JackGats

One month per top-up. Even if you top up 10k Baht at one go, one puny month.

I wanted to install Samsung Pay on my snartphone to go cashless in Thailand. Guess what, my Galaxy 10+ is not supported by Samsung for Samsung pay! I wanted to set up Rabbit Line with my Bangkok Bank debit card but it said something like "not available in your case".

The big problem with the Thai Pass is that you still have to obtain a Thai Pass (COE by another name) before traveling to Thailand. Thai Pass ON ARRIVAL would be fine thank you.

This is true and it is the point the media make most often these days. However the narrative has changed a few times. A few months ago the narrative was "nearly all hospitalised people are non vaccinated". Now the narrative is something like "ok, a lot of vaccinated patients in hospitals, but mostly very old patients", or alternatively (in countries where the vaccination rate is very high): "no wonder most patients in hospital are vaccinated, since most people in the country are". In the end, what matters is how many people get severely ill in spite of being vaccinated (forget the unvaccinated, let's say they deserve it). But if you get full hospitals in spite of a successful vaccination campaign, that's bad whichever way you interpret the stats.

The virus flares up for 2 months, then rests for 2 months, then flares up again for 2 months, etc. REGARDLESS of everything that is done to prevent it fron recurring. The only good news is that vaccines seem to prevent severe cases. I hope the latter is not just an illusion.

I'd have thought what really counts is what your local Thai embassy publishes on its website. Once your local Thai embassy gives you the greenlight, you're good to go.

Covid explodes for 2 months, then subsides for 2 months, repeat, repeat, repeat ... It does this regardless of lockdowns, curfews, openings or closures, vaccines (though the latter may save lives).

That is nothing. The big hurdle is the COE (if you need one, which I think you do). When you (try to) apply for a COE you'll understand what I mean.

COE has always been from the 1st flight/boarding in case of indirect flight. That's the coutry you are coming from. Anyway, you get a COE on the basis of a specific flight. If they give you a COE for a flight through South Africa that's their responsibility, not yours. Or did you mean flying to TH without a COE? I don't think that's possible yet.

Star Alliance had a policy of allowing any changes of the return flight free of charge, even in economy. I availed myself of that policy when I flew back with Lufthansa from Brazil in January and from Thailand in July. You should check whether that policy is still in place for your dates

Well, I don't have only one criteria. There's more to life than porn & sex. For instance, social interaction (talking to people) is important to me. That's why I was considering resettling to Colombia, where I can talk for ages with women on Niteflirt while doing lines.

I'll still jump through the hoops in January like I did last year so that I don't lose my extension due end of April. However, I am not going to do that every year for the next ten years. If this doesn't stop I'll get serious about finding another country.

Problem is car-renting. In many countries the car rental will only accept a credit card, even one with only a token sum as credit (for instance you can go down to only -100 dollars on the card, otherwise you have to transfer money to the card account). But it has to be a credit card, not a debit card.

One reason I prefer Thailand over many other retirement countries (eg Malaysia, Indonesia, Kenya etc.) is that Thailand doesn't make such a big deal out of porn. If I am not mistaken in TH one is allowed to have sex pics on one's phone.

Interesting for I had been reading the opposite as well. Namely in heavily vaxxed countries most deaths are now vaxxed people because they're very old and very old people are nearly all vaxxed. Note that in some countries the unvaxxed are becoming thin on the ground so it is not surprising that whatever patients still die of covid should be vaxxed. This, of course, is exploited for desinformation to the tune of "mostly vaxxed people are dying of covid".

Brazil hands down if only their retirement visa included a tax exemption! If I have to bail out of TH, Peru or Argentina are on my plan B list (foreign pensions tax-free for holders of a visa de rentista).

... Yawn

Do you take blood pressure or some other medication every day? If not in a few years you will have too as you get older. Read the small print about the recorded side-effects of such medications. Scary isn't it? And you have to swallow those chemicals every day! So my point is: an "experimental" vaccine once every 8 months is probably nothing in comparison.

I was being ironic. I pretended to assume that a right-wing head of State should be blamed for the bad things but never be credited for anything good happening during his mandate.

Of course not. Brazil's progress in vaccination was only achieved over his dead body. Just like the development of vaccines in the US was only possible over Trump's. Stands to reason.

Because I've spent 3 months in Brazil over the last 8 months. People don't remember non-remedies now being dug-up by the media for Bolsonaro-bashing purposes. All kind of sh** was "disseminated" at one time or another by governments as Covid treatments. Some cheap sh** (ivermectin, chloroquine), some expensive sh** (remdesevir). Bolsonaro's Brazil has overtaken Biden's US for the 1st dose, and is quickly closing the gap on the 2nd dose. Portraying Brazil as a failure regarding covid vaccine implementation is a lie. The state of affairs with respect to covid vaccination in Brazil is easy to google.

Trump no longer available. Only Bolsonaro left to bash. Brazil is one of the countries where vaccination has been aggressively pursued. Few Brazilians know what Ivermectin is, why should they? 95% of Brazilians want to get vaccinated though. One of the highest vaccine acceptance in the world. Trump sorely missed by the fake media.

Indeed. Come to that, whose gun was it?

I've read that being seated for too long on a seat is bad for your internal organs and/or blood circulation. There may be some health benefit to squatting.

That is yet another variant then, ie 72 hours becoming 72 hours + up to 23 hours 59 minutes.