Captain Monday

As a deterrent to fraud Thailand Immigration Police should randomly review the CDC vaccination cards used by Americans who enter Thailand and send scammers to Thai jail for 30 days. Fish head soup, concrete floor and leg irons, the whole shebang. Then transfer to IDC for deportation!

The US has issued cards you get at point of vaccination. It was accepted to enter Germany and Thailand sandbox. It was accepted to get into a NYC restaurant. Japan has something similar to Thailand where you get a vaccination done first then apply for their international certificate that is already recognozed by some countries. For the International Digital Health passports by the time countries decide on what, and who pays and profits by it the covid pandemic will be over. Maybe in 5 years. It is going to continue to be a piecemeal system where international travel to various countries will require complex research and complex diverging rules. Maybe there is a future for travel agents after all!

Well it is good that Thailand is taking steps to develop a paper (yawn????) certificate that should be accepted by other countries. But how to verify by 100s of countries a red Garuda stamp that can be faked? The US certificate is a joke but I guess it is take it or leave it. Too easy to fake. It can be researched in investigative proceedings by using lot numbers and shot dates. Some liars and criminals have been fired from jobs, and arrested in Hawaii and Canada already. It would be better if airlines and countries just accepted WALMARTs QR code.

Fly out to where? Does Thailand require it to leave the country? I flew to Thailand and Germany and with the US certificate.

No actual requirements yet. Inability to decide on unified Digital Vaccine Passport is the biggest shambles of lack of international cooperation in history of aviation. Every country wants own system Airlines CEOs have commented on it the have no choice but to go it alone, piecemeal. I guess they don't care 30 plus percent of paper certificates from 180 countries will be fakes they just want to bring back idle fleets and get bums in seats. Result will be multiple unneeded tests departure then arrival. You will pay for it. Bumrungard process way too complicated I get the similar for free at point of vaccination in US no more docs no need to present a flight ticket. https://www.bumrungrad.com/en/blog-news/covid-19-vaccine-passport

You re allowed in now. Will be a long ASQ, Multiple tests, and mandatory "insurance covid-19". A cash cow for selected hotels that will probably remain your only option for many years.

U.S.A. Depending on country you came from and visa during the pandemic. Preflight testing only started in January I think. From Nov 8 it will be pretty much wide open. Vaccine info and one test paper maximum 3 days in advance, not 72 hours. Antigen OK. Done.

Why? Pure xenophobia. The only success they can fall back on is successfully closing the country to "dirty foreigners". Thailand never could have really close without shutting down construction and factories large numbers of migrant worker were trucked in untested and spread the virus in dorms and construction sites. Don't forget unguarded "natural borders". Testing and required approved hotels are profit centers for Elites who never suffered here middle class not in tourist industry either. If you expect a grand reopening Nov 1 will be a big failure probably what the real plan is. The actual target, hordes of group tourists are not allowed to travel by their government

Good news. I was there beginning of July Sweetie in Patong was open then some small one on the beach but i think Sweetie bar got raided by the "vests"

Two weeks away. Expect same as opening of Sandbox. "Nothing Official yet, It has not been gazetteed", Just fly from Memphis to Seattle wherever no idea if you will get your COE hours before flights. After you buy $1000 worth of PCR tests and hotel rooms for a whole family, you'll be fine. A disorganized shambles where airport staff were learning new rules via emails. We need 3 copies of your certificate of SHABA. "No you don't " Same staff taking pics of every document I have. Do similar again in Doha. Is it a holiday or being extradited on murder charges? This time another government app/website that likely has not even been coded yet, same as COE but for name. Dubious Insurance and prepaid hotels NEVER going away. Probably, the prepaid tests also. Sure it will work as well as Thailand Plus? Mooted, mulled, then forgotten by everyone except Thai embassies and the previously mentioned pesky agents trying to deny you boarding. The rules will change 5 times by Jan 01. By then any hope of High Season 2021-2022 a failed memory. Nobody will take a Thai holiday until they cut this nonsense, only people with serious partners and properties. As for the the "unaccompanied male" no more such shenanigans allowed forget about the bars they wont open for at least 1 more year if ever.

Good luck. It can be hard to change financial ways. Some of the cheapest skinflints I ever encountered were pilots who got wealthy buying real estate, more than flying airplanes. Criminal stingy with major personality problems like a guy who rented out multiple properties on Oahu but lived in his car off of 3 day old crew meals and pocketed food from free breakfast buffets. Not all grew up poor but it is a factor too.

YES. Having an arrest record UK, never should have been let in the Kingdom. For my country ban visa free travel and require FBI letter. 99 percent of the scum can be filtered this way.

Are you "confused"? Just Don't put $USD 250,000 in a Thai bank. Deposit it in a rational country that does not threaten to deny you entry because you have "come too many times".

Grandma, I want a puppy. "If you live with an animal you live like an animal"

I had 8-10 million Baht in Bangkok Bank earning a nifty bit of interest in fixed accounts. Took almost all out after I was told I had come to Thailand " too many times" and forced into an Elite Visa programme around 2015. I will not KEEP any large portion of my funds in a country I have no right to enter. Nobody ever warned me about a virus and being locked out 10 months, I was prepared already financially but every expat needs a plan B. What is in YOUR bug out bag?

One does not just go straight because some dinosaur leaves 1970s magazines around. Mayfair 1980, a "bush that could knock my Aunt Connies socks off". 2004 sex party, Bangkok bank hot woman in 30s with kids or todger waved in face ? The choice was clear.

I have already been in and out during the pandemic. I'm not a tourist. If I did not have friends, property and a life there I would never return to Thailand until implementation of rational entry requirements like Germany, US, or France. Example-Free online registration any vaccinated person can complete in a few minutes.

My father, a bigot, when I was about 12 left Knave, Mayfair and Hustler magazines around for me to find thinking it would prevent me turning gay.

A harmless herb. The placebo effect can be beneficial especially is you have a positive attitude and supportive partners and support circles. The immune system is not so well understood. Bitterness and irrational anti-vaccine animus can't possibly help.

One teacher friend in Chiang Mai, pretty dead set against vaccination was given the ultimatum but he was not willing to lose job and leave country over it. My deadline was last month. I'm not a teacher I am a pilot there is absolutely nothing my company can do about the entry requirements of sovereign nations and management won't be paying people to twiddle their thumbs at the airport. A small number are suing citing "religious objections" or other quixotic lawsuits. Imagine throwing away a USD $300,000 dollar plus career based on internet FUD pushed by people with an agenda to divide people for political reasons? I don't get it????

"A man who tells the truth is driven from nine villages"

So ?

They should market it to the anti-vaxxers in the US. They reject safe and effective vaccines but are happy to pay through the nose for dubious "theraputics". All thanks to ex Soviet foreign propaganda.

The Thai govt won't eliminate COE and thus there will be no High Season 2021-2022. A spot on post every other country manages covid entry restrictions with no onerous COE let the airlines sort out the paperwork. Cut the nonsense and open the country.

Why is this even news? Nothing will ever change with the problem of feral dogs in Thailand. Even Paveena calls for the animal to be "relocated" when it must be humanely destroyed.