CM Dad

12 hours ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Some good news (if true). Let's hope schools are included.

I don't want my 16-year-old son attending on-site classes until vaccines are offered to secondary students - and not Sinovac!

I received my initial Pfizer vaccine yesterday morning in Chiang Mai.  I will get a second shot of Pfizer on 10 September.  The entire process was very well managed by Thai nurses and staff at McCormick Hospital. 

29 minutes ago, IraqRon said:

Same same here, did live actually in the city but found it crowded, lacked public spaces in the city to sit and enjoy, heavy traffic on substandard streets, most neighborhood rife with chichens, rooster, crowing all hours,. Northern thai people generally not friendly , sort of stuck up I found.  Little english spoken outside of the farang bar area and even there it is not very fluently spoken.  The thai food not all that great, some good northern thai dishes and a few good western aiming restaurants, but covid has closed many.   Moved to the country 25 km from city center.  Not much of an improvement in most areas as little if any english spoken as Issan and Lao prominate here.

I look back on it all with quite a bit of regret now, only stay for my 13yr old daughter and she wants to go to America to live, she thinks!!!

I have lived in the North for more than 30 years and I find the people quite friendly.  I have no problem finding great Thai food either.  If you have a 13yr old daughter, you must have lived here for a long time.  Why haven't you made an effort to learn to speak Thai?  Perhaps then you would not feel so isolated and filled with regret.  I am very happy here.  I have not been to my home country, the US, since my mother passed away 15 years ago, and I seriously doubt that I will ever go back again.  Happily, I have made a nice life here and have no regrets.  I began learning Thai the day I arrived and have many Thai friends.  I don't find the need to speak English very often.  I try to avoid the Farang bar scene which seems to be filled with complaining, unhappy, old men.

No thank you.

I have no problem answering and would always answer truthfully.  Sadly, as of today my answer is no, I'm registered on three websites, but still waiting.

I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that if any expat here, especially an American, really wants Pfizer or Moderna vaccines the only sure way of getting them is to go to the United States.

Send it back!  If this Chinese <deleted> were any good, then why is the government wasting the decent Pfizer donated by the US giving boosters to medical workers?  Order better and more effective vaccines please.

6 hours ago, BestB said:

have 2.5 million people been vaccinated yet with donated vaccine? If not , why not ?

AZ makes 3 million for Thailand , are there 3 million being vaccinated every month?

 

all I hear is over 60 or over 70, well how many over 60 and over 70 are there that they keep insisting for past 2-3 months over 60 or over 70 first 

I'm over 70 and I have an "underlying medical condition".  I have registered three different times and on different sites including a photo of a doctor certified certificate verifying my medical condition.  All I have ever heard is that I "have successfully registered".  I check every day, but I have still not been given an appointment for an initial injection.  My Thai wife has also registered numerous time.  She is still waiting as well.

13 hours ago, WISteve said:

Well, today is the 11th and Minister Anutin said the approved persons on expatvac should be getting a notice by now.

Have any of you who received an approved notice via e-mail received further instructions?  I've been watching my e-mail and SMS like a hawk but no joy.

 

I am over 70 with one of the seven underlying conditions.  I registered on expatvac on the first day with a photo of a medical certificate verifying the medical issue from my doctor.  All I have received is the email right after submitting my form saying that I had successfully registered.  I have received similar emails from two other vaccinations sites during the past two months, but I have yet to receive any vaccine - amazing Thailand!

2 hours ago, TheFishman1 said:

I registered as soon as I read about it a few days back so far I’ve heard nothing the same as the Chiang Mia wall nothing

I am also in Chiang Mai and I am in the same situation as you.  I am also registered as having one of the medical conditions which should put me at the top of both lists and I am 74 years old.  I also worked and paid taxes in Thailand for 30 years.  Sadly none of that seems to matter.

Thailand...building castles in the sand. 

Restrictions, Restrictions, Restrictions!  When is the government mantra going to change to Vaccines, Vaccines, Vaccines?  My wife and I have been registered and waiting for almost two months.

My wife (Thai) and I have been registered to receive vaccines for seven weeks.  We are still waiting.  In the meantime, our Thai neighbor paid Bangkok Hospital 2,000 baht each for her eighteen-year-old son, her parents and herself to receive AstraZeneca vaccines.  They have all now had both of their injections.  In the meantime, my wife and I continue to wait, and our sixteen-year-old son was told he was too young to even register.  By the way, my wife if fifty and I am over seventy, and each of us has a health condition that should have enabled us to be among the first vaccinated.  Shooting rockets into space is more important than 'shooting' a potentially life-saving medicine into a person's arm.  Shooting rockets probably provides many more opportunities for graft and corruption as well.

On 7/12/2021 at 4:50 PM, FridgeMagnet1 said:

Stop talking tripe 

 

I, an many others have been able to register and get vaccinated by official channels.

just because you failed to register, doesn’t mean the whole system is a failure 

My Thai wife and I have both been registered on a web site set up by the Governor of Chiang Mai.  We have been waiting to receive a date, time, and place for our first vaccine for almost seven weeks, but all we have received is an email that arrived within a few minutes after registering informing us that our registrations had been successful.  We have received nothing since and all queries have gone unanswered.  You are the one who needs to "Stop talking tripe...".

48 minutes ago, Tracyb said:

I’m in the same boat here in Chiang Mai!

My wife and I are still waiting to even receive notification of a date,  We both registered on the Chiang Mai Wall web site more than a month ago.

12 hours ago, rumak said:

 

thanks for writing all that .   saves me the time to write,  and also people won't say " man Rumak, what a downer"  .       Allow me to paraphrase, if you will:  life sucks, and then you die.

haha  just kidding guys.   it only sucks sometimes.   "Honey, bring me those lemons" .....

yep,  time for some lemonade      oh wth   make that a johnny walker

Life only sucks if you're lucky..  Many die having never experienced that delightful pleasure.

22 hours ago, nobodysfriend said:

If the future looks dystopian , and it certainly does , it is well deserved .

Human nature cannot change , it seems . It is still the same old and primitive instincts that dominate ( nearly ) everyone's thinking . That is what brought all the trouble the world is in now .

It is time to take an evolutionary step foreward for our species , but that won't happen , as mankind cannot overcome their mental limitations . So , Dystopia knocking on the door , and no way to go back ...

At 65 , I found a place where i like to live , even if it changes to become more bad every year . I keep people as far away as possible , I am happy with my only true friends ( my dogs ) , and my wife .

I never wanted kids , and I was right about this .

I try to eat good food only , ( don't like meat anymore ) , have a few good drinks and my healthy Ganja tea ( nearly ) every evening ...

I watch in TV news what is going on elsewhere in the world , and I am happy that I am so old already ... would like to die of an heart attack one day , that would mean that I would not have to witness my own degradation . I witness the degradation of the once beautiful world ( Just think how nature was beautiful just 150 yrs ago ) ,

All I can think about this is how impossible it is for mankind to solve the problems they created themselves .

Not bound for further evolution , but for extinction it seems ...

Proof of the ultimate stupidity and the impossibility to work all together to reach one solution in an emergency situation .

Anyway , I am the fool on the hill that sees the world going down ...

 

 

 

Post of the day!  I agree with almost all you have written, but I would add cats to the dogs and throw out the TV - I have not owned one in more than 30 years.  I also never wanted children, but I surprised myself and legally adopted my wife's two.  One is now grown and, ironically, living in my home country where she just got her second jab of Moderna vaccine free of charge even though she is not a citizen.  I do look forward to getting the youngest through secondary school - he turns 16 tomorrow - and into university before I die.  Right now I look forward to going out into the front garden to shoot rabbits, something I am able to do only because I have no neighbors within sight.

21 hours ago, DPKANKAN said:

One thing please Administrators. This new ASEAN NOW theme. Have you changed the fonts in the forums and responses??? It now seems light grey not black and makes it difficult to read even on a tablet let alone a telephone and outside even more difficult. Thanks??

Yes! Yes! and triple YES!  Please darken the font and increase the size a bit.  Well, actually NOT being able to read what is written might be a blessing if more illustrations could be added.

11 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

Most of the peopke who run this country are ethnic chinese. 

Very true.

51 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

 

do you have any official numbers ?

Make up whatever numbers you want - that's what most public servants/politicians do.

3 hours ago, condobrit001 said:

You think???

No, not odd.  Your comment condobrit001 is just plain stupid as well as extremely rude and not at all helpful.