foreverlomsak

Registered through local health volunteer early July - nothing since. Registered with expatvac.consular 2 August - nothing since. Registered with ThailandIntervac (Bangkok Hospital Khon Kaen) 28 August with provisional date of 5 September - nothing since. Friends who have tried to register with local hospitals have been told "Thai first". One who is 70+ with serious problems, had a home visit one evening telling him to go next morning for AstraZenica, when he arrived it was "no have" Sinovac only, guess his AZ was given to somebody with better connections. Now they are saying no access to restaurants (and presumably will add more locations) in Deep Red Zones unless double jabbed from 1 October. I seriously doubt if I'll manage to get one jab by then let alone 2.

arrival from Thailand (classed as red zone) in the UK requires mandatory quarantine as far as I can make out, as they are saying anybody who is part of the Phuket Sandbox experiment which requires double dose vaccination before arrival in Phuket will need to quarantine on return to UK, not self-isolate.

Phetchabun, we were added to deep red in the big revision a month ago. Khon Kaen (who are ordinary red) are doing AZ vaccination in central mall, we don't have one of them, maybe why we can't get. A friend (77 yo) who lives part time in Pattaya and part time here is still waiting to get an appointment for any kind of jab.

Not necessarily, I am in a deep red zone, and nobody I know has had anything other than the acknowledgement of registration, nearly all ar over 60 and at least 3 of us have multiple medical conditions that are on the priority list.

relabeling, or maybe Sinovac is the Thai spelling of Pfizer.

The MFA appear to have done quite well in the big city and surrounding provinces, it was always planned for the Dept. of Health to handle the area's outside. The Dept. of Health are focused on the big city and surrounding provinces, to the extent that they have drawn many DoH staff from the "lesser" provinces to the big city, to the detriment of the "lesser" provinces (as well as sending infected people from Bangkok to the "lesser" provinces).

well 95,500 times 4,303 times 35 equals millions doesn't it? 500 new jobs for Thais and 95,000 for migrant workers probably.

of course, malls and restaurants generate money for the government (through taxes, etc), basically schools don't, and school age kids will go to malls and spend money if they are open.

Why one has to be careful when interpreting DWP rules, my pension was one for a state run industry, the SERPS payments (the difference between contracting in and out), were not collected by DWP, e.g. a lower NI contribution was made by me. Therefore the pension is reduced due to this non-collection. My assertion of deductions is made based on a quote from DWP on what I will get on retirement, I'm not quite there yet. Other Private Pension Plans could have different agreements with DWP on the handling of SERPS contributions.

Out of date, all new pensions are based on the "New State Pension" which requires 35 qualifying years to get the maximum which is around 176 GBP if memory serves, DWP have informed me that I will only be getting 32/35th's of the maximum and will also be losing about 16% due to having been in a contracted out private pension. The saving part of this is that you should not get less than the old maximum. On the page that you got the above information from you will find a link to the "New State Pension".

With the inter-provincial bus service not running (at least around me) not many that live 300 / 400 Km away from Bangkok are able to travel for vaccination, we really need the vaccines to come to us..

No, but they don't recruit the army from the old and sick either, recruits mean maintenance of power, and that is a big concern to the powers that be

Of course they do, that's where the recruitment will come from in the future to keep them in power.