Thaiophil

7 minutes ago, Chris.B said:

There seems to be some unfair practice here with you getting Moderna straight away while others in the country have waited for up to 6 months! ☹️

 

Nothing unfair. The offers of Moderna at Bkk H and Medpark were widely advertised and available to all at the regular price.

Some people fell for the scam from some hospitals of prepaying and then waiting months. Caveat emptor

@aussienam good to know tx. I have cold like symptoms but ATK test negative

13 hours ago, eppic said:

Has anyone purchased a Moderna booster recently and given an actual date / appointment (in BKK)? If so at which hospital? 

I bought my Moderna shot in Dec on Shopee to use at Bangkok Hospital.  See hospital website for details. All worked fine and I got an appointment immediately. No q at all to get jabbed

A colleague got his at Medpark where you can book with hospital direct

1 hour ago, jacko45k said:

Which region in Chonburi was the first to exhibit rapid rise in Covid cases recently?

Nobody knows as the authorities do not do widespread testing, relying instead on publicity stunts. Eg closing Thanon Bangla in Patong for a day, testing all the employees and “deep cleaning”. All bars open again the next day????

1 hour ago, RichardColeman said:

I'm for free choice, but that does not mean your free choice should cause chaos in others lives without some sort of recompense

I like the politician who compared this to drinking alcohol. Yes it’s a personal choice to drink alcohol, but when people then get in a car and put other people at risk, they get arrested. The unvaccinated should be banned from all public spaces.

He could have said all the bars with reasonable budgets to pay off the police are already serving alcohol in paper cups or (here in Phuket) pretending to be restaurants.

 
Only the posh restaurants are observing the alcohol ban…

As per Bangkok Post today, it’s all “may” and “mull” yet again.

Advice to Thai authorities;  if you have nothing to say, shut the **** up.

There is no link between FCDO advice and the red list which is run by the Health Dept. It has been clear from the start that there is no coordination between the two depts. So Thailand may still come off the red list later this week 

It is widely reported in UK media that the red list will be cut to about 12 countries. On official figures, Thailand would not be in the worst 12, but cynics might think the positive trend in the figures here is convenient for the start of the tourist season

All across Thailand, restaurants and bars are openly selling alcohol in cardboad coffee cups. My local area in Bangkok is packed with drinkers every night. How could the Samui bar owner be so clueless as not to pay plod like everyone else? But in deserted Samui, maybe plod make bigger profits out of the fines.

The environmental cost of all these cardboard cups must be horrendous????

28 minutes ago, Tuvoc said:

Correct me if I'm wrong - If you are fully vaccinated, you can travel to Thailand and spend 10 days in an AMBER country on the way back - does not have to be Green - and you don't ned to self-isolate.

Not quite. Rules pasted below.  10 days in amber country means you can quarantine at home rather than hotel, but it coild still be 8 days unless you opt for the (rather expensive) test to release on day 5. So potentially 18 days before you are released into the UK plus of course 15 days stuck in a hotel on return here.

Note also that vaccinations delivered in Thailand are NOT recognised in the UK, so even if vaccinated here the rules for unvaccinated will apply 

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/red-amber-and-green-list-rules-for-entering-england

Within a day, the full opening in 120 days promised by the PM was modified to full opening only for provinces where 70% of the locals are vaccinated.  Since a complex web of different policies for different provinces with internal borders is unenforceable, this will eventually be modified again to islands with direct air links, ie Phuket and Samui.

Govt has also announced that any opening can be instantly suspended if cases tick up eg a limit of just 90 cases in Phuket.

This announcement has nothing to do with opening Thailand and everything to do with the govt trying to shift the headlines away from the stuttering vaccine rollout

Anyone fancy two weeks confined in an army “field hospital” if they test positive?

BP today reporting police hunted down three people who absconded from a field hospital and forced them back, also threatening them with prosecution. (Obviously just ordinary people not hisos).

The “field hospital” threat will deter most people from getting tested, thus ensuring the daily figures stay low and govt narrative of being in control of the third wave can be maintained.

12 hours ago, Bradmeister said:

People all over the world receive flu shots eveyyear and still manage to catch a flu and die. 

in vastly fewer numbers than if there was no vaccine. We can already see dramatically falling deaths in the UK

5 hours ago, eeworldwide said:

 

For the avoidance of doubt - the alcohol ban doesn't apply to Bangkok.

 

Sitting in W market. Beer towers everywhere ????