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Lorry

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  1. I did ask both and several others. Moderna is not available.
  2. I thought BPH has only private (maybe semi- private) rooms?
  3. What exactly is emergency care? Put you in a gurney and give you an iv drip, no medication? Almost any hospital will do this. Cost: couple of hundred baht. Give you paracetamol? Yes, they will do this. Cost: 10B Do an X-ray? Probably. Cost: less than 1000 If they see that you need a CT scan? Cost maybe 10000? They will rarely do this. They want the money first. If you need emergency surgery, like brain surgery because you have increased intracranial pressure, or a heart catheterization because you have a heart attack? Rarely will they do this without seeing the money first. They will not let you die on their door steps. They will transfer you to a government hospital before you die once it's clear you can't cough up the money NOW. If you don't survive the transport that's your problem. So, yes, emergency care is refused regularly. And, yes, I am speaking from personal experience with lots of cases, not just 2 or 3.
  4. To get the yellow book you will learn that it is possible (and necessary) to translate a foreign passport into Thai (so if your place of birth is Dnjepropetrowsk, this will be translated into Thai). They will translate your name, too, into some pseudo-Thai gibberish. The passport you used to enter the country obviously doesn't prove anything. You will also need Thai witnesses who prove you are who you pretend to be. A girlfriend from the internet will do, but must be Thai. No Filipina, please. That's real proof in Thailand.
  5. What I have seen was even more than 10% And some of them get actually quite sick, lying in their hotel bed for a week or two or three. Foreigners don't do masks, hand washing or ATK
  6. https://takeda.info/3P5Pu8t Takeda says Qdenga can be used for people over 60 y.o. But they also write (section 4.4): "There are no data on the use of Qdenga in subjects above 60 years of age" Dengue in old patients is quite debilitating and dangerous.
  7. You cannot stop them, because they are many and you are alone. It would probably illegal if they force you to let them on your property. I have heard sometimes illegal things happen in Thailand, but I can't really believe it
  8. It didn't for me
  9. Immigration, correctly Immigration Police, is part of the Royal Thai Police. I do not want to be visited by the police in my home, not in any country.
  10. They failed
  11. That's Ofloxacin, not quite the same as Moxifloxacin
  12. The updated versions are not available in Thailand. Neither Pfizer nor Moderna. Don't worry too much about it, they aren't much better than the original versions. It seems that Moderna isn't available in Thailand at the moment. So Kwasaki's answer was spot-on
  13. It's 120b per tablet, 600 for a box of 5. That's about the price of some flashy colorful multivitamin cræp, the stuff Thais and Americans love to buy. But you are right, Amoxi is a lot cheaper.
  14. Thaitravelclinic offers Imojev, too (for the aforesaid price of 478). I have never seen it crowded (maybe because of covid)
  15. Moxifloxacin is available in Thailand only as Avelox. Many drugstores will know "Avelox", hardly any know "Moxifloxacin"
  16. I needed Avelox (a common antibiotic). Surprisingly, it's not available in Surin. So I tried online: bangkokdrugstore.com (I have used them many times, always satisfied): no answer to my email, phone not answered medtide: 2 very different websites, one more confusing than the other; very quick answer in Line: not available fascino online: website says closed idrugs: website says closed S.C. pharmacy: told me on the phone to order in Line, in Line they needed 5 hours to tell me it's not available A friend in Bangkok just bought it for me in the nearest pharmacy and sent it by Kerry.
  17. Trust me,I am quite sure it was mentioned. Not necessarily in this thread, I didn't care when I read it, because it doesn't affect me
  18. I remember reading about it on TV. I think it was in this thread https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://aseannow.com/topic/1279298-home-immigration-checks-may-be-on-the-uptick/&ved=2ahUKEwjQxNDFnv77AhXtTWwGHeiGB08QFnoECA4QAQ&usg=AOvVaw22y3qLcyBFoyNWwA7RRHVO A home visit from immigration is threatening and humiliating. OP is quite right to be freaked out. It gives you an idea in what kind of country you live.
  19. That's more than 20000 euro For this price, you can get it in Western Europe
  20. That was 10 years ago
  21. 51 years age difference is extremely unusual. (They were not living in Soi Buakhao.) Anything more than 30 years is frowned upon. This is not 2012 anymore, when Isan girls wanted a farang husband, no matter what age. I am talking about relationships with farang based on financial gains. Relationships between Thais who are not in it only for the money: age differences are not big, let's say 10 years. Contrary to some western countries, here the woman is allowed to be several years older than the man.
  22. "Medical tourists seen as cash cows" Wasn't something very similar the headline in the BP? Quite honest.
  23. Good article. According to BoT, average wage (country-wide) in the non- agricultural sector is 605 baht. The author of said article reckons that only 15% of workers get minimum wage.
  24. That's 12500 baht? They are not going to do much about it.
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