Paradise Pete

Not officially, but it apparently offers at least as strong an immune response as two Pfizers. So from a practical point of view it's good, but your paperwork might be viewed as showing incomplete vaccination.

Thank you for being part of the control group. Your brave and selfless risk-taking will not be forgotten. Good on you! ????????

Yes, calling it a cocktail is misleading. The first dose is long gone before the second is administered. If I drank a shot of vodka today and then had a glass of soda six weeks later no one would say I drank a vodka & soda cocktail.

It's amazing to me that people would rather commit a felony than get vaccinated.

I figured out this one weird trick to get one for free. I got vaccinated.

My vaccination records are in my state's database. I can look at them at any time. The only reason there's no official digital certification is because we have so many people who are stupid vehemently disagree with the idea.

There isn't safety monitoring of people who got the vaccine years ago. That would be a total waste of resources. The monitoring is of recent recipients. Rather than desperately trying to find a reason - any reason - to not get vaccinated, why not just improve your life and the lives of people around you by getting vaccinated?

When I go through Incheon I always feel underdressed even wearing business attire ????

All gangs have a bad reputation. It's inherent in being a gang, isn't it?

Vaccines don't linger, they do their job and are quickly cleared away, leaving behind only a better-trained immune system. Moderna is both safe and effective. A booster can only help. The only downside to consider is that you may taking away a jab from someone who needs it. That's a personal choice. However, overall vaccine production is now well over a billion doses per month, so that question is becoming less and less important. Personally I got two Pfizers and then a Moderna six months later. Since then I've been exposed to the virus more than once and have not contracted the disease.

No we don't. No vaccine ever has had latent side effects. The vaccine itself is cleared from your body within a day or two. The "invaders" it creates are cleared by your immune system in a week or two. After that there's nothing left from it other than a trained and ready immune system. It's not like medication, which is taken over a period of time and can have a long half-life. Stop worrying about ghosts and goblins and just get vaccinated. Be part of the answer instead of part of the problem.

Yes, of course. After all, only a few billion doses have been safely administered. we need more data! ????????‍♂️

I lived there before moving to Thailand. CR was great when I arrived but got more expensive and more dangerous every year.

I don't think it's subsidized. Walmart might be making it cheap to bring in customers, but I don't know the answer.

No vaccine ever gives full immunity. The polio, measles, and mumps vaccine were so successful because everyone got them, so even breakthrough cases were unlikely to spread further. The mRNA vaccines are not "leaky", they are borderline miraculous. And now with the treatment coming from Merck it'll be a 1-2 punch that will get us back to reasonably normal much more quickly.

$14 at Walmart. https://www.walmart.com/ip/BinaxNOW-COVID-19-Antigen-Self-Test-2-Count/142089281

Yes, that's about 74 per hour, compared with the article's 2 per hour for Thais. Even after adjusting for population it's still 8 times as much (16 vs. 2).

I'm American and I've never heard of a road coke before. Sounds southern. A traveller I've heard (and had).

1,078 is enough to give an accurate estimation if the selection is properly randomized. Easy to go wrong there, though.

Your phone has a much better computer and its apps gets updated more frequently. IMO the TV apps should generally be used only as a last resort.

All vials have 5 doses. 6 if a specific syringe is used. This is true worldwide. Not everything is an opportunity to deride Thailand.

No vaccine ever has had latent side effects. Not one. Vaccines don't remain in the body. It's not like medication, which can have a long half-life and is taken over a long period of time. mRNA vaccine is not a new idea. It's been 30 years. The difficulty has been actually keeping it stable enough to have time to do its job. These vaccines use mRNA to create a non-infectious protein that the body sees as an invader. The immune system responds and kills off the "invader". The vaccine itself breaks down in a day or two. The body clears the invaders in a week or two. After that it's gone. That's it. Job's done. There is nothing remaining so there can be no long-term side effects. Covid, on the other hand, is capable of producing obvious and terrible long-term side effects. Scarred lungs leaving you oxygen-deprived for the rest of your life, for example. Get vaccinated and be part of the answer instead of part of the problem.

Infection? Did you mean inflammation (myocarditis)? It's quite rare and generally temporary and treatable. Covid of course also causes myocarditis in children and is much more likely to do so. With the delta variant it's no longer a question of if, but rather when, a covid exposure will happen to each person. The vaccinated people are much better prepared for that inevitable event.

This is the title of the thread: "if i buy a folding bike new abroad will thai customs charge me duty to bring bike into kingdom" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

By that logic wouldn't everything you bring in be tax-free?