Harry Om

Veg, but just add meat as required when cooking at home. https://www.maykaidee.com/cooking-school/thai-cooking-class

Hi, this thread is now a few months old but I'm wondering if things have changed. I'm used to getting extensions in Chiang Mai and normally go to Immigration two weeks before stamp expiry. At Jomtien is it still the case that extensions on a 30 day exempt entry can only be done the day before expiry?

If I had a balance of $200 (AUD) in my bank account before the transaction, then I ended up with a balance of $200 (AUD) when the transaction was reversed. As I have said, the exact same money that went out, went back in. No fees. No conversion charge. Other banks may handle it differently. I try to only use banks without fees. https://up.com.au/bank-overseas-without-the-fees/

I've done this multiple times with expedia. I have an Australian bank account and if the ticket costs $120.34 I get refunded exactly $120.34. I have never been charged any extra/hidden fee. It is listed as an "expired pending amount". However, I can't promise what your bank will do.

I have used the following method multiple times. This is for a 24 hour travel window to show at the airport/on arrival , not if you are applying in advance for a visa. The U.S. have a law that certain tickets must offer full refund if canceled within 24 hours, so you must use a website from the US. I use https://www.expedia.com/ which is the US website. (make sure it's not expedia.com.au, or expedia.co.uk etc) Look for a ticket from Bangkok to KL with either Thai or Malaysian airlines, generally around $100. These two always seem to have the 24 hour cancellation option. Once you have selected the ticket MAKE SURE it says you can cancel it for free refund (it tells you this as you go through the buying process). Cheaper airlines eg Airasia this option is not available. Buy the ticket before you go to the airport. Then you have a legit fully paid ticket. Arrive in Thailand, cancel the ticket, the full refund of the exact price I paid is always in my bank account within 48 hours. Canceling is very easy, expedia has that option listed on your ticket itinerary. Just make sure you can do it all within a 24 hour period (from initial buying to cancel) and this works fine, with zero cost.

If you only have a short flight and are able to cancel your onward ticket within 24 hours of departure then expedia.com allow the main airlines to be cancelled within 24 hours with a full refund. But it's not for the cheaper airlines (like AirAsia) just for Thai. Malaysian airlines etc. I've done this and it worked fine, you get a normal ticket and just cancel once you've arrived. But make sure you use the US site (it's the only site with free cancellation) and that when you select the flight it says " Free cancellation There's no fee to cancel within 24 hours of booking.""

Regarding the TM6, no one asked for any sort of info, it was just look at my passport and stamp. On the Indian end they seem mainly concerned with (and very confused by) the covid rules, but as long as you have a vax certificate or negative PCR it'll be fine, albeit with a dose of Indian chaos.

I flew from Calcutta to Bangkok yesterday and got the 30 days on arrival. I went through the effort of getting a flight ticket out and no one asked for it. I would suggest if you do get a ticket out to get it through expedia.com (ONLY the US site) as they apparently have some rule in the US that you must be offered cancellation within 24 hours and no fee or penalty. I tried one of the onward flight options and they got my nationality and gender wrong, and spelt my name wrong. They did fix it after I complained but the ticket is not a normal ticket it is a travel agents placeholder, so after reading suggestions online I decided to try Expedia. Please note that not all flights on Expedia have the cancellation option, it is only the major airlines. I booked my ticket with Thai but cancellation was not offered with Airasia. After arrival in Bangkok I got online and cancelled the flight, and as far as I can see the refund is pending but has not arrived in my bank yet. I did get an email from Expedia confirming the cancellation and refund. I agree with what you said re getting a Thai tourist visa in India, it is not worth the hassle. On arrival in Thailand the Immigration Officer looked at my passport and my full years worth of covid extensions in 2021, burst out laughing, smiled and said welcome back. It was nice to see that tourists are being welcomed in Thailand again.

I am on a tourist visa, and got a covid extension yesterday from Chiang Mai Immigration. No different to any other covid extension I've obtained. There was no questioning of future plans or need for outbound flight. It was just fill out the forms, give the 1900 baht, see you again in 14 days (under consideration stamp). So at least in CM, it's business as per covid usual.

I got a covid extension Monday in Chiang Mai and there was no ticket requirement. No different to previous extensions and other than the usual questions on the forms no other questions asked.

Many drugs have multiple uses. Ivermectin was being looked at as a possible antiviral before covid hit, but unfortunately now it's become caught up in the usual pi55ing contests. As for the mechanism for how it might work, there's lots of ongoing research, for instance; "To date, the most accepted mechanism of action for ivermectin against SARS-CoV-2 is inhibition of the nuclear import of viral proteins and RNA, as has been found for HIV-1 and dengue [9]. However, it has also been reported that ivermectin has a potentially inhibitory effect against other viruses such as flaviviruses by blocking the NS3 helicase [10]. Additionally, it has been reported that it can dock in a thermodynamically favorable manner, and with theoretical potential to inhibit other structural and functional proteins associated with SARS-CoV-2 [11]." "The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has accelerated the study of existing drugs. The mixture of homologs called ivermectin (avermectin-B1a [HB1a] + avermectin-B1b [HB1b]) has shown antiviral activity against SARS-CoV-2 in vitro. However, there are few reports on the behavior of each homolog. We investigated the interaction of each homolog with promising targets of interest associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection from a biophysical and computational-chemistry perspective using docking and molecular dynamics. We observed a differential behavior for each homolog, with an affinity of HB1b for viral structures, and of HB1a for host structures considered. The induced disturbances were differential and influenced by the hydrophobicity of each homolog and of the binding pockets. We present the first comparative analysis of the potential theoretical inhibitory effect of both avermectins on biomolecules associated with COVID-19, and suggest that ivermectin through its homologs, has a multiobjective behavior. " https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301462221001599?via%3Dihub

"If you read the entire article (it's short)". Comments like this are a childish way of discussing serious issues. Why not the same increase? Later studies identified that the problem was genetic, so it was likely to occur in Scandinavian countries and not elsewhere. The other studies chose cohorts that did not include that group, that's why you didn't see any increase.

Australian data for AZ, "No deaths have been reported in the last week. Six deaths have been reported over the preceding 4 months – 5 of the 6 deaths occurred in women aged 34, 48 (2 cases), 52 and 72-years-old. The other death was in a 44-year-old man. " https://www.tga.gov.au/periodic/covid-19-vaccine-weekly-safety-report-19-08-2021 A friend of mine in India got clots after AZ. She was cremated a week ago.

Scott Gottlieb FDA director resigns and becomes a member of Pfizer's board of Directors. Stephen Hahn replaces Gottlieb and then resigns to become Moderna's chief medical officer. Seems legit.

"An increased risk of narcolepsy was found following vaccination with Pandemrix, a monovalent 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine that was used in several European countries during the H1N1 influenza pandemic. This risk was initially found in Finland, and then other European countries also detected an association." https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/history/narcolepsy-flu.html