'.

In the French case it's less ideological & mostly translates into plain agin-the-guvamint bloody-mindedness.

The basic evidence to date (as I understand it) is:

(1) SV + SV gives about 50% protection and is OK for the early virus variants but ineffective against Delta

(2) SV + AZ (in that order) is as effective as AZ+AZ (ie c80% or more)

Haven't seen anything on SV+Pf or SV+Mod. Presumably if you have access to Pf or Mod you're unlikely to be starting out with SV ...

Wonder what the 4 Thais were doing in Afghanistan.

Any number of possibilities, I guess.

I am as usual in the middle of reading about 10 different books. When I get bored with one or too tired to concentrate on the argument I turn to another ...

B/f spends every day at the family farm (where we are building our 3rd house for the family). So that leaves me with peace 'n quiet, which I love, to do a few house chores & then settle down with the books. Every day. No complaints. If I get really bored I have a snooze.