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1 hour ago, Eric Loh said:

You sure about the flu deaths are not corona virus related? CDC director Dr. Robert Redfield said it’s possible that some flu deaths may be misdiagnosed and could actually had corona virus. 

Lock down work. 2 months of tough medicine in China work. FED is promising infinite QE and so are governments around the world. Better short pain than prolong uncertainty. 

Yes this was from the 2018 - 2019 USA influenza season - these statistics were published in April 2019 long before Covid19 had been first detected. There has been no official study that clearly shows the lockdown in China worked, merely delayed the spread by a matter of days. 

In its latest estimates on flu impact for the 2019 season, the CDC said influenza in the US has sickened from 36 million to 41.3 million people this season through Apr 13, of whom 16.7 million to 19.4 million sought medical care. In addition, the disease has hospitalized 502,000 to 610,000 patients and killed 34,400 to 57,300.

So well worth locking the world down, destroying the global economy, entrenching families into debt and despair, causing unknown social problems for decades to come then.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-52076293

Sweden seems to be the only country demonstrating an intelligent response to the situation so far.

Hi just a quick question, planning to do a border run to Nong Khai in a couple of weeks for a VE on re-entry (not done any land border entries this year and no VE's) had one METV back in April where i spent 10 weeks in LOS, then re-entered thru swampy in October on a SETV and extended once so current stay expires on 19th Jan.

Should i expect any hassle from the Nong Khai i/o's? (will have copy of my return UK flight on 01st Feb 2020.

Can you do a in/out at Nong Khai as i do not wish to stay in Laos?

Roughly how long does the process take? (as my friend will drive me and wait on Thai side at Nong Khai)

Thank you for any help and Happy New Year.

On 12/28/2019 at 4:05 PM, DrJack54 said:

No problem. You have 2 border entries up your sleeve. Good idea. Get your 30 ve and have few beers "day night" bar area Udon Thank.

Thanks DrJack54, do you know is it okay to do a quick in/out at Nong Khai? without spending anytime in Laos.

Just another thought after doing some googling, and seeing how close i am staying to Nong Khai (im close to Udon) is it still possible to do a same day border hop to Laos and get a visa exempt on re-entry to Thailand?

I have never done a land entry, only a few air entries in my passport over the last few years (all with quite long returns back in the UK) and only had one visa exempt before.

Thank you so much ubonjoe for the fast reply!

Just one more question. Would the 7 days be tagged onto the date of the existing extension or 7 days from when i attend immigration?

So at the moment my stamp allows me until 20th Jan - so if i attend immigration on 10th Jan - and given the 7 days to leave, will this be stamped as 27th Jan?

Just after some advice please for those with experience of this.

I arrived in LOS on a SETV which i obtained a 30 day extension for, so now must leave the country by 20th January. I would really like to squeeze a few more days as my birthday is on 21st January, and would love to spend it in LOS.

From what i understand if i request another 30 day extension, then this will be refused and i will be given 7 days to leave the country. Is this a given? or is there a chance of not getting the 7 days and having to leave still on the 20th Jan? Also how soon before my current extension expires can i attend immigration to request another?

Thanks for any info that can be provided.