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All the major pharmaceutical companies are spending billions to develop vaccines. Thousands of smaller biopharmaceutical companies are also racing to identify potential treatments or cures. Same with hundreds of universities. Here is an interesting new treatment that is showing promise in VERY EARLY trials: https://www.regmedfoundation.org/2020/08/14/the-treatment-that-could-crush-covid/
The complete story is in the Wall Street Journal behind a paywall.
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1 hour ago, jacko45k said:
Sort them into Albums and make one passport stuff. Copies of passport, entry stamp, Visa stamps, TM6 etc handy. I suspect you are African/ Arab and likely have been subjected to some profiling.
This is what I do. Every 90 days update the folder with the latest 90 day report. At least once a year take another photo of my passport so that it's always at or close to the first photo in the album. Also have a paper copy of passport in my wallet.
I also keep the email from Immigration that my 90 day report was approved in a separate folder. Since it takes all of 60 seconds to do it online I never stopped doing it.
About 9 months ago I forgot my passport when traveling with my girlfriend to another province. Upon checking into the hotel they asked for my passport. I told them I forgot it but I pulled up the photos of my passport, TM 6, latest entry stamp that showed permission to stay until date. They had no problem with using their phone to take pics of the documents on my phone.
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Here's another effect of the lockdowns:
"Recent modelling by UNAIDS and the World Health Organization has predicted that there could be 500,000 extra AIDS-related deaths in sub-Saharan Africa in 2020-2021 if the COVID-19 crisis leads to a six-month disruption in vital supplies of antiretroviral medication."
https://frontlineaids.org/were-on-the-frontline-of/coronavirus-covid-19-impact-hiv/
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7.7 Billion people on the planet and 60 Million died last year. Almost 40% were over 70 years old.
Covid global deaths under 1 Million and the vast majority are over 70 with serious health complications. All facts that are easy to look up.
US deaths last year were over 2.8 Million. Covid deaths so far less than 10% of total deaths from last year. Again, mostly elderly with serious complications.
In 2017, in the US almost 650,000 died of heart disease and 600,000 died of cancer. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/282929#cancer
There were doctors reporting that the shutdown was causing patients to skip needed treatments.
Read about just a few of the effects of the global lockdown: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/coronavirus-lockdown-could-lead-nearly-15-million-extra-tb-deaths/
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8 hours ago, candide said:
It's very easy to check as the number of excess deaths is known. Actually, the number of excess deaths is higher than the number of registered covid-19 deaths. The number,beer of covid-19 death is underestimated.
For example, on July 13, there was 149,200 excess deaths in the US, to compare with 135,425 official covid-19 deaths.
https://www.ft.com/content/a2901ce8-5eb7-4633-b89c-cbdf5b386938
So, as the NYT suggests, it is quite likely that the true number is already close to 200,000.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/12/us/covid-deaths-us.html
Or maybe the additional deaths are because of lockdowns? Suicides are up, drug overdoses are up, people were scared to go for chemo treatment.
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27 minutes ago, Pib said:
Keep in mind you may/will not get a certificate of residence same day you apply for one at CW....it could take a couple of weeks. Late 2019 when I went to get one to renew my driver license, the CW rep gave me a slip of paper at the very end of the application process which was the appointment day I could come back and pick up the completed certificate....that date was three weeks later. Everyone else applying for certificate was been given the same "come back in 3 weeks to pickup the completed certificate" as I could easily see & heard what was happening to people applying just before me. I could also see some people gave the CW rep an envelope with postage to have it mailed to them. Issue of the certificate is free...easy process....you just don't get the certificate same day at CW...or at least that's the way it worked for me late last year.
What I experienced in late Jan 2020 at CW was very different. It was like Ubonjoe described it. 200 baht per certificate ( I asked for 2). Mailed to me and received it about 2 weeks later. No need to supply envelope with postage.
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No Knock warrants need to be banned.
"we see about 8 to 10 cases per year where a completely innocent person is killed among these raids"
I have a cousin who was a cop in Baltimore in the 80's and he went on a no knock drug bust that involved city, state and feds. He said a fed had a gun in his face and he almost got shot. Quit that task force the next week and quit the police force about 3 months later.
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OP, you're asking people to speculate about the future and no one has a crystal ball. Think back 12 months ago. If someone told you that you would be forced to have a swab shoved up your nose and be tested for a virus before you could fly internationally, you would have labeled that person a conspiracy lunatic. If they told you people would line up for a chance to quarantine (self-imprison) in a hotel or hospital for 14 days just to be able to re-enter Thailand, you have have said that person was stark raving mad. If they told you that people would use apps that would monitor every time they went into malls or stores, again, most people would have labeled that bizarre conspiracy nonsense. That's the crazy world we live in now. While some will pretend they have special insight, the reality is nobody knows what will happen in the next 3, 6 or 12 months. Might all blow over.... or might get much worse.
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Another thread started earlier in the week:
The information that the hospital gave me was that patients from only 3 countries are currently allowed. This is also stated officially here:
https://ddc.moph.go.th/viralpneumonia/eng/file/situation/situation-no211-030863.pdf
"The Ministry of Public Health tightened quarantine measures in alternative hospital quarantine facilities for Thai patients and foreigners including their caretakers for continuous care groups, patients requiring specialty care, and patients who had appointments. Non-COVID-19 patients from three low-risk countries of COVID-19 including the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and Cambodia are required to present COVID-19-free health certificates issued no more than 72 hours before their flight departs and they have to be rechecked three times while hospitalized for 14 days. The hospital will issue COVID-19 free certificates then they can continue traveling as planned. There are 124 hospitals and clinics available."
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Lufthansa through Frankfurt
Turkish through Istanbul
JAL/AA through Narita Tokyo (cannot fly into Haneda and connect to Narita)
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1 hour ago, micmichd said:
First sentence in the last chapter indicates this is meant for people leaving Thailand, not for people entering Thailand.
Not correct. I'm currently in Bangkok but need to return to the US. I was going to start a procedure and get a letter from the hospital that I need to return to finish the procedure. That last paragraph from their message was meant for me and is not part of the official criteria needed to return to Thailand and the hospital was warning me that if I apply from the US, then I might not be approved. The official procedure is contained in the bullet points.
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14 hours ago, MRToMRT said:
I see what you mean in your "note" for the UK this is one of the conditions..............
Letter from a hospital in the UK that you have a life-threating conditions and cannot be treated here, and require medical treatment in Thailand, as well as medical record for referral *
I cannot imagine there is a single condition that can be treated in Thailand and not the UK.
If they had left out "life-threating conditions" the statement would still be silly and would contradict official info that supposedly plastic surgery is an OK reason to apply. But you couldn't get a fit to fly document from an doctor if you had a life threatening condition nor would anyone sane want to get on a 10 hour repatriation flight with anything seriously wrong.
Considering that the Ministry of Health is in charge of the process, I surprised that the UK website is different that the other countries.
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I was researching what was needed for a medical visa. The visa, if approved would be a Non-O Medical. This is different from the medical visas they used to issue. You will have to do the 14 day quarantine in a hospital. Here part of the reply from a hospital in Bangkok where I had gone for treatment not related to what I was thinking about signing up for in order to return.
" The process of being in AHQ ( alternative hospital quarantine ) in summary:
• A patient who is sending inquiries with booking date and passport ( of patient and accompany person just in case ) then fill out the form from Thai Government, it should be complete including accompany person ( The patient is supposed to give a signature to cover the accompany person. The accompany person is allowed only but limited to not more than 3 persons) in which the hospital will send to patient or agency.• The hospital will send the patient's name including his/her accompany's name form to Ministry of Health to process and get a confirmation letter.• The hospital will send a confirmation letter to an Agency or directly to patient so that the patient can submit it to their Thai embassy mainly Myanmar, Cambodia, and China including COE form ( Certificate of Entry ). The patient can bring the confirmation letter which we have sent to them to contact their Embassy directly to get COE. Once the patient received their COE, they need to send a copy to hospital so the hospital will continue to deal with the Ministry of Health from Thai government., Please prepare for the passport of the patient and accompany person's passport as well, medical treatment plan , pre-Airline Ticket , and Covid-19 Test within 72 hrs.• The embassy will give VISA and approved for tickets.• On the patient's arrival date there will have a staff from Ministry of Health and hospital staff to pick up the patient and bring to hospital.• Covid -19 Test will start from day 0, 5-7, 14 so that there will be 3 times before they will allow the patient to have a surgery or treatment ( it might be on the 14th or 15th day).Please be advised, since the country you are going to is USA, where COVID cases are higher, we cannot guarantee that you will be able to re-enter Thailand as of now. People from the countries of Cambodia, Myanmar, and China are the ones who can be accepted into the Kingdom of Thailand for the purpose of medical treatment. "NOTE, most Thai embassies websites I checked (USA, Australia, Canada and some others) have similar info about the visa, except for Great Britain. They're criteria is insane.-
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The 5 year and 20 year Elite are basically the same.
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Are you sure that Thailand has the same criteria as the US? When I was in the US I used to donate regularly, but as of 5 years ago when I started to spend longer periods of time in Thailand, I thought that disqualified me per US rules.
Maybe Sheryl can give us a definitive answer on this as pertains to Thai standards.
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I have a foreign currency fixed deposit (1 year term) at Bangkok bank. For this account they don't give a bank book but I get statements mailed to me every month. Day before I renewed at CW I got a letter from the bank stating the $ and equivalent Baht balance and the terms of the account. Made copies of the last 2 statements and took my 2 certificates that I received when I opened the account and need to turn in when I cash out the account. CW made copies of the certs. No problems with getting my extension. This was back in January.
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2 hours ago, uhuh said:
In the thread about 1700 medical tourists it is stated
- wellness is a valid reason
- can travel around after 14 days quarantine
It doesn't say for how long they will stamp you in when you arrive and how you can stay longer
Good luck! I hope it works for you. Please update the thread if it does.
Since April, I've been postponing a 3-4 week trip I really need to make to the US because I don't want to get locked out of returning to Thailand. I would be happy to pay 68K for a wellness suite at Movenpick if it was a viable means to return.
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5 hours ago, Titan1962 said:
Well just goes to show unless your in supervised quarantine there will always be some dick that will break the rules.
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They should announce that there will be jail time for breaking quarantine rules. In Singapore, a FexEx pilot got 4 weeks jail time.
"FedEx pilot Brian Dugan Yeargan, 44, of Alaska, was sentenced to four weeks Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to leaving his hotel room for three hours to buy masks and a thermometer, defense lawyer Ronnie Tan said."
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Aren't they both made in China? I'm pretty sure that BandAid brand in the US is made in China. The Thai versions, provided they're made here, might be better?
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38 minutes ago, steelepulse said:
Iceland seems to have the right idea. Test upon arrival, then upon the all clear, let the tourists do their thing.
edition.cnn.com/travel/article/iceland-reopens-coronavirus/index.html
Maldives also. As of July 15, no quarantine, no tests before entering, only tests if have symptoms when entering. Some resorts have set up elaborate systems to safely integrate new arrivals to their self-contained resorts.
If Thai authorities want to learn how to get the luxury vacation segment open, they should read this article. Unfortunately we all know they won't because they have invented and perfected a completely new and different approach.
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Interesting news story: Seattle is Dying. Was released a year ago. It's sad what happens when massively incompetent liberals run cities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpAi70WWBlw
Note that San Francisco, Seattle and San Antonio lead the country in property crimes per 100K people. Most of the top 20 worst cities are Liberal run cities.
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35 minutes ago, Captain Monday said:
This is Thailand If the business says anything about you even if true to others could you not sue for defamation?
In the US companies now only give dates of employment, due to lawsuits.
Hard to get info unless it is public knowledge. Future
employers pretty much have to accept what is on the resume.
You have to ask the right questions and talk to the immediate supervisor/manager rather than the HR dept. With some companies that's not easy to accomplish.
Ask: If this former employee recommended someone for their vacated position, would the manager be favorably inclined to interview the recommended person?
If the response is immediate and an enthusiastic yes, that's good. If the response is a pause, followed by well, yeah, maybe I might, cause you never know until you talk to somebody, so I probably would consider interviewing that person - then that answer is fairly negative.
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The "95% recovery rate of covid-19" is most probably far higher than that. At present, we don't know how many people have gotten Covid. We do know that many who get Covid are asymptomatic and based on statistics from the Princess cruise ship that number might be 50%. Many others who had mild symptoms never presented themselves to hospitals.
The only 2 studies that were done to try to determine the extent of Covid infection were by Stanford Medical and USC Medical where they took blood samples and used antibody results. The initial findings at Stanford show that
"mortality rate in Santa Clara County is between 0.12% and 0.2%. (In contrast, the county's mortality rate based solely on official cases and deaths as of last Friday, April 17, was 3.9%."
IF these studies are accurate, then the recovery rate is 99.8%. The studies naturally elicited major criticism. Some had sensible questions about methodology and the accuracy of the test kit. Others were strictly attacks based on financial or political reasons. Some garbage studies based on highly unreliable data analysis were rushed out to attempt to contradict the physical studies done by epidemiologists at Stanford and USC.
Note that the Stanford team reviewed their data after the avalanche of criticism and made slight adjustments, while maintaining that the original conclusions were accurate. Source: https://www.pe.com/2020/05/12/coronavirus-revised-stanford-estimate-says-santa-clara-county-had-54-times-more-cases-than-we-knew-about/
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3 hours ago, snoop1130 said:
He said Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha recently called on him to develop help inmates develop handicraft-making and English-language skills,
Teaching the ex-cons English must mean that they want professionals fleecing the tourists.
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Buster's Fish & Chip Shop near Sukhumvit 33/1
in Bangkok
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Last good fish and chips I had in Thailand was in Pattaya about 3 years ago. I think it's still open, it's close to Central Mall. "Everyday is Fryday Fish & Chips Restaurant". Choice of Pangasius or Cod. Google maps has pics of the menu with Fish and chips 110B and Cod and chips 180B.
Agree that the better Thai seafood restaurants also generally serve a better version of fish and chips than most tourist oriented places.