Coconut Crab

Thanks chaps.  I neglected to mention that I received no paperwork at all in the stadium. That's the bit that surprised me.  I guess I need to go back with my passport when they are doing their next batch and retrospectively ask them to issue something with me.

If this query is in the wrong thread list would a moderator please move it to the correct one.

I'll try to keep this really short.  Returned to UK in June, specifically for vaccines. Was loaded up with AZ after quarantine and then second dosed in August. Returned to Thailand in late November using the Thailand Pass system (which incidentally was incredibly easy). First stop was extension to retirement visa on 03rd December and then off down to the Chaiyapruek Indoor Stadium on 16th December where I duly went through all detail taking (including my UK inoculations, passport, driving license, etc etc) and received a Pfizer dose.  Who was administering this, or in charge, or responsible for it, I know not.

Problem starts here. I have to date, religiously followed all requirements of the Thai Government - Thai Chana, Mor Chana both running on my phone but I am unable to create an account with Mor Phrom due to the lack of a 13 digit number. Tried every combination including Thai Driving License and UK passport but I need that 13 digit number. I don't have a Pink Card, nor do I particularly want nor need one, nor I suspect would I receive much cooperation from my landlord in applying for one.  I was given no information at the vaccine centre, nor was my GF who steered me through this. In all fairness I don't think she asked TBH.

So I am now in the situation whereby I have full "vaccination" from the UK and a Thai Pfizer booster but am (1) unable to load anything up to Mor Phrom, (2) having to carry my UK paper "vaccination certificate" around with me and (3) probably most importantly, unable to prove that I have received a Pfizer Booster which, to any thinking man, is clearly going to be just as important as the other documents required to travel in a few months time.

I've tried phoning Mor Phrom helpline, 027922333 but it doesn't connect and apparently there are screeds of Thais who have written in to complain about the same.

I really want to get this lot out of the way, load up my two UK vaccines and my Thai booster on Mor Phrom and get on with things but I can't.

Has anyone else had such a problem and if so, what course of action did you take?

Thank you.

Throw in de hands and admit de feet.

There seems to be a general misconception that the wearing of a mask protects the wearer from a viral transmission. Unfortunately, even with a state-of-the-art N95++ filter, the pores in the fabric would be akin to trying to stop a mosquito flying through the Pattaya underpass.  There is, of course, limited protection in preventing the virus from passing into any mucous membranes if it is attached to such items as fine water vapour, dust or other contaminants but the main protection of wearing a mask is in the wearer transmitting considerably less viral load than without one - largely by the same method - adsorbtion to water vapour in the breath. Most of the transmission occurs by adhesion of the virus to exhaled air and water, in which masks have been proven to be what can largely be deemed as highly effective in reducing.

There are numerous peer-reviewed papers on the efficacy of masks as an effective measure to stop a carrier from disseminating the virus and the bottom line here really, is that masks are not so much for the benefit of the wearer as those whom the wearer comes in contact with. With such a high success of inhibition it follows that masks should have been worn from the very start and if they had been there would likely have been a very different scenario from what the world is looking at today.

The main problem with this virus is, and has been since first unleashed upon us, the extraordinary duration of asymptomatic transmission which has resulted in millions of people becoming infected.

As for the topic in question it doesn't really matter if we are talking about girls in bars, men in offices, families in picnics, or farang having a night out; the options are all the same....either we all wear masks thereby maximising resistance against airborne transmission, we don't bother wearing masks thereby minimising that resistance, or we create antibodies - either from infection or injection - and hope that they last longer than the two months some research papers are now suggesting.

By and large I think the Thai people have done a damned good job in their efforts to resist this pandemic. But we are all human, we all want our lives back, we all have to eat and with debatable reassurances coming through the media it's little surprise that many are discarding their masks and doing whatever they can to get food into the mouths of their families.

I fear this story has a long time to run yet.

Thanks to everyone above. The Khao Noi shop is still in business and they are coming to collect this evening. Everyone's assistance appreciated.

This is probably the wrong place to post my query and I have no doubt it's been requested a hundred times before but I can't find it.

Can anyone recommend a good sofa repair shop in Pattaya (preferably the darkside) please?

Age old problem of cheap plastic, or similar covering, slowly developing cracks and now tears along the complete length of the settee.

Thank you.